I know I said I was liberal but honestly, I feel, if you can’t trust a person with a gun, then what good are they? (Set aside accidents form misuse and/or irresponsible handling) Many feel that eliminating guns is a solution to violence in America. I feel that America (and our culture/society) itself causes it’s own violence and guns are just a tool used to express that. It’s really not that far out of an idea to understand. But gun control is another issue. What I really am saying is that I do not agree with this type of legislation.

Basically people want to kill and the gun allows them that ability much more conveniently than a knife or other means. But it’s important to remember that the gun isn’t doing the killing. Guns don’t have emotions like fear, hatred or happiness. A gun is indiscriminate. However, an individual pulling the trigger does have these emotions and so does that person on the other end of the barrel.

To me getting rid of guns is like taking a drug. In this statement I feel as though trying to legislate the removal of guns in our American society is more of a cover up than a fix. It is an attempt to remove the aggression that our fellow Americans have towards each other but at best it just eliminates the symptoms of the problem it does not strive for long term successful removal of violence, hatred, anger, fear or any of the many reasons that people rationalize killing in our society. In fact I believe that simply trying to remove guns and not addressing the cultural, social issues pertaining to violence is irresponsible.

For example, lets say you have chronic heart burn. But you also eat poorly. You can continue to eat poorly and take Prevacid (heart burn medication). This works and gets rid of the heart burn but really isn’t fixing the problem cause you are still eating poorly. Or you can change your diet. This will also get rid of the heart burn. However, you will not have to take Prevacid. Not to mention that the other effects of eating healthy will help increase your chances of living longer. So….. what is the better choice? It’s just like gun control.

You can legislate removing all non hunting type firearms (oxymoron BTW) and remove the effects of having firearms available to people even though they are the same person with the same potentially violent aggressive behavior towards each other. Or you can try and fix this violent aggressive behavior that the murders in our society possess which would be inherently good because the side effects of such actions would positively benefit everyone else gun violence included. The side effect instead or murder or heartburn would be peace and tranquility or as close as we could come to it.

So I pose a side question to the US government. How do we rationalize spending more than half the money the US has on weapons and literally war and then when it comes to spending money on loving each other…….people get confused or somehow pervert it with hippie stereotypes and/or blissful and/or irresponsible thinking?

I know that in reality it is much more complicated of a situation than the way I have painted a picture in this article. But, I can’t be the only who thinks like this? To me it just makes sense.

Moreover, I think the problem with anti-gunners is that they think the fact someone wants to possess a gun in the first place is a problem. To them I say…..

“happiness is a warm gun” -The Beatles

NO, really though! There are a lot of legitimate reasons for owning a firearm. The first and foremost reason I bought a firearm is for hunting. The second is for personal protection and the third reason is for protection of others. I feel these three reasons alone are perfectly legitimate not to mention recreational purposes like competition shooting, plinking and/or tactical shooting. Then there are the obvious reasons the military needs them and no I don’t think that our government can do no evil. All one needs to do is pick up a history book and read between the lines, to figure out how evil/cruel people can be to one another. But again I would pose that this can be done without a firearm after all weapons such as a gun didn’t always exist but cruelty, temptation and evil certainly have. It doesn’t matter what book you read.