"You don't need no gun control. You know what you need? We need some bullet control. We need to control the bullets. I think all bullets should cost five thousand dollars. Five thousand dollars for a bullet. You know why? 'Cause if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, there'd be no more innocent bystanders. Every time somebody get shot they'd be like, "Dang, he must've did somethin'! Shit, they put fifty thousand dollars worth of bullets in his ass!" And people would think before they killed somebody if a bullet cost five thousand dollars. "Man, I would blow your fuckin' head off... if I could *afford* it! I'm a get me another job, I'm a start saving some money, and you a dead man!” couldn't be better stated by Chris Rock in one of his stand up comedy shows that was shown in the thrilling documentary Bowling for Columbine. Michael Moore’s documentaries have become my favourite, more and more of them I watch, the straight up truth he promotes smacks me in the face (when I have been saying that I want to do THAT to you guys… he does it to me). This documentary surrounds gun laws in America and the high school shooting(s) in and near by Columbine. Moore takes matters in his own hands with going to celebrities, head of the NRA (Rational riffle associational), he even caused k-mart to stop selling bullets that can be bought for handheld guns (ones not for hunting). Such a powerful documentary that shows what these open gun laws in America are doing to the country.
I didn't think I would have to make another blog about shootings and hate crimes so soon… but here we are, only a handful of blogs later…a couple months…and I need to react to yet another school shooting that occurred last week in Florida. 17 people, including teen student and teachers, were shot by the hands of another student. In 2018 alone, only 2 months (by the way), theres already been 18 school shootings in the US (stat resource). That averages, 2.5 shootings a week… like WTF? I cant imagine being a teen in high school in the states. Being surrounded by all these hate crimes, the feeling of being safe is totally gone!
Leaderships and the “higher power” think this violence is due to movies, video games and the media… but so many other countries have restricted gun laws AND still watch the same movies and play the same video games YET no other country even comes close to the amount shootings that occur in America. Australia changed their gun laws right after their 2000 school shooting… there has never been one since then. All these stats and ideas come from this documentary and it BLEW MY MIND! They cannot just admit that their gun laws, the easy access of obtaining weapons and ammunition, is causing all this violence, it is the rest of the world that is causing the problems. It is their take on the amendments of freedom and the right to bare arms that think they have a right to give guns to every “able” bodied man and woman. Well this man that committed the recent shooting in Florida was mentally ill, yet purchased a gun and ammo, and then went on to kill dozens of people… but he had the RIGHT to protect himself by committing a crime his sick mind created.
I want badger this issue anymore, I’ll just leave this attached video for you to watch of a brave young woman that attended the high school, stating in front of a huge rally of people, what is so corrupt and wrong with this situation. You then think what can be done to make the US a safer place, and if you do not live there, you then feel lucky for where you live.
Love;
Rachel
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