What's guns got to do with it?

There were a few events that happened at the beginning of this year that really made a big impact in my life.

1. Sandy hook elementary school.
2. I saw the Hobbit.

How do these two link?

Well since watching the Hobbit that meant I HAD to re-watch the LOTR trilogy.
In the Two Towers, King Theoden had something very profound to say, and I think it fits very well with what happened in Sandy hook and in other places as well.

Speaking of the flowers that are growing on the graves of his father and grandfather and so on, Theoden says,
“Now [they] shall cover the grave of my son: Alas that these evil days should be mine. The young perish and the old linger, that I should live t see the last days of my house.
No parent should have to bury their child.”

He was right, NO parent should have to bury their child. I know some of the grief that a parent might feel at the loss of their child. My wife had a couple of miscarriages. And I know that it rips a hole in your life and in your heart.
The problem is that ever since then, the government and several national media personalities have been going on and on ad infinitum that this means we need more gun laws, bigger gun laws, stronger gun laws…

But Guess what! ALL those measures they want to put in place would have done nothing to stop what happened at Newton Connecticut. In fact many of these gun laws would make it easier for someone to bring harm to the innocent and the vulnerable.

We can see, if we bother to do the research, that many more crimes are stopped because of the presence of guns owned by law abiding citizens. I saw a recent sarcastic post on facebook that detailed the statistics of Chicago Illinois and Houston Texas.
The point that it was making was these two cities, very similar in size, economy and everything else had very different levels of crime and violence.
The obvious difference that might have been the reason was that Chicago residents were not allowed to own guns and there were no gun stores or anything in the city so they were vulnerable, while Houston is much more open to gun ownership. But there was onr little point (this is where the sarcasm comes in) that Chicago’s temperatures tend to be much colder than Houston’s THEREFORE the only reason that there can be any disparity is the temperature causes violence.

Any thinking person can see that for the silliness that it is. But unfortunately it seems that there are too many people who really do think that way. That is, they take a disconnected measure, something that has absolutely NO bearing on the reality that exists, and they try to claim that this is what we have to measure by.