An armed madman, James Holmes, walked into a movie theater armed with weapons that any Islamic terrorist would love to have and killed 12 people. The difference between this madman and an Islamic terrorist is simple: this madman lives in a country in which it is legal to own a gun, and in fact it is encouraged.
The largest terrorist organization in the world, the National Rifle Association (NRA), is perfectly legal. In fact, it is protected by most of Congress (well, most of Congress is routinely bribed by this organization in one form or another).
While we witness the atrocities committed by the Syrian regime against its people, one wonders why the atrocities committed by the gun lobby in the USA do not qualify as such. A dead person is a dead person, and it makes little difference whether s/he was killed while raising the Syrian flag or watching a movie in a theater.
In fact, it sounds to me like a mass killing in a movie theater is more abominable than a mass killing in a civil war. In a sense, we devalue the lives of these 12 innocents when we consider “terrorism” the attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists (and pledge revenge on the group that sponsored them) and neither consider “terrorism” the cold-blooded attack in a movie theater nor pursue and punish its sponsors. It takes a few minutes to find out the names of all the politicians who vote according to the wishes of the NRA, and even less to find out the address of the NRA, the names of its leaders, and the names of all its members.
Every time there is a mass shooting the politicians pretend that they will do something about guns. Following the january 2011 shooting that left a politician, Gabrielle Giffords, severely wounded and six dead in Arizona, the parties bickered briefly on how to enforce gun laws, but time took its toll: eventually the media went on to talk about other issues and absolutely no law was passed by Washington.
The 12 killed in the Colorado movie theater are the victims of that inaction.
And just to be as politically incorrect as possible, please note that the mass killer, James Holmes, is, yet again, a male white Anglosaxon Protestant (a male WASP). A few days later Iraq was rocked by a wave of suicide bombings and random killings, but those can be attributed to political and sectarian design of one kind or another. The Islamic world has suicide bombers, the USA has male WASPs who go berserk and need to kill as many random strangers as possible. And guess what: the typical member of the NRA is a male WASP.
For more information, see also these three other articles I’ve written: Defend the USA Against Terrorists, and The largest terrorist organization in the world kills 32 people in the USA and how the gun lobby de facto fuels the Mexican Civil War.
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This article strikes me as a festering piece of totalitarian goo.
If you want to regard the Aurora tragedy as terrorism, it is terrorism made possible by government; the City of Aurora has strict gun control laws.
I am AMAZED the author has the chutzpah to mention Syria. If the people of Syria were well-armed, I do not doubt that their government would have a much more difficult time slaughtering them at will.
Apparently Mr. Scaruffi only wants tyrants and government-approved murderers to have guns; the right to self-defense and the right to collective self-defense against tyranny, as well as the right to bear arms acknowledged by the United States Constitution, appear to be entirely unknown to him.