Before you say anything, I get it.
Every little anti-gun bleeding vagina I know is rejoicing in the street. Another horrendous mass shooting is being used as a pedestal to spew the same old song and dance we all know.
How could you say that I'm rejoicing? That's not right. The school shooting that just happened in Florida is a travesty. I watched the whole thing on Twitter while that kid inside the school tweeted everyone the rundown. It touched my heart. I would never exploit that harrowing tale. In fact, 10% of all sales of my hand-knitted cat hair sweaters on Etsy will go to a fund for families of the victims. Just use the code 'ITOLDYOUGUNSWEREBADMMMMKAY'.
You say you aren't rejoicing but it sounds like Halle-fucking-lujah to me.
And don't you pro-gun advocates give me an "amen brother" yet. You aren't off the hook either.
In fact, you may irk me even more, because you drone on with your same old broken responses and do the same exact thing.
Guns don't kill people.
Firstly, bravo mother fucker. Thank you so much for that original and non-regurgitated opinion. I have never heard that before, EVER. I am standing and clapping so loud you can probably hear me from your cloud of judgment. That is if you could just shut the fuck up for two minutes.
Tell you what, since guns don't kill people, put your money where your mouth is, quite literally.
Put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger.
According to the state of Indiana's statistics, people who attempted to commit suicide with a gun are 96.5% successful. That's pretty efficient when you consider that people who tried poison were only 7.4% successful. Yes, you heard me correctly, people who drink fucking poison to kill themselves are successful only 7.4% of the time, and cutters only had 5.1% success.
Guns seem to kill people pretty fucking well. That's the issue.
SEEEEEEE. GUNZ R BAD. AND ESPECIALLY THE AR-15, EVEN THOUGH I HAVE NEVER USED ONE OR SEEN ONE IN MY LIFE.
Riddle me this Batman: What makes an assault rifle more deadly?
You could say, it's the laser light or ACOG or other fancy gadgetry that the Call of Duty enthusiast loaded his AR-15 up with to compensate for his small penis and poor aim.
Nah, it's not that.
You could argue it was because an AR-15 was designed to with a specific intention to kill.
You're getting warmer but...
News Flash: This breaking story just came in. All guns are designed to kill.
Sure, AR-15s are very efficient, but pistols kill more people every year.
The problem isn't that we have easy access to assault rifles. It's that we have so many guns in America per capita.
There are countries with much higher rates of violent crime than the United States, but we seem to take the blue ribbon for mass shootings.
Could we be a statistical outlier? The short answer is, I doubt it.
America owns 42% of all of the guns in the world with only 4.4% of the world population.
Depending on what literature you read the second or third highest ranked country on the guns per capita list is Yemen.
Yemen has the most mass shootings per capita.
Does that seem like a coincidence to you?
Is it just an outlier that countries with more guns per capita, have more shootings?
It seems more like a correlation to me.
My favorite founding father Thomas Jefferson said, "No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms."
Hold the fuck on Captain America, have you read all of what he had to say?
Thomas Jefferson also said:
"It may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. ... Every constitution, and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years."
Think about that.
Before you start paraphrasing the constitution and reciting carefully selected anecdotal quotes, realize the intention of the founding fathers was for the constitution to be a living document of the people, not something written in stone.
That all being said, the second amendment had a purpose in mind that I believe is still valid today.
It was written with the intention of giving the people a right to defend themselves against a tyrannical government.
It is a FACT that states with stricter gun laws typically have fewer shootings. It is also a FACT that states near the ocean typically have more drownings. The argument for more restrictive laws is irrelevant in my opinion because it does nothing to solve the underlying problems that cause these shootings. It also strips people the liberty of defending their property against foreign or domestic enemies, including an industrial military complex, ran by our increasingly restrictive government.
For all of you anti-gun people, have fun defending yourself from tyrants with your words. History repeatededly teaches us that the tree of liberty has to be refreshed with the blood of tyrants and patriots every once in a while.
I am a proud gun owner. I am NRA certified and trained. I stand by the rights of every individual that owns guns.
I'll also give you another quote from Thomas Jefferson:
"... One loves to possess arms, tho they hope never to have occasion for them."
That should sum up how every gun owner should feel.
Guns kill people. Mass shootings wouldn't happen without guns. Guns are an efficient killing machine. They are also a necessary evil when our government owns them. It doesn't make sense to enact gun laws when the state is essentially saying, "we can have them, but you can't."
Instead of turning a tragedy into a political platform, let's talk about the underlying problems.
Let's debate how social media is affecting teen depression, because this whole, "look at me" society doesn't tell kids that profiles aren't people. They are representations of how people want to be perceived. These people behind the personas suffer from the same self-doubt everyone else does.
Let's talk about bullying. How we're just complacent with that issue because we grew up in a world where bullying was a norm.
Let's talk about being a positive influence to our students and rewarding them for their a good character. Instead of the deification of popular ass-fuckery.
If we solve these problems, I don't think the gun debate will come up nearly as often.
Instead of forcing grieving families into giving speeches to propel political agendas, let's leave them be. Let them heal in their most certainly vulnerable states.
Or we can keep debating gun-control, digging into deeper trenches of division, much like these Russian bots are trying to get us to.
Your call.