On the Second Amendment, and Gun Freaks

More gunplay in the Old Country.  The gun freaks say the problem ain’t the guns, it’s the crazies. But if the USA is a country full of crazies, why do you want to arm them, gun freaks? And why do you want to arm them with assault weapons, weapons of mass destruction?

Sigh. 

Anyway, the Second Amendment:

'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'

‘A well regulated militia,’ is how this amendment begins.  

‘A…well…regulated…militia…’

Not, ‘An unregulated bunch of gun freaks…’, but, ‘A well regulated milita…’

Reading comprehension problems.

Like a redneck with the Bible. He just don’t get it.

Sigh.

Anyway, from Wikipedia (look up 'second amendment' to check references):

'Early English settlers in America viewed the right to arms and/or the right to bear arms and/or state militias as important for one or more of these purposes (in no particular order):

    enabling the people to organize a militia system.

    participating in law enforcement;

    deterring tyrannical government;

    repelling invasion;

    suppressing insurrection, allegedly including slave revolts;

    facilitating a natural right of self-defense.'

Some 230 years later, let us examine how things have changed since the settlers lived in log cabins in the wilderness of North America.

For starters, every state now has a militia in its National Guard. And I don't want a bunch of gun freakos drilling with their assault rifles in my neighborhood. I wouldn’t feel safe. The militia formed by gun freakos would make me feel very unsafe and surely that is contrary to the purpose of the amendment.

Second, law enforcement has enough participants. I would feel even more unsafe with a bunch of gun freak vigilantes patrolling the streets. The angst-filled teenagers would surely stop breaking beer bottles and spraying graffiti but I would rather have them lurking the streets than gun freakos with guns. No. The vigilante era is done. Enough cops already.

Third, we can deter tyrannical government with elections. Even if we have to wait a little. For example, if you believe Obama is the Antichrist, or that he is Hitler, or Stalin, or all of them at once, just have a little patience and he'll go away, in the same manner that that shit-for-brains, Bush, went away. The system still works, at least in that regard.

Next, regarding the repelling of invasions… please.  The Canadians are massing troops along our northern frontier! On the southern front, the Mexicans have advanced all the way to Colorado! Ay caramba! We have a huge military to repel invasion. In fact, our military is so big we can do the invading, so that the citizenry in other countries has to bear arms.  

As for suppressing insurrection, such as slave revolts, there are no more slaves to revolt. And if there were still slaves, I would want their revolt to be successful. Also, those militias formed by gun freakos to prevent tyrannical government? Well, their armed opposition would amount to insurrection. So then we would have gun freakos mounting an armed opposition to the tyrannical president, on the one hand, and other armed gun freakos putting down the insurrection. Or maybe not, as the gun freakos seem to be united against ole Antichrist-Hitler-Stalin Obama. 

As for self defense, don’t be such a wimp. Any wuss can pack an assault weapon. Learn an effective martial art, or keep a big dog in the house.  A big dog is a much better home defense system than a gun, which can be used against you. As for learning a martial art, become the Black Belt that has the wisdom to avoid and prevent confrontation, but in a pinch, can disarm and disable whoever is stupid enough to pose a real threat, such as a gun freak in a militia. Or better yet, learn the highest wisdom of non-violent resistance. Ghandi may have been murdered by a freako with a gun, but Ghandi won that contest. Ghandi’s ideas are still around. The freako with the gun is just another freako with a gun, gone, lost in obscurity. What was his name? What was his life all about? Who gives a shit. 

In the meantime, let us pry the assault weapons from the warm, living hands of every NRA member who owns one. The very ownership of an assault weapon or a pistol-- which are guns meant to kill people-- I take personally as a threat to humanity, which I tend to identify with, so I think it's okay to disarm them. It's being a good American to disarm them. It's being a good human being to disarm a person who is carrying weapons meant to murder, even if they claim they just want to murder other murderers. Then let's melt down the assault weapons and hanguns and find something useful to do with the steel. Make art with it. Use it in the construction of schools.

Then let's help these people develop their self esteem without having to find it in a weapon of mass destruction.