Horror...

The killer awoke before dawn.  He put his boots on.

Father?
Yes, son?
I want to kill you.

Well, I guess this topic is worthy of my input at this point.  The short version is that the weapons that exist today aren't the problem, it's the people we've become.  Evolution has brought us through a lot of different stages in our development, and through them all there have been some among us capable of massive destruction of the rest of us.  We've just gotten a little sicker these days.  It's the human mind that's the deadliest weapon we have to consider.  There's no stopping our evolution, and no re-directing it either.  Restrict all the guns you want, it'll just make them more expensive.  If someone is bent on killing a lot of people, they'll find a way to do it.

This recent tragedy in Connecticut had a surprise twist, one I found interesting.  This is just how I heard the story develop through the media, so of course feel free to do your own research before you make your own judgment.  (A little legal disclaimer so I can't be hanged for inciting anarchy.)  The first reports said that the gunman used two pistols, a Glock and a Sig-Sauer.  There was a rifle found in his car.  Now, the first thing I said to myself when I heard that was "Wow, something this big is going to almost REQUIRE some action on gun control, but how are they going to manage that when he used pistols?"  I found that out the next day.  The medical examiner says that all were killed with an assault rifle.  I just shook my head and laughed.  Ok, I thought, this is how it happens, and nobody can say anything to change it now.  How they made the original mistakes is beyond me, maybe someone saw a vacuum cleaner in the guys car and thought it was a rifle, maybe whoever saw the Glock and Sig just saw the light reflecting off the assault rifle funny.   I understand that in the aftermath of something like this something needs to be done... regardless of how futile I think it is.  The story of him using two pistols doesn't serve the purpose of enacting more restrictions on assault weapons, so the Feds tell all the parents, relatives, first responders and medical examiners "Ok, we need to have some good come from these children's deaths, and the teachers, so the story now is, wink wink, the gunman used an assault rifle to do all this.  Got it?"  Everyone is in agreement, and the story gets changed.  It's just odd seeing it actually happen.  What I keep coming back to is that this was most likely done with pistols, and probably will be again and again in the future unfortunately.  Will planting assault rifles become standard operating procedure at events like this?

Horror has a face, and you must make a friend of horror.  Horror and mortal terror are your friends.  If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.  They are truly enemies.