LogFAQs > #972987349

The truth of the matter is that proper handling as a focus is much less of a thing now than it was before the 1970s, that too many Americans since the rise of Westerns as a genre in media have grown to see guns and their firepower as a thing to aspire or to fear and not as a tool to work or live with, that the last forty years worth of events have made too many people on edge all the while help people require is shunned and refused proper funding or development, and, in short, of course we have a gun problem. We have all the makings of one, not to blame the guns themselves, but the culture around them. We have too many people who are angry, on edge, or quite ill, and too many weapons for which those people are trigger happy. We were conditioned to be trigger happy, conditioned to turn on one another.

No fix is coming, because the rich and powerful feel quite secure and cozy knowing that none of these projectiles are coming for them. Maybe their puppets in elected office once in a generation, for now, but not ever them.

We need to address proper handling and care, we need to address ownership, and we need this thirty years ago. But we also need less division, better education and mental care, and we need those fifty years ago. What we need isn't coming. We're too divided, too on-edge, and too trigger happy to make it come.