Monday, March 27, 2006

Mass shooting in Capitol HIll.

The whole city is in shock after this gruesome incident last Friday night. I overheard an old lady at the coffee shop this morning ask outloud "what's a rave?" Apparently the young victims met their killer at a rave and invited him back to their house where they partied until dawn. It was only after he left that he returned - armed to the teeth. Seattle is normally a quiet town with very little gun related violence (as opposed to many other U.S. city's). The last time anything like this happened was in 1983. And that was gang related.

It's another case against gun advocacy groups and the NRA. It's all well and good to expect the right to protect your family and to defend your constitution, but what happens when you start thinking everyone's out to get you, little voices started screaming in your head and you decide to take your psychotic state of paranoia out on a half dozen completely innocent people. Last Friday night is what happens. What will it take to make the gun lobbyists realise we as a society have a long way to go before the majority of us can be trusted with guns?

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