How Stupid Are We?

I really didn't  get it. I mean why would you really want some monster gun to hunt a deer. It's like minting a trillion dollar coin and putting it in the US mint. Makes no sense right? Why does the NRA really care if you can tear a fifty five gallon drum in two with your Uzi. But then you start to look at at in a different way. You don't  have to go far. Just put your ear to the ground and listen to the buzz. Wayne LaPierre and the boys want these guns to fight the government. Huh. So you mean that we should let them keep these guns so when the shit goes down they will have the necessary firepower? Exactly. Duh.

So that means  he NRA is a front much like the IRA. They are a front for all these shadowy organization who want to have as much firepower as possible? Which means they are really a seditious organization hiding under the Second Amendment. How conspiratorial. How bizarre. How Jesse Ventura. And yet we are left with this odd situation of a bunch of people who really want to keep military assault weapons. Lets look at our history.

Right to bear arms. Right to revolution. But of course we don't want to plant the seeds of our destruction. We sure didn't let the Japanese or the Germans have guns. Nope. That was against the law. But these "Patriots" are just fine. Sure. Give them as much ammo and guns as they need to you know fight the United States. Land of the free. Land of the extremists. Just watch a couple YouTube videos and you will see what is really going on.

So we are back to where we started. If the stated reason people want to have these assault weapons is to fight the government  then you cant blame the government for being a little nervous about giving them the weapons. I mean how stupid do some people think we are? Looking across the current landscape of three hundred million guns....

Pretty stupid.

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Why Americans Love Downton Abbey

The Masterpiece theatre series Downton Abbey is very popular. It is a show  about a landed family in England at the turn of the century. It is very well done and the plot lines are very intriguing. Still it is not that different from other dramas Masterpiece theatre has aired, but this one seems to have caught on like wildfire. Now why is that? Why do we care about an aristocratic family and their Irish servants? Could it be that we crave something about that old world so lacking from our own now?

Lets face it. American society is pretty crappy about now. We have these horrible shootings that are so heinous we cant even talk about it and yet, yet, we cant do anything about it. We have a government that is split down the middle with calls for revolution, secession, impeachment. Our television and movies export so much violence we suffer PTSD after we walk out of movie theatres. We now have armed guards at our schools and theatres. We have been in a five year recession. We yearn for a simpler world. Not only that, but a world where all is in order.

And Downton Abbey even with it's drama is all about order. The aristocracy is on top and the servants are on the bottom and every one is ok with that. For all our freedoms and our assault on classicism of any type, we have lost something in the process. We have lost any certainty our society can handle its own problems. We have lost the fait that we can provide a decent world for our kids. We are out of control and we know it now. Twenty dead children say it is so.

And so we tune into this bygone world of Lords and Ladies. Of footmen, butlers, and valets. We even envy the Irish servents who know their  place, where they will live, and where they will die. We know nothing of our future or our place in the world anymore. Is it any wonder that a world where honor and tradition are pre-emiment would appeal to us now. If only we could go back in time.

And stay there.

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Our Blood Soaked Movies are killing us

Went to see Drango, Tarrentinos new film. Before the film I was shot a thousand times. I was blown up. I was thrown out of windows, run over by cars, sprayed with automatic weapon fire by Schwarzenegger, Penn, and Willis. The mayhem continued for thirty minutes before the film. Then Drango began and I was immersed in blood for two and half hours. I was shot countless times again and hung and burned and branded and blown up and burned and chained, dragged, imprisoned, and raped and then shot all over again. At the end of my movie experience I had been exposed to over a hundred acts of violence with ninety percent of them using guns. Is it any wonder we are awash in blood in our society?


And you can say art and blah blah blah. But to quote Fitzgerald. "All cheap entertainment is immoral, it is heroin of the soul." Our heroin has destroyed the fabric of our society. We are the product of years and years and years of violence piped into our homes and theatres. We come out of theatres soaked in blood. The cop in the lobby of the theatre with the nine millimeter on her hip is the full circle of that violence. And clearly Tarentinos joke is on us. Or is he part of the problem. By pointing the camera at our violent society is he not part of it? Is there any difference from the Bruce Willis character and John Holmes? One just happened to come off the screen.

And it will happen again. We have used our freedoms like a junkie and we buy all the cheap smack we can get out hands on and now we are dying because of it. Every day. By characters with guns who are killing us one by one. They have finally morphed into our reality and humans simply ape what they see. It is the basis of advertising. And what we see is the horror every single day and it is not on the screen. It is the horror we export.

Coming for us.

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Make Assault Weapons part of a Terrorist Act

Look we all know an assault weapons ban is DOA. Congress will not let it pass. Make that the NRA wont let it pass and we all know they represent the will of the people. So instead of going through that tired exercise that will result in a watered down  bill that will mean nothing, lets cut to the chase and get assault weapons classified as a weapon of terrorism. We already interpret threats and bombs and plans to kill people  as acts of terrorism. Is this really such a leap?

First of all assault weapons are a terrorist dream. They kill in large numbers. Look at Sandy Hook. If killing children is not an act of terrorism then I don't know what is. Of course it is. It goes to who we are. Terrorists know this. And so we had a brutal act of terrorism committed with a brutal weapon of terrorism. An automatic weapon designed to fire so fast that people are not hit with just a few bullets but upwards of ten or eleven. It is a killing machine.

And if terror is our criteria then go back and look at Aurora movie theatre shooting. Listen to the testimony of the officers on the scenes. The one cop driving with blood sloshing around in the back of his car. The first responders to Sandy Hook who will never ever be the same. They have been terrorized as much as anyone who was at Ground Zero. Killing in large numbers is an act of terrorism. It has always been an act of terrorism. So logically you have to make it illegal to own the tools of the trade.

Again. The exercise in congress is futile. We know this. The NRA will block anything. We are not the NRA. The American people deserve to be protected from assault weapons. They deserve to be protected from Terrorists. Ergo. Make the owning and the use of  assault weapons an act of terrorism.

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What is a gun?

A gun is an instrument of death. That is all a gun is. It was produced to kill humans. Maybe animals too. Death. Human. Animal. Death. A gun is anti human. Humans are humane. Guns are death. Guns have always been death. We are about life. All the time. We fight to stay alive. Guns kill people all the time. They never stop and give life. A gun is a death machine. There is no other way to see it. People do not kill people. Guns kill people. People were not designed to kill people. Guns are. Always have been.

Why is it so hard to stop a gun? A gun shoots a bullet. It does not protect us. A gun kills us. A gun will always kill us. A gun does not equal freedom. It never has. A gun is a freedom killer. It destroys your freedom because it takes your life. A gun always takes freedom. A gun takes liberty. A gun has nothing to do with liberty except to destroy it. What more could you do to someones liberty than kill them?

A gun takes away our rights. It takes away our Second Amendment. A gun kills our right to bear arms. A dead man bears nothing. A dead man is just dead. A gun was manufactured to kill us. A gun is always manufactured to kill us. A gun has no other purpose. Guns have always killed people. We have no rights against a gun. Nada. Nothing. The gun takes away all rights. Dead men have no rights. Dead men have nothing.

A gun doesn't care about the NRA. A gun doesn't care about watering the tree of liberty. Guns don't think about anything. The gun is only here to kill. There is nothing more true than this. It does not matter what type of gun it is . A gun is designed to kill you, your children, your husband, your wife, your mother, your father. That is what guns do. Just ask anyone who has been shot. Ask anyone who has lost a loved one to a gun. They know what a gun is. If you say a gun is anything more than a death machine you are a liar. A gun is death. Period.

So why would you ever want a gun?

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When the Revolution Begins...

A doctor I know said he is going to buy the Bushmaster faux AR15. He said that he is buying it for when the revolution begins. When I pressed him for further details he said that the revolution could begin anytime. I asked who would be behind the revolution. He didn't answer and didn't say anything more, but I have heard this many times. We are stockpiling for when the revolution begins. We are getting ready for the revolution. The three hundred increase in firearm purchases since Obama became President is surely in preparation for when the revolution begins.

And there is nothing more you can say. The revolution. This is a word batted around in the hinterlands of America to describe the takeover of the US by Obamian forces composted of blacks, gays, Muslims, urbanites, liberals, the UN, Obamacare enthusiasts, atheists, just about anyone who is not white and probably rural. The when the revolution begins folks are arming for a vague Armageddon where blood will flow in he streets and the screaming forty seven percent will come for their due.

And what else was Romneys famous forty seven percent speech but a clarion call against the revolutionaries who are sucking away the lifeblood of  America. His singling out of half the population and  clearly drawing a line in the sand against the menacing hoards who can not be reformed into the American mainstream. Only the real Americans deserve to be represented and the rest need be to watched...preferably with a Bushmaster.

And this is the great paranoia behind the gun debate. The people who see their guns as being ready for the Obamian rabble who will come and take all they have worked for. Or even a military uprising where gun toting Americans will have to defend home and hearth against an evil Socializing Big Brother government. And so the good doctor will get his gun. He can certainly afford the twenty five hundred dollars. And he will be ready.

When the revolution begins....

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Include Assault Weapons Under the Terrorist Act

There was a strategy in WWII called island hopping. Basically the Japanese occupied many islands across the Pacific and the United States saw it would take months to take every island on their way to Japan so they decided to just go around the islands. To leave the Japanese in place and go after the main target which was Japan. That is what we have to do now. We have to go around the islands and forget about negotiating with the blood soaked stooges of the NRA and pass an  executive order. That order would include assault weapons under the Terrorist Act.

Assault Weapons are weapons of terror. That is what they were designed for. Killing on the scale these weapons perform on is terrorism. Killing multiple adults is terrorism. Killing children is an  act of terrorism. Killing people in movies theatres is an act of terrorism. Killing people at political events is an act of terrorism. Automatic weapons are the tools of terrorists. They are designed to murder humans as fast as possible. They are the modern terrorists weapons of choice. No different than a bomb or a man with a box cutter.

For what is more of an act of terrorism than killing our children. There can be nothing more that strikes fear and terror into the hearts of Americans. We have outlawed carrying weapons on planes because they are interpreted as possible tools of terrorists. Certainly the only difference for assault weapons is they are not on a plane but are in our schools and theatres our churches our political venues.

So lets side step the islands of the NRA. Four million members don't compare to the three hundred and fifty million other people. We are being governed by a minority that is making  the gun industry rich. The President should declare all assault weapons as tools of terrorism. And we can then go after the real target of getting rid of guns.

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The Stars are Not Wanted Now

The children are dead and so are we. Stop the clocks and put out the sun for they are not wanted anymore. We have failed in our basic charge and twenty souls tell us so. I can not listen anymore. I can not hear the inanities uttered by failed journalists. I can not listen to the politicians who say nothing. The fear pundits. The distanced victims glancing off their lips. For these were children and not victims. They were not the fallen and they were not armed. They knew nothing of rights or freedoms. They only knew the innocence of those who have not lived.

So I cannot join in. I cannot bring out about healing. There is none now. We have lost too much and for nothing. I cannot listen to the lies anymore. There is no joy . There is only rain and sorrow. We will go on but they will not and that is our charge. We have simply failed them.

So lets pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.  The stars are not wanted now: put out every one. Stop all the clocks, cut off the phone. Silence the pianos and  the muffled drum. Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.

For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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Guns Don't Kill People...

The NRA really needs to get on the stick here. This is the second mass shooting where the shooter is foiled by his own weaponry. Don't you think the NRA would address this issue? Obviously gun laws are hampering manufacturers from producing  military spec weapons that would continue to function even after the first sixty rounds as was the case in the Portland Oregon shooting. Or in the theatre when that hundred round clip jammed. What is a deranged killer to do when even his equipment won't cooperate?

And we hear the same thing over and over. He was a nice normal guy. He wouldn't  hurt anybody. He was just a calm person who always was very helpful. Right up until he went and shot down the people in the mall or the theatre. These are very strange markers but they fit the profile of the lone nut who gives no warning signals at all but then shows up in camouflage with an automatic weapon and  cuts loose. And then they check out with a shot to the head. Nice.

And not a peep. Not a peep. Guns don't kill people people kill people. Right. Just ask Bob Kostas. Whatever happened to him? He sinned and he will pay a price. You know. Commonsense kind of thing, but here in Illinois we are headed the other way. We just struck down a law saying it was illegal to have a concealed weapon. Now you won't know who is packing.

But back to our shooter. They say right before the shooting he went stone cold. He got kind of weird in the eyes. Like something overtook him. And you almost would think he was taken over by an alien. Or is that just the human animal malfunctioning horribly? Lets face it we have a lot of humans on the planet now and some will just break down and start shooting people. So remember, guns don't kill people...people kill people.

With a gun.

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Three in the Grave-The Right To Bear Arms

The Second Amendment. The right to bear arms. Ok. I get it. The British, roving bears, dinner, your neighbor who lost his mind from the mind numbing isolation of seventeenth century America. The Indians. Cant' forget them. Anybody who even thinks of coming on our farm, our land, in our door. DO NOT TREAD ON ME OR I WILL BLOW YOU AWAY. Ain't no sheriff. Ain't no police. Just us in this vast Louisiana Purchase and I think I will go further west to where the Pacific rims the shore and you better believe I need guns and lots of them. The Spanish. Texans. Mexicans. You name it they were there and nobody was very friendly. Then a funny thing happened, in the year of our Lord 1900, they declared the frontier closed.

We had just about exterminated the Indians. Shot most of the bears. Banished the Mexicans, the British, the Spaniards. We gave Texas to the Texacans. Now there are cops. Sheriffs. GMEN. Towns and roads and rules and regulations and highways and planes and trucks and automobiles. Not only is the frontier closed but it is jammed with people now. Three hundred and fifty million by the last count. America has filled up.

Year of our Lord 2009. We consistently mow each other down. We do it with assault weapons, handguns, machine guns, pistols, Winchesters, glocks, AK47s and an occasional grenade launcher. I've shot just about every weapon under the son. Magnums really kick but you can't hit anything. The Colt 45 is a really cool pistol but again it is very hard to hit the target. The Winchester, very cool rifle. Accurate and short and very Wild West. AK47 is amazing the way it can puncture a 55 gallon drum. Shotguns are a blast to knock the limbs of trees off. Thirty eights and twenty twos. So to all of you NRA devotees I am not someone who doesn't know his way around guns. I go shooting with retired Chicago cops in the Boundary Waters and these guys are not just playing around. I use guns that have three in the grave, four in the grave, five in the grave. For all you Rambo wantabes that is real people gunned down by cops in Chicago. They killed lots of bad guys with these weapons. And they always say with some reverence, "be careful, I got three in the grave with that one"

But here's the thing. They need their guns. Again, I get it. They are cops. But as far as I know after that, we are out of enemies--except for each other. The Founding Fathers passed the second amendment because WE NEEDED IT. We did not want the British to come back and try and colonize us again. And it worked! But here's the deal, those days are OVER. Oh I need my gun to protect me against the government. Please. Your gun will do nothing if it comes to that. They will simply zap you with a drone in your fortified suburban home. You will never know what vaporized you as you sit clutching your assault weapon.

The fact is it's over. We live in the twenty first century and the only thing the second amendment is doing is allowing every psycho and his mother to mow down the last guy who cut him off in the parking lot. Or the guys who have watched way too much American television and figure it is better to go out in a hail of bodies then the ignominious death of obscurity. That's it. Hey, to you ranchers out in the hinterlands, I understand. But that is what...one percent of the population. It is no longer about gun control, it is about doing what is good for the majority. You really don't want your neighbor who's not a cop, saying, " hey Bill, be careful with that one, I got three in the grave."

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