A record breaking mass shooting occurred on late Sunday
evening in the Fight Capital of the World, Las Vegas. It marks a record breaking toll of 58
innocent lives and hundreds injured. Our
social media feeds are filled with sorrow, debate, shock, disbelief and acquiescence(I used a thesaurus for this one). Acquiescence best describes my feelings as I
wasn’t really shocked, as nothing has changed from the last mass shooting about
the gun laws in this country. It seems
as a community we can do a great job about rallying around the victims. Dana White donated $1 million, Joe Rogan is
donating the proceed of his show to the victims, and even the fighters at
Syndicate MMA are hosting a benefit teaching MMA to the public for donations. You
can see the carnage from cell phone videos of people running for their lives.
You can hear the stories of Uber drivers cleaning blood out of cars because
they felt a need to act to get people to safety. Yet the debate that America is having is the
same. There has been no change and we
can see the result. Nothing has changed
after Virginia Tech, Nothing has changed
after Sandy Hook, Nothing has changed after Orlando.
My fear coming into this weekend is that still nothing will
change. As reported, the atmosphere in
Vegas is a somber one. UFC 216 is occurring in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena
which is only a mile away from the shooting.
Most likely the UFC will open up the broadcast of the PPV with a moment
of silence. Numerous fighters will mention
the victims of the shootings. Some will
even break out in tears over this tragedy as many fighters including the main
event Headliner, Kevin Lee, now call Las Vegas home. But at the end event, Monday
will come and everyone will forget that nothing has changed. Anybody can get these weapons and walk into a
school, movie theater, or public space and start mowing people down. We can’t do nothing this time, something has
to change. I’m not a gun person and I
don’t want everyone’s gun taken away but the laws we have aren’t working. Something must be done this time or we will
be waiting for the next record breaking shooting.
"A moment of Silence and than nothing" is the truth well told. It's sorry to say a year later, and still not much has been done. What has happened is another school shooting [Marjory Douglas]. Marjory Douglas seem to do the most by; hosting a march, and the Governor of Florida passed a state bill. The bill only raised the age in Florida from 18 to 21 in purchasing a rifle.
ReplyDeleteCody Wilson has recently been the talk of the town, with his instructions on how to make a 3D print of a plastic gun. Wilson has been given a restraining order not to post the 3D print instructions online. Cody Wilson has challenged the government. He is a smart guy, who is on the outside of our government. Stay tuned, because it's sad to say the horrible killings by guns won't stop too soon.