Hi, Amethyst Witch here. I’m going to take a moment to write to you guy serious for this post. This is kind of a selfish post I admit, I have had some thoughts about the Aurora Colorado shooting going around in my head for the last few days. I wasn’t actually going to write anything about it because I’m not an expert about these things, and I honestly can say I don’t have the answers about the questions I think we have all been thinking about these last few days, but I changed my mind because all these feelings have been boiling inside of me, and the only way I know how address them is through my writing. As writer I have a duty to express my writing so not only will it help me, but so that it might help others who are feeling the same things as me so they know they aren’t alone, and that maybe I can help them. So I after talking with Nova D and Rebellare I have decide to post this.
First of all, I want to express my sympathies for the victims of the shooting, and to their families. I don’t know that if that mean anything really because I can’t really imagine what they are going through. I try, and like a coward I quickly back out of that mindset because it becomes too painful to imagine losing someone I love whether they’re a family member or friend. Just thinking about it is too painful for me so I honestly can’t imagine how they feel right now. I wish I had real magic or power to help them, but I’m human just like everyone else on Earth with no control over things such as this.
I haven’t been watching the news a lot about this tragedy to be honest. Mainly because I don’t want to see how the media was going to use this to further their own agendas whether they are Republicans or Democrats. However, the wonderful world of the internet doesn’t really allow people to become ignorant of major tragic events such as these. Even when I was checking out my facebook page there were comments about what happened. I did watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report so I did see how they responded to this event that as close to the news media as I want to get to be honest. I have heard debates online about gun control, the legal system, the Batman movie being the cause of the whole thing somehow, and even the talk of banning of costumes at movie theaters.
All these issues made me think about fear, and how we have dealt with that fear. We have some tragic events in our country before, and often when talking about these events in order to prevent such awful things from happening again I have found often the solutions everyone wants to use are band aid solutions as I call them. People say “If all guns were banned then we wouldn’t have events such as these” or “If there were no violence in movies then people wouldn’t do this” or “If we did have media that made everything into a big deal when something awful happens then awful things wouldn’t happen.” I know why people do this. It’s not because they are stupid. It’s because they want a solution. A nice simple solution that will guarantee things being good. If it was a simple as banning guns or making all movies as friendly as Disney to keep events like this from happening I would be all for that! I don’t want bad things to happen to people. I love to hear about good things happening to people. Even if those people are strangers to me because good things bring a smile to my face, and there is not enough smiles in the world.
However, these solutions don’t really help. They are just band aids for problems that are a lot bigger such as how families raise us, how society treats people, how our culture works, or even how a person’s mind works. There are so many factors that go into one person’s mind when they make choices that it’s really impossible to control what a person will and will not do. Even in a total dictatorship government they couldn’t really control everyone, because not everyone does things the same way. We should be talking about these things, and the band aids solution do show something about the symptoms of the problems. I’m not saying they aren’t worth talking about. I think though, as a country need to realize that there are no easy solutions. There are no easy answers to these problems. It’s only when we accept that can we really get an understanding on how to solve these problems. It’s my fear that we won’t accept that because to accept that truth would mean that there is no real control over what happens tomorrow or next month or even what happens to us ten years from now. If we live in fear of that truth though we become controlled by it, and that’s not living. There is no life when one is in fear of it.
It’s my hope, however, that we will have the courage to face these problems head on. So that we can become a better country and even a better world. That we will come together to comfort each other, to grieve with each other, to give courage to each other, and to have hope for the future.
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