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The death toll has now reached 33 with almost as many injured. For the next few days every news channel in America will saturate coverage of this massacre. The question “Why?” will be debated over and over – until something more interesting replaces it in the headlines.

There is no debate.

Why this, and other similar events, happen is totally obvious to those of us not indoctrinated into believing the crap poured forth by the NRA and their pet poodles in government. It was asked after ‘Columbine’; it was asked after the recent deaths of six Amish children. It keeps getting asked, but never is it answered.

There is no debate.

You, America, are the reason it keeps happening. You saturate your media systems with bloody violence and human hatred; you glorify sadism and revel in the death and horrific suffering of other human beings as entertainment, then – on a plate – you hand the sick, the retarded, or the just plain bloodthirsty, the means to act out these atrocities in real life.

George W Bush neatly avoids his share of responsibility. He has systematically removed the federal statutes that once provided an, albeit meager, measure of firearms control. Today, he had the nerve and effrontery to stand before the nation like some overly-pious bishop, and tell Americans:

“………Laura and I and many across our nation are praying for the victims and all the members of university community that have been devastated by this terrible tragedy……….We hold the victims in our hearts. We lift them up in our prayers and we ask a loving God to comfort those who are suffering today.”

How easy it is to pray.

Championing legislation to put an end to these massacres would be so much more difficult. He’d have to go against the wishes of his mates and financiers in the NRA. Has it occurred to him that, perhaps, this “loving God” he is so fond of mentioning might regard him in a better light if he did more to save the lives and prevent the suffering of the “loving God’s” creations?

I spit on his concept of a “loving God”. It exists only in his warped and twisted imagination.

Eighty human beings die every day from guns in America. Yet you, America, continue to sit pathetically by and do nothing to prevent it. Is effective gun control in the manifesto of the political party you support? Have you bothered to ask the guy who knocks on your door wanting you to vote for him, “What’s your policy on gun control?” Have you?

There is no debate.

Guns are manufactured for one purpose, and one purpose only – to kill, violently and indiscriminately – and easily.

There is no debate. Remove the guns and you stop the massacres. It’s been proven.

Do you care enough?

Or was Charlton Heston speaking for you, America?

“Take my weapon? When you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”

Filed under: Evil breeds evil

“At least 22 people have been killed and 21 more injured after a gunman went on the rampage at the campus of Virginia Tech university in Virginia, search US.” Quote from a BBC link HERE.

“Take my weapon? When you pry it from my cold, mind dead hands!” ~ Charlton Heston.

Filed under: Evil breeds evil

“US students attending sexual abstinence classes are no more likely to abstain from sex than those who do not, according to a new study…….”

So begins a BBC report into the effects of so-called “abstinence classes” instigated by religious organizations throughout the US and funded to the tune of $176 million per year by the US government.

Why?

Why is it so important that American teenagers should abstain from sex until they marry, given that half of US marriages end in divorce, and most likely another 25% persevere in circumstances detrimental to both partners and their offspring?

Right-wing America wants to keep its teens ignorant of sexual matters, fearing sex education could encourage them to experiment sexually, with the devastating result of unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

In the 21st century it is hard to imagine anyone believing ignorance more acceptable than education. After all, wasn’t it ignorance that created the racist intolerance of the fifties? Isn’t ignorance the excuse for virtually every racist, sexist, hate crime committed in this country since time immemorial?

Education equals knowledge, and knowledge is truth – not to be confused with indoctrination, which is someone else’s truth. Therein lies the crux of this matter, and many others.

This has more to do with the parents than their offspring. It’s about their ego-based guilt and fear, rather than truly caring for the child’s welfare.

Let’s face it, sexually transmitted disease is a relative rarity in western nations and sex education is the finest way to teach prevention. Everything we do carries some risk, and that includes having sex. Teaching kids how best to minimize those risks is sensible. Attempting to enforce abstinence is not only ineffective, but stupid. The resultant ignorance means more possibility of pregnancy or STD’s, when the abstainer buckles under the weight of his/her natural desires.

And, let’s be honest, what we are discussing here is exactly that – natural desires. Probably the strongest natural desire we ever experience. Those who advocate “abstention” are telling their children to suppress the strongest emotions they will ever have, at a time when those desires are approaching their zenith.

That parents are prepared to force their offspring into such a guilt-ridden and confusing situation, says little for the love the parent holds for the child, but an awful lot about parental fears and insecurity.

Filed under: Mis-information