I Oppose Gun Control!
/I am absolutely opposed to gun control. You cannot propose any sort of gun control that I’ll support. I firmly believe in the Second Amendment. No gun control!
You probably think a good portion of the American population will agree with me. Not so fast. Read to the end, and then you’ll realize that not a single American is likely to agree with me – and yet, I haven’t the tiniest doubt that I’m right and you’re all wrong. Let me explain.
You already know the statistics:
The U.S. has 4% of the world’s population and 42% of its guns.
We have 120 guns in this country for every 100 people. (Ten years ago it was 88 guns per 100 people.)
44% of American homes are considered “gun homes” because a gun is present.
56% of American homes are without guns. (My home is one of them.)
45,000+ Americans die from gunshots each year.
Gunshot wounds are now the #1 cause of death among American children!
79% of all U.S. homicides are by gun.
Other English-speaking countries report different statistics:
In the UK, 4% of homicides are by gun.
In Canada, 37% of homicides are by gun.
In Australia, 13% of homicides are by gun.
The Second Amendment reads as follows: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
And so, on December 15, 1791, a precursor to the National Guard was established by this amendment. All men of a certain age, per each state’s law, were guaranteed the right to keep muskets and bring them to training as required, preparing to defend the state, if necessary, against a president-become-autocrat. In 2008, after 217 years observing the Second Amendment as it was written, the U.S. Supreme Court reinterpreted that amendment, and the concept of “gun control” was rendered moot: guns would never be controlled.
A gun has one purpose: to kill. There is absolutely no other purpose or value to a gun.
Take away all our cars, and we’d have a hard time getting around. Take away all our stoves and ovens and microwaves, and we’d have a hard time cooking dinner. Take away all our tractors, and we’d have a hard time plowing our fields. Take away all our furnaces, and we’d have a hard time staying warm in winter.
Take away all our guns, and we’d have a hard time killing each other.
A gun is meant to kill. Period. If we had no guns, we’d shoot not a single person.
Don’t talk to me about “gun control.” What are you intending to control?
Which individuals will die?
How many at a time will die?
Where they will die?
Don’t talk to me about controlling guns. Don’t talk to me about lessening the carnage. Don’t try to explain “common-sense gun laws.” Where do you find common sense in the possession of a deadly weapon unable to do anything but kill? And don’t talk to me about “gun safety.” Talk about an oxymoron!
Keep our military armed. Keep our National Guard armed. Keep our police armed. Keep all hunting guns locked up on licensed hunting compounds. And get rid of all other guns. Don’t talk to me about “hunting” – get yourself another hobby. Don’t talk to me about “target practice” – practice something else. Believing you can “control” guns makes as much sense as setting wild lions and tigers free to roam through a school playground and urging the children to “be careful.” Relying on “control” of a deadly weapon that is of no practical, positive use in a society, rather than simply ridding the society of the useless weapon, makes not a whit of sense.
There is no practical, effective way to control weapons that have no function other than to kill. We must simply outlaw all guns.
Will you do it? Hell, no.
I estimate that I’ll probably live about 15 more years (unless I get shot), and I’m sure that, in my lifetime, the carnage wreaked by guns in the U.S. will not be curtailed but will only grow. So, when I die, I ask that my children remind people at my funeral of one thing: “She said ‘take away the guns.’” Tell the small group gathered together that, in 2022, your mother faced down the entire American population, knowing she’d have not a shred of support, and said, “Forget about gun control. Get rid of all guns not in the hands of military, police and the National Guard.” She knew she wouldn’t have a single supporter, but she believed she had to speak out. And so she said: “Get rid of all the guns.”
It can be done. I have absolutely no faith that it will be done, but I had to say it.