In the L.A. Times article,
“Families of gun violence, victims make their case, again,” you can see the
pain and concern of the American people who are addressing the proposal of
extended background checks to purchase a firearm. How many people have to die
in a massacre before we feel responsible? Let’s see. 32,367 people died in car
accidents in 2011, and who knows how many people where strangled to death, and
everybody said something detrimental to another human being. Automobile
accidents have to do with two parties, a person and a machine. There are also
two parties in shootings, a person and a machine. The person controlling the
machine is the backbone of the machine; it tells it what to do. Since vehicles
are weapons on the road, and kill thousands yearly, the country should have a
proposal to end the use of motorized vehicles. Or should we? Forget the complete
anarchy that would occur; it needs to be done because it is a very dangerous
weapon.
Now to pillows. Pillows you say? Yes,
pillows. Pillows are things that are used for cute cuddly animal beds and for a
fluffy get away for your head to rest at night, and they are also the best
friend of strangling serial killers. Pillows can be used to suffocate people,
but a solution for this unfortunate scenario that could one day happen to you,
is here. Ban them you say? No, that would be ridiculous. Let’s just have background
checks to own any type or form of pillow.
“You smell like an inbred skunk, and
look like an alcoholic beetle!.....I’m sorry. I don’t know what got into me.”
This brings me to speaking. You never know what a person is going to say; it
could be detrimental. Just like when you’re operating a weapon, and you have
unstable thoughts, when your operating your mouth you could potentially say
unstable things. It’s been known to be said” sticks and stones may break my
bones but words will never hurt me,” but this is not so. Thoughtless words are
just as painful or destructive as physical harm. We must ban verbal
communication, because just like the people that had unstable thoughts and
misused a machine, your unstable thoughts can cause you to misuse your words. Sandy
Phillips said, “We will not give up. We will not go away,” when it came
to the background check proposal for guns, but then the Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid said that “he would love to revive the background check proposal
that failed in April, but saw no reason to since it still lacked 60 votes
needed to pass.” Who won? This is another example of why verbal communication
should be banned. This is a very important article to read, because of course
there are no other articles addressing gun violence victims since the year of
at least 1992. This is all new information and the world has never read such
new and interesting failures of ideas to broadly solve violence.
