Unconventional Wisdom

There is a lot of talk these days about gun control. I won’t reiterate them because I’m sure you’ve all heard them. I want to make it perfectly clear that the mass shootings of 2012 were tragic and to I was depressed for about two days after the Sandy Hook shooting. Evil is the only way to describe these diabolical individuals. I do not wish to make light of these tragedies or offend anyone by what I am about to say. I could not imagine losing my own child in such a despicable way and could not even begin to understand what those parents and the loved ones of the adults are going through. I can not say with certainty that I know how to stop people like that, and if there is a way to keep mentally deranged people from obtaining even zip guns, I’m all for it. So when I say this, please do not think of me as a heartless bastard. I'm just pointing out alot of the things that never get mentioned after incidents like these, unconventional wisdom: 44 people were murdered as a result of the four mass murders in 2012.(I subtracted the suicides) It would take at least 7 seven round magazines to accomplish this, two thirty round magazines or one with 50 or more magazines. I looked at the FBI stats, something called the Unified Crime Reports a.ka.a. UCR The stats are not available for 2012 yet, but in 2011 there were a total of 12664 homicides in the united states. 393 of those were classified as justifiable homicides. 8583 of those were committed with firearms. This means that 32.3% of all of those murders were commit ed without firearms. (4081 homicides) about 93 times the amount of homicides caused by the mass shootings in 2012. 869 were committed with personal weapons. The FBI describes this as hands, fists, feet, etc. The next time you see someone get in a fight, remember that about 20 times more people died from that reason then were killed by the heartless bastard motherfucking mass shooters of 2012 in the previous year. There is a problem with violence in this country. A lot of it is caused by our cultural norms. We need to instill the idea in people that it is not okay to initiate force when you get in an argument. It is not okay to kill your wife or husband if you find her fucking someone else, or punch someone if he calls you an asshole. These problems have much more difficult answers then limiting rounds in magazines or banning “ assault rifles.” http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded-offense-data