The Blame Game
I don’t normally want to post about things that are political and actually, Joe asked me to steer clear, but I’m a rebel and I begged to be able to post this. So put your seatbelts on kiddos, as this is going to be a bumpy ride and you might want to pull up your Garanimals.
It is tragic that children died at the hands of a nutbag with a gun, no one is saying anything different. But taking guns away is not the solution it is only a knee-jerk reaction and will only work for a short period of time. Now hear me out, before you blow me off.
Scenario #1
A white cop is called to an armed robbery call, he rolls up and witnesses a black man with a gun shooting into the store as he exits the store and runs down the road, shooting indiscriminately as he flees. The white cops chase the black man and he shoots and kills the black man. Pretty freaking ass straightforward, right! So who is too wrong and who is to blame for the black man’s death?
Here is the kicker, half of those that read this will say the white cop, and half will say the black robber. And how many will say that the gun is to blame? ZERO!!! A big freaking goose egg.
Scenario #2
It is closing time at the local bar, a woman stumbles out and makes it to her car, she starts to drive home. She weaves into oncoming traffic and kills a family of five who were on their way home from a school event. Who is to blame? Some will say the drunk driver, some will say the bartender and there will be that one asshole who will say the driver of the family’s car. But how many will blame the car? ZERO!!! A big freaking goose egg.
Scenario #3
A disgruntled employee leaves the office and is sick and tired of the way he is being treated. He makes an IED and returns to the office with the intent to blow up the office building and kill his boss in the process. At 4 p.m. the bomb explodes and the once disgruntle employee is now dead in the rubble of the bomb’s aftermath. Who is to blame? Some will say the boss, some will say the employee, and now many will blame the bomb. ZERO!!! A big freaking goose egg.
See where I’m going here? A gun is just a tool, just like the gun, car, and bomb in my three scenarios. And to make it worse, everyone wants to forcefully take away someone else’s guns. These are guns that they purchased with their own money, guns that for the overwhelming majority are for sport and recreation. And you want to forcefully remove them. How would you feel if the Government said they are taking all cars and trucks from people in your demographic? You would be pissed that they want to take your $35,000 car and not pay you for it. How about they take your house, your dog, your child….. Today it is a gun, tomorrow it is your truck and the next week it is your house. And since they have your damn gun, you can’t even fight back now. They own your ass and everything else of yours for that matter.
Yes, it is very sad that people are dying from guns, but people die from hammers, knives, from cars, trucks, water, you name it. In 2020, U.S. gun-related deaths were 43,676 and that breaks down to 54% were suicide and 43% were murders. Why are we not pissed off about the suicides? Just for comparison, here are the leading causes of death in the United States:
- Heart disease: 696,962
- Cancer: 602,350
- COVID-19: 350,831
- Accidents (unintentional injuries): 200,955
- Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 160,264
- Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 152,657
- Alzheimer’s disease: 134,242
- Diabetes: 102,188
- Influenza and pneumonia: 53,544
- Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 52,547
Hell, gun related isn’t even in the top 10. You are more likely to die from a hand, fist, or foot before you will die from a gunshot (and that is a fact – https://www.politifact.com/
Here’s another scenario
Scenario #4
This man and his wife are looking to score some good drugs, they make their score and they drive to a parking lot and get high while their infant child is in the car seat in the back of the car. They both die from an overdose. Do we blame the drugs? Nope, most will look at the parents as losers and that the poor child will be better off in the system.
The cold fact is that 91,799 people are reported to die annually from a drug overdose, 40,698 from vehicle traffic deaths, and 97,034 from poison. But damn I haven’t heard one person complain about why is bleach still on the grocery store shelves. I have heard from anyone bitching that we should all walk everywhere now so we can keep people from dying in car crashes.
Stop and ask the real question. Why do they want our guns? What is the real reason? You can call it a conspiracy theory, call it what you want. Look at Ukraine and Russia. Both sides are calling for more guns and ammo. Look at Hitler, he disarmed Germany in the 1930s. In the words of Heinrich Himmler, “Ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as having guns doesn’t serve the State.” OK, I lost you on that one, maybe a few of these you can follow:
King George of England attempted to implement gun confiscation policies in the Colonies before the Revolutionary War. And if he was successful, we would have surely lost that war (you know the war that gave us all the freedoms we so cherish).
Yakubu Gowon was a retired Nigerian Army General and then became the head of the state of Nigeria. In his quest for domination, he killed over 1 million Nigerians and disarmed the country in the process.
Mengistu Haile Mariam was an Ethiopian former army officer and politician who was the head of state of Ethiopia and he knocked off around 1.5 million Ethiopians on his quest for domination.
Alright, you don’t know these names. How about Kim Il-sung of North Korea (Fat man’s grandpa), he disarmed his country and killed 1.6 million in the process.
Does Jozef Stalin ring a bell? In the Soviet Union, he pulled disarmed the public game and knocked off 23 million of his countrymen.
And if you are naive enough to think that would never happen here, I’m sure you never thought “Orange Man” would be President, gasoline would be $6 a gallon and a bottle of pancake syrup would be racist, yet here we are. Roe v Wade has been overturned, Monkeypox is a real thing, and our current President can’t remember his name. Now, I’m not saying President Biden is going to take our guns and then kill us. But it wouldn’t be a far reach for someone in power to do that once we are disarmed.
You do know that we are the ones that created all this mess, right? You and I and everyone else who is an adult and of voting age. We kept voting the same fools into the office every single election, listening to their lies and fake promises and thinking to ourselves, “this time it will be different”.
Of course, I’m still trying to figure out why everyone wanted to see President Trump’s taxes before he got elected. I want to see each President’s taxes while they are in office and for the next 10 years after. Explain to me how you got elected and you were worth $5 million and four years later you left the office and you were worth $50 million. I would love to see where that money came from personally.
Alright, I have to step off my soap box before Joe pushes me off it.
