Cherishing Our Freedom To own Guns to Protect Ourselves Against Those Bad Guys

SINCE THE MASSACRE in Los Vegas, there have been at least seven other mass murders in America, in one week. A mass murder is defined as three or more people getting killed at the same time by the same killer. Sounds like a reasonable criterion. You gotta start somewhere. All of the mass murders within the past week have been perpetrated with guns, not baseball bats or knives or skillets, or any other the other potential weapons which conservative gun lovers point to as alternative weapons, by which they mean that a gun is a deadly weapon only when fired; guns don't kill people, people kill people kill people, bullets originate from people, not guns. Nearly all mass murders in America are gun related, but, again, it does not have to be that way. keep a watch out for rakes and broom handles. All politics is local. We never hear much about mass shootings, because the news medial can only report so much, there is only so much time allotted between commercials, and we can only absorb so much, there is only so much screen time between tweets, posts, and friend finding and listing. Mass murders in America are a daily occurrence. They are, for American culture, perfectly normal, carried out by perfectly normal people, people wo are mentally ill at least some of the time, as we all are. never was there a human being in perfect physical or mental health, all of the time. We accept our mass murders as media events, and can afford the luxury of ignoring all but the most grotesque and sensational of the many form which we have to choose. Freedom of choice, is after all, the foundation of American capitalism, gun ownership, and personal value system. In America, we can all be quite correct, about everything. I is well worth it, in America, to build our society around the automobile without the slightest reservation, and to accept forty thousand vehicular deaths annually. Our guns protect us from bad guys, and from each other. anything unpleasant we can ascribe to fluke, freak happenstance events, or liberal conspiracies in the mainstream media, sparing us the necessity of examining ourselves, our values, and our culture. The fact that places like England and Australia, where the masses have disarmed, have virtually no gun violence, and virtually no substitute violence with frying pans, shoe laces, or guitar strings as murder weapon is irrelevant; we cherish our American freedom of choice.