put the gun away

i don't know what it is that makes people kill other people. i don't know what defect in the brain can turn a person into a murderer. i wish i knew. i wish i could cure it. i wish i could fix all the broken people. sometimes people do bad things and many times they do them to good people. every time some psycho goes on a rampage somewhere, it's a cold, hard reminder that this isn't a fairy tale and that we're not as evolved as a species as we like to think we are. despite the comforts we've surrounded ourselves with, we're still in the jungle.

maybe it's a lack of love and support or maybe it's the bully you should've punched back in 5th grade. whatever it is, you have to know that this doesn't make things right. if the ways of the universe stiffed you with a tough life, that sucks. but nothing gives you the right to take whatever it is that sucks in your life and turn it into something that can justify ending the lives of others for no other reason than just because you're that miserable.

if you are that miserable, go and kill yourself. seriously. next person who picks up a gun and thinks, time to go on a rampage... i want you to stop, breath, and think this out. it's your misery and you can't seem to deal with it properly. this is a YOU problem. maybe you should turn that gun on yourself before you take it out on others. you can't handle your tough life, sucks to be you. but don't go shitting on someone else's parade cuz you're a miserable shit.

and if you don't have what it takes to end your own life, if you're too much of a pussy to pull the trigger on yourself, then how dare you take the chickenshit way out and pull that trigger on someone else. you're damaged goods. leave the rest of us the fuck alone. yea, we all get picked on, dylan said it best, "everyone must get stoned." and y'know what, the rest of us are dealing with it. why? cuz we're tougher than you. we're not bitches who think a body count equals valor.

and if you change your mind and you decide to put the gun down and reconsider your life, reach out. there'll be a person not too far willing to hear you out and willing to help you work your issues out. i'm one of those people. i'd hear you out in a second if you told me it's the only reason you put the gun away. i'm a sucker for second chances. i'd fully embrace the opportunity to help you stop the senseless killing of others before it happens.