Friday, February 15, 2008

"...point it at whatever you want to die."

Okay, are we going to talk gun control this time? Or are we going to wait until it happens all over again next year?

While the government tramples all over the Constitution, do you think they could scuff the 2nd Amendment up a bit?

No, I would not feel safer if everyone was carrying a gun.

No, I do not believe all these people would be getting guns anyway, even if they were illegal.

No, I do not believe the killers are monsters that could not be stopped.

No, I do not think guns are the same as cars, knives, rope, etc, or whatever else you can compare them to.

In the immortal words of Kurt Vonnegut, from Deadeye Dick:

"...killed by a machine which should never have come into the hands of any human being. It is called a firearm. It makes the blackest of all human wishes come true at once, at a distance: that something die. There is evil for you. We cannot get rid of mankind's fleetingly evil wishes. We can get rid of the machines that make them come true. I give you a holy word: DISARM. "

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