firearms

To my Left fam,
I prob­a­bly just sound like an­oth­er con­ser­v­a­tive nut mind­less­ly rab­bling “Don’t let ’em take our guns!”

where­as

With my Right fam,
I’m that over­ly ide­al­is­tic hip­pie who wants to dis­arm the po­lice.

So just to clar­i­fy:
I think firearms of every kind are ter­ri­ble and if I could wave a wand and make all of them dis­ap­pear I would.

Maybe.

BUT here is the thing:
The gov­ern­ment has no wands, and … isn’t that good at its job. You have to imag­ine how half assed any se­ri­ous mea­sure is ac­tu­al­ly go­ing to be ex­e­cut­ed in prac­tice, which means re­gard­less of what is ac­tu­al­ly al­lowed, the guns are here to stay. They are a part of our ecosys­tem for as long as the am­mu­ni­tion is be­ing man­u­fac­tured.

I am not against in­creas­ing cer­tain re­stric­tions, es­pe­cial­ly in states with very loose reg­u­la­tion. Ul­ti­mate­ly though, the point of my con­spir­a­cy rant­i­ngs to this end is: Cit­i­zens and law en­force­ment should be the SAME lev­el of armed (or un­armed). The sec­ond amend­ment was not about hunt­ing or the cal­i­bre of weapon­ry at the time. It was about mak­ing the gov­ern­ment fear the peo­ple in or­der to keep its au­thor­i­ty in check.

“A well reg­u­lat­ed Mili­tia, be­ing nec­es­sary to the se­cu­ri­ty of a free State, the right of the peo­ple to keep and bear Arms, shall not be in­fringed.”

Mili­tias are tar­get­ed by fed­er­al law en­force­ment as ter­ror­ist groups, and the FBI has a doc­u­ment­ed his­to­ry of pin­ning crimes on ac­tivist groups that pose a threat to au­thor­i­ty. So if you’re wor­ried that keep­ing the sec­ond amend­ment in the U.S. Con­sti­tu­tion will ac­ci­den­tal­ly grant any­one the right that is promised there­in?

Don’t.

We’re al­ready liv­ing in a night­mare dystopia. Every­thing is fine.
 

Tho hon­est­ly,
I don’t think it would be the worst if we all were able to have a lit­tle bit of de­fen­sive com­bat train­ing.

Some­time af­ter hav­ing sur­vived a shoot­ing, I fell down a whole in­struc­tion­al YouTube rab­bit hole about how to dis­arm a gun­man with Wing Chun …

I want to be­lieve.
 
 

—bwargh von mod­nar

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