I’m sorry, but neither guns nor drugs are the problem. From my perspective, it’s easy to blame objects when the real source of the problems we face lies in the mirror. Now, do I think automatic weapons should be legal? Of course I don’t. Do I think heroin should be legal? Nope. But really, legal or not, they find their way into the hands of people who use them in evil ways. But I can’t even find fault with the people who do horrible things with weapons or heroin: the real enemy, to me, is the rampant stupidity with which we live our lives.
School shootings and heroin overdoses are reflections of this world in which every person thinks he or she is the absolute center. If things don’t do our specific way in our specific time, we lash out. After all, this social media age has allowed narcissistic bullshit to become the standard of human behavior. What’s worse, is that we then towards judgement and hate rather than seek to find commonalities that we all share. People have allowed stupidity and hateful judgement to rule their lives and when anyone absorbs this hate and anger to an extreme level, he or she has very few means of recourse but to either numb that hateful pain (as those who abuse heroin) or to act with evil violence against those whom he or she chooses to blame for his or pain. After all, that’s what we all seem to seek nowadays: ways and means to feed either our love of our own reflection or the hate we feel towards others. This world has effectively created monsters of us all and until we realize that we are ALL God’s children, then things will probably get worse.
We need to find the good and strong and beautiful both in ourselves and in others and we need to accept differences between us with honor and not judgement. The more we think that somehow our own view of the world is the only view of the world, the more we see differences between us as something that we can hate because, if someone isn’t with us, then they must be against us, after all.
I don’t have answers about gun control or the war on drugs. But I do know that my view of the world is only mine and only as valid as everyone else’s. I don’t know absolute truth, I just have concepts that work for me. But hate, judgement, shame, and fear don’t yield anything but horrible results and the more we feed those things in ourselves, then how the hell can we blame guns or drugs for the problems we face? We are the problem: we have fallen in love with our own bullshit and hate anything against that love. We are creating the hate that finds its way into the souls of those who commit murder. We are creating the fear that find its way up the veins of the heroin user. We are the problem, not guns or drugs.
