C’Mon America: Gun Control Edition

C’Mon America: Gun Control Edition

Gun-Control1I am personally against guns.  Why? Because I frickin’ love them that’s why.  I think guns are awesome and cool and fun to shoot.  Ok that being said, I am against them being in the general populace for that reason.  I consider myself to be a sane, forward-thinking member of society and I think it would be fun to get a gun and just go shootin’ around somewhere.  Not on a range necessarily, but like in the woods or something. Not a rifle either, but like a “gun” gun.  I have no history of mental illness, I am relatively healthy and I have committed no major crimes outside of traffic violations.  If you put a gun in my hand right now, I would have a very difficult time not wanting to shoot it.  I would not shoot it, but I would still think about it.  If I have to think about it even a little bit, that is a frickin’ problem.  You should not have to think about not firing a deadly weapon.

That being said, after the tragedies of Aurora, Colorado and Sandy Hook, Connecticut, most Americans have sort of come to the collective conclusion, that maybe guns should not be so easy to procure.  In fact, 90% of Americans have come to that conclusion.  It might be the one thing we all agree on most.  These days Republicans and Democrats act like that one housewife on The Real Housewives of (insert location here) that hates that other housewife on The Real Housewives of (insert location here).* They don’t get along and they argue things that used to be inarguable.  Yet, through all the sniping and posturing Americans made it clear that at the very least, we were all (mostly) in support of background checks being extended to gun shows and online gun purchases.  However today (or yesterday, or a few days ago depending on when you read this) in our Senate, it was voted down, by 6 votes.  Whomever did not vote for it on either side does not matter, because the fact still remains that today, we as Americans asked our leaders to do something that should have been a no-brainer, and they told us to go fuck ourselves.

Ok they didn’t tell us to fuck ourselves in so many words, but hearing Senators who opposed the background checks saying that the extension would do little to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, and add extra hoops for upstanding Americans to jump through, made me want to jump out of my skin.  If that is in fact the case, we should not have background checks at all.  Apparently criminals are so dead set on these kill weapons that they will circumnavigate all laws, so why even have them in the first place?  Lets extrapolate that thought further.  Bad drivers who typically break traffic laws are going to do it anyway, so why bother have stop lights?  Exactly.  I’ve had it with this thought that we should not create laws or restrictions on people because the bad people will do what they want anyway.  Even if that is the case, lets minimize the damage at least?  Lets not make it as easy for an insane person to buy a gun online and then use it to kill a not-insane person. **

We always market America as a democracy built on doing whats best for everyone.  Regardless of what you believe may or may not be the best thing for the American people, tell me you can at least agree that making no effort to make our gun laws even remotely safer in light of two major tragedies in less than a year is asinine.  Its not like the people asked not to pay taxes.  They asked for us to simply do what we are already doing, in two additional places.  Yea you wont catch everyone, but you can certainly catch a few, and these days, with every shooting, bombing, ricin-mailing to the president, stopping at least one person from committing harm against the innocent is worth it to me.

Or I guess according to the Senate, it’s not a big deal. Whatever, I’m going to go back to watching an episode of Nashville from a month ago (the show is pretty good btw).

* People like pop culture references right? I’m still learning how to talk on the interweb.

** I take that back, they can use the gun to use an insane person too, and that is equally as not ok as just killing a not insane person.  I don’t want it to seem like I have a bias against the insane.

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