Waste.

I have no interest in sports or sports heroes, as they are oddly called. But I find it absurd that the news gives so much attention to this Belcher situation, which is not much different from hundreds of everyday incidents except that a sports figure was involved. Right now MSNBC is discussing his "state of mind" and "what made him do it?" and other nonsense. What made him do it was a gun. Having a gun made him do it. The accessibility of a gun made him shoot his girlfriend nine times. If he didn't have a gun, he probably would have beat the hell out of her, she would have been hospitalized, he would have been jailed and they would or would not have gotten back together. The distance of a gun made him do it. The convenience of a gun made him do it. In his case, he was also young and unformed and suddenly showered with money and fame which we had no idea how to handle. Those were factors. But the gun was the villain. Just as it is all over America every day of the year. People have arguments. If they don't have a gun, they have fights, sometimes very brutal...fights that often lead to the emergency room. But, ah!, if you have a gun, you have the perfect exclamation mark for your anger, the idea release for all that fury, the climax that ends the fight and silences all that noise it the room and in your head. And if you have any kind of humanity, you realize what a nightmare you have just unleashed, a horror beyond comprehension, and one that will not end soon or easily.  And when you are suddenly and horrifically boomeranged back to reality, you cannot believe the monster that you became just a few irretrievable minutes before. And if you are like Jovan Belcher, who was probably a kind-hearted, decent person who just didn't know how to handle his angers and insecurities, you think the only decent thing to do is to take the same gun that just destroyed so many lives and use it to destroy yours. So the news will yap and yap and yap. What made him do it?  Easy. A gun.

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