Stand
Your Playground
For the record, I do not encourage 10-year-olds to go
on violent rampages through gun stores.
But if they want to
stop into one and show the owners what cute, adorable
little kids actually look like the owners might be less
inclined to sell
guns
to
absolute morons intent on killing them.
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As frequent visitors to this site know I'm not the greatest
adherent of the Second Amendment, especially since I
learned that it's primary purpose was to assure the Southern
States that they could keep their guns for use in slave-control
in order to get them to ratify the
Constitution.
But I'm also against guns as their misuse has, in my
lifetime, touched my family...
Four times.
One
person died.
In each occasion a gun was used in the heat of passion
or, in one case, was in the hands of someone mentally
unstable.
Paranoid-schizophrenia unstable.
In all cases not one gun-related episode was in self-defense
or in defense of others. In all cases it was "This
gun will solve my current problem".
Perhaps, surprisingly, none of these events ultimately
led me to my current stance against easy access to
murder devices. I figured that out
for
myself
at a
very young age, about the same time I determined that
organized religion was a con game, that there are too
many humans
on this planet, that racism has no place in our
unique, American melting-pot, and that misapplication
of chemicals into our bodies (including government-approved
and taxable nicotine and alcohol) was a severe insult
to the gray mass in
our
skulls that, coincidentally enough, ultimately determines
who lives or dies if we happen to have a gun in our
hands.
If the Second Amendment had never been necessary to
form this imperfect Union I suspect life in this country
would be pretty much the same as it is now, minus tens
of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands wounded
and millions emotionally traumatized each year as
a result of gunfire. Plus the GOP platform might still
be about business and not about the lingering
effects of antebellum racism.
And the number of tyrants overthrown using force of
arms would still be: 0.
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Technical Note: I came up with the image for this cartoon
pretty easily. It made me laugh in my weird little
way. The text, however,went through about a zillion
revisions as there's a lot of ways to go with this
idea. But, yeah, this is the one I went with.
=Lefty=
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