The Rude Pundit - American Has Become a Second Amendment Death Cult

[Freelancer]

85. Never happen -- sorry. This is America's lot, and we have to deal with it. Maybe gun-free zones?

I've been in houses of very normal (if that really is a thing) people. When invited down to the basement for a beer, I've found the basement walls completely ringed with guns. I'm not talking about hanging on racks horizontally, but stood up vertically with the rifle butts on the floor.

There are neat houses in neighborhoods all across America that have whole cabinets of pistols and bins of ammo tucked away inside. The idea that gun lovers are clustered in militia camps and trailer parks, or any other stereotype that makes it convenient for anti-gun people to regard them as 'other', is completely off-base. They are our relatives and neighbors.

If, by some alignment of political stars, a law was passed that would seize guns, and the police (who value their own lives) tried to enforce it, every community in America would become a war zone. The law would be repealed in a matter of days, and gun sales would quadruple.

This is America's lot. We just have to work around it as best we can -- with background checks, gun free zones, and whatever restrictions on assault weapons that we can get passed. Judging by the movies and violent games being played by our kids and grandkids, the interest in firearms won't be going away any time soon.