How I learn to stop worry and love the Gun

So we have another shooting in US of A. Kids killing each other and themselves is a pattern we have started to associate with this country. But still people can buy guns and ammunition at free will from the friendly corner shop. Most civilized society will cringe even at the thought of people owning guns, being sold like this is unimaginable. But then US of A is a different place here people are proud of their ‘fundamental right’. Right to carry gun it seems is most fundamental of all rights. It seems people have right to protect themselves….very true then what state machinery is for? If US of A cannot even provide protection to its own citizen then what kind of law and order machinery they have. And if they cannot even enforce order within their own country, that each citizen has to own a gun, then what gives them the authority to play policeman to the world?......just hold it there. There seems to one group who seems to be in win-win situation and that is the gun lobby.

Gun lobby in US of A is very strong and vocal, it has very influential people, politicians in the payroll. Before even full scale tragedy of VT massacre were out, politicians (even a Presidential candidate) were found allaying doubts from the minds of Gun lobby. This is the level of crassness they can go. Nexus of Gun Lobby, politicians and big business, and the fear psychosis nearing paranoia they create among hapless citizen fed on information overdrive, is well documented in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine (the gun culture does have its history in slavery, the fear in whites....as shown in the Documentary, now they create imaginary enemy. Osama helped thier cause). This insightful documentary although searing tragic in its portrayal of how people can be herded into self destruction, for an outsiders like me I couldn’t help laughing at these stupid people and their predicament. That is what makes it such a tragic-comic. The killings of innocent and fundamental rights of maniac. The agony, pain of victims and righteous, pride of gun peddlers.

It is kind of surreal since in real world people would see reason, compassion. But US of A works on different game plan. It definitely brings in the question of how much ammunition lobby influences US policy making, particularly when it comes to military actions abroad (latest is they are trying to align with Al Quaeda to harm Iranians!!!). Isn’t the world being held by coterie who just wants to make profit at the expense of people’s life, democracy a compliable conduit in their macabre scheme? Maybe the reason they talk democracy at home and the need to spread it abroad, sometimes with such viciousness. Also if people can decide whether they can carry gun, countries can decide whether to keep nuclear bombs. “Gun doesn’t kill people, people kill people” argues Gun lobby. Well…“nuclear bombs doesn’t kill people, people kill people” ditto!!!. “Knife in the cockpit doesn’t kill people, people kill people” ditto!!. So are we talking about deterrence or threat?. If it is fundamental right of the people to own gun then it is also unalienable for countries to own nuclear bombs. US of A is not the only country that has to safe guard the rights and lives of its people, Iran has to, and yes even Cuba has to. What gives US of A moral authority on the world when its policies are dictated by vested interests??.

The latest in the media regarding VT massacre is to try understand the mind of the killer (a South Korean with some serious problems that he couldn’t handle and very unfortunately killed many innocent people including two Indians. Very upsetting indeed), they are trying to look at his brain, it is about frontal lobe I am told, a kind of instinctive fellow. So much for ideas on sense of humor!!. Well what about the minds behind ‘gun lobby’?? What about the brain which calculates to maximize without much empathy or even sympathy on thousands of lives lost and maimed??. The corporatisation of politicians doesn’t leave us with any distinctions. President Bush in his address at VT says the victims “were at wrong place at wrong time” and that is all about the tragedy. It should be that ‘they were in wrong place at wrong time but in front of the right gun we help him buy (thumbs up dude). This is about democracy and rights. We also have some very unfortunate people at very wrong place in front of very right smart guns in Iraq, earlier in Vietnam….”. Amen to that. Dude I love my Gun. The Korean kid had a problem, millions youngster around the world have problems. But millions of kids around the world don’t have gun lobby to help. Countries have their government influenced by vested interest, but most countries don’t have arm suppliers or are not nuclear power. This makes US of A very dangerous country.

The attempt now in US media seems to be to identify kids with problem, the potential killers. Meaning now the attempt will be on compliance. This suits the State and the Market. So anyone protesting or even taking a solitary position could be targeted. As for macabre writings …well in that case Raj Kamal Jha should be in high security prison, seriously!!. So should many other writers and so would many of the greatest thinkers, inventors (dude most were loners!!. They were not “normal” people who came in chat show!!). So are we talking about creative writing or mind mapping?. This blogger poohs poohs the attempt at classifying the kid on his writing, maybe he was poor writer with astounding imagination that may not fit with the conventional behavior, considering that he was into English major, wherein he was suppose to present creative paper unlike say a pre teenager who expresses anguish through pictures or scribbles. What is seen as macabre makes him extraordinary….not necessarily a killer, he was bit old to be studied through writing. It is quite a coincidence that he killed. What is not a coincidence is that he like many other killers in US of A could easily access the weapon that could cause maximum damage. How about spending some time to know the people behind Gun lobby?. This is were the focus should be: the cold blooded profit mongers who make money through blood and misery of people. In the meantime why not telecast Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, it will be more insightful than dissecting the unfortunate kid and creating imaginary monsters. The kid had some serious problem but what is the problem with people who support Gun Lobby??