Sunday, April 7, 2013

GUN CONTROL



Remember?

"All we're trying to do is keep guns out of the hands of people with criminal histories or series mental illnesses. If you think your right to own an automatic weapon with a 40 bullet clip outweighs a dozen children's right to live, your priorities are fucked up. Nobody is saying that law abiding citizens can't have guns, we just want to keep the school shooters and gun rang murderers and gang members from getting guns, especially bigger, badder guns than the ones you good guys have." Rachel Stine


"There is an absurdity mixed up in this controversy. First, there is too much money made selling weapons for anything effective to be done to stop gun from being sold to the underworld of criminals, and asassins, governments, and freedom fighters. Second, the whole predictable reaction of the average American to the slaughter of whites is counter-productive and contradictory. An enormous amount of energy has been taken to demonstrate the value of white lives over the lives of others.

This is all a tragic comedy of mis-directed passion and concern from good people who are ill-equipped to handle the realities of the policies they support that have told the world how violent we are as a people towards others, and each other. The inability of the citizenry to reconcile their contradictions along the line of our history of violent take over, our propensity to war, the naming of causes, and the call to Christ interpreted as calls to arm the armies of God slaps us in the face.

The third thing is the fact. Guns are a business. It is an illegitmate and legitamate enterprise, and it has served to finance many government and private endeavors legal and illegally. Fourth, it is important that white people who fear physical annilihation because their numbers are dwindling need to reenforce their sense of identity through militia groups, and white supremacy groups. There are large pockets of desparate white families shoring up arms, ammunition, food, and shelter around their ideaologies and fears. Is it fair to deny them the ability to protect themselves from their worst nightmare?

Our children know each and everyone of our contradictions and act them out as we passionately try to change gun laws without changing ourselves." - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 4.5.13


 
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