Reply #37: I lost my fiance to the Texas Tower Sniper in 1966, and fuckwad gun nuts were

[Peace Patriot]

out in force yelling "MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS!" over his bleeding corpse.

The 2nd Amendment was written at a time when most Americans lived on isolated farms with no electricity, no running water, no iPods, no computers, no telephones, no schools, no libraries, no paved roads, and only the horse for transportation, and with the British threatening to hang the rebel founders of our nation. It is INSANE to extrapolate that situation to this one. It is insane, macho, egocentric, utterly brainwashed behavior. The Texas Tower Sniper shootings should have resulted in banning of all private firearms, and disarming of the police as well--in a general disarmament of our society, like other civilized nations. Yet there were the gun nuts, using the occasion of my murdered fiance to yell, More guns! More guns! More guns! More guns! Guns in churches! Guns in schools! Guns in your pockets! Guns in your bags! Guns in your cars! Guns in your baby carriages! Guns in your workplace! Guns in libraries! Guns in hospitals! MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS! MORE GUNS! Everybody shooting at each other! WHOOPEE! BushWorld! BushWorld! Ziss, boom, bah! Bang, bang! Shoot, shoot! Rah, rah, rah!"...

...until we've reached the utter insanity of today. We are a SICK society, at that time preparing to slaughter TWO MILLION Southeast Asians for our insane predatory capitalist ideology, and today, a million innocents slaughtered in Iraq to get their oil for insane predatory capitalist globalisation. The two things are related--an utterly unsafe society in which everybody lives in fear and thinks they need a firearm to protect their wad against everybody else, and the U.S. military hijacked by global corporate predators for a corporate resource war.

This could have been the millennium of peace. Yet the U.S. instead has deliberately fostered a worldwide arms race--and an arms race here at home.

Guns everywhere. The threat of instant death for looking at someone crosswise. The threat of WW III with the trigger finger of unaccountable leaders. The worship of shooters on TV, with scripts manipulated to make people believe that shooting other people, and brutalizing "perps," is necessary, and righteous.

Off. Our. Rockers.