Bag of Guns

Another shooting rampage in the United States.  This time in a fitness center, where a gunman opened fire on a group of women in a dance class.  Here's the first paragraph of the article from the NY Times on Wednesday, August 5th -

"A man carrying guns and a gym bag walked into a busy fitness center just outside Pittsburgh on Tuesday evening and opened fire, killing at least three people and wounding nine others, some of them critically, the police and witnesses said."

Turns out he was carrying a bag of guns, four to be exact.  Four damn guns! 

As we watch news clip after news clip about the heartbreaking shooting, ANOTHER heartbreaking shooting, I am missing something in the storylines.  I continue to learn more than I want to know about the deviant behind the shootings, and a minute-by-minute reenactment of the event, and many questions about how it could have happened.  But I personally have not heard one discussion about how many guns he was able to attain, why these types of killings are so uniquely American, and why we as a country maintain gun laws that are dangerous.  DANGEROUS.  Where's the outrage?!?  He had a bag of guns?  A bag of guns.

We're starting to get things right in this country again, Amen.  Now it's time to infringe on "the right of the People to keep and bear arms...".  

Comments

[rachel]

i wonder about this myself. it seems that those with guns (multiple guns- why is this necessary?) use them for the wrong reasons. I'd love to see some statistics on what the majority of guns are actually being used for. the fact that someone can acquire that many guns is scary. My friend's husband has a gun in his house "for protection" against intruders. The fact of the matter is, if someone barges into your house, it's highly unlikely you'll have time to run upstairs, unlock the safe, retrieve the gun, and go thwart the intruder. more likely than not, they are one step ahead of you...