I'm not against guns. Not really. There are countries in the world that have tons of guns and a near total lack of gun violence. I completely agree with the Amazing Atheist's argument that any sort of comprehensive gun ban would be an even worse idea than banning drugs; guns would still be everywhere, and our prisons would be full of otherwise law-abiding people guilty of "buying firearms with the intent to distribute." It would be the worst move ever. Obama's not going to do anything of the sort, so quit worrying.
But i want to give the emotionally-overwrought anti-gun people the benefit of the doubt. I think they realize that if they maximize their efforts, create an apocalyptic scenario in whichsomething must be done, and turn the tide of American public opinion as far against guns as it possibly can go, then...
...they might get some restrictions on clip capacity, maybe close the gun show loophole. That's the most they could do.
The problem with America is fucking Americans. Americans can ruin anything. You know this is true. And we've ruined guns just like we've ruined lots of other things that should be really easy to figure out.
Sports?
Sports are great, exercise and healthy competition, a cornerstone of human activity since the dawn of time, you can't have a world without sports. But what is our most popular sport? Football. A sport that forces bulked-up players to smash their heads together for no real reason, leading to nasty, brutish, and short careers, before they all retire at 35 and end up as brain-damaged sad sacks. The media is figuring this out just now, despite the long history of the stock comedic character of the football player (or boxer) who "took too many hits" and runs a restaurant where he stumbles about in a blazer embarrassing himself in front of diners. And to top it all off, football remains the most excruciatingly boring sport to watch, ever. Tennis? Gymnastics? Ice skating? Soccer? Fuck that gay shit, we're Americans. We want football. I want to see those giant motherfuckers ram heads until their brains are floating around in pools of blood, yeah!
Food.
Food is essential. Our entire human story has been based on the production of food, which until recently has usually been in short supply. In America, for the first time ever, we have the means to produce enough food to feed everyone... and we fuck it up. We make greasy hamburgers on bleached white crap bread the standard, accompanied by fat-drenched fries, snack cakes, oversalted chips, and Coke. Coke -- a substance containing no nutritional value, just so much goddamned corn syrup that your body would reflexively vomit it back up if the cloying sweetness wasn't moderated by some phosphoric acid. Yeah, Coke. Let's make that the default drink. That would ruin everything. Fuck yeah.
And we've done the same thing with guns. Perfectly reasonable tools for hunting and self-defense, right? Sure, until rappers use them as badges and fashion accessories. Until they're fired over and over again in so many movies that most people will knit their brows in bafflement when told that most police officers will retire without ever firing their gun at anybody. Seriously, most do.
See, when Krysten says she wants a gun because roving fuckheads have broken into her house, that's an argument i get. That's perfectly reasonable...
...but when panicky rednecks start stockpiling them because they suffer from apocalyptic delusions of "inner-city youths" going crazy and overrunning the suburbs after a future Republican president cuts off their EBT benefits? That shit ruins everything. I'll never forget my brother's idiotic gun-hoarding racist buddy who bragged about the gun he kept in his driver's side door, saying...
"Man, i wish some n*gger would just walk up to me one day and try to start shit. I fucking wish that would happen."
...that's the stuff that turns me back into a hippie.
I mean, you have these 55-year old conservatives who, on their blogs, reminisce about being the high school tough guy and roaring around town in a pick-up truck with their drinking buddies like the seniors from Dazed and Confused, living life all reckless and terrorizing the wimps and the faggots. But now they're old and weak, and are scared of all these muscly young men, many of whom are black and scary, who are sauntering around and doing what they did thirty years ago. So they buy guns, and carry guns, and go to messageboards and assure one another that if any of those young guys gets out of line, they'll fucking whip out their gun and blow them the fuck away...
...and then they'll get all misty-eyed and talk about John Wayne and Dirty Harry, and how sad it is that kids these days don't have those real men to show them how to live and watch all this pussy faggot Harry Potter shit instead.
And yeah, a lot of those young black guys are also carrying guns, because everyone knows that guns make you cool. If the old white people have them, why not me?
Americans. We can ruin anything.
I don't blame guns. I blame Americans.
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