4/15/2023 0 Comments Tyranny of choice![]() The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.Here are some of those who the gun lobby insists pose grave threat to responsible gun owners: In fact, the NRA’s list of enemies has recently made the rounds of published information. No, it’s not the majority response from those on the side of fewer gun laws, but it’s the loudest, and it comes from the leadership - like the NRA. Instead of a rational reaction to rising death-by-gun rates, instead of a 100-percent, collective response to yet another despicable mass murder (albeit nothing like ever before, given that it was 20 6- and 7-year-olds and their teachers who were gunned down), we hear, “They’re comin’ for our guns!” and “Laws don’t work because criminals don’t obey them!” and the like. Since semi-automatic rifle hunting is such sport, why shouldn’t I be able to see how a tree or a deer explodes when it meets a rocket on my private property? Plus, with that state-wide deer problem we have, why opt for just bow-hunting when land mines could be so much more effective! Why not make rocket launchers legal? We’ve got lots of wide open spaces in Connecticut. ![]() In the meantime, these same weapons are great additions to the array of sport hunters’ options. With that 'logic,' why stop at the right to bear semi-automatic guns? Any kind of weapon should be allowed just in case we get attacked by our own government, in order to even out the military playing field. military, should some crazy idea seep into the head of either the current occupant of the Oval Office - despite every clue to the extreme opposite - or another kook-with-delusions-of-grandeur from within or without our borders? Is it rational to think that the anachronistic interpretation of the Second Amendment is really about protecting you from the kind of tools at the disposal of today’s U.S. But suddenly these same non-lethal weapons are the only things standing between law-abiding gun owners and the most skilled, technologically advanced military force of the modern era! The weapons of choice aren’t lethal, they’re not military grade, and us ‘anti-gun zealots’ are ignorant when it comes the differences between semi-automatic, automatic and assault weapons. I’m even further confused by the kind of arguments being made to defend the paranoia. armed forces not only can’t or won’t protect us, but they’re the ones we need to defend against. ![]() I think it indicates how very much the rest of us need to be afraid of LaPierre and company being afraid simultaneously that the government will come or that the government will not come.ĭid either of those things happen during Hurricane Sandy or any other disaster? Has any of that happened here since we gained our freedom from King George?īut in their world, the government is coming for us and our guns. And I think that indicates how relevant and essential the Second Amendment is in today’s society to fundamental human survival.” ![]() And the only way they’re going to protect themselves in the cold and the dark, when they’re vulnerable, is with a firearm. If a tornado hits, if a hurricane hits, if a riot occurs that they’re going to be out there alone. LaPierre’s other fear, as he told the committee? “What people all over the country fear today is being abandoned by their government.
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