Honestly this is the last time I can do this rant (Probably not but....) A 6 year old brought a gun to school and shot his teacher. Gun control people are blowing up my social media with stupidity again. Since common sense and facts don't work, maybe this time I will tell a story, people used to learn from stories. Maybe I can bring that back, at least on people who have no idea about guns......
Once upon a time there was a early 40s male who liked guns. He enjoyed going to the range and shooting targets, he enjoyed shooting clay pigeons on his parents land when they went to visit. He had grown up his entire life around guns and surprisingly had never shot up anything!! Now this short middle aged man had both his PAL and his RPAL (If you are for gun control in Canada and don't know what those are, your opinion doesn't matter, clearly you are clueless) Those 2 handy dandy little licenses said he could buy long guns and restricted guns. Well that was until a wannabe king and his court of fools (I like that for the liberal party, I think I am going to keep using that one.) outlawed certain guns and went after legal gun owners, rather than the bandits who were actually using illegal weapons to commit crimes. In the "great" capital of Edmonton there had already been numerous gun crimes committed in the first week of a new year. None done by legal gun owners but that was whole the court of fools was targeting. This bard has moved away from the tale of the middle aged man though so we will get back to him......
When this man was much younger in his teen years, this man was kind of a outcast. He was the smallest boy in his school and he liked fantastic picture books of heroes, which back then were not "cool". The majestic Marvelous company had not yet started putting out plays that made everyone enjoy the tales of heroes. Also he liked to write these tales and was stuck being skinny and bespectacled. Now this boy wasn't terribly bullied but when he was the smallest and other boys were hit with the magical testosterone and growing of course they liked to pick on smaller weaker people.
Now this boy had access to weapons, a few of them. He knew where his fathers boomsticks were, he knew where his grandfathers boomsticks were. These ones weren't even secured properly! He could have grabbed one and walked out his front door! (This I know wouldn't fly today and I can admit was probably an issue back then) Hell he even had his own magic semi-automatic boomstick and he knew where that was! This boy, he listened to the devil music that was violent! He played the boomstick games on the magic picture box (Admittedly they weren't GTA back then) not once though did it occur to him to take those boomsticks and do anything bad, even though they were right there!! In his last year of schooling the world changed. In the far off land of Columbine 2 boys did get angry and they did get boomsticks and took them to school. Many innocent people lost their lives that day. Where the boy went to school they had to start practicing in case someone brought a boomstick to school.... Something tragic happened shortly after this. The boy, who had been in a relationship with the same girl for 3 years and in his developing brain thought he was in love with, well she was unfaithful the week before their grad ceremony. He was crushed BUT not once did using boomsticks to take out his anger come into his head.
This boy however he wasn't done being stupid. He left his safe comfy kingdom to the bigger kingdom of Edmonton. There he would make a lot of poor life choices for many years! He would put himself so deep in debt he would pawn CDs and it made him very upset. He would have his heart kicked by girls. He would feel hopeless when he flunked out of school. As shit piled up on him not once did it come into his mind to take a boomstick and doing something terrible. Also the boomsticks, well they never did anything if no one touched them. I was like humans had to do evil with the boomsticks or else they were just a harmless inanimate object. There is a happy ending. One day the boy actually grew up, became a man got his shit together and put together a good life. Not once though did he think he should use boomsticks for anything evil.
Now as all this went on boomsticks became more and more of an issue. When they boy was young people kept boomsticks in their chariots. Right there for all to see and guess what? Nothing bad happened! People however who really didn't know anything about boomsticks and many who had never left cities to see boomstick "culture" where they are handled safely and children are taught to respect them, well these people with no knowledge started screaming how bad boomsticks were. They used any tragedy with a boomstick to demonize boomsticks. These people didn't want to look deeper, they didn't want to acknowledge MILLIONS of people owned boomsticks and handled them safely like the boy had, they simply wanted to say they were to dangerous for people to have. They weren't 100% wrong. Small boomsticks, boomtwigs that are held in a hand they really are only good for hurting people. You can't take a boomtwig hunting. However it shouldn't matter, if someone handles a boomtwig safely it is no more dangerous than any other inanimate object in the world. They didn't want to look at the fact something was wrong deeper in society, that is why boomsticks were being used more and more for evil. Boomsticks had been around for hundreds of years, so why now were things getting bad? These loud people didn't want to look at that, they wanted to put a bandaid over a boomstick wound rather than figure out why this was happening.
Even worse a dark prince, son of an awful dark prince took power in the beautiful land of Canada. Now this "prince" and his court of fools wanted to take away boomsticks. They didn't however go after bandits with boomsticks, they went after the people who used them safely. They went after boomtwigs, for some reason they seemed to think that Canadas much large and boom crazy neighbor Murica wouldn't still have a steady flow of illegals booms into Canada. The court of fools clearly knew nothing of boomsticks but they did know how to play with the "bards" to tell the tale that all boomsticks were bad. The court of fools was willing to say and do anything though to remain in the castle & they hoped they could get support from people who knew little of booms......
I legitimately gave myself a headache writing that & I never wanna hear the word boomstick again!! Are you getting the moral of the fairytale though? A gun is an inanimate object, it is not good or bad & it cannot hurt anyone without a human behind it. The world has gotten a LOT bloodier in the last few decades, with gun violence. Only a fool would say different. Taking away guns though isn't fixing anything. Look at the James Smith Cree nation last year, no gun was needed for the violence there. Taking guns is just a bandaid, we need to deal with the real issue and that is people! The boy in this story, well he didn't really have a bad life and never lashed out even though he had the access to do so. That was because he had a good family and was taught values. The issue isn't with guns, it is with society not valuing life. Society (Rap music, video games) glorifying violent behavior and people lapping it up. Not saying music or video games make people bad but not being taught right from wrong at home does. Hundreds of millions of people play games and listen to violent music and never act out, because they were taught right from wrong. We as a people need to do better, build a better world. Rather than try and blame inanimate objects for our problems.
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