Guns Don't Kill

I am sick of hearing that guns don’t kill or maim people. That argument’s logical fallacy is based on the idea that it is a human that kills. No shit Sherlock. I would like to thank Captain Obvious for that tired and overused contention. Guns give a killer an enormous advantage when seeking revenge or murder over lower tech means of killing such as knives, swords or a hatchet. They also provide the killer a way to separate themselves from what they have done. They do not have to get personal with their victims in the same way they would with those lower tech devices.

Moreover, using that tired and worn out logic the making and selling of bombs to the American public should be legal because bombs don’t kill people and Ted Kaczynski should have his sentence commuted because he used bombs that don’t kill people to kill people. Bombs like guns are inanimate objects so there is no way that they can harm another human. Maybe Timothy McVeigh should never have been executed since the inanimate object he used could never have killed all those children.

For those of you who have no idea what a gun or bomb is let me give you a history lesson, this goes out especially to our American NRA members and Michael Medved who when it comes to guns like to use pretzel logic to explain away gun violence. For all you history buffs, as you are well aware, guns were invented to kill and maim other humans in such a way that swords and knives and hatchets became obsolete and delightful killing devices used significantly less because they did not have the killing power of a gun.

Let’s take that one step further, think about this, our military buys many, many guns and other countries’ militaries buy many, many guns. Based on Michael Medved’s logic, there is no reason for governments to provide their military with guns because guns don’t kill or maim their enemy and militaries need technology that does kill and maim their enemy, so why do so many countries have militaries that buy many, many guns? Furthermore, this need to constantly restock gun inventories makes no sense if you listen to the amusing stylings of the Michael Medved show and the NRA stooges that flood the radio airways.

Logic be damned. Let the good times roll and make sure that the media and the entertainment industry extol the virtues of the American gun culture by selling it to American children. Without this cowboy mentality, where would America be today? There is no way that we would be the last standing superpower. Our willingness to strap on that six-shooter sets us apart from those quaint cultural icons the Germans, Russians and Chinese who never saw guns or bombs as a necessary evil. Hell, the Chinese only like to sell Americans pretty exploding devices to light up our skies on the Fourth of July.

It comes as no surprise that America’s love of guns is coming back to haunt us in the most unlikely of places: our schools. There are many, many more young Americans murdered in our streets, but that has become so common we and the media don’t raise an eye brow to those killings. It is inevitable that it won’t be too long until we have the same reaction to school shootings which is exactly the way gun manufacturers and their mouthpiece the NRA want Americans to view guns and their predictably destructive nature. School shootings must be seen as the natural course of life and death in America, thus, there can be no real or thoughtful dialogue concerning this truly American epidemic.