What ever the answer to Mr. Obama’s question is ….I don’t think he is anything but capricious about dealing with it. Effectively capricious that is. Some many conflicting interests that everything effectively gets treated like a joke.
Treating the nurturing of children and killing people like they are joking matters is not good.[/quote]
I actually believe he thinks it is one of his biggest failings. In fact, I believe he even said so. The political will seems to have been there but was trounced by special interests. What is interesting is that now even the NRA has come out against some of its one supporters, probably because it realizes mass slayings are spreading like a disease— “exponentially” as Obama said—and that eventually it is going to backfire on them. Either that or they just ‘get it’ now. The more likely scenario is we won’t get a volte-face from them, but no doubt they’d be happier with a mass slaying every month as opposed to every week. I can’t believe I just said that.[/quote]
I actually watched this whole interview with the Tumbler CEO I believe he was…It’s a decent watch and focused mostly on student loans, but he did talk a bit about the gun issue.
The “laughter” someone posted wasn’t a laugh IMO and it was not noticeable by me. He certainly wasn’t make light of the situation or think it’s “funny” that kids are being shot up.
I am not an Obama lover nor a democrat neither…but
Like a lot of things, I think all this stuff is trying to politicize this situation and is not helping anyone.
As Obama has said in the interview, it is sorta amazing that Australia had a mass shooting some time like maybe near 20 years ago and did somethings to make it harder to get guns. They haven’t had a shooting since.
It’s amazing how now, it’s almost like everyone in the US is desensitized to a shooting now since they occur nearly every week.
Every week, there is a new shooting and after a bit, no one cares until enough kids die or some major NRA support loses their own kids to this and will decide something should be done.
Again, the point is not to ban guns, but to make it at least harder for people who will carry these acts out to get guns.
The majority of these kids are < 30. All obviously had mental issues.
Until people start giving a shit, we'll just see more copycat's who feel like shooting people and feeling like it gives them power and a way out to be in the media. Sadly, with it happening so much now, the killers don't even get their day in the sun.
Honestly, I'd rather just throw myself in an Octagon and battle it out or take out my frustrations on some people I don't like, maybe it'd work out on these kids rather than shooting people.
