The Infraggable Tony-Man vs Gun Control Laws

{Original Post Date 21 December 2012}

Okay, so I told myself that I wouldn't speak more on Public Shootings, but just like the turd in your party's punch bowl... it seems inevitable that I would have to talk about gun control laws.

Of course, the right to bear arms is one of our nations time-honored Amendments of our Constitution. Our Second Amdendment, so obviously back during the age of our fore-fathers, slightly more than 200 years ago, it was decided that all Americans had the right to have weapons. Fast foreward now only 237 years to 2013 (since it is pretty much 2013 now). Americans have more or less forgotten why the Second Amendment was put in place.

Back then we had real enemies that were contrary to our fledgling nation's interest of self-determination. We had brothers, sisters, sons, husbands, and wives that were loyal to what was perceived as an oppressive and tyrannical government, known then as Great Britain. These were people who insisted on taxation without representation. The British were taxing the colonies, yet their government would not allow us seats in their Parliament. They taxed us on firearms, they taxed us on cotton, they taxed us on every conceivable import and export that we had. It was strangling the fledgling economy of our young nation. Eventually, the separatist colonist gradually decided that enough was enough, and the only way the conflict would end was to go to war. For the first time in the Colonies' young existence. These battles would not be fought in the wilderness, but within cities. They would be fought on streets, in people's backyards. In their homes. The forefather's recognized that future wars within the nation's existence would be fought this way. Hence, with good intention, the Second Amendment allowed people to own guns, so that their enemies could not overtake the home so easily.

The Second Amendment was meant to be for the militia, and for good honest folk to defend their own homes. It was never meant for anyone to take it so far out of context that some whack-a-doo kid could shoot up a school. It was never meant for some disgruntled postman to shoot his workplace up. Or some overzealous pissant God-worshipper to shoot up a church, just because of his skewed notion of what God's will was for some guy, who would never amount to anything. The morals of the late 1700s are long gone. The notions of truth, peace, and justice deteriorated. As a nation, not only have we grown complacent in ourselves, but we're a shining example to other countries how the proud and mighty can fall so low.

I support America. There is no place I would rather be, than here, and I have been lucky enough to visit many countries, and I have been to 5 out of 7 continents, in my less than 30 years of life. I highly endorse the intentions of America. But what I don't endorse are these putrid trouserstains who want to fuck America so far up its ass, that we can't even tell what country we're living in anymore. What America needs isn't a tighter gun control law. What America needs to do, is enforce the thousands of gun control laws that it actually has. Screen people. Make them go through a psychiatric evaluation. Tell them that they can only own a gun if they've reached a certain level on an IQ test. Sit down with these people and interview them. Look for certain key buzzwords. Put these gun enthusiasts through a rigorous screening process. And also... certain weapons tend to cause more damage than others. Limit these weapons. Don't give someone an assault rifle, if it doesn't meet their needs. Don't give a guy a shotgun, if he obviously only wants it for the "impending zombie apocalypse" (We're all zombies to the American consumer cult anyway). And most of all, have common sense. Guns kill people. I fully believe that. But it's not like Guns can kill people by themselves. It requires a person competent enough to pull the trigger. It doesn't take much, a monkey can do that.

I fully believe that should guns be taken away from people, it would be a grievous infringement of our Constitutional rights. I fully believe that even if law is put into place, and is actually carried out, there will be another Columbine, or Virginia Tech, or Sandy Hook Elementary. And the saddest part will be, that it will be done by some fucktard who wants to prove a point. Tragedies are rarely executed by the law-abiding citizen. They are rarely instituted by the non-fanatical. They are rarely carried out by non-motivated people. In fact, you show me some overweight guy eating cheetos, watching game-shows and stroking his penis, and I'll show you a guy who isn't causing any fucking problems.

But until we can all aspire to be that guy, we're going to have issues in America. We're going to always make big deals over these completely avoidable issues. We're going to have military members fed up and can't handle the stress anymore, suddenly calling himself the Angel of Death, and shooting up his should-be battle buddies. We're going to have Law Enforcement, who can't handle the mean streets of whatever city or town he's in, before shooting that guy who only had two days left until retirement. We're going to always point our fingers at video games and movies, who seem to just praise violence and extol it as the greatest thing since sex. And on that subject, I don't ever recall the news ever doing a story of children and adults dying because some guy in overalls crushed their skulls in by jumping on them. Say what you want about video games and movies. Ultimately, there is a majority of humans who can distinguish what is right, and what is wrong. That's why they have ratings on movies and video games. That why they're required by law to describe the nature of the nature of WHY these movies and video games are rated the way they are. Maybe instead of blaming video games and movies, we should point fingers at horrible parents who decide to use the TV as a babysitter.

America is not the same country it was ten years ago. That America is not the same country it was back in the 90s. And that America is not the same country it was back in the 80s... and so on. In ten years, the tragedies of today will seem minor in comparison to the sadness we'll feel when the 2020s roll through. This world, and America in particular will answer for its crimes on humanity. And we will be judged sooner or later on how we treated our fellow man. In my opinion, we're all going to shit our proverbial national pants, when that day comes.