Wake Up

"The Talk of the Town" is a powerful essay. Adam Gopnik proves a lot of good points about gun control. "Reducing the number of guns available to crazy people will neither relieve them of their insanity nor stop them from killing." Gopnik basically wrote my thoughts in her essay. The Virginia Tech shooting was horrible, and I hope it doesn't happen again. Let's be realistic though. These "crazy people" will find ways to get a hold of guns. Gun control is an obvious issue in the United States. It's too bad the U.S can't fix the problem. The country could stop selling weapons in well-known places for starters. They can start at Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart also sells Machetes for a pretty low price. I wonder how many working families want/need machetes. ANYWAYS, guns are useless for a lot of families. Guns are tools used for killing things, and for some reason people love using these tools. When I think about it, most of the people who use guns are tools.......ANYWAYS, The U.S should look at other countries that don't really have the whole gun problem. "Who doubts that America is strong? But that's not all America has to be." The country should build off of other countries' policies. We, as a country, don't have to be so selfish.

9/11. I could go on for a while with this. I know that a lot of people might say this, but I'll say it anyways.....Bush wasn't that smart. I don't even know where to start. I'll start with his nuclear weapon suspicion in Iraq. According to Bush, God told him that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq. I guess God couldn't tell him exactly where they were. I guess God couldn't tell him the truth.......ANYWAYS, there is a lot of suspicion that Bush had knowledge of an attack on the towers before September 11th. I can believe this, but I can't believe that Bush actually planned the attack. That administration showed that they can't do a lot of things right. How could they stage this attack? "Our leaders are bent on convincing us that everything is O.K. America is not afraid." Susan Sontag wrote this, and it's right. Bush couldn't even do that right though. When the country had the chance to capture the Al-Qaeda leader, Bush decided to bomb Iraq. A right-winged nut might say in response that Clinton didn't get Osama Bin Laden either, so stop blaming bush. Clinton tried though. Bush didn't. He did get Saddam Hussein though. One cruel dictator down, many many many more to go. It's weird how everything worked out for Bush. He got a lot of people thinking that Iraq was the place to be. Why are we there though? Blood for Oil? Spreading democracy? Sometimes I think that Bush was thankful for the 9/11 attack. It was like a free ticket into the Middle East for him. It was probably helpful for him to have Donald Rumsfeld by his side as Secretary of Defense. Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein in the '80s to make a deal. Rumsfeld made it possible for the United States to give WMDs to Saddam. Everything is so messed up with that administration. Everything is so messed up with 9/11. Was 9/11 an act of terror or was 9/11 a political trick?

I recommend the documentary called 'Zeitgeist,' if anyone is interested in the 9/11 attacks. I'll warn you though. It's pretty heavy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_E4N5YIycI&feature=PlayList&p=03883D92DD00DEBF&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1