06.18.2016
Guns
and Selfish Stupidity
People want the things that they want, and there is no
changing that.
How is that for a statement of extreme ambiguity?
The culture of America is rotten, we are a society of
spoilt rotten children, full of people who cannot bear the thought of being
told no…
No you cannot have sex with me…
No you cannot have that assault rifle…
No Christianity is not the state religion…
No you cannot legislate morality…
Not all of us are this way behave this way, and not
everyone who has these tendencies behave this way in all circumstances. However,
the latest generations of American’s to come of age have come of age in a
culture, that promises them everything, and prepares them for nothing.
We have a culture that rewards the losing team, and
gives trophies to children just for participating, because it is worried about
hurting a child’s feelings, or because we cannot suffer to see them cry.
We have a society that tells children they are winners,
no matter how poorly they perform; without the patience to teach them how to
loose with dignity, how to discover their own path, how to find the things they
excel at, how to practice and develop their skills.
Let me be clear about this…this has become they
culture of America, a culture of selfish stupidity, but the permissiveness of
this culture does not extend to all people, it is largely restricted to the
white-upper-middle-class, and to boys and men over their feminine counterparts.
The permissiveness is restricted to those groups, but
not the expectation, and so what a slap in the face it is to the poor and the
marginalized; to the brown skinned people, to the immigrants and to our
sisters
when they are confronted with the cold reality that they are not members of the
in-club.
We now have a legal defense called affluenza, that
allows white boys to walk free after pleading guilty to homicide, or being
convicted of rape.
Police shoot and kill brown skinned people with
impunity, with their only defense being; that they were scared.
The single largest religious group in America; Christians,
pretend that they are being persecuted because they cannot name the bible as
the official state book, or display the ten commandments in a courthouse, or
when people frown on them for saying Merry Christmas.
They cannot have it their way…they get angry, they
throw tantrums, they try to pass laws restricting the rights of everybody who
is different from them. They want to interfere with a woman’s private
consultations with her doctor. They want to tell American citizens who they can
and cannot marry; nevermind what the Constitution says and what the Supreme
Court has held about the right to privacy, equal protection, the separation of
church and state, or the common contract clause.
They want to teach creationism in schools, re-write American
History, and deny the best science on climatology.
They are spoilt rotten children.
The second amendment says this:
A
well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the
right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Based on this, they wish to assert their absolute
right own and carry whatever weapons they can afford to purchase; without
regulation of any kind: no licensing, no insurance, no registration, no
waiting, no limits whatsoever.
They want what they want and they will not be told no.
They will justify their right to these things to the
point of absurdity, they will end their argument with the claim that they need
these weapons to defend themselves from the government, making any effort by
the government to regulate these weapons proof of their claim.
They are more than spoiled rotten children, they are
deranged, and that philosophical derangement perpetuates a system wherein the
truly sociopathic, the psychotic, and those who are otherwise insane can acquire
these things with ease; both legally, because of the lack of proper oversight;
and illegally because of the sheer abundance of these weapons available
(numbering in the millions) in every community across the country.
This is stupid (I do not like to use that kind of
language), it is so stupid.
The only person who cannot understand the logic behind
the notion that we need to limit the kinds of weapons available to the public;
the kinds of ammunition, the and other accessories, that we need to begin this
right now: is either A. mentally incompetent, or B. they just want to have
their way and cannot admit that they are wrong.
If we begin today to restrict these weapons, to regulate
them (as we should with a well-regulated militia), to register them, to license
the owners, to require insurance, to conduct back-ground checks, to institute waiting
periods, we would begin saving lives today.
We cannot succumb to the notion that criminals will
get them anyway, therefore we cannot restrict the law abiding.
Criminals are not born criminals; they start out as
law abiding citizens, and then engage in criminal behavior because they lose
their minds, or they become desperate, and all too often because they feel
entitled; because they have a grievance, and they fell entitled to exact
justice on their wife or girlfriend, on black or brown people, on gay people,
or on the whole country.
The weapons they use for those purposes need to be
regulated. Regulating them will save lives.
It may take generations to clean up all of the illegal
guns that are on the street, to reduce that available supply to the criminals
who go to the underground market to acquire them, just because it is a big job
does not mean we should not start now to do it. Reducing that supply begins
with regulation.
There is no time like the present.
Veteran, USN
