Guns is as American as apple pie. Shit, guns might be the most American thing. I have shot a few guns, but not a lot. It was fun, but it’s not my thing. I don’t own a gun, and not because my politics are to the left. When I fly in a plane, I fear I’m going to crash. When I ride in a car, I’m paranoid of getting in a crash. When I climb a latter, I fear I’m going to fall. When I have sex, I’m afraid I’ve knocked up my sexual partner. If I had a gun, I’d never touch it, because I can tend to paranoid about situations that could bring me instant harm. I like my beer and whiskey, which is causing harm to body, but I’ve left that up to my future self to deal with the ramifications.
A few summer’s ago, a Cousin and I were talking about guns as we watched family members shoot M-16’s and 22’s, we said, “gun control might be the right thing to do, but good luck getting it done.” After all, it’s not just Republicans who own guns. Guns are so embedded into our cultural psyche, any mention of gun control and you’re now a puppet of the globalist-Deep State-Soros brigade.
If you’re outspoken about Trump, in the public’s eye, and a conservative? You’re going to get death threats, and having a gun in that situation is going to make you feel a little safer. "Never Trump” Rick Wilson, author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, carries a gun in public in certain circumstances, and I don’t blame him. Especially when he says “when I live in cities other than New York and Washington, I have a concealed carry permit,” Wilson said in an interview. “I carry for a reason. It’s not a trivial macho posture thing. I carry because I’ve had people approach me in public and threaten to kill me.”
Wilson explains how his anti-Trump stance has made him public enemy number one:
Fox News has turned itself into a weaponized platform for Trump,” explained Wilson. “And if you oppose him, suddenly the network that reaches 90 million households can turn you into history’s greatest monster with one mouse click. It has established that fear and intimidation culture.
Rick Wilson carries a gun in public, because of a reasonable worry that some Trump-sycophant will try and harm him. When I support gun control, I mean that it’s unnecessary for a civilian to have assault rifles that would be used in the military, and the ability to fire a shit ton of rounds in moments. I don’t care if people have shotguns, hand guns, .22’s, and shit like that. I’m not really down with M-16’s, AR-15’s, and shit like that. But I don’t really care to be indignant about my views, because I know I’d just be wasting time.
Unfortunately, in American society today, it’s reasonable for the community to fear someone going into a school and shooting the place up. Our culture is going to ask itself about the role of gun culture, and our culture at large. I know it’s not going to happen, because the only actual response to school shootings has been to arm teachers, or make schools resemble prisons. The Guardian ran an article talking about teachers in Utah getting training to pack a gat at school.
This is truly the American way to respond to gun violence. I don’t mean to say that just to be a shit talking asshole, but to say that this is the response of a culture that has guns so ingrained into its cultural fabric. The reaction to gun control is the same reaction Vietnamese had to Ngo Dinh Diem’s regime outlawing the celebration of Buddha’s birthday.
In 2016, over 38,000 people died related to firearms, but most of these deaths are not related to school shootings. “Mass shootings shootings make up a tiny proportion of gun deaths, “ said Cather Voutaz, a mother who had recently lost her son to suicide. “Most people don’t even recognize how big a problem suicide is, because of the media focus on school shootings.” Furthermore, Craig Bryan, assistant professor of clinical psychology at the University of Utah, pointed out that “Most mass shooting have been driven by suicidal ideation.”
It’s not just teachers, parents, or the NRA who says we should arm the teachers. Education Secretary has said in the past that arming teachers is “one solution that can and should be considered.” Well, the Department of Education is considering it, and also letting schools buy guns using federal funds. It’s insane that we live in a time where our public education is horribly underfunded, which is why teachers across the country have been protesting not just for higher wages, but also funding for supplies that school’s need for their students.
The federal money schools would get for guns would come from the Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants, and the DoE’s excuse to do this would that it would go to “improve school conditions.”
The grant’s homepage describes what the money is for:
To improve student’s academic achievement by increasing the capacity of States, local educational agencies, schools and local communities to: (1) provide all students with access to a well-rounded education; (2) improve school conditions for student learning; and (3) improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy for all students.
I doubt one could argue that guns in schools would “provide all students with access to a well-rounded education.” Oh wait, it would be Betsy DeVos and Ted Nugent that would make the argument that arming teachers is the way to go. At least kids could then know what it’s like to go to school living in a war zone.
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