Thursday, April 19, 2007
♥ 9:56 pm
This might be another ranting post. People might see it as anti-Republican. I don't care.
After the tragic events of the Virginia Tech shooting, the problem of gun control has appeared back into the American debate. Being a alien (non-American, as some would call me), maybe i don't completely understand their society.
But i understand that the most basic human right is the right to live. The right to be able to walk on the street without fear of a madman shooting you.
One pro-gun lobbyist said that if the students in Virginia Tech had guns, they would be able to defend themselves from the gunman. This, according to him, is one reason why guns should not be banned.
I would like to say to him, if we had banned guns completly, the guy wouldn't have a gun in the first place! There would be no shooting to start with.
As the saying goes, prevention is better than cure. Why arm the students from the madman, why not prevent the guns from flowing onto the streets instead, where they might be abused by people like him?
Imagine the impllications of everyone carrying a gun. When a heated debate occurs, will someone, in the fury of the moment, fish out a Glock and shoot the other guy? That's not civilized, and that stinks of evolution, where the strongest survive, and the rest just die off.
I'm thankful to live in Singapore, where guns are banned completly (except the 2 years we males have to serve in NS). At least i know i'm relatively safer, where nobody will pull out a gun and start shooting randomly into people.
Pro-gun lobby groups are the main backers of the Bush (and Republican) administration, and politics would prevent proper gun legistration from coming into American society. This from the same party that stands for morals, for conservativism, for old-school thinking. I don't understand how God and guns work together to bring America forward. When politics get in the way of benefitting society and mankind, than it is no more politics, it is rangling for personal benefit.
If the US stands for freedom, for liberty and for human rights, it should strive to protect the most basic right of mankind, the right to live. This should supersede any other right, include the right to bear arms.
This is another example of how the Iraq war has deviated from the beliefs and what the US stands for. By compromising the right of life in bungling the war, the Administration has not only harmed the Iraqi people, but also the hundreds of thousands of US servicemen in Iraq, and the countless number of relatives back home. The only thing i can say now to the US people is, you've made your choice in the elections, now you have to face up to it.
ok i'm done. now will go and play Star Wars Battlefront II.
lol
