Question of the Day!

Another reason to re-think the Second "Amendment" – I mean if clinging to it keeps causing so much damage to survivors and loss of life by people who shouldn't have guns in the first place, how can it be an Amendment in the first place?

Yeah, I know that stems from the "warry" history of the United States. We have American History in Germany, too.

Yeah, I'm a total outsider who lives in a country where only "professionals" – police, army, bodyguards – may carry guns by law. Most others carrying guns in Germany are criminals.

BUT – a Schlupfloch are sporting marksmen & hunters keeping their "equipment" at home.

The two Columbine-worthy amok runs committed here by teens – in each case 17 dead, including students, teachers, police & offender – the offenders used the sports' guns / the deer rifle of their fathers.

DIFFERENT than the so-called parents in your case, both men had made sure their guns were always locked away and they had, of course, the proper documents. It didn't help them in both cases to be responsible gun owners as the kids either knew the safe combination somehow or broke open the armory.

Now to your case: that woman did nothing to prevent what her son was about to do – despite there was ample sign that something dreadful was about to happen. Yeah, she probably couldn't have foreseen THAT, but with all the signs the kid tried to send, someone dead would've noticed that kid was no good in this condition.

Trust me, I was in that mental condition myself and today I'm glad I didn't have access to a gun, otherwise I might be writing these lines with a nice view through the bars in a cosy German Justizvollzugsanstalt where "lifelong" means 15 years in most cases.

My own mother thought I was talking s– it "needed" the most superficial cut on my wrist (you don't see it anymore) and the (purposely) "blood smeared" razor blade edged below the bathroom door to "proof" to her that I was serious. She was flabbergasted. I hadn't let anything on according to mom – but assumed she must know how bad i am since she's my mother.

Maybe the kid in the case hoped that, too, and so made sure the woman had a mountain of signs. It was her fecking duty to at least talk to him to keep (impending) harm from her child... and from the community they live in.

For "keeping" to herself that the kid had a gun, in combination with her knowledge of his obviously effed up mind, for that she so completely ignored & neglected her kid and didn't tell anyone he was armed & dangerous, ESPECIALLY not when they were at the kid's school... alone that qualifies her for some boot camp behind bars.

But who am I saying this, and who am I telling this? To an observer it often feels like common sense is flying out the window when the American feels their gun threatened.

So many people – too many kids – died already being shot and they will continue doing so as long as NRA and associates fancy it.

Dang, now I'm depressed!

Against that only COFFEE helps – here one for you, too, Ma'am!