Scribe
Scribe
2014
Split Personality
It's erroneous and misleading to disassociate guns from the cause and effect of America's violent culture, since guns are often the instrument for that violence. Yes, guns don’t get angry or carelessly discharge; we do. And that’s the problem. The oft verbalized defiance to nonproliferation of guns, “Guns don’t kill people; people do,” actually makes the point that angry, disturbed, and careless people with guns are dangerous. We are the perpetrators of our own violence upon each other, and until we control our violent propensities, we will be a nation divided against itself. One with a split personality conflictingly asking government to at once limit and not limit the flow of firearms.
We wouldn't need gun control, if we had self-control. I'm a gun owner, a CCW permittee – gun safe and all. But it's like rape … if you can't keep your pecker in your pants when "provoked" by biological programming to seek and impregnate a female of the species against her will, you need to be "rape controlled." Likewise, if you cannot keep your other "gun" in your pants, when provoked by prehistoric rage to be alpha male – armed and dangerous – you need "gun control." Don't want it, then prove you're capable of self-control. Stop your road rage, while armed. Stop your open carry in family stores, confusing your pecker size with your Glock. Stop your vigilante confrontations to exercise your manhood. Stop shooting down unarmed citizens. Stop assassinating those tasked with duties of keeping law and order.
Restraint, sensibility, composure under trying circumstances, that's your manhood litmus test. That's gun control without the need of government.
Whatever your source of “facts” regarding firearms and homicide and suicide; regarding gun availability and crime; regarding the 2nd Amendment and the threat of tyranny, the ultimate control over human stupidity, violence and self-destruction is “self-control.” If we had grown beyond our present, primitive infantility, we would have no reason to live in fear of each other. To narrow this human dilemma to pro and con on gun control is skewing the real cause and shifting responsibility onto some outside perpetrator or force.
Meanwhile, our current selfishness and bigotry regards abject poverty, generational disenfranchisement, hunger as constitutional weaknesses to be culled out of the herd of humanity by denying self-dignity though assistance. The violence of privation, sending us inside gated communities, locked doors, and ever larger firearm caches to defend ourselves from human desperation seeking fulfillment. The right to life’s basic provisions are now divided into rhetorical camps of “makers” and “takers,” into literal camps of have and have nots. It is the human constitution that the Constitution was drawn up to serve – the constitution of nature and natural law, of balance. You “one trick pony,” self-acclaimed constitutionalists don’t get it.
It’s despicable how each year, at the anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre (Dec. 29, 1890), the gun-anti-government crowd latches on to that personal piece of First American history to further their political agenda. To use the murder and genocide of Native Americans for gun toting incitement against big government is contemptible and subversive. Native people were classified as "hostiles," enemies of the "Dept. of War" (precursor of the BIA), not American citizens with any rights. They were being dragged off to internment camps (reservations), for simply being "Indian." Don't use that history to claim citizen pecker-simile oppression, because Americans can't keep it in their pants without the need of societal "castration."
Tuesday, December 30, 2014