With the recent school shooting it seems as though I can't get away from people putting in their two cents worth about gun control. So being a veteran (of two wars) who has used a weapon to protect this country (and myself) I thought I would say my peace about it.
Although I am now a hippie and don't believe in violence, I do believe in being able to protect yourself by any means possible. I believe we not only have the right, but the obligation to. I am not a christian but even in the bible it says "sell your cloak and buy a sword" as an instruction by Jesus to his disciples. Because defending yourself is important!
The way I see it guns don't need to be controlled, people do. We need to start taking some responsibility for our actions, not only as people and parents but also as a society. We need to quit blaming problems on inanimate objects. The fact is people will continue to kill even if you take away guns. People will use not only knives but also blunt objects, sharp objects, poison (cleaning products or other household items), ropes, chains and even vehicles to kill. Does that mean those things should be outlawed?? People can buy crossbows and bow and arrows without any permit at all, those are actually weapons meant to kill, but no one seems to complain about them??
People are very crafty, they will come up with a way to harm or murder and not having a gun wont stop them at all. They can make things like pipe bombs very easily with items bought at a hardware store, come to think about it a lot items in a hardware store could be used to maim and kill, so should we outlaw hardware stores too? I know it sounds ridiculous but so does gun control because some asshole miss uses a gun.
Let's go over some numbers
Pharmaceuticals kill anywhere from 300,000 to 500,000 people every year and there is nothing being done to stop that, in fact they are worse than ever before in history and making more drugs by the day!
Nearly 500,000 Americans died after taking a prescription drug in 2015, according to cases reported to the US National Poison Data System. By comparison, no deaths were recorded for vitamins, minerals or nutritional supplements.
In total, 443,900 deaths from prescription medication were reported to one of the US's poison centres, with analgesics—or pain-killers—being the deadliest poison, responsible for 11 per cent of all deaths reported. Sedatives and antidepressants were the fifth and sixth major killers respectively.
Of these, 275,000 were due to some error—such as a wrong dose—and 130,000 were caused by unintentional misuse, such as taking the drug more frequently than prescribed. Nearly 40,000 deaths were attributed to an adverse reaction to a drug that was properly prescribed and taken.
I'm sure those people didn't want to die! Maybe we should make doctors and big pharma illegal, that seems like it would save much more lives than taking away guns..
What about smoking?
Cigarette smoking is responsible for more than 480,000 deaths per year in the United States, including more than 41,000 deaths resulting from secondhand smoke exposure. This is about one in five deaths annually, or 1,300 deaths every day.
That is a lot more people dying from second hand smoke than mass shootings!!
Let's talk about cops quick
Every likes to think more cops is the answer, when that couldn't be farther from the truth. I read this interesting article a few days ago by the Activist Post (a media company). It was explaining how gun control means the people loose their guns, not the government. That definitely seems like a really stupid idea to me considering the government has to much power as is.
In 3 Years, Cops Have Killed 450% More Citizens Than 4 Decades of Mass Shootings COMBINED!
That's right, the people you trust to do justice are actually mass murderers! They don't abide by the law and let a judge and jury choose your fate, they become the judge, jury and executioner when they decide your fate for you! I know you think they have no choice but many of the people they shot were unarmed people who did nothing wrong.. SO PLEASE TRY TO JUSTIFY THAT TO ME!!!!
I promise you that if you take guns away people will still kill and be violent. In fact WAY more people are killed from knives than guns every year but you don't hear anyone talking about that.
Stabbings
Believe it or not mass murders happen with knives too, this guy killed 19 people and injured another 26 just a few years ago. This is just one story, I found quite a few.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/25/tokyo-knife-attack-stabbing-sagamihara
HUH??? Why no knife control?? Because as all of you know it would be ridiculous.... just like gun control is ridiculous! Stop blaming OBJECTS for violence.
The problem is people! We need to start taking responsibility for our actions instead of always blaming something else. Guns aren't the problem, stupid people are. We have become a nation that is obsessed with placing the blame on anything but ourselves. We have become a nation of people who just want to complain about things instead of addressing the situation and taking action!
Let's just pretend that we did let gun control happen, let's pretend for one moment that guns were banned here. What does that even mean? Who do you think would turn in their guns? The honest law abiding citizens, not the criminals, not the people who you would want to turn in their guns. A lot of people who own guns are already criminals who have been in trouble with the law and aren't suppose to have guns right now anyhow. So how does that help this situation at all? It doesn't, it actually only makes things worse. Now only the bad guys have the guns, that makes NO SENSE AT ALL!
There is nothing anyone can say or do to make me give up my guns. Sure I would turn in my registered ONE, but I would just hide all of the rest. I would never ever ever give up my gun to a government who will use a gun against me. The only way anyone could take them from me is if they pried them from my cold dead hands!
Just as an experiment I left my loaded gun on the back porch for the last few days, funny thing, no one got hurt or killed!! Can you believe it! My fiance, my dogs and I must of walked by it 100 times or more each, and nothing.. I even decided to try to piss it off by yelling at it, calling it names and spitting on it.... still nothing. HUH? weird.. I must have one of those "nice guns" that doesn't "like to kill or hurt people".. lol.
Truth is, most gun owners are very responsible and now other people (who don't own guns) want to ruin their rights because someone else was acting like an idiot? How does that make sense to anyone?
Correct me if I'm wrong but Isn't this the land of the free? In the constitution only freedom of speech comes before our right to bear arms. Does no one care about our constitution anymore? What has this country become where we want to punish the innocent for the guilty peoples crimes?
What happen to our freedom?
(photo taken with my Nikon DSLR 3400)
