This week we saw more than thirty innocent youths gunned down in their classrooms. For what? We don't have militias in this country to overthrow the government in case it oversteps its bounds. Right wing fantasies aside, if the ATF wants in, its coming in. FBI got a warrant to serve? Its coming in. Don't believe me? See Mr. Weaver, Mr. Koresh, maybe even the Gonzalez family in Miami if you need proof. Given this fact, the truth of the matter comes down to more than thirty children and their teachers dying because of a gun hobby.
And we have people in this country who think this is a fine tradeoff. These same people who have no problem giving away our right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure, who have no problem letting the President arrest American citizens and order them tortured with no due process of the law, become absolutely apoplectic with self righteous indignant libertarianism when we suggest that the mangled corpses of the flower of our youth laying lifeless in their classrooms may be an indication that even some curbs should be placed on their hobby. Their HOBBY.
I do not have the luxury of believing in God. I would give anything to be able to believe that those poor students and their teachers are now in perfect heavenly bliss. I swear I would. But its not something that I have in me. So I am left to think that they are gone. They will live on in the hearts of those who loved them, but in the back of my mind I can't escape the conclusion that all these people are gone forever and irretrievably because of a HOBBY. A Holocaust survivor killed while trying to slow down the killer to give his students time to escape. An engineering professor developing ways for patients with MS to walk again, blown away. Killed. Dead. FOR A HOBBY.
It is time for people of conscience to demand that the right of all Americans to live outweighs the right of the few to their hobby.
-Sorry if this is a bit short or I mess up the posting, my first diary, but I felt the need to say something