After reading all of what my fellow group members have written about, I have come up with the consensus that everyone thinks that guns are not what cause problems, it is the person or people behind the gun. All agreed that the person behind the gun—Loughner—had evil intentions when he opened fire at the Safeway Supermarket. Loughner may have had some mental issues going on inside of him, but there is nothing saying that he could have made the judgment call to not do what he did. I also thought that what Jade said in her blog is very true: “I believe that it is a privilege, yes you were born with these rights, but that doesn’t mean that you are superior to them.” Most Americans tend to take most, if not all of their rights for granted and when it come time that their rights are impeded, they become remorseful. The fact that Columbine was brought up in the blogs was a good example of gun violence. Even though it is not the same exact circumstances, it still deals with harm to the innocent.
With the matter of Governor LePage, everyone seemed to be in acceptance with the fact that he was unprofessional. The phrase that Governor LePage decided to go with was perhaps not the best to use for his superior position, but as Jade and Cat have said he is still just a human being. I will have to say that LePage did not say this with any anger toward the NAACP; he was merely stating that if he was to go to the prison on MLK day, he would meet with all the inmates. So unlike one of my fellow group mates, I don’t believe Governor LePage has and temper or anger issues. On the other hand my fellow bloggers think that this is a poor representation of Maine. LePage is the ultimate face of our State.
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