It's not just about guns. Drugs and alcohol are part of the equation. People who do drugs and sell drugs, feel they have to be well armed or someone will take their drugs away. Gang members all have guns and they use them to display power over their rivals.
Look closely at gun violence and what do you see happening over and over? Two guys doing drugs. Eventually they argue. One pulls out a gun and shoots the other. A guy who feels he got cheated on a drug deal goes and gets a gun and returns to shoot the guy who ripped him off. A large party where gang members show up from rival gangs. Words are exchanged, followed by guns being discharged. Some guy gets mad at his former wife because she kept the kids and the house and the car. He comes by and forces his way into the house and murders the kids and his former wife. Some angry person gets fired for being a jerk. He returns to his work place with a gun and shoots the people he worked with who didn't like him. A guy cheats on his wife. He doesn't want to get a divorce because she will get half of the possessions. He gets a gun and kills her. Drug addicts decide to rob a convenience store so they will have money to buy drugs. The clerk cooperates but they decide to shoot him anyway. High school kids get bullied. They go home and spend a lot of time playing violent video games as an escape. Then one of them asks his parents to buy him a gun so he will have a hobby. He and his friends begin plotting revenge on the classmates who made fun of them. They arm themselves and go on a killing spree.
Tomorrow, we will learn that a disturbed student brought an arsenal to UCLA to exact revenge because he got a bad grade, or some other reason that could never justify violence.
Mix guns, drugs, alcohol, violent video games, gangs, parents buying guns for angry disaffected kids, people with grievances, people who are suicidal and want to kill others before they kill themselves, people who spend too much time on internet chat rooms feeding on anger and others encouraging violence, and young men in places like Chicago who are so angry about the lives they are living, they just want to shoot and kill people, for almost any reason.
We are selling our home because the area we live in is not safe. We are willing to pay a lot more to live far away from inner city violence. We are moving to a place where the types of people you see on the news committing acts of gun violence don't live. It's a solution people in big cities often come to in order to avoid being victims. Nobody can remove all the handguns and all the drugs and stop people from drinking to extreme or stop youth from viewing so many violent videos. The best way to protect yourself might be to move away from the violence.
Look closely at gun violence and what do you see happening over and over? Two guys doing drugs. Eventually they argue. One pulls out a gun and shoots the other. A guy who feels he got cheated on a drug deal goes and gets a gun and returns to shoot the guy who ripped him off. A large party where gang members show up from rival gangs. Words are exchanged, followed by guns being discharged. Some guy gets mad at his former wife because she kept the kids and the house and the car. He comes by and forces his way into the house and murders the kids and his former wife. Some angry person gets fired for being a jerk. He returns to his work place with a gun and shoots the people he worked with who didn't like him. A guy cheats on his wife. He doesn't want to get a divorce because she will get half of the possessions. He gets a gun and kills her. Drug addicts decide to rob a convenience store so they will have money to buy drugs. The clerk cooperates but they decide to shoot him anyway. High school kids get bullied. They go home and spend a lot of time playing violent video games as an escape. Then one of them asks his parents to buy him a gun so he will have a hobby. He and his friends begin plotting revenge on the classmates who made fun of them. They arm themselves and go on a killing spree.
Tomorrow, we will learn that a disturbed student brought an arsenal to UCLA to exact revenge because he got a bad grade, or some other reason that could never justify violence.
Mix guns, drugs, alcohol, violent video games, gangs, parents buying guns for angry disaffected kids, people with grievances, people who are suicidal and want to kill others before they kill themselves, people who spend too much time on internet chat rooms feeding on anger and others encouraging violence, and young men in places like Chicago who are so angry about the lives they are living, they just want to shoot and kill people, for almost any reason.
We are selling our home because the area we live in is not safe. We are willing to pay a lot more to live far away from inner city violence. We are moving to a place where the types of people you see on the news committing acts of gun violence don't live. It's a solution people in big cities often come to in order to avoid being victims. Nobody can remove all the handguns and all the drugs and stop people from drinking to extreme or stop youth from viewing so many violent videos. The best way to protect yourself might be to move away from the violence.