2nd Encounter of the Day.... Over guns this time

[BainsBane]

59. prescribed ways

are virtually no ways. There was an entire thread about this. Courts have broadened the law to include most cases. The mere act of a child puling the trigger, a California court ruled, makes them exempt from prosecution. Knowingly allowing guns to be disturbed illegally is not grounds for suit. I know what that law does: it limits the rights of American citizens in favor of unbridled profits for death merchants and protects criminals' unrestricted access to weapons. Meanwhile, gun proponents insist we should be denied the right to petition the courts so the gun industry can have unfettered profits, unique to all capitalist enterprises in the country. They cling to a couple of words in the Second Amendment and ignore the part concerning "well regulated." Anything that interferes with their desire to stockpile WMD is an attack on their "rights." The First Amendment is a casualty and the right to life inconsequential.

Their rights argument is nothing but their own self-delusion--narcissistic excuses that seek to elevate their self interests above the rest of humanity. They are hypocrites who dissemble and lie to justify a culture of violence that results in the highest murder rate in the industrialized world. That's the society that results from their commitment to gun proliferation, and they see nothing wrong with it. Instead they lie about statistics and dismiss the lives of the fallen. The more I hear from the NRA and other gun proponents, the more they convince me that gun control is essential.