America, the land of the free, the home of the brave… and his beloved guns.
Today, two calamities are laying waste to America: a pandemic and a shooting epidemic… and they are both equally deadly. I am fully aware that I wrote about this subject many times before, but it needs repeating, even hammering for people to finally wake up from their torpor.
As far as I know, everything possible has been done for controlling the pandemic, but very little about stopping the sickening regularity of mass shootings.
Nothing annoys me more than the prayers, vigils, speeches, the official homilies after each carnage, while absolutely nobody seems to notice the elephant in the room. Voting individuals should picket and mercilessly harass any elected official who refuses to even talk about the subject. Some pro-lifers are picketing abortion clinics… if they are pro-life as they say, why don’t they picket gun stores instead… it would yield much better results.
I understand that a person might want to buy a handgun for home protection, but an AK-15 Kalashnikov with 30 rounds magazines? Who is he expecting to attack? Hordes of living dead? Commies? Transgenders?
Such a thing has no place in a civilized society.
Why would anybody want to buy such a killing machine, but for the only purpose of harming people? In Texas, it is easier to buy an AK-15 than a simple handgun. Does it make any sense?
It is not people who are doing the killing… it is GUNS! And don’t talk to me about background checks. There are just insignificant band-aids applied to out-of-control hemorrhages… You don’t have to be mentally deranged to want to kill somebody… A laid-off person can sometimes be more dangerous than any sicko, and he can buy an automatic weapon anytime he wants.
As long as anybody can purchase military-style semiautomatic weapons and assault rifles, the killings won’t stop.
In 2019, New Zealand showed much more backbone than America when, after the killings in Christchurch, it permanently banned the sale of all automatic weapons.
America is not Russia. We still can speak our minds without fear of retribution. Put pressure on the Congress’s fat cats and shine a bright light on their cozy relationship with the NRA. It might nudge them into becoming responsible human beings.
I can just imagine the state of mind of school children today. No matter what they are told, they won’t rest easy. They know that big bad wolves are lurking in the shadow and that they are very vulnerable.
Do you want the killings to stop? Don’t pray, light any candles, or listen to any baloney! Demand results. Ban automatic guns, your life depends on it.
Alain