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I have just seen a YouTube video of Piers Morgan interviewing Alex Jones about gun control. I find Alex Jones hilarious when he talks about needing guns to protect themselves from the government. First of all if the government did attack the general public, the public would get steamrolled over. Secondly why would a government attack its own citizens when they have a good setup going on; most people having money stripped from them by things such as VAT increases and a promotion materialistic consumerist society by the media?

Now back on topic, my thoughts on this so called ‘gun control debate’…

Now don’t get me wrong, the Sandy Hook incident was a terrible, terrible thing; I shed a few tears at the thought of those poor kids not getting to experience the wonders of life, not getting to grow up, find love and have a family. Yet I feel the American government is milking the terrible event to their advantage. The American government will end up doing nothing about gun control. The government probably love the division that has formed; it shifts attention away from the horrendous things that they have done and helps create the illusion that the Democrat and Republican parties are different, isolated entities, whilst in reality both parties are there to serve the corporate elites and the top bankers. Also the gun debate and other political and ethical differences stops us acknowledging our differences and actually working together to create a better society, living in harmony and living without the corporate elites and big bankers milking money and power out of us. There is a profit attached to division, hate and violence in the eyes of the top 1%.

Also simply deciding whether to have gun control, banning the use of certain weapons and limiting the size of clips or leave the guns and let the citizens defend themselves will not reduce the amount of criminals and terrible mass shootings. A psychologically unstable person will always be a hazard no matter if he has a gun or not, they will be determined to carry out the mass murder or whatever crime they are going to commit and it won’t matter to them if they have a gun or a knife, there will still be a chance of at least one poor soul getting killed. Some people are born to be murderers; they derive pleasure from death and pain or/and have heightened aggression, all determined by the DNA, the sequence of bases attached to the sugar-phosphate backbone coding for the different proteins which make up every single feature of your body. Unfortunately helping those people is hard; they need to be sent somewhere, isolated form the rest of society or cured somehow. Most criminal acts are actually for monetary gain, often committed in desperation due to the perpetrator living in poverty and not in a positive, nurturing environment, which links into the general public being treated like cattle, being exploited for money and labour to prop up the elite.

The best way to prevent mass murder will be to prevent the perpetrator committing the crime in the first place. To do this I suggest that more money goes into research and treatment of psychological disorders and what could trigger somebody to kill. Also there needs to be more funding in awareness of psychological disorders and what could make a person snap and kill so that there are better chances of people spotting warning signs and reporting it early. As for other violent crimes such as mugging, there needs to be a shift in society, focusing less on monetary gain and consumerism, making sure that everyone has a roof over their heads, food, water, clothes, and warmth and health services without massive bills. There needs to be fewer imports of resources from countries such as China and more focus on local economies and producing resources. Most importantly everyone needs to feel like they are doing their bit to help somebody and should recognise it, knowing that they are doing a bit of good in the world.

Please feel free to challenge any of the points I have made, just do so respectfully as it has taken me a long time just to gather my thoughts and turn them into something that is cohesive and makes sense. Also it has taken a while to type. Also please, no labelling me a conspiracy theorist just because I don’t have an affiliation to a particular side of the debate and bringing up points which may be out of the norm in mainstream social and political views.