What I think about guns

This is how I feel about guns...

In my opinion, guns should be illegal, and there is literally no reason to have them in the modern world. All guns do, is kill people, that is literally the only purpose for them. I don't care what people say, they still kill people. It's a 50/50 thing really, the person, and the gun both kill someone else.

There are about 250,000 gun deaths a year, and America, takes about half of that.

There's really no point in anyone having a gun, we're supposed to be a civilized & Technological society by now.  Guns should be a thing of the past. According to the link above, about 9% of gun deaths, are accidental. (That's bigger than it should be)
There are one too many kids, grabbing guns accidentally/intentionally, and killing themselves, or someone else. Under NO circumstances, should a kid be around a gun ever! I would hope everyone can agree on that!

Here's a clip from the Golden Girls, which is a good example about what could happen by accident. 

The fact of the matter is, if guns did not exist AT ALL there wouldn't be as much gun death in America, or any other country. In Japan, Australia and England, guns are illegal. Unfortunately, in England, the gun crime rate is up by 30%. Japan on the other-hand, has little to no gun crime rate at all, and has very strict precautions on owning a gun. Australia, also has a similar story as well.

People just wouldn't really bother if they had to kill someone with a knife or some other item. In fact, in Australia a man robbed a bank with a Boomerang! Of course without guns, people will come up with other ideas for violence and thieving, but as it already has been demonstrated by other countries, most people wouldn't bother if they couldn't use guns to do illegal acts.

Honestly, I wouldn't have a problem with guns if they didn't get in the wrong hands. If every person that had a gun was safe, and not a serial killer, crazy person or a thief, then I would have no problem with that. But the fact of the matter is, the world is filled with lunatics that should not be around people at all! Unfortunately, as much as I hate guns, and they should be banned. It's not going to work like that, the only way, is to find a solution, of getting rid of guns that are in the wrong hands. Once that happens, then there could be an easier way to, at least control them.

On a side note, the irony here. Is the people most likely to shoot up a place, are probably mentally ill and aren't getting the treatment that they should be receiving. But when someone is having mental issues, and talks about it to others, they are usually shunned for it. So, in a way, Americans may have done this to themselves for being so ignorant and not resolving the problem properly.

I think this video, explains it in the best way.

What really annoys me, is this constant gun violence in America. It's ridiculous, you can't go anywhere these days, without worrying that the place you're in will get shot at. There are bars, schools, concerts, movie theaters, that are constantly having mass gun shootings. Kids are now learning to fear for their lives  just for being in school, and having gun drills. Non Americans, look at America, and they see how violent, and bigoted America is. People in other countries are just scratching their heads, trying to understand why America is like this. (Quite frankly, I don't have an answer).

We're beginning a time in the world where we're attached to our electronic devices, we can talk to anyone around the world over anything, we should be past all of this violence. We're supposed to be a civilized world, but with all of this violence, and gun violence, it just doesn't make sense. Humans should be past this by now, and honestly, it's a disgrace to the human race to have such barbaric ways of doing things. The problem with this world is that there is not enough love, and too much hate, and violence.

A little contradictory, but I for one, would rather prefer, if we just brought back Bows & Arrows! 

I think the best thing to do for America, and other countries, is to follow Japan, and their gun laws. they have a very strict protocol. An interesting fact, is that they don't allow hand guns, and use shot guns and air rifles. Which is rather odd, in my opinion. 

I'm very curious about people who are gung-ho about guns, and what they think should be done with all the mass shootings. Also, for the love of everything holy, there is no reason in this world, that anyone would need something crazy like an AK-47, it's amazing to me that some people think it's okay to own something like that. A handgun is one thing, but a massive weapon, that is made for mass murder, is not something someone should have!

 

Might I add that the Second Amendment was made when guns took 45 MINUTES TO RELOAD and only had one bullet? It was a different time than it is now!!

If you really need something for self defense, I suggest that we should be allowed Cattle Prods. It doesn't kill the person and definitely gets the point across!

Friendship

I take friendship very seriously, this may be because of the fact that I didn't really have  friends growing up.
 
I dislike how some people just throw others away like yesterdays news, like having friends should be disposable or something. I also dislike how some people can think it is okay to just throw you out of their life without a word, like, I thought we were friends?! This is what I get for being friends with you? Not even a goodbye!
Of course, I don't mean when people just slowly leave, like you just aren't close anymore and become less and less in contact, that is different and more of a mutual thing. I just mean when people decide they aren't your friends anymore, and "they be like BYE FELICIA!" Just without the Bye Felicia part, or maybe with the bye Felicia part, It depends really.

As a kid, I didn't have many friends. I had about two friends, and my cousin for a good portion of my childhood. But I didn't always get to see them, lot's of times I was just alone. They were/are great friends, and I was always happy to have them.  I didn't really have school friends, all of the kids in my school either bullied me, or just flat out ignored me, all except my two friends. (One lived in the same house as me, and we just happened to go to the same school. So I didn't technically meet them through school.)
When I moved an hour away from my hometown at the age of 12, I didn't have friends anymore. This was back when the internet was pretty new, and we still used a dial up connection. I never saw one of my friends again, I did only get to add her on facebook like four years ago (May 2014). My other friend I would talk on the phone with, but one day we just stopped, we keep in touch via facebook after like 5 years of no contact.
When I moved, I went to a new school in the 6th grade, and although I made some friends. They weren't friends, just kids that I would talk to on occasion. I was never invited to hang out at someone's house, sleep over, none of those things. They were all just people I would sometimes talk to while in that class. They were just people to talk to, and it was obvious to me that they cared about other people so much more than they did for me. By the time I was in high-school, I did make more friends, but by the time I was in the 12th grade, I was a ghost. I didn't know anyone anymore because everyone had graduated already, as I had a tendency to make friends with kids in higher grades, those kids tended to be like an older brother, or sister to me. Like we would talk sometimes and they would tell me they will beat anyone up for me (If someone was mean to me. lol), but at the end of the day, I wasn't as important to them as I thought I was. The 12th grade for me was just going to school, I got to take fun classes, but no one really talked to me anymore. Everyone was gone, or they just didn't talk to me anymore. I really just went to school in high school, everyone had better things to do than talk to me. I usually spent my free periods sitting at an empty table just drawing characters from video games, or going into the library to go on the computer. Don't get me wrong, I do like having friends, but I also like being alone, so I always had a blast at school. Even if I was just drawing, or on the internet hoping that one mean librarian lady wouldn't yell at me for some stupid reason.
The biggest problem was that I am shy In the real world, I also have social anxiety, so it's just hard for me to talk to random strangers to make friends. This was one reason why I was a ghost in high school, I was too shy to talk to people and make friends, any friend I ever made in school was because they came up to me to talk to me.

By the time I started college, I had no friends again. No one bothered to keep in touch with me, well except for one person, but only because I found him on facebook.
When I started college, I never had a sleep over, I never hung out with anyone, I didn't talk to anyone except for my online friends. I had childhood friends that I didn't see anymore because I had moved.

My first sleep over happened when I was 23, because I had actually made friends for once.
My last year of college was when I FINALLY made friends, people that I actually have hung out with and still talk to even today!
This was back in the fall of 2010, when I was 20, turning 21 in December.
The one friend from high school that I added on facebook, was friends with someone else from high school who I didn't know, but I had seen her around, and always thought she was interesting.
I decided to add her on facebook and she was like "I remember you!".
Well, it turned out that we were going to the same college too. The first day of the new fall semester we met up ,and I started to hang out with her at college.
This was the first time I was actually a part of something, an actual group of people who were all friends.
Eventually, I made some more friends and finally, I was a part of the group, and I finally had some friends.
Sometimes we would all go out to eat , or other activities. It was a blast to finally had some friends.
Although, I don't talk to them all (About 30 people), I still talk to a bunch of them. I even hang out with two of them every now and again.
For once in my life, at the sad or tender age of 20-21, I had finally made friends, real friends that were actually there for me and that I actually got to hang out with.
The sad thing about it (Aside from the fact that I didn't really have friends until the age of 20), is that I also didn't really know what it was like to have friends, so it was all new to me and I would be confused about certain things.. since I hadn't experienced it before.
I also made some great friends after starting my third job in retail, considering stores have many more employees, you have a better chance on meeting someone with similar interests. I've met quite a handful of really interesting people in retail, and I have become close to some of them and many of them have become good friends to me.

How to make friends.

"How do you  make friends, If you're not supposed to talk to strangers?"

You can make friends anywhere, school or work are the most common. Maybe join a group somewhere at a local place, the place I used to live in had a cool building that had a nice game room that me and my friends would run off to.
You just have to have the courage to talk to someone, or be very engaging and reply to someone if a person starts talking to you.
You could even go as far as to add someone on facebook that goes to school or work with you, and then start from there. Make a nice message, "Hey, what's up?".
You could even try sites like http://friendmatch.org/ to make friends locally.

How to keep friends.

Not everyone wants to be your friend, some people might just think you're a cool person, in which you think they are your friend. (Or is that just me?)
There are a couple of people that I considered my friend, and I wanted to keep in touch with them, but they wouldn't always respond to my messages. Quickly I realized that like they didn't really want to be my friend, maybe they don't really consider me a friend at all!
But at the same time, I want to make sure I am reaching out to the person, so that we do not lose touch.
If they don't want to be your friend, then you may end up turning into an annoying person, in their eyes...

The people who are genuinely into you as a friend will be engaging to you at all times, they will be interested in you in the real word, and in the virtual world. The ones that aren't really interested in you as a friend, are the ones that don't really respond to you online or via text. They may not seem interested in you in person, and won't be engaging to you, unless they just want to talk.

I find when someone does find me interesting, that they will come to seek me out on their own to talk to me. People who aren't really into you as a friend tend to just kind of do their own thing. If you always start the conversation, then they may not consider you a friend. This isn't always the case though, and usually not true for shy people or introverts, as shy or introverted people tend to find it hard to talk to people in general. (I'm both shy and introverted, so this is from my experience of being afraid of talking to people, and being drained of energy by being around people.) As a shy person, it is hard to talk to people sometimes, so someone else starting the conversation can be a good thing. 

My friendship Hierarchy
I categorize my friends in a certain hierarchy. I have Best Friends, Good Friends, Friends and Acquaintances.
Obviously, best friends are highest while acquaintances are lowest. I'll put a bit of an explanation below.

Best Friend (Or Bestie for short :P ): Best friends are the ones you can talk to about anything, they always have your back and they never let you down, you never let them down either. Nothing you or they can say will ever offend or break your friendship, if you guys have a fight, you'll be back to normal in no time.
Best friends are your strongest allies in the war of life,and they are always there for you and vice versa!

Little Note:
Besties 4 lyfe!

I've noticed that my besties were there from the start! Like, I immediately had a strong connection with them right from the beginning. If you're struggling to become someone's friend, it doesn't mean to stop, but they aren't going to become your bestie and they aren't meant to be your best friend, maybe just a friend, or maybe they aren't supposed to be your friend at all.

Good Friends: Good friends have your back no matter what, they are fun people to be around. They aren't your best friend, but they're pretty close to you and you can count on them.

Friends: Are people that can be fun to talk to, you don't always talk, and you may not even be close. But they can just be a fun person to be around and talk to from time to time.

Acquaintances: Are more like people that you know, but you aren't necessarily friends, this is applies for co-workers that you can talk to, but aren't necessarily friends.

This is just my list, I am sure other people have different views and thoughts on friendship and their list.

That was my post, comment below if you would like to say what you have on your mind, or if you want to throw a bowling ball at me... either thing is fine.

The Exes = Male version of the Golden Girls?

I love the Golden Girls, it's one of my favorite shows of all time. There was a Golden Girls marathon on TVLAND today, it was the best! Now, TVLAND has these four shows that they made themselves, and one of them is a show called The Exes.

The Exes, if you do not know. Is a show about three heterosexual men who end up being roommates after their divorces, and do everything together. They were brought together by their Divorce Attorney Holly, the four of them become great friends etc..

 I was noticing something about The Exes when I saw the preview for the next episode, It's basically the Golden Girls, except with men!
If you think about it, they match up pretty evenly.
The Golden Girls is about 4 women who move in together, they're all either divorced or widowed and they all become great friends.
As for the characteristics which each character, they mostly match.

Stuart is basically Rose, the nice one who is very dense, and often seen as dumb and clueless.

Phil is Blanche, the promiscuous one who usually only cares about themselves when it comes to anything sexual, basically a slut, and a narcissist.

Haskell is Dorothy, the un-attractive one that gets few dates, and is intelligent. Dorothy is more book smart, while Haskell is more Tech smart.

Together the three of them form one group of friends.

Then there is Holly, who is kind of the Sophia Petrillo. The fourth member not always included, a bit out of the group but in the same time in the group with the rest of the characters. Always trying to help out and can be a bit crabby and ridiculous.

I'd also like to give a moment to give some David Alan Basche appreciation. He is freaking gorgeous! He's the only reason I continued to watch the show! What a delicious man, search him up on-line, and see for yourself!

This adds to my "All the hot guys are straight" complaint.