Gee, I wonder if the horribly common incidence of massacres has anything to do with the fact that our country has somehow convinced itself that there is a sane reason for a civilian to amass a stockpile of military-grade firearms. Last I checked, the countries that ban such things have not yet turned into totalitarian dystopias. Is it possible that perhaps Americans have fundamentally misinterpreted personal freedom and political self-governance to mean the right to possess the capability to destroy other human beings in large numbers?
Yeah.
I'm never going to run for office, so I'll say it: fuck you, NRA. Fuck you for jacking off all over the second amendment and then acting like anyone who wants to regulate any weapon smaller than a nuclear warhead is some jack-booted would-be dictator. Fuck you for encouraging the paranoid fantasies of disaffected, delusional people who believe that the U.S. government is simply waiting until we're all unarmed to conquer us. And fuck you twice for fomenting a lack of regulation such that anybody can acquire enough firepower to do such harm to others. We are not being harmed by not owning military assault weapons designed to blow away a bunker full of heavily armed, armored enemies. We are being harmed by assholes, crazies, and inhuman monsters who own military assault weapons using them to blow away a crowd of unarmed, unarmored, innocent people. And you are helping them to harm us.
My beloved grandfather was a lifelong member of the NRA. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II; he knew a thing or two about what totalitarianism actually looks like. And if he were alive today, I would tell him all of this to his face. But no one – including me, I suppose – has the guts to have a serious conversation about this in the national political sphere. So after you NRA fucks stroke your bones again about not letting any government take away the weapons to which you never, ever should have had unfettered access in the first place, we will try to put all this out of our minds and move on...until the same shit happens all over again.
Fuck the NRA and every person who parrots their insane talking points for endangering our lives.
Sigh.
Yeah.
I'm never going to run for office, so I'll say it: fuck you, NRA. Fuck you for jacking off all over the second amendment and then acting like anyone who wants to regulate any weapon smaller than a nuclear warhead is some jack-booted would-be dictator. Fuck you for encouraging the paranoid fantasies of disaffected, delusional people who believe that the U.S. government is simply waiting until we're all unarmed to conquer us. And fuck you twice for fomenting a lack of regulation such that anybody can acquire enough firepower to do such harm to others. We are not being harmed by not owning military assault weapons designed to blow away a bunker full of heavily armed, armored enemies. We are being harmed by assholes, crazies, and inhuman monsters who own military assault weapons using them to blow away a crowd of unarmed, unarmored, innocent people. And you are helping them to harm us.
My beloved grandfather was a lifelong member of the NRA. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II; he knew a thing or two about what totalitarianism actually looks like. And if he were alive today, I would tell him all of this to his face. But no one – including me, I suppose – has the guts to have a serious conversation about this in the national political sphere. So after you NRA fucks stroke your bones again about not letting any government take away the weapons to which you never, ever should have had unfettered access in the first place, we will try to put all this out of our minds and move on...until the same shit happens all over again.
Fuck the NRA and every person who parrots their insane talking points for endangering our lives.
Sigh.
Rock on.
ReplyDeleteAlso, the next asshole on facebook who says "I wish I had been there with my handgun so I could have taken that creep out and saved lives!", I'm gonna go over there and beat the shit out of him with a pub glass, you know, like the civilized hooligans do --- none of this squeeze off 90 rounds a second bullshit.
Do those idiots really think that fighting happens like on the movies? With no random bystanders getting shot or friendly fire when someone "defends the neighborhood" like some modern Clint Eastwood or Schwartzenegger?