Comments about ‘Jeffrey Weiss: A day without superheroes’

I often ponder why the deaths in Aurora matter so much more than those in Damascus. Geography plays into it, of course, but are we not all human, or gods children, or somehow share more in common than not? I know I'll never have all the answers. But I do know that the ideologies and religions that divide us are likely fabrications that pit man against man and that, without them, we all deserve and could achieve a measure of value on earth.

Will anything come of this? Probably not. People don't believe those who can do something will. They know the forces around the politicians use campaign contributions to keep a lid on any protest and let the memories die until the next time.

High-capacity bullet clips. Semi-automatic weapons. Military-like armaments available to non-military individuals. The Founders never could have envisioned such things when they wrote the Second Amendment. Only those paranoid-psychotic individuals, hidden away in their concrete-reinforced bunkers who want their guns to "defend" themselves against an "evil" government don't seem to care. To maintain their access to high-powered weaponry, they will not deny it to anyone else. And, they will, perhaps, one day become a willing participant in such murderous intent.

Fear is used to keep back those who would want a more balanced approach to gun availability. Hunters and true sportsmen understand what is and what is not appropriate. To allow the general public to have weapons equivalent to or better than the police is to approve of these tragedies. Like the so-called Stand Your Ground laws which allow legal murder, guns are central in the discussion.