Overkill

What's with all the crazy Asian brothers these days? There's V-Tech, Binghamton, the 80 year old Korean dude from southern California, and the guy who tried to eat the guy next to him on the bus up in Canada. It's never easy to fit in. At least it's never been that easy for me. And I wasn't one of these people who chose to leap thousands of miles across the ocean hoping for a different world, probably only to discover that it isn't that easy and there's a lot of reason for heartache and misunderstanding. Nothing explains away the actions they did, but we should try to be mindful of why they lash out and think about how we can keep this type of stuff from continuing and hurting all kinds of innocent people.

One thing that would help, not that it is a full solution is that assault weapons ban again. I believe in the NRA's mission to keep the right to bear arms. The Supreme Court settled this last year, and reading the Constitution, their interpretation is valid. But I wonder if those old guys who drafted the Constitution could have envisioned guns that could fire and kill hundreds of people per minute. I wonder if they could have envisioned a world where gang members routinely outgunned police officers. The NRA is a little off the deep end insisting that the 2nd Amendment means "all guns" all the time.

But the NRA is an extremely powerful lobby. No one will even consider this topic seriously anymore.