Ten days from Violence

It has been ten days since the Valentine's Day school Shooting in Florida.  It was very interesting, because of the reaction to it from everyone.  The meme was that everyone would be shocked, and everyone would grieve.  Politicians would offer their thoughts and prayers, and promise change.  They would suggest that the shooter had a mental illness.  Then nothing would happen.  It was a checklist about what has happened at every other shooting.

And then the news reports came in and I started checking off each thing on the list.  Then something else happened.  The commenters started talking as if they had seen the list too.  They said that this is what happens in every other shooting and apparently nothing will change. We heard about the heroes, there is always a hero, someone who steps in front of the shooter and saves people.  This time it was a geography teacher who saved people by getting shot instead.  

And then something else changed, the survivors stepped forward and told the press that they are not going to take it anymore and they would do something about it if their parents and grand parents, great grand parents could not do it, they would.  People said after Sandy Hook, where a mentally ill person started shooting kindergarten students, if they could not change the laws then, nothing would do it.

President Trump interviewed the student survivors with his notes, telling him to pause and nod and say, I hear you.  His solution is to talk.  He said that he would ensure that mentally ill people can't get guns, and that he will reduce magazine sizes.  Meanwhile, he has already made it easier for mentally ill people to get guns.  He said the solution is to make the teachers wear guns, because if that Geography teacher had a gun, he would have killed the shooter.  Never mind that no person has ever killed a mass shooter while they were shooting people.  After they were done, yes, but not during.  Because it takes a special person to be able to do that, we call them soldiers.  Not policemen.  There were four policemen outside the school waiting for more police to show up while the shooter was killing people.  I am saying arming teachers won't work.  Putting armed guards in a school won't work.  Either, a guy with a hand gun facing off against an AR-15.  Its not like if you were planning a mass shooting you would not make the guard your first victim.  

There has only been one solution to mass shootings and that is getting rid of the guns.  They need to make owning a hand gun illegal, and owning any type of military gun a mailable offense.  Make it so using a hand gun in any criminal activity tacks on ten years for every offense.  Murder, life, murder with a gun, life plus ten.  Manslaughter ten years, manslaughter with a gun twenty.  Break and enter, 2 years, break and enter with a gun 12