One of the soul sicknesses afflicting the US is this notion that guns and the possession of guns is of somehow holy importance.
There is a weird culture in this country that has combined guns, patriotism and religion into some incredibly perverse ethos.
proponents of the obsession with guns tell us that the obvious solution to gun violence is more guns, with bigger magazines... That rationale is almost cartoon-like in its absurdity.
The gun subculture has raised the Second Amendment to our Constitution to the level of holy scripture. The amendment was written to guarantee the right to bear arms when "arms" were muskets and swords, before there was an organized system of law enforcement and before telephones... The danger being addressed was a fear gripping the infant nation that the British would sail across the Atlantic and pour onto the continent with their sabers and try to retake their very lucrative colonial assets... Needless to say, those among us that are rational are confident that this danger has passed....
America should take a look at another former British colony in our graduating class.. Canada...low crime, universal health care, excellent infrastructure and society... And, really, the only wars Canada ever gets involved in are the American wars that they get sucked into.
Nobody but a soldier or a cop needs an assault rifle. Almost no one needs a pistol. And, if we must pretend that killing animals for entertainment is a "sport", that nonsense should be made prohibitively expensive and restricted.
Gun weirdos have distorted the notion of patriotism and have co-opted the American flag as a logo of their diseased mentality.
Despite that our nation is in a state of virtually perpetual warfare, far...far more Americans are shot dead at home by other Americans than are killed by enemy combatants in our many eccentric little wars abroad.
www.personaldefenseworld.com
that's deaths up to 2015......keep laughing your a$$ off.
