I've been mentally composing this (very politically incorrect and tactless) message since yesterday! Of course, the term politically incorrect usually means covert racism, sexism, or homophobic content is coming, but in this case, I’ve decided to step away from the “honest discourse” culture that requires that we be polite to people whose views we find abhorrent!
First let me say I do NOT support "sensible gun laws". Most of the pro-gun-control groups are so careful to be nice to "law-abiding gun owners". NO! I see no reason at all to allow individuals to have killing machines (yes, I know you can kill with other things - but a gun is the only item designed and manufactured for the sole purpose of causing death!) (You want target practice? Go buy bow and arrows!) And just because an illegitimate and biased Supreme Court - the same one that gutted the Civil Rights Act - said it was constitutional, doesn't make it right, any more than Citizens United is right, or the Dred Scott decision was right!
Additionally, pro-control organizations are always careful to say "we support the rights of hunters". NOPE! I'VE always supported the right to ARM BEARS! If you feel driven to kill innocent animals, use the weapons you were born with - your teeth and fingernails (oh, and your “superior” mind, and the biblical verses giving you dominion over all other animals)...
I do NOT believe police should have war weaponry, either! (Maybe because my brother-in-law was murdered by a cop who SHOT HIM IN THE BACK because he drove by a house they had under surveillance - Oh, but he was "driving while Mexican" so the cop wasn't punished for his "understandable mistake"!
In fact, I don't much think that COUNTRIES should have military weapons! Our history of using them is disgusting, brutal, and inhumane! The last war I thought was possibly grounded in morality was the US Civil War!
I think the Assault Weapons ban didn't go far enough! I WISH Obama would "come for your guns"!
And, oh, by the way, Establishment Democrats - trying to get a bill, written by a DINO (the Senator from my state) who never met a war or military incursion she didn't like, that would extend the unconstitutional Patriot Act to cover another McCarthy-era secret list for denying guns — is despicable! JUST BAN the damn things! Or at least surround them with safeguards:
- require proof of training (like a driver's license),
- proof of safe (locked and inaccessible) storage,
- insurance requirements (make gun-lovers pay for insurance, not people who want to see a doctor),
- eliminate the term accident when someone dies by gun,
- hold the kill-toy owner responsible for negligent homicide!
- Oh, and if a gun is stolen hold the negligent owner responsible for everything that is done with it! (You know, like the laws that hold pool owners liable for having an attractive nuisance!)
- And, let us sue the people who manufacture the death weapons - you know, product liability, like we have for LAWNMOWERS!
WHEW! I really, truly hate guns. I have no sympathy for the people who need to stroke some phallic symbol (go buy a Jaguar and polish it lovingly)! If we must, for some incomprehensible reason, allow them - make it so expensive and fraught with danger that the idiots who insist on having them are forced to make a clear decision that having a death-dealing weapon is important to them!
(If you are confused by any of my historical or constitutional references, GOOGLE it! I'm not going to do your research for you!)
