The first group of gun nuts lack the cajones to say what they really think...that the second amendment is a historical artifact no longer relevant in today's world. They choose to pussy-foot around this by constantly trying to chip away at it, neutering the protection a little at a time.
The other gun nuts prefer to live with their collective head in the sand...or tucked somewhere else.
"The NRA promotes gun safety programs" and "I need my guns to prevent government tyranny" are two statements that, while not demonstrably false, accomplish practically nothing in the real world.
We can talk all we want about band-aid solutions that sound good to the idiots who eat this kind of crap out of CNN's hands, but small laws, safety classes and acting as if we still live out on the frontier don't solve a goddamned thing. They demean both the speaker and the listener.
Both sides need to finally get honest and talk about the modern meaning of the second amendment and not hide behind things that simply act to rile people up without illuminating anything.
Or, those who like to lead the nation in talking about guns constantly, can continue to flap their gums with all their high-minded talk and act as if these things are an aberration or someone else's fault.
If you want to know my opinion, I think we'd better buckle up our government-mandated seatbelts, kids. We still have some rough road to cover before we get to the point where people want to be honest about all of this.
The other gun nuts prefer to live with their collective head in the sand...or tucked somewhere else.
"The NRA promotes gun safety programs" and "I need my guns to prevent government tyranny" are two statements that, while not demonstrably false, accomplish practically nothing in the real world.
- If you believe that more laws, holding all else constant, would have prevented this massacre, you might be a gun nut.
- If you think that a Saturday morning NRA-sponsored gun safety event would have prevented this individual from shooting his targets as intended, you might be a gun nut.
- If you think that packing a pistol is the way you're going to avoid government tyranny in the 21st century, then you really are a gun nut.
We can talk all we want about band-aid solutions that sound good to the idiots who eat this kind of crap out of CNN's hands, but small laws, safety classes and acting as if we still live out on the frontier don't solve a goddamned thing. They demean both the speaker and the listener.
Both sides need to finally get honest and talk about the modern meaning of the second amendment and not hide behind things that simply act to rile people up without illuminating anything.
Or, those who like to lead the nation in talking about guns constantly, can continue to flap their gums with all their high-minded talk and act as if these things are an aberration or someone else's fault.
If you want to know my opinion, I think we'd better buckle up our government-mandated seatbelts, kids. We still have some rough road to cover before we get to the point where people want to be honest about all of this.
