Year 2, Day 82: 12/2/12

Devastation: I wasn't sure if I was going to write about the tragedy in Kansas City until tonight, when I heard Bob Costas reading the words of a writer in Kansas City.  The man said a lot of things that I agreed with, but there was one statement that he made that I had to disagree with.  He said that if Jovan Belcher had not had a gun, then his girlfriend and he would still be alive.  Now, I agree with the statement that guns don't kill people, people kill people.  If this writer is naive enough to believe that Jovan would not have found a way to kill his girlfriend without a gun, then he clearly has no understanding of domestic violence.  Restraining orders, don't work.  Jail, doesn't work.  If someone is intent on killing their partner (male or female), they will find a way to do it, and they sure as hell wouldn't need a gun.  The gun was just a means to an end for Belcher.  If he had not had the gun, he would have used a knife, or his hands, or who knows what else.  So, Mr. Writer, please get your head out of your ass and actually pay attention to what you are saying - absence of a gun was not going to save that young woman or Belcher.