Guns and people

Today we hear that another gunman has entered a school and killed at least 32 people. People are of course screaming for answers and trying to assign blame. Some bring up the issue of gun control again- but guns don't kill people on their own. We have good gun laws already. What we need are laws that prevent children under 18 from playing video games where they kill things in every conceivable way for hours on end. We need to make tv and movies less violent. We need to stop endlessly reviewing the violence that has already occurred and making feature length news stories about it. Now I don't know anything about the gunman at this stage and of course there are all these studies out there that claim violence in the media doesn't cause violence in the real world, but I don't believe that for a minute. If all the students in the school were armed and started shooting back would that have made a difference? I heard someone suggest that it would. I think that would have really staged it as a giant video game. Granny's idea is this. When the media describes another shooting they should substitute bullets with grapes or tomatoes. Instead of 32 people were shot, they should say 32 people were hit with tomatoes. That would make everyone laugh and the world needs more laughter. The next time some idiot that dreams of revenge arms himself to go to a school and break a record, maybe he'll load his knapsack with grapes and tomatoes.

May God bless the families of those who died today and give them comfort in their time of grief.