Gun lovers of the world, unite---you have nothing to lose but your magazine clips!
I received an email from alerts.com, that great mouthpiece of the neo-cons, advising me that tomorrow is Gun Appreciation Day and I should join the celebration with Fox, Drudge and Facebook.
Ain't that special? Are they going to center the celebration in Newtown CT? You know how much they appreciate guns there right now. Of course they are excoriating "King Obama", that wicked despot taking over our lives and trying to deprive us of our right to bear arms.
The battle lines are being readied early. The N.R.A. and devotees are making it a sacred crusade to put pressure on their congressional people, and interest groups, especially the gun manufacturers, are stoking the fires of rebellion against those who violate this sacred right to bear and buy arms.
I think much of the civilized world must be reading their papers or looking online and shaking their heads at this American fixation and distortion of the right to bear arms. All they have to do is look at the numbers of dead by intent and/or suicide with guns in this country and compare it with their own country's statistics.
Why am I so naive and stupid to believe that nobody needs an assault weapon? I, in an earlier blog, suggested that if shooters want to get their jollies firing a Bushmaster or AK-47 they should do it at a gun club and shoot at targets, after which the weapons are put away under lock and key.
The militia mentality still exists or, perhaps more accurately, a vigilante mentality, where upright and forthright "patriots" feel it their duty---nay, their right---to take the law into their own hands and administer their style of justice to defend their way of life.
I also find it amazing how the Neanderthals of the Right (the Left has a few, as well) make it scripture that the Republican Party defend the right to have weapons. Their idol, Ronald Reagan, said there shoud not be gun carriers on the street; George H.W. Bush resigned years ago from the N.R.A.in protest of their stand; George W. tried to pass an assault weapons ban. I guess Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice-President and main man in the N.R.A., is their American Idol.
Hunters of the world and responsible gun owners, use your good sense and powers of persuasion to pass some rational and sensible form of gun control.
Eloquently said. This should be put in the form of a petition and circulated.
ReplyDeleteFaced with a choice between doing what is right and doing what the lobbyists want, I have no doubt which path Congress will choose.
ReplyDeleteI trust you wouldn't mind if I shared your comments with a couple of friends?
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