A Poets View

It was reported on the news last evening that an eight year old boy in Arizona had confessed to killing his Father and his Father’s friend.  There is controversy over the fact that the police questioned the boy without adult supervision or legal counsel so at this point even though the boy confessed no one really knows what took place.  I was deeply disturbed by the tragic news and had to comment.  Apparently the boy says that his Father had a few guns which he kept under his bed.  The boy was not allowed to touch the guns if he was alone.  Let’s think about that statement for a minute.  His Father kept guns under his bed with an eight year old in the house. And, the eight year old was not allowed to touch them if he was alone which tells me he was allowed to touch them if he was not alone?  What kind of parent does that?  

The reason for this post is to bring attention again to gun control.  If any story screams the need for gun control, this is the one.  For everyone who says ” we have the right to own guns” and “we have guns to protect our families” is this story not a red flag for you?

While we don’t know exactly what happened as yet what we do know is that there was an eight year old boy in a home with guns that were accessible to him.  And, for those of you with children you know when you tell a child “do not touch this” that’s exactly what they are going to do.  They’re children.

Until we have some type of gun control in this country there will not be an end to this type of tragedy.  We live in a country where we will change or amend the constitution to strip people from their equal rights to marry but we won’t do anything about weapons which are only designed for one reason - killing?  Illogical, that’s all I can say.