Kemarin malam saya melihat di Glen Beck show, seorang dari NRA yang mengatakan
bahwa mempunyai senjata adalah "God given right". (Ini adalah "nyanyian"
orang2 pro senjata).
Hmmmm ....... menurut saya sih kalau Tuhan benar2 berpendapat bahwa mempunyai
senjata itu adalah sesuatu yang begitu pentingnya bagi manusia, maka kita akan
dilahirkan dengan 'senjata' sebagai bagian dari badan kita, seperti halnya
jantung, ginjal, dll. dll.
Saya setuju kepemilikan senjata untuk berburu, atau sport, tetapi siapa sih
yang memerlukan senjata genggam atau assault weapons?
Alasan orang2 adalah untuk membela diri, Menurut saya sih, membela/menjaga
keamanan penduduk adalah tugas polisi. Membela keamanan negara adalah tugas
angkatan bersenjata. Tidak usahlah setiap orang mempunyai senjata untuk
'membela' diri, sebab akhir2nya senjata itu memakan korban bukan dalam rangka
'membela diri', tetapi karena salah pakai, accident, atau memudahkan orang2
gila seperti Cho, atau penembak di Nasa hari ini, untuk memilikinya.
Jika senjata2 tsb. tidak dijual, maka hanya penjahat2 sajalah yang akan
mempunyai senjata2 maut tsb.. Dengan itu saja maka orang2 gila seperti Cho itu
tidak akan bisa mempunyai senjata, sehingga otomatis akan berkurang orang yang
mati karena senjata api.
Saya pernah melihat di suatu website mengenai angka kematian anak2 karena
senjata api di Amrik dibandingkan dengan 26 negara lain di dunia. Ternyata di
Amrik angkanya adalah lima kali lipat lebih tinggi. Kalau seumpamanya senjata
tidak dijual seperti pisang goreng itu, maka anak2 tsb. tidak perlu mati.
Deddy Mansyur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Deadly college shootings in U.S.
Some deadly shootings at U.S. colleges or universities, listed by
number of fatalities:
April 16, 2007
A gunman kills 32 people in a dorm and a classroom building at Virginia Tech in
Blacksburg, Va. The suspect then dies by gunshot himself.
Shel Hershorn / Getty Images
Aug. 1, 1966
Charles Whitman points a rifle from the observation deck of the University of
Texas at Austin's Tower and begins shooting in a homicidal rampage that goes on
for 96 minutes. Sixteen people are killed, 31 wounded.
July 12, 1976
Edward Charles Allaway, a custodian in the library of California State
University, Fullerton, fatally shoots seven fellow employees and wounds two
others. Mentally ill, Allaway believed his colleagues were pornographers and
were forcing his estranged wife to appear in their movies. A judge found him
innocent by reason of insanity in 1977 after a jury was unable to reach a
verdict and he was committed to the state mental health system.
Nov. 1, 1991
Gang Lu, 28, a graduate student in physics from China, reportedly upset because
he was passed over for an academic honor, opens fire in two buildings on the
University of Iowa campus. Five University of Iowa employees killed, including
four members of the physics department, one other person is wounded. The
student fatally shoots himself.
Reuters via Corbis
May 4, 1970
Four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops called in
to quell anti-war protests on the campus of Kent State University in Ohio.
Oct. 28, 2002
Failing University of Arizona Nursing College student and Gulf War veteran
Robert Flores, 40, walks into an instructor's office and fatally shoots her. A
few minutes later, armed with five guns, he enters one of his nursing
classrooms and kills two more of his instructors before fatally shooting
himself.
Sept. 2, 2006
Douglas W. Pennington, 49, kills himself and his two sons, Logan P. Pennington,
26, and Benjamin M. Pennington, 24, during a visit to the campus of Shepherd
University in Shepherdstown, W.Va.
Jason R. Davis / AP
Jan. 16, 2002
Graduate student Peter Odighizuwa, 42, recently dismissed from Virginia's
Appalachian School of Law, returns to campus and kills the dean, a professor
and a student before being tackled by students. The attack also wounds three
female students.
Aug. 15, 1996
Frederick Martin Davidson, 36, a graduate engineering student at San Diego
State, is defending his thesis before a faculty committee when he pulls out a
handgun and kills three professors.
Jan. 26, 1995
Former law student Wendell Williamson shoots two men to death and injures a
police officer in Chapel Hill, N.C.
AP
April 2, 2007
University of Washington researcher Rebecca Griego, 26, is shot to death in her
office by former boyfriend Jonathan Rowan who then turned the gun on himself.
Aug. 28, 2000
James Easton Kelly, 36, a University of Arkansas graduate student recently
dropped from a doctoral program after a decade of study and John Locke, 67, the
English professor overseeing his coursework, are shot to death in an apparent
murder-suicide.
Salam
Sensei Deddy Mansyur
University of Houston
www.uh.edu/shotokan
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