Gun manufacturers go fuck yourselves…
I send my kids to school expecting them to be safe.
Last night, a famous kids radio programme had a psychologist on it to discuss the shootings at Dawson College in Montreal.
Last night i had to discuss safety with my childrend. I asked that today, when they go to school, that they make themselves acutely aware to where the exits are. That they visualize these as they walk through the halls, and when they get into each classroom that they visualize escape routes. I asked that they do this once or twice to brand this information into their brains in the event they have to get out fast. I explained how mobs of frigtened people behave, forwarned them about getting jammed in staircases, corners and doorways. I explained that calm level headedness and a cool and calm demeanor will keep them and their classmates safe. Even if their heart is beating fast. I asked that they help and protect the less vulnerable around them at all times and to assist the wounded.
I also asked that they pay acute attention to people around them and that they never ever bully or harass those that are different, who look like outcasts who they perceive as weird.
I did this as a result of yesterdays shooting where a man with a 45, a 12 and a semi automatic weapon opened fire in a school cafeteria in a school in downtown montreal. Also, because for sick societal reasons, others sometimes copy these actions.
Today, i hope they are safe at school.
Yesterday i watched little kids being escorted out of their daycare near the school by police officers in bullet proof vests, and tears streamed down my face - mums and dads have to explain to them that something very bad has happened - and then have to say goodbye to them the next day when they send them back to school or daycare. Proximity and knowing the geography of a place somehow makes it more relevant. My kids were once locked down in primary school as bullets were fired in the viscinity. Yesterday, i saw the distraught faces of young adults as they escaped to safety from the shooting at Dawson College and heard the reports over and over on the Radio Canada.
I then stood dumbstruck when my kids said with complete certainty and in a matter of fact tone that the killer deserved to die and that all shooters like them deserve to die. I was stunned! After all these years of discussing why and how people become criminals, how sometimes physiological brain development prevents reasoning, that a history of abuse, growing up in poor conditions, addition, or mental illness leads people to do terrible things, how society abandons certain people, how institutions fail them, how we are fed garbage violence in movies, games and music that for some, if not for just a moment makes them do terrible things! That we should feel sorry for people who suffer like this and not wish them illwill.
Media make it cool to have a gun, to be tough and resolve problems with violence. Essentially acting as free commercials for the gun manufacturing industry.
Fuck you gun manufacturers who create products with the explicit intent to harm
Fuck you US national rifle association who actively market tools to harm
Fuck you Harper for wanting to cancel the gun registry, and
Fuck you media companies who colonize the minds of our children and youth with violent games, images, sounds, archetypes, and music.
Fuck you to the people who saw the gunmen’s website and its content and did not take it seriously, did not have the wherewhithall to regiter that this person was a ticking time bomb.
Fuck you to the gunmens friends, family and acquaintances who did not try to temper this man, to reason with him and to point out that something was very very wrong.
Fuck the rest of us for being irresponsible, who vote against investment in social policy and community development, who do not adequately support child welfare institutions who are supposed to take care of our children, for not taking care of our neighbours, who spend so much time working to acquire and are so busy in our day to day lives that we not longer have the time and energy to care for the people in our communities, and for not not taking care of our children.
Please, let my children come home without incident and safely from school today.
I once heard an interview with a PR rep from Northrop Grumman (I think, or General Dynamics) where he wholeheartedly denied that the company built weapons to kill people. He said “we build guidance systems, we build launch vehicles & platforms, we don’t kill people”. Which is technically true, but some of the most absurd rationalization I’ve ever heard.
An appropriate analog for the gun industry might be “we build small, portable ballistic delivery systems, it’s not our fault people don’t use them for gardening…”
I disagree with you on several points (ie. the gun registry.) but understand the frustration.
Comment by Mr. Redshoes — September 20, 2006 @ 5:36 pm
M. Souliers rouges;
gros merci! We can chat about the futility of the gun registry later! Let me tell ya though, LA street smarts has taught me that if you want to avoid guns, avoid the hoods that have chain link fences, bars on windows, busy liquor stores, and dudes with that clazed cracqued out look in their eyes! and well dang it, they have no place to garden so howz else they gonna use those guns!
Comment by Administrator — September 21, 2006 @ 7:41 pm
I think you blamed everyone but the crazy fuck with the gun, you ignorant piece of shit.
Last time I checked KILLING people was ILLEGAL, new laws will not stop that. Registries don’t do shit.
Chicago, Illinois, US has some of the STRICTEST gun control laws in all of the US, yet they have the highest homicide rate.
How about this? Instead of living in fear of a inanimate object you limp dicked fuck, you actually arm some teachers and allow them to protect your kids, since you obviously can’t do it yourself…
Cowards attack places like schools because they know they are soft targets, where they will meet little to no resistance. The second a bullet flies back at them, they will turn tail and run for easier targets.
Comment by John — August 27, 2009 @ 1:19 am
I would normally not post such violent diatribes, but I think it is important to feature the kind of Neanderthal thinking around - the right to bear arms rhetoric. For all I know, this fine specimen of a man, is hired by a militia or a member of the NRA to intimidate people into keeping fearful as opposed to addressing violence at its roots - in the minds of individuals and within culture.
Comment by Administrator — August 28, 2009 @ 9:14 am
you are an idiot.
Comment by Adam Traylor — November 6, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
You have to be the biggest moron I have ever met.
You make excuses for the criminal scumbags that take guns and kill people, they are misunderstood, had a rough childhood, people were mean to them, mpmmy didn’t love them!
When will you grow up and come out of this asinine, make believe world you idiots live in.
There is no utopia.
There is real evil in this world, sadistic, tortous, perverted evil people, and they deserve to be eliminated, killed, rubbed out, executed, preferably in public, when they performe their evil deeds.
Most of the people who are murdered are killed by recidivist, people who have killed before.
As long as people can force their will on you, they will try.
Guns cannot be eliminated. It might be great if everyone forgot how to make guns, but it is not going to happen, it can’t.
As long as someone can walk into a hardware store and purchase everything needed to make their own gun, there is no possibly they will disappear.
In fact, I know you won’t believe this but if everyone is allowed to be armed, you stand a better chance of protecting yourself than going around unarmed.
You see, the bad guys will ALWAYS find a weapon to use against the unarmed and defenseless.
In that case, the bigger person will usually win. If the bad guy doesn’t know if I have a gun, he will bemore careful about attacking a stranger.
It is estimated that guns are used between 200,000 and 4,000,000 times a year in self defense In the United States.
These numbers are hard to pin down because most times, the gun is never fired, many of these times people use a gun in self defense illegally, that is, they don’t have the government permit necessary to actually carry the gun legally.
Of course, the Politions, Famous, and wealthy can always procure the right to carry a gun, but not the little guy.
The fact is each person has the inalienable right to protect themselves, their homes and their property from those that would try to take it. And this right is absolute.
I am sure I have not changed any minds, but you at least ought to hear the truth at least once in your lifetime.
Comment by Bill Davis — December 9, 2009 @ 3:26 am
I have decided to post these nefarious comments here because, I believe they are very telling of the violence associated with gun lobbyists.
Comment by Administrator — December 16, 2009 @ 11:26 am
Why don’t you Fuck God since he was the person who created the piece of shit that fired the gun you fucking moron
Comment by Common Sense — June 29, 2010 @ 12:00 am
I am a gun activist, and I will agree with you that a school shooting is completely fucked. Now the most purchased and favored rifle in this country just happens to be an ar-15, yes an American made assault rifle. I was coming back from a gun shop with a friend after I had purchased around a hundred rounds of ammuntion for my ar-15. He had said wow you really could kill alot of people with that rifle, I agreed and started saying how millions of men and women in our country own one of these so called killing machines. It says something when millions
Comment by Sean — July 14, 2010 @ 6:04 am