I'm effing sick and tired of so many perpetually FEARFUL Americans who cannot LIVE without a loaded gun within 10 feet at all times and places. And the fear of the boogey man resulting in the discharging of one without certifying any real threat.
This is a major mental disease ... the gun ... the power to (at best) scare someone else shitless, and (at worst) wound and kill multiple people, targets who were innocent/uninvolved with the ridiculous stimulus to the shooter's sense of safety.
I'll be 70 in November, and I've sadly come to realize this national, major, festering, chronic, DISEASE -- of feeling like one MUST own and have such PACIFIERS within arm's reach at any moment's notice -- will never be rationalized or lessened until I'm long dead, and probably well past my great-grandchildrens' lifetimes. I've never once felt the need to get a gun for my person/household. All you "lawful gun owners" who own and carry will laugh and attack me; I don't give two shits how you defend your positions on this. I guess it's part of my largely European ancestry that I don't believe firearms should be in ANYONE's hands for any reason beyond the democratic governments' military and civil police forces. Even fireworks being shot off in wide open back yards piss me off no end. Men (and women) loving self-detonated explosions, and the danger to others of setting them off.
It is this MENTAL DISEASE, plus the other one, family-forced indoctrination of kids into religious dogmas from the ages of 2 onward (any and all "faiths", not just xtian), that just DEEPLY grind my decades old gears. The 2nd Amendment and the so-called "freedom of religion" phrase of the Constitution have enabled many generations to over-embrace such very injurious habits, and each successive generation considers these habits to be perfectly normal. It just makes my skin crawl that this is all part of a "normal society".
Apparently I do not understand, nor have I ever understood the psyche's of a seemingly big majority of American citizens.
Thank you for listening. "Fire away" as many of you undoubtedly will, with me having struck deep nerves.
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