America has an addiction to guns like the world has never seen. And like with any addiction, unless the addict admits it’s a problem, the carnage will continue.
Yet again, we have 2 mass shootings in one week. 19 year old Scott Hole shot and killed 8 people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis this past Thursday. He then turned the gun on himself and ended his life. It’s interesting that at 19 years old, you can’t buy a beer, but you can legally purchase a semiautomatic rifle.
Then, last night in the wee hours going into Sunday morning, an unidentified man walked into the Somers House Bar in Kenosha, Wisconsin and opened fire killing 3 people and injuring 3 others. The shooter has been arrested, but his name has not been released.
This MUST STOP NOW:
Even if there were no bad guys, no mentally ill people and no terrorists, there are way too many guns in circulation. The US is 4% of the world’s populations, but owns over 40% of the world’s guns. If our society is so blinded by guns, greed and death that it can’t respect basic arithmetic, this will keep happening.
DriveWithCompassion is calling for the below in order to eradicate most mass shootings:
- 1. Ordinary citizens should NOT be allowed to own any firearms other than a regular pistol that shoots 6 bullets, one at a time.
- 2. Require all gun owners to purchase gun insurance.
- 3. Ban ALL Military Style Weapons.
- 4. Education. What do I mean by education? People need to understand that guns are bad. Just like drugs are bad. Guns are bad. Guns should not be a hobby or a pastime. It’s literally killing our society. Instead of hunting and shooting clay pigeons, take your family out to dinner. Instead of your teenagers playing Mortal Combat type games for 5 hours a day, have them volunteer at an animal shelter.
There’s no place for guns in the digital age. Millennials and Generation Z don’t want our guns, greed and wars. It’s time to repeal the 2nd Amendment and replace it with common sense gun control. If that means destroying the gun industry, so be it. We don’t need a booming gun industry. It’s supposed to be lives before profits. Not the other way around.
Thank you for hearing me out.