One more thing...of the few that voted for Obama on this site, they have to claim that guy as one of their own. Obama loves guys like Costas. Freakin' sad.
Nope, I will not claim that guy as one of "my own"!!
Thanks but I'll be the judge of who I give that title to!:thrwrck:
And FYI here's an email I sent to Mr. Whitlock this morning...
10:05 AM (8 hours ago)
to ballstate0
Mister Whitlock,
I just finished reading your piece about the tragedy in Kansas City. I agree with you on a lot of your points particularly the ones concerning how football in general is viewed. But I couldn't disagree with you more on current gun laws. I believe in my heart of hearts that stricter gun control will not solve these issues plaguing society today. Creating more and more gun laws is tantamount to cutting off your nose to cure your cold. It might alleviate your immediate symptoms but will it solve the problem? I believe gun control to be the easy way of trying to fix a much greater problem that we face as whole.
Better questions to ask, rather than how did he get a gun, might be "what made him think this was the only solution he had and how do we change that?", or "how come he didn't know there was help available and it is OK to ask for that help?
These are much more difficult to provide a viable answers for. I know that people want to help and feel as if their making a contribution to making the world a safer place. Some of the questions I've posed don't offer the instant gratification that passing a law or the such can sometimes provide. But even if we pass more laws, the real problems aren't going to go away with fewer guns.
I understand that gun violence is a problem. So is spousal abuse (physical and verbal) and child molestation. These crimes too are against the individual, against humanity and society in general yet they don't recieve the national coverage that a shooting might. It's in situations like these that the desperation and anger and feelings of powerlesness give rise to the idea to pick up a gun. If we can overcome those issues, gun violence will become less of a problem.
Please sir, I ask you to reconsider your approach solving the issues of gun violence. The issues are complex and extremely difficult, I know. But unless we can solve the reasons these things occur, gun violence will never end. Regardless of how illegal or difficult it is get a gun. Look at drugs...
Thank you,
