Las Vegas Shooting 2017

This kind of thing happens all the time anymore; I don't know why anyone is surprised. It's gonna keep happening, too, because all anyone wants to do about it is change their Facebook profile pics to say Pray For [Whatever City It Is This Time]. I'm sympathetic towards the victims and their loved ones, but just like with Sandy Hook, or any of the other mass shootings in the US over the last many years, this will change nothing.

 

Yeah, there's really nothing to say anymore. Granted, it's horrible but no one wants to do anything about it. My opinion about the constitution is probably blasphemy but the constitution is dead. It was written over two hundred years ago and times have changed. The constitution did nothing to protect those people in Las Vegas and for people to defend a piece of paper after the same results keep happening more and more frequently are wrong. Guns were made to kill not protect.

 

Not saying outlawing them is the answer because clearly its not. Something should have been done early. We're just in too deep to just say "Ban all Firearms" now.

 

I don't love guns, but I don't think this is a gun problem; I think it is a people problem. I don't know what that problem is- a rise in mental illness, which is going untreated thanks to poor access to health care, the income and social inequality in this country causing people to become desperate, people becoming divided from each other due to magnified social and political differences, or maybe even people just wanting to do something to get everyone's attention and have their 15 minutes of fame. I don't really know. A start might be to not give these assholes any attention when they commit crimes like this. I can't say I haven't seen any articles about the victims or survivors of Vegas, but I've seen way more about who the shooter was, his possible motivations, people connected to him, etc. Quit plastering their names and faces everywhere, and focus on the victims. Think about how many serial killers you can name versus the names of any of their victims. It's an ongoing problem. If even some of these people are doing it for attention (for themselves or a "cause"), we should quit rewarding them.

 

The Constitution was made to protect us from ourselves since it did in fact established a government to do so. The fact that it limited something that it itself created from effectively doing it's duties (if the 2nd Amendment is to blame) wouldn't be to far of a stretch. Plus, the Preamble of the Constitution can nail it home better than I can.

I can only imagine that it's way worse when it hits close to home.