The painfulness and pathos of where we are is a low spot that promises to get lower. Ten years ago, twenty children attending Sandy Hook Elementary and six adults were gunned down, murdered. December 14, 2012. I am left these days with the empty feeling this road of being hopeful about gun legislation is a downward spiral on which we have little or no control.
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Verbiage for the supporters of gun control bills and laws are rife with pushing back, doubling down. The words are reminiscent of the cheers decades ago to women. In heels and backwards, you can break the glass ceiling. Not lies, but cheers to encourage although there is about .001 scintilla of a chance to break through the barriers. We need gun control, I’m terrified is an another empty call to more than pretend action. Bernie from Weekend at Bernie bobs and waves us on.
Feeling kinda Tom Hayden or at very least Bob Dylan-ish today. “We” who are sick of guns and their meaning, sick of guns and their owners. MAGA guns and MAGA owners are vehement in their disregard for their place in society. I mean the people not the guns. The people who demand their guns and defend guys like Rittenhouse take up, they demand more room and influence in the world than they should. Not talking about them isn’t really an option. Guns have a place in society whose place must be looked at and evaluated and changed from where we are now. I do not have a plan. No. But I know we need one that is a change from whatever we are doing now.
Litigation against Alex Jones, as satisfying as it was, changes nothing. Jones, the perfect “wrestling” coach, wrestler or ring master was exposed as bing a shameless man who didn’t seem to begin to grasp the why of his legal prosecution. Punishing a box of rocks, still needs to be done.
The better moment to changes things was twenty years ago. Thirty would have been even more appropriate. Sentiment now is well, boat sailed, they’re everywhere. Not a reason to do nothing or little. Reason to do more.
Looking back does little to inform a future which required radical ideas for change. The idea doesn’t need to be rad in nature but the idea needs to be a radical departure from the track we are on. Many and different ideas to address the different people and ideas behind current gun ownership. Maybe just litigating the manufactures into nonexistence. Raise the price of guns not lower them. Neither are good or new suggestions.
Gun ownership and gun violence seem not to be the flip sides of the same coin. Like two Americas. One is of owners that stockpile and brandish the weapon high with “You’ll take my gun from of my cold dead body”, a men’s collectibles obsession rather than beanie babies or shoes. The other is a broad category of illegal firearms purchased for the purpose of no good. Big category. First category gives ENORMOUS cover to category two just as MAGA tears of democrats eating children do nothing to help the children who are actually trafficked and at risk.
Accountability is another great word that has lost meaning.
A fever pitch is being pushed in the country and there will likely be violence. It may be the time when we pivot away.
One guarantee - If or when the US becomes an authoritarian state, the guns will be gone. MAGA doesn’t know what it’s doing, but that should come as no surprise.