Gun Violence: A Sobering Perspective

 Let's suspend talk of gun control and transition to discourse regarding the cultivation of human being toward higher ideals. We've taken for granted humane being and have become consumers of fantastic notions of consumerism and sundry forms of avarice! Being humanely human must not be a matter for serendipity. Our education-informally and formally, must be purposefully aimed at the highest aspirations! Please, no more talk of the "influence" of video games as a contributor to our inhumanity. What video game buoyed the vicious and racist European trade and enslavement of African peoples for over 400 years? To be sure, Our culture is morally anaemic at best. We all have emotional and psychological deficits that must be reconciled by love and care. Our emotional and psychological deficits are ubiquitous and we merely manifest our pathologies in varying degrees. Choose to refine and care for our personal self cultivation and our collective selves. The disciplines of Psychology and Sociology may aspire to describe, and maybe even explain out pathologies, but they only approximate the precipitating factors that lead to horrors such as the Newtown, CT atrocity. But our inhumanity appears to be discriminating...We choose those whom we will display this inhumanity; we determine the value and foci of our impoverished morality--the victims are more often that not, the innocent and unprotected!
The concern is that we merely express our inhumanity with the use of guns, and that without them we would nevertheless maintain our disrespect for humanity with alternative methods of destruction. Too many wars and human atrocities have been promulgated by those who have found murder and violence legitimate forms of disagreement and are the result of unsettled psychological states. It is time that we turn to the investigation and refinement of human being, and let us not presume our status as human animals will not devolve into mere animal, all too animal.