Stop blaming the object

I am not a political person. So this is not a political rant. It does address the whole gun issue however.  There has been a trend in recent years in America.  Maybe across the world. I can't speak to what I don't know so I will stick close to home.  We like to demonize objects.  We do it to food, alcohol, guns, drugs.  It is so much easier to blame someone than to accept blame.  And it is "politically incorrect" to tell others they are to blame for their own actions. Since I don't care about being incorrect let me say it. It's your fault. It's their fault.  Whoever is abusing alcohol, abusing drugs, using food as a crutch or using a gun for violence, it is THEIR fault. NOT the objects fault.  The more we allow people to not take responsibility for their actions in this country the more we are inviting bad things to happen.  We are allowing for higher rates of obesity. Because it isn't the persons fault who is eating the food right? It's the manufacturers fault. It's the advertisers fault. It is the store or restaurants fault. Let's sue McDonalds because their food made me fat.  It isn't my fault I drove down there, ordered and paid for the food and ate it. It's their fault for making it and selling it to me.  Does that make sense to you? How about alcohol? People have been drinking some form of alcohol since before time. Other countries in the world don't restrict its use to certain age groups or have "dry" counties.  Why do we? Because it is the alcohols fault.  It's the alcohols fault we drink to excess. It's the alcohols fault that we drive drunk and get into fights.  It isn't our fault right? It's addictive. It's bad.  Same with drugs. Now on that note I don't condone drugs at all so please don't misunderstand.  But to me it is a choice you make every time you pick it up.  But instead we blame the drugs.  And now it's guns.  Do I believe any regular person needs a semi-automatic weapon or a machine gun? No way. Do I believe that we all have a right to have a gun too defend ourselves? Most definitely.  And I dont believe restricting gun access will solve crime problems because most criminals don't go through the "proper" channels to get their weapons.  Guess what? A gun can't shoot itself.   It takes a person to do that. And if that person has issues then let's call a spade a spade.  It isn't a cars fault someone hits someone else and it isn't a guns fault someone chooses to shoot someone else with it.  Until we start to take responsibility, lay blame where it belongs, and call people out on the BS this country will continue to deteriorate. That is why I call them like I see them and let the chips fall where they may.