Guns don't kill people.... Blogs do

I was planning on writing my blog this week on gun control. The day that I started this blog there was a mass shooting at a community college. The details are the ones we’ve heard over and over again. Young, white, intelligent, estranged, an outsider. For the majority of mass shootings, these are the adjectives we hear from the news describing the killer.

For the next few weeks, you’ll hear the same talking points. It’s too early to start talking about gun control, stronger background checks from the Dems. People like Gov. Bobby Jindal will tell you its mental health, yet they cut mental health funding.  However neither side will present legislation to fix the problem whether it is mental health or guns.

 Guns don’t kill people and automobile accidents are more frequent than guns. However, when we send off our soldiers to war to kill people, we send them with guns and bullets, not cars.

The thing is, this is the 15^th mass shooting that Barack Obama has had to talk about during his term. Mass shootings are thought to occur in the United States every day. However, only the ones with the most gruesome detail become big news stories.

I can only think that the next mass killer is out there, watching the amount of coverage this killer has received and planning out his day of fame. The shooter’s picture is on the news all day long. Media outlets cover the person as if they were a celebrity.

To fix the problems of mass shooting I believe we need a multi-step approach. First off, we must stop nurturing a culture in which people killing people is an option. The United States has the most violence in our video games, movies and TV shows.

Second, we must stop covering these people as if they were some sorts of demi-god. Killing a school full of children with a gun is nothing to be famous for. It’s a cowardly act, and should be treated as such. The gunman should only be referred to as what he is a killer.

Lastly we must find a way to limit the access to deadly weapons. Whether that is background checks, giving the FBI full access to receipts, closing the gun show loophole there must be some way. Partisan politics should not matter in these situations. One person tries to blow up an airplane with his shoe and we must all take off our shoes during screening, multiple people use loopholes, and we don’t do anything to restrict gun access.

Further Reading:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/08/25/3694369/conservative-gun-free-zones/