Here we go again...toddlers and guns

I am still angry from Orlando. We all should be. I felt a little better yesterday because my Governor (California) enacted some common sense gun laws, he didn't even wait for November, when some of them were going to be on the ballot for a public vote...how many lives did he save by not waiting? We will never know.

Meanwhile in Tennessee....another dead toddler. I can not even imagine taking my son to someone's house, a friend, a family member, a neighbor...and he ends up dead because of how they store their firearms. How does one live with that? The gun owner had signs in his yard proclaiming his home was protected by the 2nd amendment...who was protecting that child? Will he take these signs down now? Will he still be allowed to own a gun? Is he considered a responsible gun owner?

I want to know how these responsible gun owners think...what is their daily routine? Do they load up their guns every night at bedtime and keep them on a nightstand or under their pillow? Because if they don't--well how are they being protected? Do they think waking from sleep, when disturbed by the sound of a possible intruder that they will have time to go to their gun safe, unlock it and load their weapon before the intruder attacks? Because realistically don't they need to be loading that thing every night and then unloading, storing and locking it the next morning to be considered a responsible gun owner. If it's always just locked away then how is it defending them? Isn't it really just a trophy for them to pound their chests and say "Me, big, strong and scary, me own gun" if they aren't doing this?

I kind of feel sorry for people who think they need a gun to feel safe..note I don't say "be" safe..because all the statistics prove otherwise...I won't go into them, because I am too lazy to google them again. But I have seen them. It is extremely rare that a gun is actually used to stop an intruder, sure we all have that friend that has to post that one time when that one "good" guy stopped the bad guy...but they conveniently never post about the many, many times when accidents happen, or suicides or domestic disputes gone bad because a gun was in the home. They far outnumber that one time when a gun turned out to be a useful thing. How many toddlers have died this year or have shot themselves or someone else...last count I heard was 23, but that was a few weeks ago and apparently had grown by at least one. Back to why I feel sorry for these people who live such a paranoid life. They have spent years being terrified that someone was going to break into their home and they wouldn't be allowed to own a gun to defend themselves..so we have 2 problems here...they are worrying about someone denying their "right" to own a gun. I won't go into how the 2nd amendment doesn't actually say that an INDIVIDUAL is guaranteed to own a gun, because, it's irrelevant...the government isn't trying to take that away...they merely want some common sense laws to stop this insanity. Oh and your argument that criminals don't obey laws? Again...simply stupid....let's not have ANY laws then, mmkay? To not try to stop this insanity for that reason is just...well stupid.

So there's one fear debunked...onto the next..an intruder breaking into your home...again, not going to get into numbers..but it seems to me that most criminals don't want to be bothered with shooting you, they just want your stuff or maybe you think they are going to rape you...again breaking into homes to rape people is not the number one way rape is occurring. You are much more likely to raped in college and then denied that you were raped. And I am sure you are much more likely to be shot in a mall, movie theater, night club, school or just about anywhere outside of your home now than IN your home. Oh wait so now you want to argue about your right to carry a concealed weapon?? Again let's go to the facts...it seems these "good" guys are starting to think carrying means they can shoot shoplifters...that's not how America works...we have a justice system and shame on you if you want to scream about your 2nd amendment rights while denying everyone else their right to be innocent until proven guilty. So while you are trembling in your home afraid someone is going to deny you your right to own a gun so that you don't have to tremble in your home from the bad guys coming to get you...news flash...the bad guys are OUT there...and they are getting you...nearly every week now...a mass shooting every week...but still you want to do nothing. Standing on your arguments that criminals don't obey laws and that someone is trying to take your damn gun.

Well, the rest of us are done with that...we are done with the moments of silence, we are done with the prayers..California may become the first state to have tougher laws, but that isn't enough...people want to use Chicago as an example of how tough gun laws don't work...again making STUPID arguments (sorry but it's time to stop tiptoeing....if you can't see that one city's laws aren't enough, that people can go to another city, go to another state and then COME BACK to kill people...well you are, in fact, relying on stupid arguments).  We need every state on board. 80-90% of Americans want reasonable gun laws, it's time for the rest of you to shut your paranoid mouths up...because one day there will be universal laws that exempt those with mental health problems from owning guns...and you and your paranoia may actually find your gun being taken away...as it should be...because paranoid people shouldn't own guns!

And I am not saying that stricter gun laws alone will fix the problem we have with mass shootings and toddler shootings, we need to address the mental health problem. But we can do one thing while looking for solutions to the other. We have to start somewhere. Closing loopholes, getting rid of magazines that hold insane numbers of bullets, a gun registry, an ammunition registry...taking guns away from people who shouldn't have them (felons, domestic abusers, stalkers, people on the no fly list)...all of this can and should be done nationally. If you don't like it...feel like this is the Home of the Free and the Brave....well I don't feel very free or brave when wondering about whether a mass shooting will occur at the next concert I go to...or at the mall where I work...or at the movie theater I'm at...I want MY freedom back and if you aren't crazy or a criminal, this won't effect YOUR freedom at all. (and if you think I am paranoid for thinking these things....do you get a flu shot? Because right now, in our country, more people are being killed by guns than by the flu annually...think about that)

I edited my post to change the part where I called people stupid, I do my best to try not to call people names and when angry, I do fail on occasion. I stand by my assertion that the ARGUMENT is stupid, not the person making it, there are some extremely intelligent people trying desperately to cling to these arguments. which I believe are stupid based on statistics showing the argument to be baseless.