U.S gun problem erupts again

[Mostafa]

The U.S excruciation of young armed mandmen upholds. A recent shooting occurred in a community college in Roseburg Oregon. Strangely though, the young triggerman left what appears to be a ranting manifesto which details his grievances, U.S media says. He grieved not having a girlfriend and that justifies in his mind the disposal for retaliation, they add. Christopher Harper-Mercer, the gunman who killed nine people and wounded nine more at Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday October second turned a gun on himself after he was wounded in a shootout with police, officials said Wednesday. Harper-Mercer's mother, Laurel Harper, shared her son’s passion for guns. She and her son shared an apartment outside Roseburg. Neighbors of theirs in Southern California, where they lived before moving to Oregon in 2013, have said the two went target shooting together. In online postings, Laurel Harper talked about her love of guns and her son's emotional troubles, but there were no hints of worry that he could become violent, the Associated Press has reported. “I keep two full mags in my Glock case. And the ARs & AKs all have loaded mags. No one will be ‘dropping’ by my house uninvited without acknowledgment,” she wrote in a post three years ago. She was referring to a Glock handgun and to military-style rifles. A Glock and a military-style rifle were among the weapons seized after the rampage at the college. Laurel Harper, a nurse, wrote in another post: “I love the long guns & I have an AK-47 en route.” She complained about gun control efforts in “lame states.” She posted several times that her son had Asperger's syndrome. One post reads: “He's no babbling idiot nor is his life worthless. He's very intelligent and is working on a career in filmmaking.”

mailto:michael...@latimes.com Citation, Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-oregon-shooting-suicide-police-gunfire-20151007-story.html The current status of gun control. When President Barack Obama addressed the nation in response to this latest shooting, he emotionally expressed the reality that "thoughts and prayers" were simply not enough to confront such a troubling pattern in America: "Somehow, this has become routine. The reporting is routine, my response here at this podium ends up being routine, the conversation in the aftermath of it. We've become numb to this. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands on a gun. I'm going to bring this up. Each time this happens I'm going to say that we can actually do something about it, but we're going to have to change our laws. This is not something I can do by myself. I've got to have a Congress, and I've got to have state legislators and governors who are willing to work with me on this." During his heartfelt call to action, Obama also asked news organisations to compile the number of Americans killed through terrorist attacks in the last decade and compare it with the number of Americans killed by gun violence. Following Obama's request, CNN compiled numbers using 2013 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As the resulting chart so clearly indicates, gun violence is a far greater threat to the average American than any act of terrorism. Between 2004 and 2013, 316,545 people were killed by firearms on American soil. During that same time period, just 36 people were killed in domestic acts of terrorism. Even when adding in numbers for Americans killed overseas as a result of terrorism (277 between 2004 and 2013), the total number of Americans killed by terrorism (313) is profoundly lower than those killed by firearms. For the purposes of their comparison, CNN included both suicides and homicides in their comparison. It's worth noting that, in June of this year, the Appropriations Committee of the U.S House of Representatives rejected an amendment that would have repealed the ban on scientists at the CDC from conducting research on the relationship between gun ownership and gun violence. According to Forbes, many opponents of such research refuse to support the repeal due to the fact that a gun is not a disease. That’s their opinion at least. This crisis of public deadly shootings is conspicuously notorious over there. Mental problems is what they use to describe what usually happens. They never call it terrorism. Excuse me, this is double standard. It is prodominantly insane. How in a country like the U.S where psychological therapy is highly developed, yet such a tremendous amount of psychological illness is enormously significant? Something is definitely wrong. There is something wrong with this controversially sophisticated society. Subsequently, an 11-year-old boy in the US state of Tennessee has been held on suspicion of shooting dead an eight-year-old girl in a row over a puppy. It became a tremendously perturbing phenomenon. President Obama spoke stridently against this recurring violence, vowing to do something about it, yet nothing has been accomplished so far. Consequently, gun violence kept on reiterating quite rapidly across the country and nothing has been done to eliminate these perennial rampages. Sociologically, critical studies are mandatory to rectify the situation. This phenomenon has to censoriously be analysed. I observe some basic facts concerning this. First, these type of mass shooting incidents always occur in public places. Second, they always occur in platforms where youth is dominant such as college campuses. Third, shootings are quite random which results in numerous wounds and fatality rate. Small incidents may have been reported unnoticeably such as Florida’s recent shooting. At its inception, the crisis has much to do with unrestricted gun posession and the law which is expected to regulate this. Anyone within the U.S boundaries could easily obtain a gun and he doesn’t have to state a proper cause. Guns are easily obtained as a candy bar. My cousin resides now in Dallas. She said she saw guns being sold in supermarkets. This is definitely insane. The U.S regime doesn’t do anything to stop these catastrophic incidents from recurring. I see no preventive strategy conducted by the U.S government and consequently, we could potentially hear about similar incidents in the future. It doesn’t seem that the U.S chief executive staff is willing to implement a significant gun control scheme. Thus, gun violence is expected to vastly prevail. It’s half way through to admit the problem but it is quite necessary to prevent its recurrence. Are there illegitimate markets for selling weapons in the U.S? Where is the constabulary? Why don’t they go after those vicious criminals? The subject is quite provocative and lots of things are expected to be done to counter this escalating gun violence. Allah says in the Koran:                                     

 

"Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption done in the land, it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one, it is as if he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them with clear proofs, yet many of them even after that, throughout the land were transgressors.”

 

The Noble Koran, chapter of the Table, verse 32.

The verse in the section above is explicit in strictly prohibiting the murder of innocents. The Oregon shooting is enormously disgraceful. These are timid and acrimonious terrorist acts, just like the one of Charleston church where racism and religious malice were equally repudiated.  The United States must take a critical pause toward gun control. We saw similar shooting incidents in the last few years. Once a shooting incident was committed in a movie theater, another incident was committed in an elementary school and more than once including the recent terrible accident, shooting incidents were committed in college based campuses.  This is quite deplorable and appallingly iniquitous. Americans must do something to stop this chain of reoccurring tragedies. American people must do something to control gun posession. Public shooting and gun violence is a brutally major threat in the United States. Some Americans claim that it is a constitutional right to possess such a murdering device for self-defence purposes. Excuse me, this is a mere psychopathy. Here in Egypt, people were armed because of security absence right after the revolution and therefore, people desperately demanded to possess their weapons to defend themselves on their own. As soon as the security returned to the street, people instantly threw their weapons. Here in Egypt, it is utterly impossible for an ordinary citizen to obtain a gun legitimately, unless he is a military or a police officer. Otherwise, it is strictly prohibited unless a proper cause is provided to an authoritative entity and thence, an individual might be licenced to possess a murdering device for exceptional circumstances. It has to certainly be approved by security officials. It is impossible here to possess a gun legitimately unless it is licenced. Otherwise, you would have certainly acquired it from the black market where people are essentially engaged in illicit trade. Well in the U.S, it is perfectly unconstipated to obtain a gun. The problem  doesn’t lie with instituting preventive laws there. Not at all. The problem lies with American attitude, with American life-style, with American way of thinking. Many people there are quite violent by nature and that’s due to the tremendous amount of gun violence portrayed in dozens of what they call action movies and video games that are based on furious pursuits.  Despite the repeated scenario of mass murder in America, people there insist on suspending legislating sufficient gun control and safety laws. This is a rephrased statement made by the president. I liked his strident speech, he sounded genuinely exasperated. The Congress opposes passed draughts to prevent future gun violence. I am wondering why? I think the reason of their refusal has much to do with American temperament. Gun violence contributes causally to average American manner. it is a major constituent. America’s gun bargainers won’t allow this to happen. They won’t allow changing laws to save innocent people because money is what matters to them despite anything else. On the other end of the spectrum, there are many good American people who carry pure hearts. These hearts are filled with leniency and decency. Well the problem here that this crisis will never end without a soberly determining legislative decision making. Furthermore, guns shouldn’t be sold in public stores. That is quite strange in this country, this supposedly quite advanced and sophisticated country. I would like to ask you a question though. Why lots of  Americans and especially gun owners are insisting to keep gun access and possession unregulated despite the constantly tragic incidents which are often associated with it. Don’t you have a security that guards and guarantees your safety? If you insist on this unjustified skepticism of regulating gun acquirement and usage, then it is sequentially consistent to gravely doubt your unfeigned disposal to end this. President Obama proposed altering laws where that can befit in preventing these mass shooting crimes from recurrence. He has got to have the support from the legislative body in the Congress. Your self-defence is absolutely a constitutional and undoubtedly a human right. But you have got to differentiate between the civilly recognised right of safety and the consequences which are provoked by irresponsible weaponry possession. Even if one of your loved ones has viciously been defrauded or murdered, you cannot go after the criminal seeking retaliation. This is a savage act. There is a law, there is a security and there is a system of justice. We’re not living in a forest. If someone has to own a gun anywhere in the world, there are accountabilities to steadfastly abide by. First, the gun has to be obtained licitly. Second, the reason for acquiring the weapon has to be okayed by security officials. Third, the motivating factor for possessing a gun has to be harnessed. However, I still cannot see the point of either owning or wearing a weapon unless it is part of your job requirements. America’s provenience was based on genocide, enslavement and mass slaughter. This is the reality which many Americans dislike to hear. This eruption of enormous gun violence in the U.S traces its origin to the cruelty of American culture which is depicted with barbarity. Unlike your virtual neighbor Canada, we never see such insanities there. I have got to think of even visiting this country. Everything that sounds unusual and quite provocative essentially comes from the U.S. Repeated gun violence, terrible stories about family disassociation and deliberately provoked religious desecration by controversial reverents. This is the precise portrait of traditional American radical imbecility. It could be a derogatory  terminology but it matches with the current situation of escalated gun insanity there. I say to the refractory  panel which declines passing statutes prohibiting illicit gun acquirement, you are the one behind this psychopathy. You do have a definitely real crisis. There are troubling signs going on with this. You won’t end this problem because somehow you primarily benefit from the present situation. Despite the repetition of gun violence, you still want to keep the peril. Even your excuse that those who are causing these mass fatality  are mentally traumatised individuals, this is as they say an excuse that’s worse than sin. It’s worthwhile to note that America is the only western country that suffers from this crisis. This never happens in the UK, your  commonwealth nation metaphorically. The UK is the chief founder of the United States cornerstone. We never saw such a trouble there. Yes, they may have the crisis of habitual intoxication  under the legal age but even though, their inebriated individuals don’t go out and shoot people randomly. It’s a crisis exclusive to the United States of America, a self-declared leader in the west. Well,  such a country is certainly ineligible to be granted a leading authority. Prosperous nations are to make civilisations  and not the opposite. The United States is highly sophisticated technologically. You have lots of entertainment in your country but unfortunately, most of you are enormously dissatisfied. The reason for that is your constant state of fright and anticipation of a potential threat. You won’t oppose gun control propositions unless you feel threatened all the time. The situation will remain as it is until you work on rectifying your beliefs, concepts, thoughts and the hostilely disposition brought by violence and movies and video games. The eleven-years-old boy would have not shot an eight-years-old girl dead unless he saw this in video games. These things should be banned from children. Furthermore, people should refrain from watching movies which are prompting violence to prevent those who are psychologically traumatised from carrying on transgressive activities. Guns are controlled in all respectful countries in the world including your closest regional neighbor, Canada. People don’t need to go around armed to protect themselves. This longstanding crisis could easily be rectified with civility, morality and human fraternity. I wish and pray that inshallah, we won’t see these things  again. I offer my sincere condolences to the family of the eight-years-old girl and particularly to her poor mother. I similarly offern my condolences  to the families of those who were brutally murdered in Oregon’s acrimonious shooting. May Allah bless their families with forbearance. May Allah bless the world with peace, quietude, compassion and tranquility, Amen، اللهم أمين.                         

                                          

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34428946

Obama’s strident response to the recent shooting:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLCusJEvPuM