THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE GUN

 

 

Two-thirds of Americas are temporarily outraged about the shooting of children in Uvalde, Texas.   This will pass as our collective memories are short.

 

This carnage, especially of young people, is appalling on the surface; but it is who we are.  Since the early Homo Sapiens picked up stones and wiped out the Neanderthal, mankind has been killing everything that breathes on this earth, including its own species.   

 

The only thing that ever limits the carnage is the availability of weapons and the sophistication of the weaponry. 

 

Wars, genocide, ethnic cleansing, retribution, retaliation, revenge, execution, jealousy.   We are creative in our cruelty: stoning, strangling, burning at the stake, hanging, beheading, crushing, spiking, starving, drowning, stabbing, shooting….  And these are performed by organized mobs, be they government, ethnic or religious groups; but it takes individuals to carry them out.  And we carry them out. 

 

We glorify war and we glorify veterans.   We seek out video games and movies premised on violence.  Is it any wonder, with the unrestricted availability of military weaponry to our population, that young, impressionable, disturbed individuals commit mass murder?

 

We are not as outraged as we pretend, or the government elected by the people would outlaw access to military weapons of mass destruction, and government officials that obstruct would be replaced.

 

The Ol’Buzzard                                            

DICKS IN SPACE

 

Little dick men compensate for their inequity by showing off with assault weapons.

But when you are the wealthiest man on earth with a little dick you do a dick pix into space. 

the Ol'Buzzard

A SENSIABLE STEP TO CONTROL GUN VIOLENCE.

 Maine has always been a wilderness state, and back in the 1960’s most Maine men owned guns: deer rifles and shotguns for hunting.

  

There was no killings epidemic going on back in those earlier days.   There were no military assault weapons, the country was not flooded with handguns and there was no open or concealed carry for the average person.   Occasionally a man might be shot by his brother-in-law while out deer hunting, and later you find out he beat his wife - and there would be suspicions.   That was pretty much it for gun violence.

 

It is not just about the availability of guns.   Today there is also a kill mentality, a kill mania that goes along with the purchase of military style assault weapon and hand gun.

Most of the people that buy guns today are not hunters; they are buying a gun with the specific intent to be able to kill other human beings.    Many of these people live in a mindset where they fantasize a situation where they could use their weapon on another person, believing it would make them appear macho.

  

So how could we control this gun mania without confiscating guns?

Back in the sixties, in most New England states, you could not transport a gun unless you had a valid hunting license and there was an open hunting season.  If you wished to transport a pistol or rifle to a firing range, you had to drop by the police station and pick up a transport chit for that specific activity.   There was no open carry and you could not get a concealed carry license without a specific need.    You did not have to register you guns and you could have as many as you wanted in your home; you just could not carry or transport them in public without a reason. 

An assault weapon band sounds logical, but there are already too many assault weapons in circulation; and gun confiscation is not an option.   What we need is a federal law limiting the carry and transportation of firearms.   It would not be popular but it would solve the problem.

Why do these men need to carry their weapons in public?   They don't.

Kids dying in elementary school is a step too far.   We need serious federal gun control on the transportation and carry of firearms.

the Ol’Buzzard

  

A TRIBUTE TO CHARLTON HESTON

"You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold dead hand."

Charlton Heston

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I'm just saying
the Ol'Buzzard

AMERICA'S CULTURE OF VIOLENCE

MRMacrum (Lost in the Bozone) posted about the violence in American society today.

I have witnessed a cultural change over the last sixty years that has brought us to the dysfunctional chaos that is twenty-first century America.

I was raised in the south during the 1950 by my grandmother.  I owned and hunted with a shotgun and a 22 rifle throughout my teen years.   Every boy in my school owned guns and every man I knew owned guns and hunted.   But, in that era the idea of shooting up a school, or public venue, or mass killing wasn't even imaginable.   When some violent crime occurred it was immediately denounced and people were horrified.

Today gun violence, shootings and even mass shootings are so commonplace that we talk of them for a few days and then move on.   We are a more violent society today then we were sixty years ago.  We are a different society, a people and with different value, and the ready availability of military type weapons  has unleashed a dark place in our psyche.

I don't glorify 'the old days' for there were many social injustices and the world as a whole was still fucked up; but we didn't live in fear of our neighbors.

Back then I thought the human race would become smarter into the future; but that doesn't seem to fit the trend.

the Ol'Buzzard