OK, I realize it's not really election time yet, so I don't usually start ranting about the idiots of the world who hold the Second Amendment as the end-all, be-all of the Bill of Rights. But given some recent happenings, I have to say that on the whole, people are just too fucking stupid to be allowed the use of firearms!
Cases to back this up:
#1. A 12-year-old (read: my sister's age) was shot in the head in front of her own home in Minneapolis this weekend. No one knows why, all we know is that her older sister found her laying there with a head wound, and the girl is in critical condition. Suspects in custody are also pre-teens.
#2. My friend Natalie has a psychopathic neighbor in her Florida apartment complex who gets his rocks off by shooting cans and feral cats. Never mind the fact that said cats did nothing to him; how about the fact that Natalie and her hubby Dean walk back there to feed the cats? Or the fact that there are little kids all over the place there? Seriously.
#3. The recent customer I had at the bank. He walked in proudly wearing his NRA shirt, sleeves torn off to make it a "muscle shirt", even though it was button-down flannel. And, and lest I forget, he had maybe half the number of teeth he should have, and started ranting about "big government" when his receipt showed his recent paycheck had been garnished. Nice. And we give this guy guns?
So, yes, candidates, please fix the medical care system and get our troops home from Iraq. But also, can we start yanking guns out of people's hands if they are idiots? Clearly, they don't shoot themselves with the guns, so there isn't any benefit to society by them having guns in the first place. Darwin applied here - the guns give these morons an unfair advantage in the survival cycle.
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