Americans have been dying from guns by the droves for a long time. This fact didn’t really resonate with White America, however, until white people started being killed by the masses in public places.
I call this the Cedric Ceballos Effect. Ceballos was a pretty good player who would occasionally erupt for fifty-point games. He’s still more memorable than any of the more efficient and consistently lethal players of his era.
I think I can break down all the pro-gun arguments into two distinct camps.
1) “I own a gun because the criminals own guns.”
Right, well let me ask you this – wouldn’t it be better if neither you or these criminals owned guns?
You’re a practicing Christian, aren’t you Sir?
Okay, well the reason that a criminal would want to break into your house is because the income disparity in America right now is higher than it has been ever in history. In fact, the five heirs to the Wal-Mart fortune actually have the same net-worth as the bottom 41.5 percent of ALL OF AMERICA.
So, a few lessons you can learn from your savior: First give all of your shit away so that people won’t have any reason to break into your house.
Secondly, Jesus was a martyr who died so that people could continue living.
If you really believe that you need to arm yourself only to defend yourself against criminals, why not just take a lesson from Jesus, get rid of your gun and let the criminal break into your house and kill you and your family – at which point he will obviously be caught and jailed or executed.
Great. Now you’re dead, so your guns aren’t around and the criminal is off the streets. Within months nobody would need guns and America could go back to barbecue and fucking. Why not make a small sacrifice?
2) “I need my gun because the people need to defend themselves against the government.”
Let me tell you a secret: the government can kill you really easily, no matter how many guns you have.
The government has predator drones that are the size of your rifle. The government has helicopters and ballistics. Tanks with Ten Thousand Horse-Power. You have One Guy-Power. You’re fucked.
Do I find it odd that these mass shootings are unfolding at the exact moment that the N.D.A.A. has been amended to allow the indefinite detention of American citizens and that said shootings are being used as reasoning to make guns harder to purchase? Yes, I do.
Do I find it odd that this is happening as America slowly turns into a Police-State occupied by a violent and brutal law enforcement industry whose main job is to subvert our tax-brackets by constantly writing citations to its citizens? Yes.
But it doesn’t matter. The joke is on you, gun owners. All of this shit is going down right in front of you, and all you can think about are your stupid guns. The government has thrown you this little bone, this little scrap shaped like a gun, and you worship it as though it can actually give you back your freedom. You polish it and watch the news to see how many clips you can buy to defend yourself, but you don’t realize that you’ve already been gotten to.
They don’t need to kill you now.
Wake up. Your firearms are literally useless against their powers.