Americans love their guns, and don't care what it costs to keep them. It's a stew of religious ideological sexual fantasies. Well to some "Fantasies", but to them real as the ground they stand on. They'll latch onto any ludicrous excuses to justify the warm happy feeling they get knowing they can if seriously provoked,...kill people.
I saw on a YouTube video man draw on gun on a black person standing behind him in a store to buy something. He turned pulling his gun frisked him then left. He was clearly terrified that the person being black was of course a criminal. It's only by chance he didn't shoot the innocent customer.
This is what guns do this is what social fear does.
No it's not going to stop. There could be an incident where 1000 people are shot...why not we're now up to 500 at a time now. That could, and will happen and still nothing will change. Americans love, and want their guns, and will keep them no matter what. 500 1000 2000 dead.
They don't care.
There could be a compromise. Make all types of firearms just $20. each. However make each round $3,000. each. $25,000. for automatic weapons rounds. This should satisfy the sexual religious racial ideological urge to have a gun. It would also make each shot more than count.
Maybe not.
A whole school full of little children was slaughtered, and they still would not hear of any controls over who can have automatic weapons. They'll make their fear rage driven excuses, and keep their guns. From the point of view of American culture, and history this is a race problem. Like inner city gang warfare is a "race" issue. White men are surrounded by those they profoundly hurt. They know this, and in some unspoken way know there's a payment due.
Their guns they think will protect them from history.
It will not. It will no more protect them from that than it has protected them from their jobs going to the Pacific rim. They went there btw because they keep voting for the people that enabled their former employers to send them there.
So it goes.
3 comments:
"They think their guns will protect them from history."
Exactly what do you think this man in Los Vegas was trying to accomplish? We can not put him to question. That is clear enough. I am willing to take people at face value. If some one murders a vast number of people, and ends his day by turning the gun on himself, I am willing to grant that is exactly what he wished to accomplish. If a suicide can be motivated by disdain for self, could that disdain not be more wide ranging? Does it matter that this act was not in anyway that I can understand motivated by racism?
This is a complicated question. Two aspects are the technology of firearms and the significance of crimes within the overall view of violence and death within the United States as a whole. There is the added and quite crucial question of the legalities of firearms and the meaning of the second amendment as it was written, and as it has been understood by the courts.
Guns of all sorts make mass murder easier. The response of Australia to an act of mass murder was to to institute a sweeping ban on semi-automatic rifles, and shotguns. This has been widely reported on, though I am not aware of the status of handguns under Australian Law. It is worth noting that the vast majority of crimes committed with guns are done with handguns, and that modern handguns do allow for frightful acts of violence. It is also the case that automobiles allow for frightful acts of violence. There is a point in saying so. The existence of motor-vehicles and of commonly accessible chemicals (with which you can make explosives) means that we will never be safe from terroristic assault. The motivations may differ but we will always have killers amongst us.
New Jersey's legislature is about to vote on so-called bump-stocks which are a part which can be added to semiautomatic-rifles to turn them into highly inaccurate half ass automatic rifles with a rate of fire similar to a BAR which was the Armies squad level support weapon prior to the introduction of the Vietnam War era m-60 crew served machine gun. Incredibly enough the ATF and the law of the land allows for the sale of these things. The Los Vegas shooter used these devices.
The last time an "Assault Gun Ban" was put in place it was largely a matter of irrelevant cosmetic features. The limitations on magazine size could be argued for on a rational basis, though how much better off are you when faced with a man with five 10 round magazines versus two 25 round magazines?
Would you have been fighting for an assault gun ban the day after defending the family business during the blackout?
That is not a rhetorical question. I want to know. I do care what you think about all this.
By the way the AK-47s and the German Sturmgewehr Rifles that vets brought home from the wars were automatic rifles, as opposed to the semi-auto weapons that are allowable under US law, though AK rifles can be easily modified to make them compliant with the law. The reverse is deterred by harsh laws.
Somebody in Counterpunch - I'm afraid I forget who - wrote that if the NRA had its way, that shithead could have legally possessed silencers that would have enabled him to kill hundreds of people before the cops located and nailed him, instead of scores.
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