Justified Fury

With justified rage and fury, the hard-hit students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland Florida, shoot back on NRA and politicians seeming to be trapped in the pocket of the American weapon lobby.

“Shooting back”

But they don’t use guns in their counter attacks. They use words, like the right to have a life, to feel safe, to have a future. They are fed up with “thoughts and prayers”, and business as usual just waiting for the next shooting. ( Now already eighteen of them in the US, since New Year 2018.)

Emma Gonzales, survivor and spokesman for the Students in Parkland.

The Constitution, the second amendment, and the Declaration of Independence.

The NRA and weapon lobbyists always refer to the Second Amendment when they argue against weapon control. (“The right of the people to keep and bear arms”) And to this argument on repeat the students fire back with a question about their own Constitutional rights as Americans. They refer to the Declaration of Independence of 1776, quoting: “ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. ——“(Thomas Jefferson)

David Hogg. Survivor and spokesman for weapon control in the aftermath of the Parkland School Massacre.

For once it seems that they have managed to make a turning point by this rhetorical grip, a shift in attitude among the population, in media and by politicians, even some of them Republicans.

Guns don’t kill…..

“Guns don’t kill people ― people kill people!” This is an argument coming form both NRA and President Trump, who wants to arm teachers with rifles. But this argument has many flaws. AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles, that by statistics are far the most used kind of weapons in school shootings, “are designed to kill multiple enemy combatants at once”. That means if he only had an ordinary gun, or a knife at hand, the result would be quite different.

Over: Marc Rubio, Republican senator criticized by Florida Student. Under: Trump wanting to arm teachers with rifles like AR-15(right)

The difference between a knife and a semi-automatic rifle, – is lives saved.

Michael Shammas, a writer an lawyer have looked into this fact. He refers to an incident in China, some few hours before the 2003 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting killed 28 persons, most of them children) Michael Shammas writes:

China: “A deranged man walked into a school and started indiscriminately stabbing everyone in his vicinity. Before his rampage ended, 22 children had been hit.”

 Knife attack in Chinese School, with  injured children but nobody killed.

US: “The child killer in Newtown, Connecticut killed 20 children and six adults before his rampage ended; by contrast, because the Chinese murderer used a knife, none of the 22 children he stabbed died. The distinguishing factor was gun control. Effective gun laws prevented the Chinese man from obtaining a gun—with which he would have inflicted much more damage.” (Huffpost 2017, 13 OCT).

Shot dead after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook, Newtown,Conn.

Why knives or frying pans?

 And here is my somewhat provocative and weird argument, if I were a stand up comedian adressing myself and the audience to this tragic issue about weapon control: “Give the Americans the right to protect themselves, as in the second amendment. But give them at least knives, frying pans or saucepans instead. That would save extremely many young lives and give hope for a future for almost 15.000 people killed every year in the US.”

Will there come anything practical and lifesaving  out of these talks?

A pictorial representation of the lethal gradient when it comes to weapons and School massacres:

“Frying pans don’t kill people, -people kill people.” But the difference in lives between guns that don’t kill people and non-killing frying pans, is huge.

Statistics on murders and different kinds of  weapons:

(for Research and statitistics on murders, shootings and weapon control check: )http://www.selvuniverset.com/2016/06/14/protection-of-americans-by-private-weapon-arsenals-shoots-back-on-itself/