Suicides involving firearms are fatal 85% of the time, pills less than 3%.

[The Straight Story]

61. It is not the guns I see as precious, but our personal freedoms

From abortions to guns to owning land to other choices we make - I don't see us each as the enemy we need to monitor and fear, but I do see the 1% and the few who hold power as such.

Those same people that, if, you and I didn't have guns would have people around them with them. That if folks could not have abortions because they were outlawed here still could because they could fly elsewhere to get them. The people who would be happy to see us all neutered and our rights removed so they would have less to fear from us as they themselves got more and more power and protection.

Damned shame some would want us, the people, to give up things that we wouldn't dare ask others to do. The reason they want that is because they will convince both sides to fight against each other and keep removing freedoms and using fear of each other to accomplish it.

Each election it will go as they plan - they will rile up the fear of the populace on the one side by using god and punishment, the other side using fear of each other and their freedoms and how us citizens need controlled or we will shoot each other.

And each time one side wins and makes inroads. Abortions are slowly, state by state, getting outlawed. More gun laws. More smoking laws. More bans on carrying water and such on planes. Kids getting arrested and thrown out of school over stupid things.

All the while the few run around laughing at us for being so dumb.

We slip into poverty, addiction, homelessness, unable to get medical care. Some strike out and steal bread from a store and go to prison while the wealthy steal billions and sit back laughing while doing the same drugs that would send others to jail.

We will march around and yell all day about what less than 1% do with their guns while we sit silent as the 1% of us all profit from wars, poverty, and death.

Would that Obama had spoken and fought as much for single payer as other things.

Would that folks would post stories each day about the problems caused from health care and the deaths from that, poverty, etc.

No. We will blame guns. We will call our society violent because of them when they are nothing more than a symptom of something bigger that we ignore and hide from.

We will use deaths and suicides to promote an agenda against something that the few want us to be rid of all of the while passing up the real issues that underlay it all.

I don't own a gun. They are not precious to me. My right to own one if I choose though is. And I don't like people who want to remove the rights I have - especially when they have no problem with the few in this country having those same rights because they can hire 'professional security' folks to protect them with guns because for some reason they trust those people more than each other.

The few won the battle, we hate and fear each other and only trust them. The rest of us don't deserve certain rights and protections.