Why This Keeps Happening

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Every time someone like Cristina Grimmie is killed in public by a stranger or a mass slaughter occurs like the one in the night club (also in Orlando), news reporters and others ask why. It’s a natural reflex. They are trying to make sense of it all. But there is no sense. This happens and will keep happening because monsters 1. Feel like doing it, and 2. They can. The only way to stop this type of murder is to get real about it. Most of these murders were easy to commit. Someone walked into a public place, pulled out a “weapon of mass destruction” and murdered people. Didn’t we go to war because we thought a country was amassing such weaponry? Well, our country has people amassing these weapons. Where is our war against them? Step 1. Stop selling military style weapons to the general public. Step 2. Offer those who already own them to buy them back at twice the price. Step 3. Stop selling the ammunition for these weapons to the general public. Step 4. Offer those who already own it to buy it back at twice the price. Step 5. Find another incentive for the remaining owners of the weapons and ammo, so that more will be turned in and destroyed. This will not stop monsters from doing killing people, but it will reduce the number of people they can murder at one time. Let’s start calling it murder too. Let’s stop using words that glorify or justify these behaviors. Let’s stop showing the pictures of the murderers. Let’s stop giving them fifteen minutes of fame by printing their names. Honor the victims, not the criminals. What else would you suggest to stop or slow down such crimes as were committed in Orlando recently?