I don’t remember what it was that got me thinking, but at some point last night something snapped and I was pissed off! It was probably some crap-ass news report, or something I couldn’t get in a catalog because the ATF prohibits I have it, but sitting there stewing in anger, the stupidity that we all allow ourselves to be subjected to became readily apparent. This morning I come to work, log on to ar15.com, and wonderfully enough, someone had already started a thread on this crap, so here is my 2 cents:
We all remember the day the world trade centers fell. We all remember the pictures and stories of tragedy and heroism, life and death. Most of us remember where we were and who we were with. We all remember someone calling a loved one to make sure they weren’t there. And yet, I don’t seem to remember one single gun being involved in this disaster. What I do remember is a story of several Muslim men boarding a few planes with nothing more than knifes, and forcing over 2800 people (in New York alone) to a disgusting fate. They weren’t using machine guns, or the now dreaded “assault weapon”. Those dirty fucks were using box cutters; and yet the media and the anti-gun crowd seem to have skirted this all together.
In the whole year of 2000-2001, the total number of gun related deaths was something on the order of 28000. If we assume there only 30 towns in each of the 50 states, that amounts to about 0.052 deaths due to guns per day! While in two hours, in one city, in one state 2800 people died from a couple dirt-bags with knifes! And yet, in the aftermath of all this, my right to bear arms is still in question!?
I’m not advocating the relegation of any of our GUARANTEED freedoms, but it seems to me that this tragedy would have people trying to debauch our freedom of religion. There is no 2 week waiting period, or required course and permit for me to convert to Islam. Why not? Because everyone would take up arms over the US government trying to take away our freedom of speech, or religion, or anything else for that matter. So why is it that the amendment which keeps us safe from the government being able to do so is the one being slowly whittled away? How can we allow this? If I don’t like what you say, nobody will ever let me introduce a bill that does not allow you to talk about certain things. There will never be an assault-words ban. But this is exactly how the various gun control bills and acts, act. And yet, someone who doesn’t like me having a gun can take that away? How is that possible? That’s not how it works!
Our “Founding Fathers” hammered out a contract with the people, and for the people, which made provisions to guarantee our ability to sustain our safety, happiness, and general well-being. It’s called the Constitution and the Amendments. This is the doctrine which governs our government and establishes the structure and nature of our way of life. The people who wrote this document were educated, intelligent people. They had the conscience to know that if one of these rights was eliminated, they all could be.
Since everyone now knows the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” moniker now, the anti-gunners seem to have adopted a new catch phrase: “guns don’t kill people, but they certainly make it easier to do so.” That, my friends, is HORSE-SHIT! My car makes it easier to kill people then my gun does. In fact, I’d be willing to bet I could kill more