Holster your weapon, jerkoff! (permanently)

In 1996, handguns were used to murder 2 people in New Zealand, 15 in Japan, 30 in Great Britain, 106 in Canada, 211 in Germany…

…and 9,390 in the United States.

Sorry friends, but you don’t need a gun. No one 'needs' a gun except someone who can prove that a significant and necessary part of their food supply comes from hunting and that they simply cannot hunt with a bow (which hundreds of thousands of people worldwide find to be an extremely efficient and effective hunting instrument). The larger issue is that your average hunter would be hard pressed to justify owning an automatic assault rifle or an assortment of handguns. It’s high time we passed permanent and effective legislation that outlaws the ownership of handguns, assault rifles and most every other type of rifle.

Before you start frothing at the mouth and gnashing your teeth, let me just take a moment to “shoot down” your best rationalization for you:

• We’ve got a Constitutional Right! The Second Amendment guarantees our right to bear arms!

Okay, well, for the moment let’s ignore the fact that a huge percentage of gun supporters fall easily into a social demographic that endorses sweeping changes to the Constitution to make gay marriage illegal and build a wall to keep so-called immigrants out of America (wasn’t this country founded by immigrants?), but scream and whine when anyone proposes legislation that takes away their “right” to own a firearm. But let’s stick with the rationale itself:

The Constitution does contain language guaranteeing the right to bear arms, no argument there. However, what we’re talking about is a posse of macho gun nuts clinging to a obsolete tenet of personal freedom written a couple hundred years ago which protected the people against the intrusions of the British Army and something else: When the Constitution of the United States of America was drafted, a significant portion of Americans were living in the wilderness! Anyone not living in the fledgling eastern cities lived on farms and homesteads far beyond the reach of the law and thus they were on their own to protect themselves against wild beasts, roving bands of thieves and who knows what else. They had to hunt for any meat they ate! Still others were occasionally called upon to join the militia and provide their own weapon. Two hundred years ago a gun for the homesteader was necessary, truly.

Time changes many things. Not, however, the stubborn minds of morons who just want to keep their noisy, deadly toys.

It's a different way of life in America, has been for over a hundred years. How many NRA members clinging to their AK-47s can claim that they need that gun to protect themselves on the long commute to the Sam’s Club meat freezers? How many “hunters” do so because they cannot support their families any other way? How about one in approximately 370,000 gun owners, perhaps fewer (that's a twenty-year old statistic).

How many children need to get their heads blown off in the living room before these morons will get the point? (10 children are killed by guns in the U.S. every day, on average)

How many of our tax dollars must be spent patching these chowder heads and their unfortunate victims back together again? (The estimated yearly cost of direct health care expenditures for firearm-related injuries in the U.S., in a recently released statistical report, was 4,000,000,000.00. Yea, that’s four BILLION.)

• I need a gun for self defense in my home. Anyone could break in and I have a right to be able to protect my family!

I’m not going to bother spending more than a moment on this pin-headed delusion. Here’s all you need to know:

-A gun kept in the home is 22 times more likely to kill a family member or a friend that it is to be used against an intruder.-

So, bring a gun into your home and you’ve vastly increased the danger to your loved ones, NOT the other way around.

Guns kill people, that’s it and that’s all. Do we really need to keep this argument alive so that "enthusiasts" can enjoy themselves at a target range? So macho assholes can blast Bambi into next week out in some miserable Kentucky field? Is this “right” more important than people’s lives?

I’d normally be the last person to try and use alarmist propaganda to start tearing off chunks of individual freedoms and join in this current “homeland security” witch hunt, but what would potentially be ‘taken away’ is something that just doesn’t matter. You don’t need a gun...I don’t need a gun. For every time Rambo blows away a drunken kid in the lettuce patch and “saves his family”, there are a hundred examples where a toddler took six inches off the top of her cranium because she thought Dad’s shiny Desert Eagle was a toy. There are teenagers and pre-teens out there carrying guns because it’s cool (and it’s NOT hard to get them, something ensured by greedy gun companies- READ THIS) while more and more of our youth are packed up in pine boxes because of it. Gun violence in the streets wouldn’t happen without guns my friends.

"But there are safety locks for triggers, and cases to prevent children access to weapons in the home, and laws and regulations in place to prevent this sort of tragedy, buddy!"

Oh yeah? Then why is it still a problem? Why do the numbers stay so high and sometimes increase? If measures are in place to prevent gun deaths then why are so many people still dying?

Oh, one last thing...Mr. Heston? Nothing would please me more than to pry your gun from your cold, dead fingers. Nothing at all. Would you mind doing the dirty work, then send me an address where I can find your corpse? Thanks bunches!

P.S. if you wanna make your voice heard, contact your local Senator or Representative (or better yet, both!) Or visit any of the pro-gun websites below and voice your displeasure:

www.keepandbeararms.com

www.gunbooks.org

www.nra.org

www.smith-wesson.com

www.browning.com