What a horrific tragedy befell
America on Friday morning when a crazed lunatic decided to cause death and
mayhem in a cinema. My deepest condolences
to the victims and their families and I am sure the well wishes of the world go
out to them as well. It is too awful to
contemplate, that someone would decide to methodically and deliberately do such
a heinous crime.
Some articles I have read have argued
that the particular film he picked to perform his evil act may have something
to do with the shootings, but surely a film does not create a mass
murderer. Others may say the fact
someone of his age can readily buy automatic weapons and ammunition, adds to
the likelihood of such a terrible crime occurring. Yet sane people do not walk into cinemas and
decide to kill people.
Maybe it’s a mixture of many
things that happen to converge at once, in one person at that particular
moment. It is with terrible sadness that
such things can occur, but occur they do.
Perhaps since the killer survived, psychologists can try to get to the bottom
of the reasoning behind what he did, and why a youth who had no background of
violence or misbehaviour would decide to create a hellish fantasy, which ended
with him murdering at least 12 innocent human beings in a cinema.
When I go to see the film I will
be thinking of what happened, and as with many others it will be in my mind
that it may happen when I am at the cinema.
Luckily I don’t live in a country that allows its citizens to carry
automatic weapons, or any weapons for that matter. And this at least gives me more hope and less
fear that I will not have to ever see such a terrible crime in person.
If you carry a gun because you
feel it is your god given right to, just think why you actually carry it. Will it stop someone from killing you? If an innocent person was sitting in that
cinema on Friday morning with a handgun when the shooter arrived, did it help
them survive? Unfortunately guns don’t make
you safe, they make you less safe. A
world without weapons would be much safer than a world with them. Maybe it’s time for America to realise this,
is profit from gun sales worth lives.
How many more times does it have
to happen before something changes?
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