“Why is it that people come from all over the world to America? Because it’s the freest, most prosperous, safest country on Earth.”
So sayeth Ted Cruz of Texas in response to a British journalist asking why the U.S. doesn’t do anything about guns in the light of more and more school shootings that don’t seem to happen anywhere else in the world.
Is that really it?
We put targets on little kids’ backs and allow them to be murdered because … freedom?
In the end, the dead ones may be the fortunate ones. We are creating a generation that will feel the effects of having to be anxious and even terrified every time they go to school.
All so the worst among us can exercise their “freedom.”
That’s what I said.
The worst among us.
I’m not talking about people who have guns for protecting their home and family from burglars or who enjoy killing animals in the name of hunting. They are what they are, and they’re not the worst among us.
No, my targets here are the lunatics who build arsenals to defend themselves from blacks, Mexicans, commies and … wait for it … the U.S. government.
These are people who believe their home armories are the only thing stopping the government from turning them into homosexuals or worse.
Many of them have truly crummy lives — bad jobs, bad bosses, bad home lives. Having guns, especially being able to walk around armed in public, makes them feel strong(er).
As for defending them from the government, only one thing does that and it isn’t covered by the Holy Second Amendment.
Public opinion.
Except for the fact that folks in power don’t want to stir up neighborhoods, there isn’t an assault rifle that can stop a hellfire missile fired from an unmanned drone.
Then it’s bye bye Bubba.
People who think their weaponry is keeping them free from oppression live in the wrong country. It must be hell to be so frightened that you buy guns like you buy Swiffers.
Especially when those guns are far more likely to be used in anger against family members, or stolen by burglars when you’re not home.
Thoughts and prayers?
Totally worthless in this particular issue. If you want to make it Biblical, Satan is riding high with the Second Amendment.
I know if I were a kid and I had dead friends, if someone offered me thoughts and prayers, I know exactly what I would say.
“Shove your thoughts and prayers up your ass.”