Burials and Symmetry

I learned this morning, with no surprise, that irresponsible ownership of a home and its grounds has more legal responsibility than ownership of a gun.  Apparently, a victim of a person who maintains a gun in an irresponsible manner has no right to sue them in many states and there are certainly no legal consequences.  The article cited a 5 year old who was given a kid's rifle and killed a 3 year old.  All the Sheriff could say, "Tragic, but there are no grounds to arrest anyone."  What about the parents?

The NRA keeps saying "Guns don't kill people, People kill people."  But they would fight the passage of any legislation that would establish minimum standards for maintaining a gun in the home so that unforeseeable tragic events do not happen.  That would at least provide symmetry with the responsibilities of home ownership.

The dead Marathon Bomber is apparently causing small minded people problems in Worcester, Ma.  They are upset that the funeral home there agreed to manage the body.  Since it turns out the Russians did not want to allow the body back into Dagestan, it has to go someplace.  So small minded people are in more places than Worcester.  The man is DEAD!!   He CANNOT harm anyone in the funeral home.

The real issue is the cemeteries.  They don't want him buried on their grounds.  I guess it would upset the neighbors to have a dead terrorist in the plot next to theirs.  I was going to suggest cremating the body, but I did Google the question and found the following on an Islam education website.  Islamic dead people are buried, not cremated because that is what is in the Koran.  I respect the right of anybody to follow anything they want to, but shouldn't a religion also try to keep up with the times and technology.  If we keep burying everybody, the whole world will be cemetery eventually and there won't be any land left for growing food, playing sports or living.

The article says:
"One of the reasons for this is that our knowledge of what happens to the person after death is limited, and, therefore, God alone knows what is good and bad for us in an ultimate sense."

Wait a minute!  Even a religious person knows what happens after death.  The Soul goes to heaven (or perhaps hell) and the body become decomposed by WORMS and BACTERIA and other processes.  And if you don't believe in souls or heaven, well then you just rot in the ground.  Cremation just speeds the process up.

So I guess the bomber will have to be dressed up and tossed into the sea like Osama bin Ladan was.  No cremation, just pollution of the ocean.