digsite

So everybody is talking about guns and gun laws after the massacre that’s all over the news. I don’t want to beat a dead horse but I thought it might be helpful for me to explore where I stand on this matter.

Simply put, I’m terrified of guns. Terrified. I don’t want one on me, in the same house as me or anywhere near me or my kids. Especially my kids. I think they are dangerous and needless. I know many people would disagree with me. That’s fine.

Someone said at work today “If you outlaw guns, then the only people with guns will be outlaws.” Cute little saying, but isn’t this the way it is already? It’s more often that the people who have no use for guns in their lives, are the ones without the guns. What in the fuck do people think would happen if they knew that every man and woman was carrying a weapon? Do they think that if carrying a concealed weapon were legal that we wouldn’t have more “psychopaths” out there with them, legally? And that the second they snap or lose their temper they wouldn’t just “black out” and use that gun on someone? Remember, this korean guy was “just like the rest of us” before he did what he did.

Here’s an example of the sort of stuff I foresee happening:
Jack is driving down the freeway and suddenly gets cut off by Joe. Jack is infuriated and starts flipping Joe the finger. Joe gets pissed off that he’s just been flipped off so he changes lanes, slows down and rolls down his window so he can yell obscenities back at Jack. Jack freaks out when he sees Joe rolling down his window and thinks “oh shit, this guy’s a lunatic. He just cut me off and now he’s swerving around the road and lowering his window and looking really pissed. He’s going to shoot!”. Jack starts reaching for his own gun so he can be ready to defend himself if he needs to and Joe sees Jack’s reaching movements. Joe thinks “Oh shit, he’s a fucking crazy lunatic. He’s gonna shoot!”.

Now does it even matter who shoots first?! Because if it’s my kid that gets hit with a stray bullet on that freeway on our way to visit family for the holidays (because statistics say that even a seasoned cop can’t hit a moving target, let alone two idiots on the road), the all I’m going to care about, in what will then be my delirious state of mind, is bargaining with a god I don’t believe in to get my kid back.

There’s just no way that you can guarantee that only responsible people would carry guns or only people without a short fuse would carry guns.

What does the average “Joe” need a gun for?! Joe doesn’t have horses to protect or coyotes and bears to scare off. We’re not fighting a war on our homeland against the Brits. And last I checked, the civil war was over.