Why Mostly Innocent Kids?

Hello to all!

This post is going to be different to my usual rabbiting.

 I want to know why the USA cannot get it right where guns are concerned.

It is not the gun that is the problem.

I grew up with guns. Some countries allow a gun in every home for whatever reason or other. The children are taught from babyhood what the gun is for and they do National Service as a requirement. Very few of these countries have someone cut loose with a gun or a school or a mosque or anywhere at all just because they are having a bad day and want someone else to pay for it.

Why?

Are they so shallow that they cannot see any further than their own small grudges? Or are they so sick, spoilt or I have no clue what else they are that they cannot just get over it?

Or has the world, the USA in particular, bred a race of people whose self-gratification has got to be met immediately?

I know, every country has people of similar minds. But how come most of them can control this unmitigated anger, lust for revenge or desire for 15 minutes of fame? You don't get that when you are dead. All you are regarded as is some savage dog which needed to be put down.

That's not fame in my book.

Okay, you have this Act written into your Constitution that you can carry arms. That's all very well.  Defend yourself by all means. But John Wayne died quite a while ago in case those who have never heard of him but follow his ideas don't know, and the world has moved on.

Why can't there be a simple test that people must take before they can get a gun of any type? It won't stop every lunatic who wants to feel big, but it may stop some of these innocent kids whose only sin was to go to school where they should have been getting blown away by these same lunatics.

Restrict the age of the person who can access the gun. Do some checks and balances before the gun can be bought and stop being so greedy for any dollar that can be had. Make it compulsory for guns to be locked up safely. It won't cost the world and it only takes a second to unlock a cupboard. Maybe that second would be enough for some of these people to think twice about what they have in mind. It may save some lives. Even one is a start.

Otherwise, get some help for the way you feel.

Fast.