You Should Have Died in Newtown

Unless you're actually doing something, this isn't going to sit well with you or a lot of other people. That's okay because people as a whole hate hearing how they're wrong. Include me in that crowd. This is as much of a wakeup call to myself as it is to everyone else.

It's also going to sound as antiquated as this clock. [Credit: Toshiyuki Imai]

Here's the thing though, you should have died in Newtown. I should have died in Newtown. Everyone should have died in Newtown.

Why? Well, why not? Should the others have lived their last day in that school?

They shouldn't have. No one deserves to die. That's an awful thing to think, isn't it?

Unless of course they're breaking into your house and putting your family at risk. In which case, they deserve to die.

There are two points to the gun control argument right now. On one side, you have people who like their guns and don't want people dead (unless they're threatening others). On the other side you have people who don't like guns and don't want people dead (unless there's a legitimate reason for their death.)

Now, do some math.

Both sides value life. If you cancel that out you're left with those who don't like guns and those who do. And what are they using to fuel their argument?

Dead children and adults.

We all just want people to come to our side, because we're right. [Credit: Josh James]

I'm not implying that you're some soulless demon that wants death and destruction to every thing that can be considered life on this Earth. I'm simply arguing that this issue most likely became important because of the events that occurred.

After all, I'm writing this blog post after the school shooting and not during the dormancy period between two of them.

This is how people get fired up. Think about it. There are and have been people dying for the rights of the U.S. for about as long as it's been around, which should be common sense, really.

Some of those people volunteered for what some might consider just causes. The Revolution. The North side of the Civil War. Maybe even World War I and it's sequel.

This is pretty much the same thing as WWII, right? [Credit: Kevin Dooley]

Why did they do it? Some of them thought it was honor and valor. Some of them were drafted. Some thought it was an easier than going to college. Others just wanted to kill people.

Whether they chose to or not, and whether the reasons they fought were justifiable or not, is a completely different issue. The point is, they died for one thing, to protect the rights of this country.

This is something we're pretty good at reminding people of every year when November 11th comes around. We mention it because we're being reminded.

You should probably buy the washer and dryer to cleanse yourself of materialistic guilt.

Everyone's good at remembering how much they love or hate guns whenever there's a school shooting. Social media sites are full of reminders.

If we had better gun control people wouldn't have died.

Guns don't kill people; people kill people.

There were no school shootings when God was in school.

We're not going to fire ourselves. [Credit: Neon Tommy]

I don't care which side you take. You can be as far left as someone who won't even mention the word gun in a blog post or as far right as someone who writes everything with bullet holes.

The problem is you're not actually doing anything but stating where you stand. You're wasting storage space on the Internet with your tired opinions - opinions that are probably already known by the 17 posts you make everyday spilling your political views through links.

Don't ask me why there's an abnormal amount of sunshine on her hair during a sunset. [Article]

Some might say that I'm doing the same thing. I'm just ranting about how much it bothers me that other people aren't actually doing anything. The thing is, I don't see a problem with our gun control laws right now.

There is going to be another school shooting some day. More people are going to die. There are going to be more arguments over gun laws. Repeat.

This doesn't mean I want people to die. It doesn't mean that I want more violence. It just means that I think there are some things that I can't change at this point.

I'd really like it if there were less Crocs in the world. (Hint: That link hints at what this blog post is about.)

I'm all for poaching these. [Credit: Alex Ward]

Does that make me apathetic? Am I belittling a horrific event by comparing it to an odd fashion trend that's slowly fading out? Or am I making a different point about all of this?

If you think I'm using this tragic event to fight about some personal interest, consider what it is you're doing if you only post comments about your side of the gun control issue.

There's nothing wrong with wanting gun control or not wanting any more of it. If you actually want something, do something about it other than gripe.

A little over 200 years ago there were these people that decided to write a Declaration of Independence despite the fact that there was still a war going on.

They disagreed. They fought. Some traveled hundreds of miles, all without cars and decent roads. Independence Hall in Philadelphia was sweltering that year and modern air conditioning was still about 100 years away.

The signers also had a major case of swamp ass. [Credit: chuckyeager]

All you have to do is sit in a temperature-controlled room and eat Doritos while you click a few buttons and let Google auto-fill your information from you.

Here's one place to support change in gun control laws.

Alternatively, if you don't want more laws, find that cause and support it.

Until then, I'd really wish you'd just shut up. There are people who are accomplishing more proactive things, such as starting Facebook pages to honor those who died and spread random acts of kindness in their loss.

This is my attempt to get some of those causes out there rather than just gripe.

Seriously. Click the freaking link and do something. I'm trying to practice what I preach here.

There are 26 dead people right now that, if alive, might be wishing they could do something else other than posting frivolous arguments to the Internet. Doing things like drawing pictures, or reading stories, or teaching people.

Or driving their parent(s) bat-shit crazy about Santa and Christmas morning. [Credit: Tomasz Krawczak]

Really, they'd probably prefer doing anything instead of being dead.

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