This is not an issue of gun control or living in a gun culture. This is an issue of parents putting their kids in front of a TV/video game instead of spending time with them. This is an issue of single parent families working 16 hour days leaving kids at home to fend for themselves. People are spending the early stages of their lives without some sort of meaningful human interaction or connection to anyone. People that know what love is do not resort to this type of violence.
People in this very thread are referring to this guy as a dead beat/gun nut/loser/etc. He didn’t get that way by having a fantastic family life. Maybe people will come out and say “he had loving parents, this isn’t like him, etc etc” But maybe people thinking his childhood was just peachy is just evidence of how low our standards are. People are quick to point out that this type of thing doesn’t happen in Canada or whatever other country has strict gun control – but what is their home life like? What are the rates of single parents raising children / teen pregnancy rates / abortion rates / etc.
This just seems so evident of what the problem is, and is exemplified by everyone’s reactions. Instead of looking to each other with sympathy and wanting to run and hug our children or anyone close by really – we argue and fight over crap that doesn’t even matter. “Gun control will limit the damage” Is that honestly an argument? Fixing a home life or a child’s up bringing cannot be fixed with legislation. This problem will not go away by means of some law. And arguing over the cook killing the housekeeper with the candlestick applies a smoke screen to the real issue.
