(6 minute read)
June 8, 2022
There is NO constitutional right to kill or endanger other people.
More Guns = More Death
There isn’t anything new to say about the horrific mass slaughter of innocents in Uvalde or the 35 mass shooting events that have happened since then.[1] Just as in other mass shootings, a “…well regulated Militia” member went into a school and slaughtered innocents.[2] I wrote about gun regulation in 2018 and the only thing that has changed is that we’ve had hundreds, yes hundreds, more mass casualty shootings[3].
We are a nation awash in guns[4] thanks to the Republican Party of old and the new Trump Republican Party. They never met a gun they didn’t like. Guns are their friends. They stand up for their assault weapons. For decades they have fought sensible gun regulation legislation at every turn.
It’s what they do.
Tipping point
For all the talk from the Republican Party of Trump about the Dems coming for people’s guns the Trump GOP has passed more less-restrictive liberal gun laws with each passing year. We have more liberal gun laws than anywhere except for lawless war zones. Despite the vast number of guns already in individual hand, the Republican answer to the future slaughter of children that will surely happen continues to be that we need more guns, hardened schools, more body armor, armed teachers, etc. It’s always their answer, their solution. More slaughter. More guns. More slaughter. More guns.
Their circle is unbroken.
They’re coming!
The Trump GOP seeks to create the very tyrannical government that they say we need to be protected from. They show up at state capitols armed with military-style long guns. They walk the streets with them. They threaten local governing bodies with guns. They are the ones threatening the Civil War that they are arming for. They are the ones threatening to cede from the Union. They have militias that Trump called on for help, to liberate states. They are the Trump GOP supporters that stormed our Capitol in a coup attempt like some third world banana republic to overturn the vote of the people. The Evangelical Christofascists are the ones talking about executing gays.
Brown colored immigrants are portrayed as invaders, rapists, murderers, disease ridden scum by Trumpers. More guns will stop them. The overwhelming majority of militant anti-government extremist hate groups in this country are white people.[5] It’s small wonder that the Party of Trump doesn’t want history taught. CRT is dangerous to them and needs to be banned! Racist white Christian Nationalists will save the nation!
Who’s going to protect us from them if they’re in charge?
They don’t believe in democracy.
No guts, no glory
Speaking of the Trump GOP being in charge.
As it turns out there are major exceptions to being able to constitutionally carry guns everywhere. When former President Trump addressed the mighty NRA everyone had to be disarmed because evidently the Secret Service didn’t get the memo that having more guns makes places safer. With every law-abiding citizen armed and present at an NRA Convention it should have been one of the safest places in the United States of America.
(Side Note: Did you by any chance watch Trump do that cute little dance after he read off the names of the slaughtered children and finished up his speech?)
But no, they let the government take their guns away without putting up even token resistance. Good grief! Does the Secret Service really think that the MAGAT Head Evangelical Trump Republican Party at an NRA convention poses a threat to Trump? Besides, if anything bad happened they could have just blamed it on a trans-immigrant POC Antifa socialist Muslim Democrat when everybody opened fire on the person with the gun.
It would have been a win-win for them.
Fortress America
Just how exactly do they plan to harden all the schools anyway? Since 50 caliber weapons are readily available what caliber will they harden against? Bulletproof glass in all the windows? What about the walls? Bullets go through walls. Concentrate all the kids and staff at one door? Checkpoints to stop and frisk POC for guns? Excellent targets for an AR15 or IED. Fences topped with barbed wire around the schools? What about school sporting events or is that open season? Armed teachers? What if one goes postal? Bullet proof vests with steel inserts for the kiddies? How do you tell who is the bad guy with a gun if everyone has a gun? Just curious. Thanks to the Trump Republicans, Evangelicals and NRA all the gangs that they tell us to be afraid of in this country are now incredibly well armed thanks to them. Are they now part of the well-regulated militia?
Like the old Republican Party the Trump Republican Party is a party of death, only they are way better at it. Throughout the pandemic they have stacked up a few hundred thousand of needless deaths through their Constitutional right to endanger and kill others. It’s the same Constitutional right that they claim as they continue to take us back to the Wild West days of yore.
They are grooming kids to use guns and kill.
Start somewhere
It took decades to get us into this mess and it will take decades to get us out. The problem is the incredible proliferation of weapons in this country. The Republican Party has been an exceptional sales agent for gun manufacturers. Evangelicals claim that it’s a lack of God (their God) that’s causing the problem of mass shootings. God isn’t keeping them safe either. It’s why they’re arming with AR15s. How about Evangelicals acting like its treating guns as an idol that’s a problem in America? Perhaps they should try worshiping God not guns. Just a thought (and prayer).
Ban assault weapons of all types from being sold. Ban certain kinds of ammunition being sold. Require permits, licenses and training to buy a gun. Have a one week cooling off period before a purchased firearm can be picked up. Classify AR15 type weapons in existence as class 3 firearms and ban future sales. Ban open carrying of long guns in public areas. Seriously what kind of people feel the need to do that? Defending the country from a tyrannical government is a big responsibility and needs responsible people. Do not allow concealed carry without a license and training. Stop voting for gun-nut politician would be an excellent place to start. It’s time to well regulate the militia.
Lives depend on it.
[1] https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/charts-and-maps Scroll to the bottom and click on the text “Mass Shootings in 2022.”
[2] Amendment 2 of the Constitution of the United States of America: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
[3] Gun Violence Archive (GVA) definition: Mass Shootings are, for the most part an American phenomenon. While they are generally grouped together as one type of incident they are several with the foundation definition being that they have a minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter who may also have been killed or injured in the incident.
[4] Guns.com 434 million firearms in civilian possession. AR15s and similar weapons account for 19.8 million of those.
[5] Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Map. https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map