{"id":5531,"date":"2018-03-01T10:08:59","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/?p=5531"},"modified":"2018-03-01T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T15:08:59","slug":"on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/general\/on-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"on Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my youth I hunted regularly \u2013 not for sport, but for meat which we either ate or sold. For me any desire to kill another living creature ended after the war<\/a>. But that is just me and other people are not subject to my feelings or beliefs. Generally, that is okay.<\/p>\n

Generally.<\/p>\n

It ceases to be okay when the feelings and beliefs of those other people lead to the injury, death, and suffering of innocents. Which leads me to the topic of guns in the USA, or more particularly, of the use of assault rifles in the commission of mass murders.<\/p>\n

Why are weapons designed for the sole purpose of killing other humans for sale in this country? The answer seems to hinge on the second amendment of the US Constitution, which reads, \u201cA 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.<\/em><\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Are any of the people who have committed these horrific crimes members of a \u201cwell regulated militia<\/em>\u201d? I don\u2019t think so, so why do they have weapons that only well regulated militias should possess? The US does have well regulated militias, they\u2019re called the Army, Navy, and Air Force, along with their various branches.<\/p>\n

I’m not denying you the right to own and use hunting guns or target rifles. But if you want to bear a gun designed for killing other people then join one of these well regulated militias. Assuming they\u2019ll have you\u2026 And if they won\u2019t have you because you\u2019re unfit to possess such a lethal weapon due to a criminal nature or mental deficiency then tough luck \u2013 you absolutely should not be able to get your grubby little hands on one as a civilian. Period.<\/p>\n

The time of the civilian population rising up to overthrow a tyrannical government by force of arms is long passed. So has the right for civilians to own weapons designed to kill other civilians.<\/p>\n

So how do we overthrow a government or any nature, let alone a tyrannical one? We use something called \u201cthe vote.\u201d We don\u2019t need to go into the streets or the hallways of schools or universities bearing deadly assault weapons with the intent to murder unarmed innocents. All we need to do is use \u201cthe vote<\/em><\/strong>\u201d.\u00a0 It is long past time we voted to eject officials who are more interested in obeying the dictates of special interest groups like the NRA than they ever will be in doing what the people who elected them want.<\/p>\n

Vote.\u00a0 There is more power in that single right than there ever will be in any weapon designed to kill people, so use it already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my youth I hunted regularly \u2013 not for sport, but for meat which we either ate or sold. For me any desire to kill another living creature ended after the war. But that is just me and other people are not subject to my feelings or beliefs. Generally, that is okay. Generally. It ceases […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[185,291],"class_list":["post-5531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-guns","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cgayling.com\/malmaxa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}