Recent Violence

I am sure most everyone has heard about the ambush killings in Bingamton, NY, the police officers in Pittsburgh and Oakland, family killed in Washington and Alabama, etc. Every one of these cases had different circumstances from a violent anti-social guy recently paroled, to an angry coward recently out of work, to some guys going through marital separations. Many of these cases are still too new for anyone to have all the facts and we'll never know the whole truth since (I believe) all but one of the loons are dead.

There are alot of people out in the media, blogosphere and elsewhere who will make each of these into an anti-gun example for their purposes, and there will be some who will make this a Left vs. Right issue. Anyone who does either of these is a blind zealot and anyone listening to their nonsense is an idiot. Yes, I will from time to time take to name calling when the case is so clearly obvious. Disagree if you will; you are wrong.

Each of these instances, so far as I can tell (and I am not a "trained" psychotherapist), is a case of someone feeling like they have lost or are losing control of their lives; feeling desperation and anger, and projecting the blame on others - cops, ex-spouse, boss, etc. These people were weak and lashed out. The gun is not the cause, it is a tool, as useless as a hammer or a plow if left untouched. It could as easily have been a knife, a bomb, a car, poison...... The media is not the blame - they only report the news, give opinion, spark discussion. The boss who lays someone off is not the cause, he's only doing his job and trying to survive and feed his own family. The cops aren't to be targeted as they risk their lives daily to keep the public from the very loons who attack them.

Let's focus our attention on and name the real cause of the violence - the person who can't control their emotions and becomes blinded by them.