Guns and Roses

This is difficult, as it should be I know.  The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre constitutes evil of unfathomable depth - a place so dark, I don't want to fathom its reality.  Particularly, I have no interest in examining the life of this crazed murderer so that we all can be made to feel guilty because society treated him poorly such that his self esteem was undermined.  Instead, my focus is and will remain fixed on how we prevent these obvious Nut Jobs from getting their hands on firearms.

Now, please understand me, so my self esteem is not diminished.  While I have never owned a gun myself, I do support the Second Amendment because individual freedom dictates that we the people have the right to effective self-defense against criminals who will always have easy access to illegal weapons.  What our nation needs to address is not criminal violence, but this spreading terror of the lone wolf madman blazing his way into eternity.

One sensible societal response to this growing menace is to require a rigorous firearms training program for first time gun permit applicants which will include a psych evaluation for any single white male under the age of 30.  Call it racist, call it racial profiling, I just don't care, and refuse to ignore the obvious pattern here.  When Columbine, Aurora and now Newtown all involve young disaffected white males, I see a rational need for extra scrutiny for that category of individual who has engaged in the rage of mass murder.  Just as the airport screeners for political correctness hassle everyone, including granny and little children, so the true terrorists are able to get on planes with explosive underpants, gun sales to young white Americans need not be banned, but for the children's sake ought to be limited to those individuals who are rational and not dead men walking.