Not so Golden Virginia

I don't want to sound as if I am repeating myself here but I'm sure I wrote a similar blog in October.

Let me start by saying how sad I feel following the events at Virginia Tech yesterday. All the soundbites in the world cannot take away the tragedy that unfolded in this University yesterday and I am truly saddened by the killings.

I am not going to rant about Anti America stuff, god knows it caused enough grief last time, I am simply giving my observations. If people do not like it then follow the instructions listed at the top of this web page.

What happened yesterday was not a one off incident. However it was a record, beating another school shooting in the 60's. Where is this going to end???

Don't talk to me about intervention or babble that means nothing. I don't want to know about how America is the good and the Great and this is just another small blip on the US's way to greatness. America should be leading the way, they should be the shining light. Well they are not. Most of the bad shit that goes on is coming out of the US.

Now that may be a general term but America is getting a lot of stick these days and most of it is warranted. I am not going to go on about that though, my knowledge is not to great on the history but America really needs to sort it's shit out.

30,000+ Americans KILLED each year in a gun related crime. Those figures do not include Gun suicide, accidental deaths ( children picking up loaded guns and killing themselves). Over 200 Million guns on the streets of America.

WHAT DOES SOME DICK FROM THE NRA SAY LIVE ON CNN YESTERDAY

" If the Students on Campus were Armed they may have been able to take him out"

My thoughts: You cant even find the correct army to shoot at, so what hope do you have when you arm your school kids.

Go to school armed, my god, I have never heard such crazy American nonsense in all my life.

Charlton Heston was famously quoted as saying " Guns don't kill people, People do" This coming from a leading figure in the NRA. This coming from a ma who said at an NRA function " They can take my gun from my cold, dead hands".

Americans attitude towards guns is wrong. You do not need guns. We don't have them and we cope fine. You can buy guns and Ammo in wall mart these days.

A student in a University could not buy a beer because he was 20 but he could buy a second hand gun that was advertised on the student website. CRAZY CRAZY.

Also, don't talk to me about the constitutional right to bear arms. Not actual bear arms like gentle Ben but to carry weapons. This is en grained in American Culture but the interpretation of the right is incorrect. Read it. When the constitution was written the US did not agree to have an Army, therefore for the purposes of defence ( against the UK) guns could be legally carried. Well, you have an army now, so why have the right to carry weapons.

I am not saying ban all guns. That would never work. Much Much tighter laws on the control of weapons is needed. Virginia has only just passed a law that states you can only by 12 guns a year. Before that you could buy what you wanted. A man in Pennsylvania purchased 86 handguns and paid with cash. This was in a well governed gun fair. What chance do you have.

The UK is not as bad but it is not good either. In the year ending 06 there were 50 incidents of Gun related murder in England and Wales. That is a scary Stat.

The NRA have no power. They are simply lobbyists with a lot of cash.

13.74 people are killed per 100,000 with a gun in the states.

It will never change while the attitude of the people is ARM UP AND TAKE THEM OUT.

Guns don't kill people, Laws do.