Thinking About Our Future Guns

THE FREQUENCY OF MASS MURDER in America is increasing, alarmingly. Most of it we never hear about. Since the Chattanooga tragedy, at least three other events of equal or greater slaughter, one involving a knife, have transpired, but were not widely reported in the mainstream news media. Thus are America's guns a blazin', and can you imagine how exciting things could get if, as our conservative colleagues seem to desire, we all start going about in public packing heat, or, as they often said in the old west, "goin' heals"? Hell, this country is already, for all practical purposes, a perpetual shoot out, and its pretty obvious how angry most of us are, after twenty five years of losing wars, downward mobility, and getting ever deeper into debt. Personally, I don't even know how many times I've wished I had a gun handy, and how many murders I might have committed had I but had heat. Or maybe I would stop more crimes than I would commit; it would be a race to the top. I have never met a person I entirely trust with a firearm and the thought of walking around mainstream modern America with everyone looking like extras on "Gunsmoke" is a mite unnerving to me. Obama was right when he pointed out that this mass murder of the day stuff doesn't happen anywhere else. Oh, it happens, all right, in other countries, but hell, not every damned day! Again, "only in America". If ever we were actually required by law to carry, I would probably get a derringer, or one of those miniature .357 magnums which are remarkably small, and I would probably choose to conceal it. The impact so doing would have on my attitude and mood are hard to predict; I've never carried before. Best guess is that it would enhance my self confidence a heap, and make me ready to smart off to tough guys, which might not be the best idea. As to whether to conceal or reveal, we'll eventually have our choice, won't we? So, maybe its something we should all be thinking about.