Plenty of Guns & Somethin to Shoot

It’s good that we grieve together, as a nation, when shootings like those at Virginia Tech happen. We did the same for, Columbine, Jonesboro, Austin, and other places. It’s a sign of our humanity. We haven’t been totally desensitized though mass killings happen daily somewhere in the world. It’s still a shock when it happens in our midst and especially when it happens to our young. It’s not, however, the aberration that we pretend it to be. With guns available to almost all, incidents like these are inevitable. Periodically, a deeply disturbed person who sees no other outlet for his or her rage will obtain a firearm and start shooting. Guns are part of our mythology- gods that demand human sacrifice. We, as a nation, are willing to make these sacrifices. Whether or not the Second Amendment or the First Amendment (Some say the right of revolution is guaranteed by the First) guarantee our right to posses guns (Or Nukes for that matter), they would still have to pry our guns from our cold dead fingers and take them over the dead bodies of our children.