Monday, March 30, 2009

Another day, another shooting. This time in a nursing home in the US. Before that it was in Germany where it was a nursery. An 11 year old boy shot his father's pregnant girl friend as she lay sleeping and then calmly rode the school bus to school. No 11 year old would carry out a crime like that unless he has grown up with guns and has been taught how to load and shoot one. In a massive coverup he is to be charged as an adult and may spend his entire life in prison. Yet he is just as much a victim as the dead woman. The manufacturer's of guns are the people who should be serving lives in prison for the millions being killed worldwide by their lethal product. Instead they are billionaires protected by the NRA, a collection of pathological sociopaths, citing some weird amendment in the constitution. We are used to Hollywood movies about drug smugglers and how brave DEA agents risk lives to stop these evil men. Yet it seems that just as drugs are being smuggled into the US so guns are being smuggled from US to Mexico where more than 6000 men died in the border region last year because of drug cartels fighting over territory and the police. Cigarettes come with health warnings and the Indian government wants manufacturers to put skull and bones on the packets but guns have no restrictions. People are being shot over parking arguments and schoolboys are killing other boys. The police are supplying farmers with guns in Jharkhand to fight Naxals. People die and the lies go on.

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