Perhaps you have enjoyed my posts about the stock market (mostly in the correct direction) or laughed at my good-natured jibes at modern America, or had a chuckle over my disassociated viewpoints about things and stuff.
Well - I’m guessing that is about to come to a crashing halt.
The most recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida - and by “most recent school shooting” it should alert you as to what is coming - has brought to mind several things that you humans have been debating but have brought upon yourselves. What?
The good-old Second Amendment to the Constitution, for one. It was written by a group of white slave-owners who also believed that one shouldn’t vote unless HE was a land owner. This came in a time when single-load muskets were technology, and militias were formed to fight-off British invaders. Gain some perspective.
Nowadays (I’m sure you’ve heard) we have semi-automatic weapons, and guns that can fire-off hundreds of rounds a second. Not only that, but the militia has been replaced by an on-call military that doesn’t have to dress-up in their homes to defend our nation. We pay taxes for that.
AND, they supply their own weapons. Go figure.
The part you get hung-up on is the idea that the Founding Fathers were some sort of supernatural sages who foresaw a nation where muskets and citizen army’s were going to be normal. It’s not.
They didn’t have any idea that children in school would be shot to death several times over the last 30 years, or that people going to concerts would have to fear for their lives, or that people boarding airplanes would have to remove their shoes ... you get the point .... right?
The second amendment is an antiquated notion, and we lean on it out of habit - not out of nevcessity. Nobody outside of the military needs an automatic weapo, and it’s not what the second amendment meant by “the right to bear arms.” You know that.
We entrap ourselves with a lot of old-world notions that have no place in modern society. You accept computers, cell phones, air conditioning, and other such modern conveniences - yet you will not accept the idea that a notion brought about 200-plus years ago is somehow relevant to modern society.
Meanwhile, your children are being gunned-down in your support of this stupid idea.
So, go ahead and un-friend me, un-follow me, dislike, or whatever - hate me - because your politics or your ideals conflict.
The fact is - if it wasn’t for that ridiculous notion put forth on July 4, 1776 your kids would be safe because you wouldn’t be beholden to an antiquated notion of what you refer to as “freedom” because some guys with their heads in stone on a monument said it should be so.
Get your fucking head out of the sand.
