You will have to pry my Video Games out of my cold..

[bwood]

67. I'm a gamer from the 80's

I don't think the ratings mean anything significant. If so, then why limit them to one or two forms of art? Frank Zappa comes to mind... I believe we all hide from the savage problem at hand - growing up and taking responsibility for what we have accepted, inspired, formed and created; our society.

The constitution has nothing to do with the accelerating gun-nuttery that has eclipsed all forms of reason. The NRA is that smallish loud cousin that keeps trying to get your attention, but has far more yap than power. I'm no scholar, but a well regulated militia does exist here in Kentucky and other states. Here it's called the Kentucky National Guard and is referred to as a state militia. I thought that's what the amendment meant, but oh well...

Anyone, anywhere has the power to do great evil. Our American conscience allows it. Hell, news makes money on it. I don't watch television anymore, but I listen to NPR on occasion. It's pretty sick. It sickens me to think about networks whoring over a tragedy and selling commercial space in the gaps. Its a God damn shame. But we accept it.

One of my best neighbor-friends voted for Romney. I still love him and I'll just have to work harder to get him to reason, but I will not quit being a good friend and neighbor. We have an isolation issue in this country that allows people to drift into an entropic person hood. If someone cared about that kid when he needed it most, this may well have never happened. I don't know. I'm not telling anyone what to do. I just hope we can learn to be civil again.

However, I will tell y'all this; I live in a small town in KY. As far as I know (and I mostly know), there is a gun in every house on my road. We have our share of crazies and what not, but I have never heard of nor witnessed an attempted homicide in this county in the 34 years of my life. I have never owned a house with the doors locked at night either, but that's another story...

I really do believe gun violence is a mentality problem. There are so many different perspectives out there and it is hard to justify only one. I'm afraid this will lead to a make or break moment in our history.