Why do I own guns? Because... I adore gun control!

I am not a fan of "government". I am more than willing to be led by leaders but I have never seen any value in government once I looked up the etymology of the word.

"Govern" come from latin and it means to "direct, rule or guide". Notice there is nothing in the root of the damned word about leading? The word was originally used to reference the act of steering a ship. You "govern" or keep a steady hand on the tiller so that the ship goes where you want it to go. That struck me the wrong way because we are people, not an inanimate object like a ship.

We should be able to choose what we want for ourselves and not have what we want chosen FOR us and then be TOLD what we are supposed to WANT.

Having said that... lets get down to gun control. "Gun Control is the ability to hit what you are aiming at!!", this is all of the gun control I need. Most americans actually don't even realize that there was a time in the united states that firearm regulation was pretty much handled by firearms owners and as a result, crime was handled in the same way for the most part.

Think back to the last point in american history when we were about as close to being actually "free americans".... yup... Cowboys. In that day and time if you felt you needed a gun, you had a gun, if you felt that you didn't need a gun, you didn't own one. Pretty simple fucking system if you ask me. It didn't really matter where or how you carried it either. You could carry it low on your hip in a cowboy style rig so you had access to it for killing snakes and coyotes while sitting in the saddle, or you could carry it tucked into your waistband because you didn't carry it often, or you could even carry it inside your suit coat if you wanted. One thing was for sure though... pretty much EVERY damned body had a gun so people were generally nicer to one another. Those that weren't nice got dead or wounded.

If someone was a known asshole with their gun they didn't last long because of other gun owners. But the non gun owners simply steered clear of the asshole with a gun. I mean people carried a fucking gun everywhere and the good people were good and the bad people were bad. Some people died from time to time and while tragic, if there were no guns whatsoever people would have carried wooden sporks if that was what was used for self defense and while tragic, some people would have also died. But even then everyone would have suspected everyone else of having a wooden spork whether they could actually see the spork or not and the god would be good, the bad would be bad, but in general people would be a whole lot nicer to one another.

So there is the basis of letting the good be good and choose to arm themselves or not and let them regulate the bad when they need to. The question still remains that if this was a good and decently functional system... what happened? Government happened. Did you know that there was a bunch of people trying to force everyone else in the country to conform to their beliefs.. and this is where we stopped being "free americans". Gun control was virtually unheard of in america before 1920.

The first gun laws we originally passed to prevent guns being owned by blacks. Why you might ask? Quite honestly because the ratio of recently freed blacks in the south outnumbered the white former slave owners almost 2 to 1! These dickbags were scared for their lives! They were actually afraid of retribution from this group of subhumans they had been abusing for their entire lives? Say it isn't so!

 Truthfully it was terribly difficult for a black person to walk into a store and buy a gun because they weren't really allowed in stores that often due to persistent racism and when they were allowed in white people wouldn't sell them a gun. However, the US Mail is pretty damned colorblind and at that time a black man in Alabama could open a catalog from NYC and order a gun and the postal service would bring it to their home! This would NEVER do so laws were passed to prevent mail order guns JUST to keep them out of the hands of blacks. Yet they penalized every american in the process of coddling former slave abusers. Fucking GENIUS, right?

How can you make such a magnanimous claim that you "Freed" slaves and then take away their "freedom" to choose for themselves whether they need or want a gun? But hey... they are the government... they are in control.

The next gun grabs were oddly made by the government because of the result of laws they fucked up and passed to begin with! Once again the government allowed a small group of people who were trying to control the entire fucking country to sway their making of laws without any semblance of applying logic! A bunch of uptight christians calling themselves "The Temperance Movement" decided that the whole fucking country shouldn't drink... so the government passed prohibition. Fuck Me! The people who wanted to drink were drinkers and the people who didn't want to drink were not drinking already! The backlash was several fold though. There were the drinkers who were gonna drink despite the law and would use their guns to protect themselves from overzealous government agents who were trying to force temperance laws on them and criminals were making more money than ever providing liquor so they would defend their business model. So the government had to make getting guns MORE difficult for non drinking by choice, gun owners by choice, not really free anymore americans. This shit went on for YEARS and was a bloodbath so congress passed laws in the 30s prohibiting mail order sales of concealable firearms and outlawed automatic weapons altogether. In effect, using a fuck up to try and remedy their previous fuck up on prohibition. Most americans are fucking clueless that the supreme court ruled these laws unconstitutional though. This just caused the greedy money pigs we were becoming more and more strapped with to go back to the drawing board and devise laws in such certain legal language that they wouldn't be invalidated by the supreme court. This penalizing every americans freedom to choose good or bad for themselves.

The next gun grab was because of the JFK assassination. My theory on this whole thing comes off to make me look like a conspiritard but let's just note this was 1968 and AGAIN infringed on the freedoms of americans to choose what is right for themselves.

In 79 the NRA formally challenged the 68 law and started lobbying hard. In 86 Reagan signed paperwork to roll back much of the 68 law and restored SOME of the american freedoms to again choose for themselves.

Now get this... in 93 the so called "Brady Bill" was passed requiring background checks to purchase a firearm. Of course the government TELLS us that it isn't storing this information anywhere and it is NOT building a database of which americans are buying which guns, but do you honestly believe that shit? Ask yourself if the government has lied to you before or not. But here is the really ODD thing to me... the brady bill was passed FOR James Brady, a man who was injured in 81 during an attempted assassination of Reagan. The same man who RELAXED gun control in 86. But a guy from the same incident gets a law passed to restrict gun purchases in 93? This is starting to smell bad as if some spoiled leftovers in the back of the college fraternity fridge!

Here is the thing about gun control... other countries have made guns illegal and their gun related crime, suicides, and even accidents have all gone down dramatically! These facts are CONSTANTLY pointed to by anti gun activists but they don't care about the logic here which is: THIS IS NOT A FUCKING MONARCHY BASED DEMOCRACY!

These citizens of other countries do not live in countries founded on the very principal that the right to OWN a gun is a guaranteed right and that the government SHALL NOT infringe that right. Of course you can lower crime rates when you can COMPEL your citizens to relinquish their firearms because they were never guaranteed the right to own them to begin with!

I am about to go full on retard about conspiracy here and say that I believe that America was founded by a bunch of rebels. Not just rebels to the crown but rebels to the status quo. The status quo at the time in my opinion was that there was a group of Euro-centric people who were hell bent on control of the known world and orchestrating this plan to build up a citizenship that would be so large that no other nation would be able to resist their influence.

But this rag tag bunch of renegades left and came to america and formed a new country that wouldn't be beholden to the status quo. Things were trucking along okay until the status quo began trying to flex their ideas again and the revolutionary war happened and we kicked their asses back across the pond to england.

Slowly over time though... the status quo showed back up and approached the successful money men in america and promised they could make these greedy men even MORE money if they would just get on board with the world domination plan. The greed swayed the money men and they swayed the politicians, politicians swayed the laws, the laws swayed the people, and the people swayed their freedoms. Pretty sad chain of events huh?

Would you believe that 30 DAYS of war is more profitable than 30 YEARS of peace? Look at what a social impact war has on society and how it sways those who are beholden to the government. Imagine how easily a government can make problems simply vanish in the fog of war. Can you honestly think of a better misdirection for a magic trick than a war or terrorist attack? Where should we be looking when the government is trying to make us look at the news stories about exploding buses? Japanese journalists being beheaded by ISIS? French cartoonists being murdered?

WHAT DID WE MISS WHEN WE WERE WATCHING 9/11 COVERAGE?

Fear not though because I know I sound like I am wearing a tin foil hat as I type but I just notice when things don't make sense.

It's weird and fucked up questions like these that make me choose to own a gun... hell MANY fucking guns! But I am also choosing to be a good steward about my gun ownership. I can only foresee the downside of being a gun owner coming about due to someone, or anyone trying to TAKE away my right as an American to choose for myself. Because I will defend myself against ANY ENEMY... foreign or domestic. This includes the person I consider foreign in my home at 2am regardless of their heritage as well as the bureaucratic and jack booted thugs that show up under the guise of relieving me of the burden of protecting myself in the name of "public safety".

I am a good steward with my ownership of firearms, my right to own firearms, and even with my ability to hit what the fuck I aim at!

I adore gun control.

"What is ShitRedditSays anyway?"

There is no easy way to answer this. I suppose you could say that "SRS is Hypocrisy Personified" which is correct but so open to interpretation and interpreting things is what I do. I just interpret things through my own filter which admittedly is quite screwed as of late due to my exposure to reddit.

SRS is inhabited by haters of opinion who are only really bound together by their own personal version of hate. They are not "like minded" people but merely people with a lowest common denominator in that they individually hate...  something. You see they have resigned themselves to a mob mentality and are clinging to the "safety in numbers" concept over actually standing for that particular thing they hate on their own as individuals. SRS is filled to overflowing with people who are co-opting each other's hate.

While there is a LOT of things to hate when it comes to reddit like racism, sexism, misogyny, and misandry, SRS goes so much deeper into individual hate of simply peculiar things like someone's personal opinion for instance. Can you see the irony there? Their opinion to hate your opinion is all kinds of acceptable, but you actually having the opinion to begin with is deplorable in their view.

It really doesn't really matter how much a person's life experience has led to this opinion because all that matters is "can someone in SRS hate this?". If that answer is yes, trust me, SRS has their pitchforks at the ready! All that is required is for one SRS'er to take offense with anything in particular and the hivemind takes over.

Imagine a bunch of monkeys that are using group-think to hate fuck a football like a bunch of inmates on a conjugal visit with a hooker that owes them money. One monkey hates oblong things, another hates leather things, and still another just hates footballs. There is the leather hating monkey, the brown object hating monkey, the hater of things with white stripes monkey etc ad infinitum.

Now each monkey in the troop hates things differently about the football but they are bound together in their lowest common denominator which would be the desire to fuck things they hate. While they consider themselves the kinder, gentler, and even more evolved troop, they believe this is who they are because of their perception of tolerance. They perceive being maligned representatives of the monkey minority, that they are somehow superior to other monkeys much less the rest of the planet of us apes.

We are not entitled to our opinion like they are. We are not entitled to any "isms" like they are. We are not even entitled to hate fuck footballs like they are.

They promote themselves as warriors for social justice much in the same way radical islam justifies murdering people for drawing cartoons... because they said so.