Gun Violence - Blame to go Around

 Chuck Marshall's Humble Opinion on Gun Violence 

By Charles Eldridge Marshall 

       

     One more mass shooting.  One more round of finger pointing.  To hear it from the media it's all about banning guns.  The left has never heard of a creative solution to any problem other than banning something or throwing money at it.   The Republicans blame mental illness, which is true but then what is their solution ?  Do they have one but we never hear about it or are they just useless ?  The political parties have blocked any legislation to fix this and other problems due to the partisan war being waged.  Nothing gets done and it's the fault of both parties for sure, but it's also the fault of the media which seems to prefer the war over any sort of compromise.  The media has great potential to be the voice of compromise instead of the instigator of discourse that it is today.  If they really care about the problems of this country and the world they would drop the partisan commentary and dig for the truth from both sides of the argument.  Surely there are other creative ideas that would help the situation if they simply opened themselves up to conversation other than "banning guns".   Why do the shootings continue ?  Because there is no compromise in Washington, DC but the media sits there eating popcorn.  I refer to them as "MSM Seepage" because they ooze rot from every pore.  

In My Humble Opinion.....  

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Guns and Race in America

By Chuck Marshall

Since the murders of 9 innocent people in South Carolina I feel compelled to write on the topic.  It also coincides with my previous blog in my twin blog, "Journal of an American Malcontent", which elaborated on the absurdity of the lady that "identifies herself as black".   Her name escapes me., but she's a great example of how silly race issues can get.

The loss of lives is the biggest tragedy of the South Carolina mass killings., and I think 99.99% of all Americans are disgusted and saddened.   I guess this must be the 10th mass killing in the last 5 years and  it's getting tragically common.  The tragedy of the South Carolina mass killings - the avoidable tragedy- is that  the story itself turns into another opportunity for our political parties to start debating each other.  Now should be a time to come together and establish some real solutions regarding mass killings;    Gun Control,  Mental Illness, Crime Control and ways to prevent things like this from coming up again.  Our so-called leaders will no doubt get into another pissing match, pointing their fingers at each other and coming to absolutely NO solution but to continue arguing "unwinnable" arguments.  There is no compromise in DC so nothing gets done.  We are essentially a leader-less country with a group of  political extremists that are out for the following things;   themselves, their lobbyist buddies on K-Street (where the real money and power comes from), and of course their "team" the idiotic Republican and Democratic parties.  Notice the glaring absence of the American people on that list.

There is one other culprit in all of this,  the network news media.  And  I do mean the left-leaning networks especially (which are synonymous with the Democratic party).    The networks show no restraint in taking this opportunity to draw their own conclusions with dim-witted comments funneling all of this into the fault of southern white people.  Their narrative is that the confederate flag and the hate of southern white people is a never ending plague upon the black folk of the south.  They also took the opportunity in several cases to blame  Fox Network for "stirring the pot" of racism... .  or words to that effect.   The reality is the guy that killed those people is a lunatic and a psychopath- who is also a bigot.  The problem is with the lunatic part., the bigotry is an ugly aspect of all societies in the world and comes from all races not just the white race.

They-the network media - see themselves as morally superior to the majority of the country.  The reality is they are condescending, arrogant,  self righteous egomaniacs and most of them are better suited to cover Hollywood and all it's superficial happenings., not a real story like this.   This is the reason I stick to reasonably intelligent written media, newspapers and I encourage all my readers to pick up a paper or subscribe to an electronic version of your city's newspapers.  The newspapers usually have thought behind their opinions.

 I am as angered by these murders as anyone but I want solutions not rhetoric.   Our leaders are bending over backwards to use this as another self-congratulatory oration of why they are so superior to the rest of the country and the other side.   President Obama won everybody over by explaining that this never  happens in any other civilized country besides the United States.  Wow, comments like that will sure help things a lot.  Once again, he has shown what an excellent "left leaning" college professor he would be but what a terrible leader he actually is.

In my humble opinion.

Murdered Six Year Olds

By Charles E. "Chuck" Marshall

     I've been avoiding the news about what happened in Connecticut on purpose.  First of all, the fact that it was mostly six and seven year old children makes me want to vomit.  Second of all,  I don't want to hear the media turn this into another circus;   "How could this have happened?" I don't know why it happened, and I pray for the victims' families., but I won't listen to the media dig for "reasons" for why it happened.   There is no logical "reason".  Why did the holocaust happen? Why did 9/11 happen? Why did Stalin purposely starve millions of his own people to death in the 1930's?   Why did Romans nail human beings, including the son of God to wooden crosses until they died of the pain?  There is Evil in the world, that's why it happened.

     What made this guy do it?  I'm sure none of us will ever really know, but I sincerely hope that he  (I can't recall, 'nor do I care what his name is) is rotting in hell right now and that he is enjoying his close encounter with Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, most of the Roman emperors, and all the other animals that have inhabited this planet in our history.  Who murders 6 year old children but those of such ilk ?  

     I already wrote a blog regarding the nut case that murdered the people in that theater in Colorado., so anyone who is curious as to my opinion on the "crime and punishment" of such people can read that blog,  I wrote it in July and it's titled "Movie Massacre in Colorado".  

   One big legitimate question remains that I feel compelled to address;  "Is there a way to avoid such an incident again?"  I know there is talk of more gun control, but I sincerely have my doubts such a strategy will work.  The country already has millions of such weapons out there on the loose, and nobody will be able to wrest those from the gun loving fanatics that own them.   I cannot relate to this passion for wielding weapons, but it is in the constitution and they are within their right.  The only thing I can think that might help is to arm schools and places of congregation so that any gunman... no matter how "mad" he is, will think twice before marching in to risk  getting his own head blown off before he finishes whatever it is his diseased mind seeks to accomplish.  ALSO, we need to start taking much more care of the mentally ill as far as diagnosis and incarceration.  If someone is showing signs of violence they need to be watched and they need to have restriction of movement, regardless of how "unfair" it may seem.  They cease to have the "right" to become integrated into society when they start fantasizing about murdering innocent people.  We owe it to our children.   We owe it to the 20 six and seven year old children that had their lives robbed from them in such a brutal, violent way.... and we owe it to their parents that now have a hole in their hearts and in their lives that will almost certainly never really heal.  


In My Humble Opinion,

Chuck Marshall