Often times when tragedies happen the debate over gun control becomes a central topic and its nothing if not a heated. Proponents of gun control always talk about reasonable gun control, the gun rights advocates seem to always lose about 100 IQ points or so, at least the unreasonable ones do. So whats the answer? In this country its not a simple question to answer but I can tell you whats not the answer: Dont do anything to ebb it and make damn sure that we make the problem worse by expanding so called "gun rights" to unreasonable levels from the already unreasonable levels they're at now.
One of those unreasonable levels that was in connection to some statements that Anita Sarkeesian, yes this is connected with Gamergate, made and the reaction that came back from those statement, namely, Rape and death threats. Pretty classy. Not only did Wu literally drive her from her home because of these threats she ended up having to cancel the Utah State University speech that she was going to give because of further threats made not only against her but other feminist students attending the speach.
In an anonymous email sent to Utah State University, a threat was made against her and attendees stating that the sender was going to commit a "Montreal style Massacre style attack" (which happened in 1989 In Mantreal, Canada by Mark Lepine who killed 14 Women students and wounde 13 others)at Ecole Polytechnique School of Engineering at the University of Montreal) and said quote: "I have at my disposal a semi-automatic rifle, multiple pistols, and a collection of pipe bombs. This will be the deadliest school shooting in American history and I'm giving you a chance to stop it. Even if they're able to stop me, there are plenty of feminists on campus who won't be able to defend themselves. One way or another, I'm going to make sure they die."
That's a pretty straightforward in your face statement that left no question of what this guys intentions are. He meant to end lives. As bad as that is that's not even the worst part. The University's response to it is. Now they were going to bring in more police and bomb detectors. Ok that's good, but when Sarkeesian indicated that she would really like to make sure no guns were brought into the auditorium to further secure it bringing in metal detectors in to make sure nothing gets through, the university's response was less than acceptable.
They told her no, that Utah is an open carry state and if they want to carry then, oh well! But this guy just made a major threat to commit the worst school shooting in American history! Nope dont care. Our rights are more important than your safety. Now thankfully Sarkeesian did cancel as mentioned earlier, and given the climate and situation, I think that was wise on her part because there was a strong possibility that whoever this person was that sent the threat, it sounds like the treat was confirmed as being a legitimate threat that needed to be dealt with, and I certainly hope the perpetrator of the threat is found, before he does in fact, harm someone.
When things like this rear their head, often the conversation of gun control will come up, much to the dismay of gun right advocates and it really shows how violent and backwards our country has become. Just on my own Facebook I had response to a meme I favorites and shared, where Sylvester Stallone had said some pretty pointed things about guns that was most decidedly anti gun. The response of one person from that? "Shoots". Calling to shoot someone because you dont agree with someone? Really?
This is indicative of the out of control mentality that the NRA and those that follow them have. Its just plain irresponsible to believe that with people showing such a mentality that guns should be available in an uncontrolled way. Regardless of the rulings that were made about it in the supreme court, we simply cant afford to keep this madness going.
And gun rights advocates wonder why we think they're insane.
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