Heartless
Disease
You'd have thought
after a man walked into a movie theatre
and shot 82 people, killing 12, that we'd
have a serious discussion about gun control.
But,
no.
You'd have thought that after 20 helpless
children and six brave, underpaid
teachers were slaughtered in a
school that we'd take decisive action to
prevent
further
assaults. But No.
Now, nine very nice people people are shot
dead during a prayer meeting in a church
and the cry from the right-wing is only
"More
guns
is the
answer."
If the law required us all to wear guns
I would never set foot in a movie house
again. Three-hundred people packing heat
is not three hundred times the solution,
it's three hundreds times the problem.
The odds are above average that one of
your fellow popcorn munchers is going to
have a bad day, and guess who's going to
be in the line of fire?
Individuals intent on
killing you won't give you warning, either.
They
will shoot and kill you
before
you can draw
your weapon. And if someone is
intent on killing everyone in a theatre,
and knows
they all have
guns, they'll just use a bomb. And if
someday all film fans wear armored suits
to protect
themselves then they'll certainly be gassed
to death,
or irradiated. Or worse. (Which, presumably,
means to be shown an M. Night Shyamalan
movie.)
People who hold a machine in their hands
capable of killing people all think that
they're
potential Rambos
or
Dirty Harrys. They picture themselves
as heroes rushing in to save the day. But
there were
no heroes in Aurora, or Sandy
Hook,
or Charleston because they were
all safe in their basements cleaning their
gun with their tiny dicks, lubricated with
the saliva that dribbled out of their mouths
watching
a pirated copy of Sniper or some
other government-approved copy of
hegemonic porn.
People often ask the question "How could
the Nazis have killed so many Jews, gypsies,
and Poles?" The answer is simple: Just
put a gun in someone's hand and give them
a legal
right
to kill,
and they'll kill. We have "Stand your ground"
in America now and blacks are the new Jews.
There is, apparently, no level of atrocity
so extreme that will convince a gun-owner
that the Second Amendment needs to be reconsidered.
Even slightly. This is no longer a matter
of public policy, this
a problem
with
mental
health because anyone who thinks that arming
the populace makes us safer is, simply
put, insane.
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Hey! I've created another snarkily-epic
cartoon for
the lovely lads and lasses at friendlyatheist.com.
It's called:
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Hi, progessive sailor. How
about a bumper sticker?
=Lefty=
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