In view of the latest of the so called insane shootings in Denver, I am taking a closer look at what lays behind incidents like these. America is notorious for it's liberal view on guns and the laws allowing them. This means that any idiot can buy and posses a gun whether it be licensed or not.
Statistics speaks for itself. In 1996 people killed by firearms were; 30 in the UK, 106 in Canada and 9390! in the US. What does that tell us? Who is to blame for a development of this magnitude?
I have been accused of being a bigot for constantly bashing Americans and the nut farm where they breed beyond control. My daily dosage of watching Ricki Lake show on TV fuels me in my quest in bashing those idiots. I will continue to do so simply because it is true, at least in most cases. The only exceptions would be the savants graduating the Universities to which any loser with some money could enter.
I have written before about some of the problems causing incidents like this. Any society dwelling in the past and relying on a constitution applicable only to the conditions of a 17th century society is due to fail. In those days colonist feared the inhabitants who have lived there for thousands of years before the usurpers came. They also feared the convict labourers and escaped slaves that might threaten their home and lives.
But as times change so must society and the laws upholding the order in it, America has failed to revise those very laws and the constitution, all in firm belief of their utter supremacy over previous systems in Europe.
As little as the government could deal with the freed slaves, the romanticism of the cowboy mentality was perpetuated as part of the American dream. Freedom has become equal to a do-what-the-hell-you-want mentality. With no proper historic and cultural roots uniting the citizens and with no stability to fall back on as a system, foundations for all kinds of lunatic tendencies was laid.
Most of the idiotic and crazed up religious cults are founded in the US, neonazi organizations, right-wing Christians, shit you never heard of or thought possible is constantly popping up there. What does that tell us? At best it is the backside of democracy and freedom of speech, at worst it creates homicidal teens parented by irresponsible trash with neither future nor past.
No matter how misanthropic I might be in my views I am glad that I don't live in a country where walking in the streets poses a danger to anyone who happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. But the way media boosts these events making heroes out of these kids, and soon with the great impact American values has begun to make here in Sweden things might take a turn to the worse. As a matter of fact we have already seen the results of that.
The less attention this shit gets the better it is, because it will NOT work as a deterrent as little as the capital punishment does in the US. It is not cool to carry guns, it is not safe and it certainly as hell isn't smart. A guncarrying idiot is an idiot is an idiot.