Journal, Day 1143
Saturday, 07 May 2023
(Day 5 of WGA strike… do weekends count?)
Days without a mass shooting in America — 0
Yeah, Texas. The state with the least restrictive gun laws in the country. Texas lawmakers encourage their citizens to strap whatever firearm they want into a belt loop and go about their daily lives.
Fuck your thoughts and prayers. It’s past time to get rid of assault weapons and make people get background checks that put a microscope up their ass if they want to buy a firearm, ANY firearm, and make it a federally mandated process.
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Today’s events at a mall in Texas won’t change anything, nor will it change the minds of the gun lobbyists and redneck idiots who think that owning a weapon is their “God-given right.” Show me in the Bible where it mentions the right to carry explosive devices that shoot high-speed projectiles for the sole purpose of killing another human.
Yes, Americans have the constitutional right to bear arms against unlawful search and seizure, and I will fight to protect our right to defend our lives and homes FOR THAT PURPOSE. But owning an AR-15-type firearm just because you want one is not what our founding fathers had in mind. Shooting up children and teachers in schools, people out shopping, or sitting in church is not an act of defending a private domicile against a government entity.
The rest of the free world thinks we Americans have lost our minds, and they’re absolutely correct. That we are still having these kinds of tragedies in cities and small towns all over the country, and then fighting about enforcing gun laws, is indicative of something akin to a cancer. We have lost our way. This experiment has failed and we are lost.
IT’S THE GUNS.
The UK had a mass shooting they called The Dunblane Massacre at a primary school back in 1996 when Thomas Hamilton shot 16 students dead before killing himself. The UK government almost immediately passed the Firearms Acts, which outlawed handgun ownership throughout Great Britain, and there hasn’t been a mass shooting anywhere in the UK since.
Say what you will about the Holy Hand-Grenade of Antioch and the coronation of King Charles, the Brits are still far superior in temperance and intelligence than we are.
