Speaking of Handguns...and the NRA
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I've changed my mind about wanting to abolish the 2nd amendment, I need to buy a gun and join the NRA.
Much in the way that Uncle Sam, the United States military, wants young men and women to join the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, or the Coast Guard, America wants you. Much in the way that the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, wants every man, woman, and child to pay taxes on every dollar of income, the IRS wants you too. Much in the way that every foreign and domestic car manufacturer wants to sell or lease you a car, car companies want you. Much in the way that every oil company wants you to buy their gas and their oil, oil companies want you. Much in the way that supermarkets want you to buy their food and restaurants want you to eat at their restaurants or bars want you to drink their booze, supermarkets, restaurants, and bars want you.
While we're listing everyone who wants you, let's not forget Amazon, EBay, online shopping services, and shop at home from your television outlets, seemingly everyone wants you. Let's not forget the telemarketers who call your house, come to your door, and/or stand in front of supermarkets with flyers and brochures in their attempts to sell you cell phones, cable TV, siding, roofing, a hot tub, or screened in porches or ask you for a donation. Only, it doesn't stop there. Oh, no. Selling you things you don't want or necessarily need, doesn't stop until you die and even then it continues with funeral directors trying to sell your survivors funerals, caskets, urns, and final burial plots.
Then, when you turn 50-years-old, the AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons, want you too. Even after you're retired, there's those celebrities trying to sell you reverse mortgages and life insurance policies. No matter how old or infirmed you are, they want your business too. Then there's the whole purpose of this review and essay, the gun manufacturers. They're hoping that you'll buy their guns from gun shops. Much in the way that the NRA, the National Rifle Association wants every man and woman to join them while shooting your guns in the air in celebration of their vast association, the NRA wants you too.
Seemingly everyone wants you and you thought that no one liked you. Ha! Seemingly everyone not only likes you but also wants you. How does it feel to be so liked and to feel so wanted? If I was being so solicited and hounded, if I was feeling so liked and wanted, after I vomited, the feeling of belonging to an association such as the NRA would make me want to pee myself.
Yet, this review and essay isn't about me. This review and essay is about you. How does it feel to be so pursued, romanced, and desired if only as a customer? Only, your lover isn't a man or a woman, it's the government of the United States of America and big business. You'd better count your fingers after you shake their hands. You'd better check to see if you're not brainwashed after going to bed with them. Best you be careful what you sign your name to and what you say because trust me, with the government and big business not allowed to read you your Miranda rights, without even being arrested, everything you say and do will definitely be used against you in a court of law.
Alas, except for the military, sadly, they all really don't want you personally. They just want your money. The world revolves around money. Money, money, money, it's all about money. Either you have money or you don't. If you have money, someone wants it. If you don't have money, no one wants you. It's all that simple.
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The NRA, the National Rifle Association also known as the NMA, the National Murder Association wants you to buy more guns. If you're not already a member, they want you to join. They want you to buy your first gun that hopefully won't be your last gun. If the NRA and gun manufacturers had their way with your money, you'd have an entire arsenal of weaponry and ammunition all over your home.
"A home was raided today by SWAT, the FBI, and ATF," reported the local news of something that's happening all across the country too often. "A cache of handguns, rifles, automatic weapons, and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were taken from a man who quietly lived in the neighborhood for forty years. No one was hurt in the raid."
The National Rifle Association want you to be a customer until you go to jail for shooting someone or someone shoots you dead. Then, they'll solicit your survivors and will scare them into joining them and buying guns too. I know this because, being that I'm not an NRA member, I get three phone calls a day, every day, from the NRA using different phone numbers to ask me to join or asking me for a donation? A donation? The only organization the NRA doesn't have more money than is Apple Computer in iPhone sales, Harvard University in endowments, and the Catholic Church in gold.
Yet, in their defense or persecution, whichever way you see it as a beloved member or hated non-member of the NRA, they're not all bad or all good for that matter. Members of the NRA make as good of an argument why you should join as the non-members of the NRA make why the 2nd Amendment should be abolished and guns should be banned. More than just a matter of opinion but a matter of life and death, not other constitutional amendment stirs up as much emotion as the 2nd amendment, not even the 1st amendment, freedom of speech.
Did you know that gun manufacturers and the NRA donate hundreds of millions of dollars to the political campaign chests of judges, mayors, governors, representatives, senators, and even the President of the United States? Influencing your decision to be with the NRA or against the NRA, if you didn't know that the NRA works to change laws and public policy by donating money to those public officials who can make a difference in a vote, you should know that. It's no secret that lobby for their cause and freely give their money to those who they want to win elections and reelections. There's no law in donating money to someone's political campaign chests and in wanting them to win their election or reelection. Yet, there's something not right when the gun manufacturers and the NRA have the ears of judges and the political influence of mayors, governors, representatives, senators, and even the president of the United States for them to push their political agendas through when we don't.
None of us have the money and the political clout to get anything done on our behalves. We're not members of that exclusive club of superrich and all powerful. We're just regular Joes and Janes. We're just the mass of worker ants. Separately, we're nothing and no one that is until we ban together.
"Together we stand and united we fall."
We're just members of what was once called the middle class but is now powerlessly referred to as the working class or lower class. Most of us don't have the money, the power, and/or the political influence to get in the game to play politics on a level playing field. We usually find out what happened to our future the next day after the dirty deals are done behind closed door sessions while we were sleeping or working.
"I'm just curious. Let's see a show of hands. How many of you have a lobbyist? That's cute yet sadly true. One man pointed to the lobby outside. No Sir. I didn't mean lobby. I meant a lobbyist. A lobbyist is someone who is hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to support that business or cause with their votes. I didn't think any of you working stiffs have a lobbyist. Well, I don't have a lobbyist either so I'm a loser too."
Let me ask you this. Did you know that gun manufacturers and the NRA spend millions of dollars each year in legal fees suing small towns and cities for passing sane regulations, safe gun ordinances, and commonsense laws against handguns? As unbelievable as that sounds, it's true. If it was up to gun manufacturers and the NRA, as it is in Texas with the new open carry law for handguns just passed, America would return to the days of the Wild West where people resolve their petty issues by having gunfights.
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"Honey? Stop! Hold your fire. Put down your gun," said John, Emily's husband. "Why are you shooting at the neighbors?"
Emily looked at her husband with insane anger while he wrestled her loaded handgun away from her clenched, shaking hand.
"Their dog has shit on my lawn for the last time," said Emily with her eyes bulging out of her blonde, pretty head while staring over at the neighbors as if she wanted to kill them and most certainly, she did want to kill them.
She stared over at the neighbors cowering in their living room who were even afraid to go outside to rescue their dog who was tied to the porch. Yet, with tonight his bowling night with his neighbor and with his neighbor driving him to work tomorrow morning in their carpool, he needed to be the one with the cool and calm head.
"Gees, Emily. What's wrong with you? Their dog shitting on our law is no reason to shoot at our neighbors," said John trying to talk reason to his wife. "Bring me my rifle, the one with the scope."
Emily fetched her husband's rifle. As if he was a Navy Seal, he turned his baseball cap backwards, assembled and loaded his Remington, modular, sniper rifle with a single bullet and with one sniper shot, he put their dog down. A beautiful, cute, little Yorkshire terrier, he blew that dog to bits.
"That will teach you to stay off my lawn," yelled his wife from her window. "Stay off my lawn!"
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Did you know that gun manufacturers donate hundreds of millions of dollars in brand new handguns, automatic weapons, shotguns, and rifles to police department across the country? After all the slogan of gun manufacturers is "To promote the right to keep and bear arms." At the expense or salvation of the rest of us, I commend gun manufacturers for donating free guns to the police. Unless you're in Podunk, Oklahoma or Battle Creek, Michigan, if you notice their holsters to see what they're packing, big city police officers always have the most up-to-date handguns that were donated by gun manufacturers, such as Glock, Smith and Wesson, and others. Yet, gun manufacturers donating guns to police departments across the country is like giving a farmer a new lock for his barn free after someone already opened his barn door to allow his horse to escape.
"Here's some free guns to shoot criminals who have stolen our guns and now illegally possess them," I fictionalize a representative from a gun manufacturer saying when presenting a cache of new guns to the local police department.
With more guns begetting even more guns, the escalation of weaponry doesn't make any sense. When criminals can illegally get their hands on any gun that those gun manufacturers make, all gun manufacturers are doing is giving the police a fair fighting chance. With gun manufacturers not accepting any responsibility beyond selling guns, gun manufacturers need to do more than give free guns to police departments to protect us from criminals who illegally possess their guns. Our "public servants (sic)" need to do more to protect us from handgun crimes and gun wielding criminals. The NRA is too busy pushing forward their own, personal agendas in selling memberships and collecting donations to care what happens to any of us.
Much like Don Vito Corleone saying to his son, Sonny, in the Godfather II movie, "It's not personal. It's business. The NRA wants us to swallow, "It's not the gun. It's the shooter," said then executive Vice-President of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre.
Whether I'm dead by a Mafia hitman or by a bullet from an unregistered handgun in the hands of an unlicensed shooter, my untimely demise is quite personal to me.
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If judges, police, and politicians weren't owned by the NRA, the National Rifle Association, and gun manufacturers, America would be a better and a safer place without the legalized proliferation of handguns and automatic weapons. Congress needs to have the backbone and the interest of the citizens who elected them as their first priority instead of their greedy self-interests as their only priority. If Congress passed the laws that we need to protect ourselves, I wonder how different things would be for the betterment of all of us who hide in our homes for fear that we'll be victims of senseless gun crime. Instead they recite their rights under the 2nd Amendment. Well, what about our rights, the rights of people who don't want to have to own a gun to feel safe?
The Hell with the 2nd Amendment. It's an outdated law now. The 2nd Amendment was adopted at a time when we needed it. We don't need it anymore. We should all sign a petition to abolish the 2nd Amendment.
Yet, knowing that will never happen, we need to force Congress to pass legislation that will protect the average, law abiding, God fearing citizen of the United States from death by guns. Otherwise, as we do now, we'll all be taking the law in our hands while hiding behind the second amendment. We'll all be joining the NRA and buying handguns. In the way the Irish had their IRA, Irish Republican Army, America will have their ARA, American Republican Army because, if we're all loyal NRA members and gun owners, we'll all be Republicans instead of Democrats.
"Get off my lawn!"
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"I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands," said Charlton Heston, the then President of the NRA, the National Rifle Association at the time.
At the time, Mr. Heston was holding a replica of a Flintlock, long rifle. Now there wouldn't be a gun control problem in this country if everyone had a replica of a Flintlock, long rifle instead of an unregistered and unlicensed handgun. The parallels that the NRA tried to draw between a Saturday night special, stolen .38 caliber handgun and a Flintlock, long rifle is just more lunacy spun to make people believe that the government is out to take their rifles. How dare they? Even in their logo, they don't show a handgun but a rifle.
The government is out to sanely control handguns by making sure that they're registered and that owners are licensed. Other than he was pressured to do so, I have no idea why President G. W. Bush didn't sign the law that made it a crime to own an automatic weapon of mass destruction, such as the AR-15, the more accurate AK-47, or the dreaded Bushmaster. Seriously, who needs a machine gun? What hunter needs a high powered, automatic weapon to kill a deer?
"Honey? I'm going hunting," said Walter to his wife June.
"Did you pack your long johns?"
"Check," said Walter.
"Your camouflage?"
"Check."
"Your hunting boots?"
"Check."
"Your lunch?"
"Check."
"And your AK-47?"
"Double check," said Walter.
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Instead of abolishing the 2nd Amendment, what if Congress passed a law that no one could own more than one gun? Think about it. Isn't one gun enough? Seriously, how many guns can you fire at the same time? You're not Sylvester Stallone in Rambo or Al Pacino in Scarface. We're just law abiding citizens protecting our families and defending ourselves in self-defense.
All of those United States, law abiding citizens who want to bear arms could still own a firearm but just one. Instead of owning an arsenal of weaponry, handguns, rifles, shotguns, and automatic weapons, they legal can only own one, just one. Wouldn't America be a safer place with hundreds of millions of guns removed from our country? Instead of having more than 300 million guns, enough for every man, woman in child in America, instead we can only legally buy 50 million guns, enough for every family. Yeah, I know. That will never work passing a law that forces Americans to forfeit some of their precious firearms for the safety of all. With everyone hiding out in the hills of Montana or restaurant booths in Waco, Texas, they'll all be of the same mindset as Charlton Heston was.
"I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands," said Charlton Heston, the then President of the NRA.
Only, now that he's dead, I wonder if they ever got his gun. What do you think? We can only imagine.
"Psst," said one orderly to another orderly in the Beverly Hills morgue.
"Do you know who that is?"
"No. Who?"
"That's Charlton Heston," said the first orderly.
"Seriously? The Greatest Show on Earth? Moses in The Ten Commandments? Ben Hur? Planet of the Apes. Genghis Khan? Wow," said the second orderly. "Only, what's he holding beneath his sheet?"
"His gun," said the first orderly before removing the sheet. "Let's see if we can pry it from his cold, dead hands. If not, we'll have to saw the gun to fit him in his coffin."
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If Congress passed a law, one that seemingly opposed the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and if the law had teeth in it that was in direct opposition to the beloved (sic) NRA and gun manufacturers, what would you do? Would you be blindly upset while not even knowing what the new law was and how the new law will affect you and the safety of your family or would you embrace the new law for the safe sanity for all?
Before we state the proposed new law, let's recap the 2nd Amendment, shall we? Now, I don't know the 2nd amendment verbatim but I think the 2nd Amendment is based and is now defined by what happens in this country every day and in every city.
"Every moronic American, whether violent or insane can bear arms, meaning they can own a firearm. Every moronic American, under the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, has the right to shoot anyone they want, any time they want, even themselves (we can only hope)."
The logic behind this, according to the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers is, "It's not the gun that's responsible for shooting anyone, it's the shooter."
What? Huh? C'mon. Seriously? Are you kidding me? Whether a gun is directly or indirectly responsible for the death of so very many Americans each year is bullshit semantics and is, according to Dr. Spock of Star Trek fame and to Dr. Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang Theory, not only irrelevant but also illogical.
According to the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, a document signed by our forefathers to protect our rights, instead of protecting us, the 2nd Amendment is not only harming us but also killing us. Under the law of the Constitution, every moronic America has the right to bear arms and to shoot anyone they want at any time, even themselves, because it's not the gun, it's the shooter. That's just lunacy. That's just stupid. That's just advertising spin that promotes people to buy even more guns. That's just inflammatory hogwash spun to emotionalize gun ownership and to sell more guns.
Have I paraphrased the 2nd Amendment correctly? Is this the premise and the staunch public position of the NRA? Or am I misinformed? After you threaten to shoot me in my sleep, enlighten me by making a comment to my story if you will. Or am I missing something, such as the real reason why the NRA and gun manufacturers want everyone to own an arsenal of weaponry?
Money and greed. It's all about money and greed, isn't it? It's our money and their greed that feeds the gun lobbyists and that waters down the gun laws. The NRA and the gun manufacturers don't care about you or about public safety. They just want your money. Money, money, money, all we have to do is to follow the money to find the truth.
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"It's not the gun, it's the shooter."
How's that for spin? Bullshit! That saying is not only insane but it's also inflammatory. Those seven words have cause tens of thousands of people to join the NRA, especially after they saw Charlton Hesson holding a rifle over his head in front of a press dinner. Those seven words are directly and indirectly responsible for the murder of thousands of people.
"I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands," said Charlton Heston, the then President of the NRA.
That one photo opportunity was responsible for selling more guns and signing new NRA members than 9/11, Columbine, Newtown, and Aurora combined. Written by a top ad agency, a Philadelphia lawyer couldn't write a better nonsensical excuse why someone as innocent as a school full of children in Newtown, Connecticut were needlessly shot to death. There's no sane reason why twelve people died in Aurora, Colorado while waiting in line to watch a movie. Yet, are their survivors supposed to find solace in the fact that it wasn't the gun that killed them all, it was the shooter.
"Is that it? Is that right? So what whether it was the gun or the shooter? What difference does it make? They're dead. They're all dead."
Those innocent children are still dead. Those wanting to see a movie are dead. Don't blame the implement of death, blame the messenger. Is that it? Yet, if guns weren't so easily accessible, no matter if it's the gun or the shooter, we wouldn't have so very many people dying by guns whether illegal or not.
"Nothing personal. It's just business," laments the Mafia when having to kill someone, a friend of the family perhaps.
"Nothing personal. It's just business, big business," says the gun manufacturers when the fat bottom line fills them with jubilation.
Selling guns and bullets is big business. If we're shot to death, it's nothing personal, it's just business. We're nothing more than collateral damage in politicians getting their campaign contributions, the gun manufacturers selling their guns, and the NRA getting more new members to donate more money.
It's not the gun that's responsible for so many deaths, it's the shooter. So, advancing that logic a step further, if our government declared war on a foreign country not for the advancement of democracy but for their oil and no one showed up to fight this greed driven war, we'd have no more wars. Because...it's not our government, it's our military. Right? Isn't that the same premise behind, it's not the gun, but the shooter? I'm starting to understand the logic behind this now.
So...lemme get this straight. Let's think of it's not the gun but the shooter ass backwards. If a man violent rapes a woman, it's not the man who committed the crime, based on our logic that opposes the NRA reasoning, it's his penis or his sex drive, or his horniness, and/or his sexual frustration, or his abusive childhood.
Thereby, extrapolating that logic, if you rob a bank, it's not your fault. It's the money. It's the fault of the money. Yeah, of course. The money tempted you to steal it. Blame the crime on the money and not the thief. Right? Let's send the money to jail and not the man who stole it. Sorry, but just as I'm not making any sense at all, so doesn't the NRA's argument make any sense either.
"How dare they?"
They must think we're all stupid and we are for buying into their lunacy and buying even more guns and even more ammunition. Yet, we are stupid. Instead of selling less guns after the Columbine, Newtown, and Aurora shootings, wanting to grandfather their guns in, people bought more guns for fear that our government would pass stiffer gun laws to deny people from owning guns. Yet, give a man a shiny, new weapon to play with and he'll make sure that the NRA stays in power and in a position of influence to rule every decision that politicians make not on your behalf but on their behalf. Give a man bullets and he'll want to shoot them.
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The outdated 2nd Amendment was adopted at a time when we had Indians, rustlers, murderers, and marauders. The 2nd Amendment was adopted at a time when we didn't have the protection of the city, state, and federal police, TSA, Homeland Security, SWAT, the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA. At a time before we had one ton bombs, jets, aircraft carriers, and a military armed to the teeth, the 2nd Amendment was added to the constitution so that citizens could take the law in their own hands. The 2nd Amendment allowed citizens to be the judge, the jury, and the executioner in their self-defense to protect themselves while out alone in the wilderness.
"Get off my lawn!"
"Get out of my house! I have a gun!"
Now with much of our wilderness turned into strip malls, Disney World, Las Vegas, and national parks, we're relatively safe without even having to fall back upon the 2nd Amendment. Unless we hide ourselves in our homes, crowded everywhere we go, we can't get away from people. There are so very many people in places, such as New York, that if you aimlessly fired a handgun, you're going to shoot someone and possibly even kill someone. Begging a tragic accident, handguns aren't designed for populous cities. Yet, an infestation, every city has nearly as many handguns as they do rats and roaches.
Before we continue, lemme ask a simple question. Why is the National Rifle Association called the NRA and not the National Handgun Association, the NHA? Begging a better and more descriptive name, why is the National Rifle Association not called the NMA, National Murder Association? Isn't that what they do? They encourage gun ownership and thereby are indirectly responsible for killing Americans.
Isn't that the sole purpose of the NRA to sell guns that kill people while they and gun manufacturers make huge piles of money? Are we supposed to believe that it's not the NRA and the gun manufacturers who kill anyone but it's the guns? Are we supposed to believe that it's not the NRA and the gun manufacturers who kill so very many people but it's the inanimate handgun? Is that the line that they've fed Americans to justify people to buy more guns and to join their sick and violent association? Again, how dare they think we're so stupid? Yet, we are that stupid to believe anything our politicians tell us. A good rule of thumb to follow, if a politician is speaking, they're lying.
Answer me this, admittedly a fruitless lawsuit that would cost more than it was worth and would go nowhere for the plaintiff, it they haven't already, why hasn't anyone sued the NRA and the gun manufactures for the untimely deaths of their loved ones? If there were no guns being made, sold at gun shops, at conventions, on the street from a car trunk, and promoted by the NRA, I wouldn't have to write this idiotic review and essay. I'd be writing something more sexually satisfying. I'd be writing erotica instead. Hey, don't blame me, the writer, blame this review and essay. I'm just minding my own business doing my job writing. It's not my fault. It's the fault of this review and essay.
Actually, I like the last name the best for the NRA, the National Rifle Association. The NRA should be more descriptively called the NMA, the National Murder Association. The National Murder Association sounds like a legalized murder for hire association, hitmen who don't have to pay their respect to a Mafia boss. The National Rifle Association, aka the National Murder Association and the extended family of gun manufacturers such as Smith and Wesson, Glock, and others, are hitmen who don't have to wear dreadful Hawaiian shirts over their fat, Italian bodies.
The NMA, Smith and Wesson, Glock, and others could have a slogan, a gun in every Americans hands so that we can kill one another at any time. Shoot first and ask questions later. As long as you say you're sorry for accidentally shooting someone to death, you're forgiven because it's not the gun, it's the shooter or is it not the shooter but the gun? I don't know now. I'm confused.
"The family that shoots together, dies together." How's that for a handgun slogan?
Seriously, I'm curious. If Congress passed a law that citizens of the United States could only own one gun, which gun would you chose to own? Being that you're the gun owners and the loyal members of the NMA, sorry, the NRA, you're the firearm experts. If anyone knows guns, you know guns the best. This is your time to shine. This is your time to educate and enlighten the rest of us by writing about your preferred and beloved guns. We the people with our heads in the clouds when our heads aren't up our asses, the minority who don't own a gun, are the peace loving pacifists who don't know anything about guns. We need you, the gun owners, to tell us why we all need to own guns and which guns to buy if such a law was passed that we all could only own just one gun.
Anyway, not to digress but if Congress passed a law that you could own only one gun, which gun would that be? If you could only legally own one gun, just one, what would that gun be? Would it be a rifle? What kind of rifle and why? Would it be a handgun? What kind of handgun and why? Would it be a shotgun? What kind of shotgun and why? Or would you go for broke, being that you could legally own only one gun, and buy that AR15 or that AK47, the most sold and deadliest automatic weapon in the world for the last several decades?
Yet, as always is the case, instead of reading and digesting this entire review and essay, there will be those gun owners and loyal NRA members who won't read past the first paragraph before writing their derogatory comment calling me un-American and threatening to shoot me. There will always be those gun owners who will take exception that I want to abolish the 2nd Amendment. They won't even read past that one line before they're busy writing their comment how I should be stripped naked by a bunch of home invaders and gangbanged with their handguns. There will be those who won't even take the time to read this review and essay, never mind understand the premise behind this review and essay. There will be those who will write their comment as to how I should die by a gun wielding home invader and pistol whipped before being shot to death.
"There, take that, Susan Jill Parker and remember, it's not the gun but the shooter."
As if it makes a difference who's responsible, if it's the gun or the shooter, when I'm dead.
"Susan should find solace in the fact that it wasn't the gun that killed her but the shooter," said the Reverend giving the funeral service after laying his Magnum .45 on the pulpit.
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So, what's the answer?
In the way that we stopped making one-thousand-dollar-bills because of drug dealers, money laundering, and money launderers, do we ban the sale of all handguns because of criminals killing innocent and not so innocent people? Why not? The United Kingdom did it. Australia did it too. Yet...if it's not the gun but the shooter, maybe instead of banning handguns, we need to ban shooters. What do you think of that nonsense?
Yet, the argument will always be, if we banned handguns, made a law that banned all handguns, then the only people with handguns would be criminals, the police, of course, our military, and you're grandmother, who'd never give up her handgun. Yet, to make sure that criminals don't abuse the law by owning illegal handguns, we could pass a law that allows the police to shoot and kill any criminal who is in possession of a handgun. What do you think of that proposed law?
"Do you have any guns on your person or in your car?"
A policeman stopped a man for running a stop sign.
"I have a gun in my glove compartment officer," said the criminal.
The officer drew his gun.
"Let me see it. Open the glove box slowly but don't make a move to touch the gun," said the officer with his gun drawn.
As soon as the criminal opened his glove compartment and withdrew his hand and as soon as the cop saw the gun, he shot the criminal dead.
"Bam!"
The officer retrieved the man's illegal firearm before holstering his gun.
"That's what you get for owning a handgun. Under the law with me your executioner, that's my brand of justice without a judge, a trial, and/or with a jury," said the cop calling for backup.
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Perhaps we can start by limiting the number of guns that anyone can buy. What do you think? Instead of just buying one gun, a person can buy more than one gun, as long as they're different in design. Any person can buy a rifle and/or a shotgun, and/or a handgun. That's it, just one of each. No one is allowed to have an arsenal of weapons. If you want to buy another gun, you must turn your old gun into the police or sell it back to the gun shop. You cannot sell your gun privately unless the buyer signs a sworn and witnessed affidavit that, even after buying this used gun, he still only owns one of each kind of gun.
"How's that? Will that law work for you? I didn't think it would. Why not?"
At least this way, it should stop the criminals from breaking in your home to steal your guns. Only and unfortunately, that law would never happen either. Actually, the real and only answer is to come down hard on these politicians who sell their votes by accepting multi-million dollar PACT money as campaign donations. Our elected officials who are supposed to represent us need to distance themselves from the NRA and from gun manufacturers. They need to do the jobs that we voted them in the House and the Senate to do and pass better gun legislation with stiffer penalties and that puts criminals in jail for the smallest gun infractions. The above is the only way we will stop people from being killed with handguns.
Only, just another pipe dream, none of that will ever happen either. If the Republicans can't even pass clean air and clean water legislation, if the Republicans don't care that oil pipelines, fracking, and offshore drilling pollutes our water, our fish, and our food, and if the Republicans refuse to do anything about climate change, we're all doomed. It's only a matter of time before the world as we know it comes to an end all because of money and greed. We may as well all buy guns and wait for people to run out of food and clean water and come to our house to steal our food and water.
"Get off my lawn!"
This is the real reason why people have guns. Gun owners are afraid for good reason. They're not as afraid of criminals as they're afraid that their own government can't protect them. Seemingly, in our self-defense, nothing has changed in America in more than four hundred years. Why should anyone trust any politician, whether Republican or Democrat, who sells their vote to the highest bidder? We can't trust our own government to do the right thing and to do right by us. We're low on that totem pole. It's up to us to protect ourselves by adhering to the 2nd amendment and bearing arms.
Most of us who live in the real America, who don't rub elbows with the superrich are excluded from witnessing their dirty deals. We're naïve to think that anyone in Washington is looking out for us. We don't have lobbyists to push our legislation, our causes, and our agendas forward. We don't dine with the President of the United States, with a Senator, a Representative, or a judge to ask him or her a favor. Sadly, all that we have to protect ourselves, our family, our property, and our rights, our freedom, and our liberty is to buy a gun.
"Get off my lawn," said Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski. "Get off my lawn!"
As the world continues to go to shit for the sake of greed and money for the top one percent, the only thing we may have left is just a little patch of lawn and a handgun to protect it.
Sadly, the more that I write and ponder this mess about the 2nd Amendment, gun control, and a country that is out of control with guns, the more that I'm apt to agree with the average gun owner. As long as they're licensed to own and to carry a firearm and the guns are registered, they're exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. Soon, we'll all have bumper stickers on our cars and trunks.
"Don't fuck with me. I believe in the 2nd Amendment. Now get off my lawn!"
The End
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I've changed my mind about wanting to abolish the 2nd amendment, I need to buy a gun and join the NRA.
Much in the way that Uncle Sam, the United States military, wants young men and women to join the Army, the Navy, the Marines, the Air Force, or the Coast Guard, America wants you. Much in the way that the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, wants every man, woman, and child to pay taxes on every dollar of income, the IRS wants you too. Much in the way that every foreign and domestic car manufacturer wants to sell or lease you a car, car companies want you. Much in the way that every oil company wants you to buy their gas and their oil, oil companies want you. Much in the way that supermarkets want you to buy their food and restaurants want you to eat at their restaurants or bars want you to drink their booze, supermarkets, restaurants, and bars want you.
While we're listing everyone who wants you, let's not forget Amazon, EBay, online shopping services, and shop at home from your television outlets, seemingly everyone wants you. Let's not forget the telemarketers who call your house, come to your door, and/or stand in front of supermarkets with flyers and brochures in their attempts to sell you cell phones, cable TV, siding, roofing, a hot tub, or screened in porches or ask you for a donation. Only, it doesn't stop there. Oh, no. Selling you things you don't want or necessarily need, doesn't stop until you die and even then it continues with funeral directors trying to sell your survivors funerals, caskets, urns, and final burial plots.
Then, when you turn 50-years-old, the AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons, want you too. Even after you're retired, there's those celebrities trying to sell you reverse mortgages and life insurance policies. No matter how old or infirmed you are, they want your business too. Then there's the whole purpose of this review and essay, the gun manufacturers. They're hoping that you'll buy their guns from gun shops. Much in the way that the NRA, the National Rifle Association wants every man and woman to join them while shooting your guns in the air in celebration of their vast association, the NRA wants you too.
Seemingly everyone wants you and you thought that no one liked you. Ha! Seemingly everyone not only likes you but also wants you. How does it feel to be so liked and to feel so wanted? If I was being so solicited and hounded, if I was feeling so liked and wanted, after I vomited, the feeling of belonging to an association such as the NRA would make me want to pee myself.
Yet, this review and essay isn't about me. This review and essay is about you. How does it feel to be so pursued, romanced, and desired if only as a customer? Only, your lover isn't a man or a woman, it's the government of the United States of America and big business. You'd better count your fingers after you shake their hands. You'd better check to see if you're not brainwashed after going to bed with them. Best you be careful what you sign your name to and what you say because trust me, with the government and big business not allowed to read you your Miranda rights, without even being arrested, everything you say and do will definitely be used against you in a court of law.
Alas, except for the military, sadly, they all really don't want you personally. They just want your money. The world revolves around money. Money, money, money, it's all about money. Either you have money or you don't. If you have money, someone wants it. If you don't have money, no one wants you. It's all that simple.
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The NRA, the National Rifle Association also known as the NMA, the National Murder Association wants you to buy more guns. If you're not already a member, they want you to join. They want you to buy your first gun that hopefully won't be your last gun. If the NRA and gun manufacturers had their way with your money, you'd have an entire arsenal of weaponry and ammunition all over your home.
"A home was raided today by SWAT, the FBI, and ATF," reported the local news of something that's happening all across the country too often. "A cache of handguns, rifles, automatic weapons, and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition were taken from a man who quietly lived in the neighborhood for forty years. No one was hurt in the raid."
The National Rifle Association want you to be a customer until you go to jail for shooting someone or someone shoots you dead. Then, they'll solicit your survivors and will scare them into joining them and buying guns too. I know this because, being that I'm not an NRA member, I get three phone calls a day, every day, from the NRA using different phone numbers to ask me to join or asking me for a donation? A donation? The only organization the NRA doesn't have more money than is Apple Computer in iPhone sales, Harvard University in endowments, and the Catholic Church in gold.
Yet, in their defense or persecution, whichever way you see it as a beloved member or hated non-member of the NRA, they're not all bad or all good for that matter. Members of the NRA make as good of an argument why you should join as the non-members of the NRA make why the 2nd Amendment should be abolished and guns should be banned. More than just a matter of opinion but a matter of life and death, not other constitutional amendment stirs up as much emotion as the 2nd amendment, not even the 1st amendment, freedom of speech.
Did you know that gun manufacturers and the NRA donate hundreds of millions of dollars to the political campaign chests of judges, mayors, governors, representatives, senators, and even the President of the United States? Influencing your decision to be with the NRA or against the NRA, if you didn't know that the NRA works to change laws and public policy by donating money to those public officials who can make a difference in a vote, you should know that. It's no secret that lobby for their cause and freely give their money to those who they want to win elections and reelections. There's no law in donating money to someone's political campaign chests and in wanting them to win their election or reelection. Yet, there's something not right when the gun manufacturers and the NRA have the ears of judges and the political influence of mayors, governors, representatives, senators, and even the president of the United States for them to push their political agendas through when we don't.
None of us have the money and the political clout to get anything done on our behalves. We're not members of that exclusive club of superrich and all powerful. We're just regular Joes and Janes. We're just the mass of worker ants. Separately, we're nothing and no one that is until we ban together.
"Together we stand and united we fall."
We're just members of what was once called the middle class but is now powerlessly referred to as the working class or lower class. Most of us don't have the money, the power, and/or the political influence to get in the game to play politics on a level playing field. We usually find out what happened to our future the next day after the dirty deals are done behind closed door sessions while we were sleeping or working.
"I'm just curious. Let's see a show of hands. How many of you have a lobbyist? That's cute yet sadly true. One man pointed to the lobby outside. No Sir. I didn't mean lobby. I meant a lobbyist. A lobbyist is someone who is hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to support that business or cause with their votes. I didn't think any of you working stiffs have a lobbyist. Well, I don't have a lobbyist either so I'm a loser too."
Let me ask you this. Did you know that gun manufacturers and the NRA spend millions of dollars each year in legal fees suing small towns and cities for passing sane regulations, safe gun ordinances, and commonsense laws against handguns? As unbelievable as that sounds, it's true. If it was up to gun manufacturers and the NRA, as it is in Texas with the new open carry law for handguns just passed, America would return to the days of the Wild West where people resolve their petty issues by having gunfights.
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"Honey? Stop! Hold your fire. Put down your gun," said John, Emily's husband. "Why are you shooting at the neighbors?"
Emily looked at her husband with insane anger while he wrestled her loaded handgun away from her clenched, shaking hand.
"Their dog has shit on my lawn for the last time," said Emily with her eyes bulging out of her blonde, pretty head while staring over at the neighbors as if she wanted to kill them and most certainly, she did want to kill them.
She stared over at the neighbors cowering in their living room who were even afraid to go outside to rescue their dog who was tied to the porch. Yet, with tonight his bowling night with his neighbor and with his neighbor driving him to work tomorrow morning in their carpool, he needed to be the one with the cool and calm head.
"Gees, Emily. What's wrong with you? Their dog shitting on our law is no reason to shoot at our neighbors," said John trying to talk reason to his wife. "Bring me my rifle, the one with the scope."
Emily fetched her husband's rifle. As if he was a Navy Seal, he turned his baseball cap backwards, assembled and loaded his Remington, modular, sniper rifle with a single bullet and with one sniper shot, he put their dog down. A beautiful, cute, little Yorkshire terrier, he blew that dog to bits.
"That will teach you to stay off my lawn," yelled his wife from her window. "Stay off my lawn!"
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Did you know that gun manufacturers donate hundreds of millions of dollars in brand new handguns, automatic weapons, shotguns, and rifles to police department across the country? After all the slogan of gun manufacturers is "To promote the right to keep and bear arms." At the expense or salvation of the rest of us, I commend gun manufacturers for donating free guns to the police. Unless you're in Podunk, Oklahoma or Battle Creek, Michigan, if you notice their holsters to see what they're packing, big city police officers always have the most up-to-date handguns that were donated by gun manufacturers, such as Glock, Smith and Wesson, and others. Yet, gun manufacturers donating guns to police departments across the country is like giving a farmer a new lock for his barn free after someone already opened his barn door to allow his horse to escape.
"Here's some free guns to shoot criminals who have stolen our guns and now illegally possess them," I fictionalize a representative from a gun manufacturer saying when presenting a cache of new guns to the local police department.
With more guns begetting even more guns, the escalation of weaponry doesn't make any sense. When criminals can illegally get their hands on any gun that those gun manufacturers make, all gun manufacturers are doing is giving the police a fair fighting chance. With gun manufacturers not accepting any responsibility beyond selling guns, gun manufacturers need to do more than give free guns to police departments to protect us from criminals who illegally possess their guns. Our "public servants (sic)" need to do more to protect us from handgun crimes and gun wielding criminals. The NRA is too busy pushing forward their own, personal agendas in selling memberships and collecting donations to care what happens to any of us.
Much like Don Vito Corleone saying to his son, Sonny, in the Godfather II movie, "It's not personal. It's business. The NRA wants us to swallow, "It's not the gun. It's the shooter," said then executive Vice-President of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre.
Whether I'm dead by a Mafia hitman or by a bullet from an unregistered handgun in the hands of an unlicensed shooter, my untimely demise is quite personal to me.
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If judges, police, and politicians weren't owned by the NRA, the National Rifle Association, and gun manufacturers, America would be a better and a safer place without the legalized proliferation of handguns and automatic weapons. Congress needs to have the backbone and the interest of the citizens who elected them as their first priority instead of their greedy self-interests as their only priority. If Congress passed the laws that we need to protect ourselves, I wonder how different things would be for the betterment of all of us who hide in our homes for fear that we'll be victims of senseless gun crime. Instead they recite their rights under the 2nd Amendment. Well, what about our rights, the rights of people who don't want to have to own a gun to feel safe?
The Hell with the 2nd Amendment. It's an outdated law now. The 2nd Amendment was adopted at a time when we needed it. We don't need it anymore. We should all sign a petition to abolish the 2nd Amendment.
Yet, knowing that will never happen, we need to force Congress to pass legislation that will protect the average, law abiding, God fearing citizen of the United States from death by guns. Otherwise, as we do now, we'll all be taking the law in our hands while hiding behind the second amendment. We'll all be joining the NRA and buying handguns. In the way the Irish had their IRA, Irish Republican Army, America will have their ARA, American Republican Army because, if we're all loyal NRA members and gun owners, we'll all be Republicans instead of Democrats.
"Get off my lawn!"
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"I'll give you my gun when you take it from my cold, dead hands," said Charlton Heston, the then President of the NRA, the National Rifle Association at the time.
At the time, Mr. Heston was holding a replica of a Flintlock, long rifle. Now there wouldn't be a gun control problem in this country if everyone had a replica of a Flintlock, long rifle instead of an unregistered and unlicensed handgun. The parallels that the NRA tried to draw between a Saturday night special, stolen .38 caliber handgun and a Flintlock, long rifle is just more lunacy spun to make people believe that the government is out to take their rifles. How dare they? Even in their logo, they don't show a handgun but a rifle.
The government is out to sanely control handguns by making sure that they're registered and that owners are licensed. Other than he was pressured to do so, I have no idea why President G. W. Bush didn't sign the law that made it a crime to own an automatic weapon of mass destruction, such as the AR-15, the more accurate AK-47, or the dreaded Bushmaster. Seriously, who needs a machine gun? What hunter needs a high powered, automatic weapon to kill a deer?
"Honey? I'm going hunting," said Walter to his wife June.
"Did you pack your long johns?"
"Check," said Walter.
"Your camouflage?"
"Check."
"Your hunting boots?"
"Check."
"Your lunch?"
"Check."
"And your AK-47?"
"Double check," said Walter.
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Instead of abolishing the 2nd Amendment, what if Congress passed a law that no one could own more than one gun? Think about it. Isn't one gun enough? Seriously, how many guns can you fire at the same time? You're not Sylvester Stallone in Rambo or Al Pacino in Scarface. We're just law abiding citizens protecting our families and defending ourselves in self-defense.
All of those United States, law abiding citizens who want to bear arms could still own a firearm but just one. Instead of owning an arsenal of weaponry, handguns, rifles, shotguns, and automatic weapons, they legal can only own one, just one. Wouldn't America be a safer place with hundreds of millions of guns removed from our country? Instead of having more than 300 million guns, enough for every man, woman in child in America, instead we can only legally buy 50 million guns, enough for every family. Yeah, I know. That will never work passing a law that forces Americans to forfeit some of their precious firearms for the safety of all. With everyone hiding out in the hills of Montana or restaurant booths in Waco, Texas, they'll all be of the same mindset as Charlton Heston was.
"I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands," said Charlton Heston, the then President of the NRA.
Only, now that he's dead, I wonder if they ever got his gun. What do you think? We can only imagine.
"Psst," said one orderly to another orderly in the Beverly Hills morgue.
"Do you know who that is?"
"No. Who?"
"That's Charlton Heston," said the first orderly.
"Seriously? The Greatest Show on Earth? Moses in The Ten Commandments? Ben Hur? Planet of the Apes. Genghis Khan? Wow," said the second orderly. "Only, what's he holding beneath his sheet?"
"His gun," said the first orderly before removing the sheet. "Let's see if we can pry it from his cold, dead hands. If not, we'll have to saw the gun to fit him in his coffin."
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If Congress passed a law, one that seemingly opposed the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States, and if the law had teeth in it that was in direct opposition to the beloved (sic) NRA and gun manufacturers, what would you do? Would you be blindly upset while not even knowing what the new law was and how the new law will affect you and the safety of your family or would you embrace the new law for the safe sanity for all?
Before we state the proposed new law, let's recap the 2nd Amendment, shall we? Now, I don't know the 2nd amendment verbatim but I think the 2nd Amendment is based and is now defined by what happens in this country every day and in every city.
"Every moronic American, whether violent or insane can bear arms, meaning they can own a firearm. Every moronic American, under the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, has the right to shoot anyone they want, any time they want, even themselves (we can only hope)."
The logic behind this, according to the National Rifle Association and the gun manufacturers is, "It's not the gun that's responsible for shooting anyone, it's the shooter."
What? Huh? C'mon. Seriously? Are you kidding me? Whether a gun is directly or indirectly responsible for the death of so very many Americans each year is bullshit semantics and is, according to Dr. Spock of Star Trek fame and to Dr. Sheldon Cooper on Big Bang Theory, not only irrelevant but also illogical.
According to the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, a document signed by our forefathers to protect our rights, instead of protecting us, the 2nd Amendment is not only harming us but also killing us. Under the law of the Constitution, every moronic America has the right to bear arms and to shoot anyone they want at any time, even themselves, because it's not the gun, it's the shooter. That's just lunacy. That's just stupid. That's just advertising spin that promotes people to buy even more guns. That's just inflammatory hogwash spun to emotionalize gun ownership and to sell more guns.
Have I paraphrased the 2nd Amendment correctly? Is this the premise and the staunch public position of the NRA? Or am I misinformed? After you threaten to shoot me in my sleep, enlighten me by making a comment to my story if you will. Or am I missing something, such as the real reason why the NRA and gun manufacturers want everyone to own an arsenal of weaponry?
Money and greed. It's all about money and greed, isn't it? It's our money and their greed that feeds the gun lobbyists and that waters down the gun laws. The NRA and the gun manufacturers don't care about you or about public safety. They just want your money. Money, money, money, all we have to do is to follow the money to find the truth.
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"It's not the gun, it's the shooter."
How's that for spin? Bullshit! That saying is not only insane but it's also inflammatory. Those seven words have cause tens of thousands of people to join the NRA, especially after they saw Charlton Hesson holding a rifle over his head in front of a press dinner. Those seven words are directly and indirectly responsible for the murder of thousands of people.
"I'll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands," said Charlton Heston, the then President of the NRA.
That one photo opportunity was responsible for selling more guns and signing new NRA members than 9/11, Columbine, Newtown, and Aurora combined. Written by a top ad agency, a Philadelphia lawyer couldn't write a better nonsensical excuse why someone as innocent as a school full of children in Newtown, Connecticut were needlessly shot to death. There's no sane reason why twelve people died in Aurora, Colorado while waiting in line to watch a movie. Yet, are their survivors supposed to find solace in the fact that it wasn't the gun that killed them all, it was the shooter.
"Is that it? Is that right? So what whether it was the gun or the shooter? What difference does it make? They're dead. They're all dead."
Those innocent children are still dead. Those wanting to see a movie are dead. Don't blame the implement of death, blame the messenger. Is that it? Yet, if guns weren't so easily accessible, no matter if it's the gun or the shooter, we wouldn't have so very many people dying by guns whether illegal or not.
"Nothing personal. It's just business," laments the Mafia when having to kill someone, a friend of the family perhaps.
"Nothing personal. It's just business, big business," says the gun manufacturers when the fat bottom line fills them with jubilation.
Selling guns and bullets is big business. If we're shot to death, it's nothing personal, it's just business. We're nothing more than collateral damage in politicians getting their campaign contributions, the gun manufacturers selling their guns, and the NRA getting more new members to donate more money.
It's not the gun that's responsible for so many deaths, it's the shooter. So, advancing that logic a step further, if our government declared war on a foreign country not for the advancement of democracy but for their oil and no one showed up to fight this greed driven war, we'd have no more wars. Because...it's not our government, it's our military. Right? Isn't that the same premise behind, it's not the gun, but the shooter? I'm starting to understand the logic behind this now.
So...lemme get this straight. Let's think of it's not the gun but the shooter ass backwards. If a man violent rapes a woman, it's not the man who committed the crime, based on our logic that opposes the NRA reasoning, it's his penis or his sex drive, or his horniness, and/or his sexual frustration, or his abusive childhood.
Thereby, extrapolating that logic, if you rob a bank, it's not your fault. It's the money. It's the fault of the money. Yeah, of course. The money tempted you to steal it. Blame the crime on the money and not the thief. Right? Let's send the money to jail and not the man who stole it. Sorry, but just as I'm not making any sense at all, so doesn't the NRA's argument make any sense either.
"How dare they?"
They must think we're all stupid and we are for buying into their lunacy and buying even more guns and even more ammunition. Yet, we are stupid. Instead of selling less guns after the Columbine, Newtown, and Aurora shootings, wanting to grandfather their guns in, people bought more guns for fear that our government would pass stiffer gun laws to deny people from owning guns. Yet, give a man a shiny, new weapon to play with and he'll make sure that the NRA stays in power and in a position of influence to rule every decision that politicians make not on your behalf but on their behalf. Give a man bullets and he'll want to shoot them.
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The outdated 2nd Amendment was adopted at a time when we had Indians, rustlers, murderers, and marauders. The 2nd Amendment was adopted at a time when we didn't have the protection of the city, state, and federal police, TSA, Homeland Security, SWAT, the FBI, the NSA, and the CIA. At a time before we had one ton bombs, jets, aircraft carriers, and a military armed to the teeth, the 2nd Amendment was added to the constitution so that citizens could take the law in their own hands. The 2nd Amendment allowed citizens to be the judge, the jury, and the executioner in their self-defense to protect themselves while out alone in the wilderness.
"Get off my lawn!"
"Get out of my house! I have a gun!"
Now with much of our wilderness turned into strip malls, Disney World, Las Vegas, and national parks, we're relatively safe without even having to fall back upon the 2nd Amendment. Unless we hide ourselves in our homes, crowded everywhere we go, we can't get away from people. There are so very many people in places, such as New York, that if you aimlessly fired a handgun, you're going to shoot someone and possibly even kill someone. Begging a tragic accident, handguns aren't designed for populous cities. Yet, an infestation, every city has nearly as many handguns as they do rats and roaches.
Before we continue, lemme ask a simple question. Why is the National Rifle Association called the NRA and not the National Handgun Association, the NHA? Begging a better and more descriptive name, why is the National Rifle Association not called the NMA, National Murder Association? Isn't that what they do? They encourage gun ownership and thereby are indirectly responsible for killing Americans.
Isn't that the sole purpose of the NRA to sell guns that kill people while they and gun manufacturers make huge piles of money? Are we supposed to believe that it's not the NRA and the gun manufacturers who kill anyone but it's the guns? Are we supposed to believe that it's not the NRA and the gun manufacturers who kill so very many people but it's the inanimate handgun? Is that the line that they've fed Americans to justify people to buy more guns and to join their sick and violent association? Again, how dare they think we're so stupid? Yet, we are that stupid to believe anything our politicians tell us. A good rule of thumb to follow, if a politician is speaking, they're lying.
Answer me this, admittedly a fruitless lawsuit that would cost more than it was worth and would go nowhere for the plaintiff, it they haven't already, why hasn't anyone sued the NRA and the gun manufactures for the untimely deaths of their loved ones? If there were no guns being made, sold at gun shops, at conventions, on the street from a car trunk, and promoted by the NRA, I wouldn't have to write this idiotic review and essay. I'd be writing something more sexually satisfying. I'd be writing erotica instead. Hey, don't blame me, the writer, blame this review and essay. I'm just minding my own business doing my job writing. It's not my fault. It's the fault of this review and essay.
Actually, I like the last name the best for the NRA, the National Rifle Association. The NRA should be more descriptively called the NMA, the National Murder Association. The National Murder Association sounds like a legalized murder for hire association, hitmen who don't have to pay their respect to a Mafia boss. The National Rifle Association, aka the National Murder Association and the extended family of gun manufacturers such as Smith and Wesson, Glock, and others, are hitmen who don't have to wear dreadful Hawaiian shirts over their fat, Italian bodies.
The NMA, Smith and Wesson, Glock, and others could have a slogan, a gun in every Americans hands so that we can kill one another at any time. Shoot first and ask questions later. As long as you say you're sorry for accidentally shooting someone to death, you're forgiven because it's not the gun, it's the shooter or is it not the shooter but the gun? I don't know now. I'm confused.
"The family that shoots together, dies together." How's that for a handgun slogan?
Seriously, I'm curious. If Congress passed a law that citizens of the United States could only own one gun, which gun would you chose to own? Being that you're the gun owners and the loyal members of the NMA, sorry, the NRA, you're the firearm experts. If anyone knows guns, you know guns the best. This is your time to shine. This is your time to educate and enlighten the rest of us by writing about your preferred and beloved guns. We the people with our heads in the clouds when our heads aren't up our asses, the minority who don't own a gun, are the peace loving pacifists who don't know anything about guns. We need you, the gun owners, to tell us why we all need to own guns and which guns to buy if such a law was passed that we all could only own just one gun.
Anyway, not to digress but if Congress passed a law that you could own only one gun, which gun would that be? If you could only legally own one gun, just one, what would that gun be? Would it be a rifle? What kind of rifle and why? Would it be a handgun? What kind of handgun and why? Would it be a shotgun? What kind of shotgun and why? Or would you go for broke, being that you could legally own only one gun, and buy that AR15 or that AK47, the most sold and deadliest automatic weapon in the world for the last several decades?
Yet, as always is the case, instead of reading and digesting this entire review and essay, there will be those gun owners and loyal NRA members who won't read past the first paragraph before writing their derogatory comment calling me un-American and threatening to shoot me. There will always be those gun owners who will take exception that I want to abolish the 2nd Amendment. They won't even read past that one line before they're busy writing their comment how I should be stripped naked by a bunch of home invaders and gangbanged with their handguns. There will be those who won't even take the time to read this review and essay, never mind understand the premise behind this review and essay. There will be those who will write their comment as to how I should die by a gun wielding home invader and pistol whipped before being shot to death.
"There, take that, Susan Jill Parker and remember, it's not the gun but the shooter."
As if it makes a difference who's responsible, if it's the gun or the shooter, when I'm dead.
"Susan should find solace in the fact that it wasn't the gun that killed her but the shooter," said the Reverend giving the funeral service after laying his Magnum .45 on the pulpit.
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So, what's the answer?
In the way that we stopped making one-thousand-dollar-bills because of drug dealers, money laundering, and money launderers, do we ban the sale of all handguns because of criminals killing innocent and not so innocent people? Why not? The United Kingdom did it. Australia did it too. Yet...if it's not the gun but the shooter, maybe instead of banning handguns, we need to ban shooters. What do you think of that nonsense?
Yet, the argument will always be, if we banned handguns, made a law that banned all handguns, then the only people with handguns would be criminals, the police, of course, our military, and you're grandmother, who'd never give up her handgun. Yet, to make sure that criminals don't abuse the law by owning illegal handguns, we could pass a law that allows the police to shoot and kill any criminal who is in possession of a handgun. What do you think of that proposed law?
"Do you have any guns on your person or in your car?"
A policeman stopped a man for running a stop sign.
"I have a gun in my glove compartment officer," said the criminal.
The officer drew his gun.
"Let me see it. Open the glove box slowly but don't make a move to touch the gun," said the officer with his gun drawn.
As soon as the criminal opened his glove compartment and withdrew his hand and as soon as the cop saw the gun, he shot the criminal dead.
"Bam!"
The officer retrieved the man's illegal firearm before holstering his gun.
"That's what you get for owning a handgun. Under the law with me your executioner, that's my brand of justice without a judge, a trial, and/or with a jury," said the cop calling for backup.
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Perhaps we can start by limiting the number of guns that anyone can buy. What do you think? Instead of just buying one gun, a person can buy more than one gun, as long as they're different in design. Any person can buy a rifle and/or a shotgun, and/or a handgun. That's it, just one of each. No one is allowed to have an arsenal of weapons. If you want to buy another gun, you must turn your old gun into the police or sell it back to the gun shop. You cannot sell your gun privately unless the buyer signs a sworn and witnessed affidavit that, even after buying this used gun, he still only owns one of each kind of gun.
"How's that? Will that law work for you? I didn't think it would. Why not?"
At least this way, it should stop the criminals from breaking in your home to steal your guns. Only and unfortunately, that law would never happen either. Actually, the real and only answer is to come down hard on these politicians who sell their votes by accepting multi-million dollar PACT money as campaign donations. Our elected officials who are supposed to represent us need to distance themselves from the NRA and from gun manufacturers. They need to do the jobs that we voted them in the House and the Senate to do and pass better gun legislation with stiffer penalties and that puts criminals in jail for the smallest gun infractions. The above is the only way we will stop people from being killed with handguns.
Only, just another pipe dream, none of that will ever happen either. If the Republicans can't even pass clean air and clean water legislation, if the Republicans don't care that oil pipelines, fracking, and offshore drilling pollutes our water, our fish, and our food, and if the Republicans refuse to do anything about climate change, we're all doomed. It's only a matter of time before the world as we know it comes to an end all because of money and greed. We may as well all buy guns and wait for people to run out of food and clean water and come to our house to steal our food and water.
"Get off my lawn!"
This is the real reason why people have guns. Gun owners are afraid for good reason. They're not as afraid of criminals as they're afraid that their own government can't protect them. Seemingly, in our self-defense, nothing has changed in America in more than four hundred years. Why should anyone trust any politician, whether Republican or Democrat, who sells their vote to the highest bidder? We can't trust our own government to do the right thing and to do right by us. We're low on that totem pole. It's up to us to protect ourselves by adhering to the 2nd amendment and bearing arms.
Most of us who live in the real America, who don't rub elbows with the superrich are excluded from witnessing their dirty deals. We're naïve to think that anyone in Washington is looking out for us. We don't have lobbyists to push our legislation, our causes, and our agendas forward. We don't dine with the President of the United States, with a Senator, a Representative, or a judge to ask him or her a favor. Sadly, all that we have to protect ourselves, our family, our property, and our rights, our freedom, and our liberty is to buy a gun.
"Get off my lawn," said Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino as Walt Kowalski. "Get off my lawn!"
As the world continues to go to shit for the sake of greed and money for the top one percent, the only thing we may have left is just a little patch of lawn and a handgun to protect it.
Sadly, the more that I write and ponder this mess about the 2nd Amendment, gun control, and a country that is out of control with guns, the more that I'm apt to agree with the average gun owner. As long as they're licensed to own and to carry a firearm and the guns are registered, they're exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. Soon, we'll all have bumper stickers on our cars and trunks.
"Don't fuck with me. I believe in the 2nd Amendment. Now get off my lawn!"
The End
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