The Violence that Violence Produced

I watched your movies of how you "tamed the West" and many of us played "cowboys & Indians" not realizing that the real lesson was "how to denigrate and destroy" other people's lives. I grew older and watched John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Clint Eastwood, Roy Rogers, The Big Valley, Bonanza, Gun Smoke, Have Gun Will Travel and all the Westerns I could. We played shoot em up at the Ok Corral because you said it was harmless fun. Little did we know you were teaching us that some lives were less important than others. I grew older still and watched your War Movies, machine guns, G.I. Joe, hand Grenades, Tanks and Sub Marines. So we played War Games to prove our manhood not knowing you were justifying the Killing of innocents by painting some people as less than human. I got older still and graduated to Cops & Robbers. I watched all the shows all the movies from "Dragnet" to "Hill Street Blues ("Let’s be careful out there"), to "NYD," to "Law & Order." And it seemed clear that you were saying a man without a Gun is a man without courage. You were saying Violence is viable to get your way and get what you want. I stand stunned today, at the deaths of little children by a man with a gun. But I am not Stunned by the act; I am in deep sorrow about the innocent lives lost. I am Stunned at you, America! YOU! Because you act like you don't know why! What did you expect America? Huh? What did you expect to eventually happen? And please don't start the dialog about the shooter being Mentally Ill. Tell me, is the Military official who gives the order to send a Drone to Eviscerate a life because of that person's affiliation with a group, Mentally ILL, America? And when innocent lives are what you call Collateral Damage, left in the wake, is the person that gave the order Mentally Ill? Are you saying that the gang banger in Chicago who sprays innocent children on a Street Corner is Mentally Ill? Was the Shock & Awe based on a lie about Weapons of Mass Destruction initiated by a Mentally Ill person? Was the Killer of Jordan Davis at a gas station for music playing in a car that he was a passenger in by a Mentally ILL man? Was the Killer of Trayvon Martin for wearing a Hoodie by a Mentally ILL man? Maybe it will come out that the shooter did have some Mental issues or maybe not, but don't start that discussion so soon. You did not do this in any of these others, and I wonder why? America you are such a strange nation! You don't see it do you? How come in the UK in 2011 there were 58 murders by Gun but in the U.S. in 2011 there were 8,775? America you have the most Guns, most violent minded most Incarcerations of people of color for non-violent offenses than any other nation on Earth! Guns were made to kill, plain and simple! People can say they use them for target practice and I guess I could Juggle Chain Saws for fun if I wanted to. However that does not change the purpose of Chain saws and it does not change the purpose of Guns. Too many people have too easy access to Guns; too many people can buy Guns on-line with no background checks; too many people have Assault weapons which have no business in the hands of anyone except law enforcement or military personnel. This nation talks too much about killing, Violence and destruction. This nation has too much hate speech coming from the mouths of too many Wealthy Right wing zealots. America you are such a strange nation! I am Stunned not at the act and the victims, for them I am in deep sorrow because parents are grieving unnecessarily tonight. I am stunned that you America, cable talk shows, you America Media pundits, You America professional politicians, cannot see that you created the climate! America you are such a strange nation!