What's it going to take?

We've had all these headlines in only the last few days:

--Man opens fire in US church, pastor killed

--Police shoot gunman dead in Nevada hospital ER

--Teen kills 15 in Germany before taking own life

--Ala. gunman `cleaned his family out' in rampage

And that's just the last few days. And it's been worldwide.

How long is it going to take?

How many times do we have to have this happen until we realize we need to do something?

How many random, insane, inexplicable murders is it going to take until we think and believe and live that human lives are more important than the sales of weapons?

Sure, I'm a left-winger and no, I don't own a gun (yet) but for pity's sake, at some point, haven't we had enogh people killing people--random or not?

I repeat, what is it going to take?

How many people have to die for absolutely no reason at all until we recognize that we have to do something (or some things) about these possibilities?

And here's a thought--I'm not suggesting of saying that it ought to be registering weapons.

What I am saying is that we have to do something.

We ought to start some conversations about what options are viable and what we maybe can and should do.

A study came out this week, too, pointing out that we need to have testing of some kind or another, to find the people who have these tendencies.

My thought is, that would beat what we're doing now, which is nothing.

So let's bring it on.

Let's start testing folks to see who is capapble or randomly killing others, in whatever number.

Then wait for the NRA to go ballistic.


Links to original stories here:
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14867353
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20090311/49b74550_3ca6_1552620090311706639784
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090311/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_school_attack
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/nat?guid=20090311/49b74550_3ca6_1552620090311913364830
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/12/gun-laws-germany-teenage-shootings