Someone please hand me a gun

I haven't blogged in a while. Mainly because my life has been peacefully uneventful lately. But something on the news deeply disturbed me in the past week or so. Now there are lots of bad news happening around the globe everyday, but most of the bad news is always accompanied by some noble human behavior, particularly during the time of massive natural disaster. But when human behavior is the massive disaster, all we're left is despair.

This past Wednesday, the Supreme Court of the United States (I have to mark that clearly, as many family and friends of mine started to believe I have been irreversibly brain washed into an American who doesn't believe there's a world outside its territory.) ruled that it is unconstitutional to punish a child rapist by death penalty.

Just a week ago, Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State of the same United States made a grand speech at UN condemning the sexual violence happening around the war zones. And the usual "villains" of UN--China and Russia--came out and said something to the extent that 'and why is that my problem?' I was pissed at the comment, but I wasn't surprised. What else do you expect them to say? And seriously as if Rice speech was really going to change anything. But at least I live in a land where someone up there still has the decency to say something for the weak and vulnerable.

Just a week after, the same nation said but wait a second, they don't deserve to die. The case in point was a man in Louisiana who violently raped his 8 year old step daughter. What kind of human being would marry a woman he at least cared about enough to live together with, and go rape the child of this very same person? And you're telling me he doesn't deserve to die? Then who is? I know empathy is never my strong suit but I guess that depends on whether the empathy is toward the rapist or the child. But the Supreme Court said there were no murder involved. Being murdered (or just being dead) is a terrible thing, but there are definitely worse thing in life that made you wish you were dead--and being violently raped by your step dad or that friendly uncle you know definitely count as one.

So there were heated debate going on for a whole day on the radio. Even the presidential candidate Obama jumped out and made a comment against the decision (Obama, you would've won my vote on this one if you were not raising my taxes) and got shot down by others. Some say a child lies. True, I know several lying brats myself but that doesn't mean therefore the rapists don't deserve to die. And some even argued that since most of the rapists are usually the adults who live with the child victim, it is no good to further disrupt the child's life by killing the man who feeds (and rapes) her.

And as if the Supreme Court realized they were dead drunk and made a horrible mistake (I wish), they came out the next day with another ruling said it is the constitution right to carry a gun. Learn from these folks: If you cannot win the debate, try changing the subject all together! And boy isn't that effective? The world abandoned the issue at once and headed out to get themselves a gun. I am deeply disgusted but seriously thinking about doing the same. If the legal system cannot protect the weak and vulnerable, maybe I should seriously think about some self defense.