You can find this or a similar headline in pretty much every online newspapers that exists right now, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be tomorrow’s newspaper headline in Austria as well.
When my mom called me in the kitchen earlier today, she told me that she just heard on the radio that a man killed 20 children and 6 teachers in an Elementary School in Connecticut.I simply couldn’t – no – didn’t want to believe her. How can anybody be so cruel? How sick and f* up are people nowadays? First the shooting in Oregon a few days ago, where 3 people (including the shooter) died and now this?
How can anybody walk into a school and murder 26!! innocent people - 20 young CHILDREN and 6 adults, including his own MOTHER? For heaven’s sake, those children were between 5 and 10, they had their whole life in front of them and now everything was taken away from them because one sick, stupid asshole lost his mind? And the worst thing of all? This is definitely not going to be the last shooting where innocent people are getting killed.
And you know what’s insane? Most Americans still believe that everybody should have the right to own a gun! I’m not saying that this tragedy has happened because the 20 year old killer was allowed to have a gun. I do realize he might have got one without having the permission to own a gun as well. But it definitely makes it a lot easier to actually hurt people when you have a gun in your house, doesn't it?
And it’s not only about people getting nuts and killing a lot of people in a mall, a school or another public place. It also happens at home, in their families. How many people get killed in the heat of the moment, because one of the family members loses his/her mind and grabs the gun, which is in their house because “they might have to defend their family in case of an emergency”.
Dear gun supporters, have you ever thought that you might not even have to defend your family, if people around you don’t own guns? I know, owning a gun means freedom and security for some Americans, and I do realize that the American constitution says that people have the right to own a gun – but the constitution was written in 1789 and the right to own a gun was added in the 2ndamendment (which was in 1791). Of course people needed a gun back then, they intruded into Indian land, it only makes sense that the Native Americans weren’t too happy about the white people taking away their land. But now, more than 200 years later I don’t see the point in this part of the constitution anymore.
I’m really sorry for the children and adults who died today, as well as for the families and friends of the victims. May they rest in peace, and please America, start rethinking your so called “right to keep and bear arms” – how many more people have to die before you realize that owning a gun is not the solution to the problem?
P.S.: I'm sorry for my violent choice of words in this post, I usually don't swear at all, but in this case the words "fool" or "idiot" were just not strong enough to describe the hatred and hostility I feel towards the man who killed all those innocent people.
