The suspect threw a gas canister into the audience of the sold out show, who first thought it was a stunt related to the film, then opened fire on the audience with an assault rifle, a shotgun, and two pistols.
This was the worst mass shooting in America in almost three years.
This was the worst mass shooting in suburban Colorado in 13 years.
Logging into Facebook this morning I see this bullshit.
You know what? Col. Cooper is right. Guns have no moral stature. Neither does a guillotine. Neither does the executioners axe. Neither do iron maidens, nuclear warheads, thumb screws, hand grenades or napalm.
They're just tools. Tools that are used to hurt and kill people.
And we fucking worship them in this country. How sick is that?
I'm not mad at Holmes shotgun. I'm not even mad at Holmes. He's probably crazy. Maybe crazy in the 'political/religious extremist' sense, but still fucking crazy.
What I am mad at is a society that apologizes for it. A society that says "don't blame us for selling guns to a person that wants to shoot people." I'm mad at a society so fucking in love with violence, so infatuated with murder, that it honestly believes the solution to gun violence is more guns.
We need guns to protect ourselves from bad guys.
Bad guys like Trayvon Martin. Bad guys like the kids at Columbine.
You know why I don't own a gun? Because I don't want to kill someone. I don't even think I could.
I don't own anything worth murdering a someone over. And neither do you.
Who does that gun protect you from? Your neighbors? Your friends? The people you pass on the street everyday? Other Americans? Some boogeyman that lives in your head? Muslim? Rapist? Crackhead? Mugger?
You're a fucking coward. You and your gun.
Yeah, we're guaranteed the right to bear arms in this country. But you know what? At the time that was written there was a very real possibility that we'd be invaded. When was the last time America was invaded?
Unless you think your rifle can shoot down a nuclear missile, or scare a bomb out of hiding, then it won't fucking save you from anything.
We also have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Guns go against all three. Guns are the tools of murders and oppressors. Guns drive happiness away by turning everything and everyone into a threat.
Guns are the tool you buy when you're terrified. The security blanket of man-children, the sucked thumb scared infants attempting to convince themselves they aren't scared. Guns, kept out of terror, perpetuate it.
Do I think the right to keep arms should be taken away? No, of course not. But I goddamn will not respect any civilian that treats it like a duty that excludes all other rights.
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