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Originally Posted by Not Bob
Bullet control. Won't happen, but is doable.
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Assault weapon regulation and background checks are not difficult to implement. If we could jail people for decades for acid, we could jail people for having illegal or illegally modified weapons.
We choose not to have reasonable regulation in part because of the NRA and politics. But there's another reason, I think, also at work. Low rent Americans (most Americans) deify aggression. It's considered wholesome for some fucked up reason. You can show people getting mangled in PG flicks, but breasts are banned. You can buy a pistol in any fucking WalMart, but magic mushrooms - an utterly harmless bit of brain candy - are banned. Weed is illegal, but getting pasted on alcohol, which causes one to behave less introspectively, and more outwardly idiotic, is celebrated.
Our reverence for the military is pathological. We acquit cops for blatant acts of violence because a large section of us still hews to authoritarian biases ("Respect my authoritaaayy!").*
The twisted frustrations of Puritanism still haunt us. The anger, repression, fear, and narrow mindedness that comes with 200 years of religious bullshit infecting our culture has rendered most of us neanderthals in a modern world. In a world changing so rapidly, note which cultures rush to the simple solution of the gun: Us, and Radical Islam. In this regard, we deserve each other. (And hell... we helped create Radical Islam, so it's just fitting we circle the bowl together, no?)
But I digress. We are indeed sick. And strange. But it's not our politics alone, or our gun laws. It's the deeply perverted sets of values comprising the everyman's worldview in this country. We're dumb, incurious, and this is a predictable regression.
My pet cure would be to dose the entire country with acid adequate enough to expand the pea brains of the nation. I believe that is the only mind scrambler out there that would unwind the crazy. Who the fuck wants to play with guns when the trees are so pretty, and the tunes are so awesome. Wouldn't it be better to grab a bit of afternoon delight with your SO, using your actual penis, rather than listen to Rush Limbaugh and kill things with your fake one?
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* E. Cartman
