Quentin Lucas has a thought about guns in America.
—
Your guns are fired, America.
Either they don’t work like the advocates say or you’re a lousy employer.
But you’re guns have got to go.
That’s really all I have to say. These mass shootings are absurd and they’re happening a lot more frequently than stories about someone ending a mass shooting with his gun. We have all these guns — nearly one for every man, woman and child in the country — but no stories about heroic gunmen foiling a mass shooting.
We have all these guns — nearly one for every man, woman and child in the country — but no stories about heroic gunmen foiling a mass shooting.
|
And, ironically, God help us if we do.
Because if that happens, then we get to have more guns and more conversations about why we need more guns.
Seriously, if guns don’t kill people, but people do, then why all the hoopla about how more guns will save people?
Think long and hard on that because it actually doesn’t make any sense.
Meanwhile, America’s children are being sacrificed at the altar of an iron god.
That’s it. That’s the whole article. Illogical, ineloquent, and unrealistic, I know — but, frankly, I’m too emotionally bruised to care, and I may just unconsciously be trying to relate to the mindset of soapbox advocates for more damn guns.
If you’re bored, here’s a link to a 6,500-word short story I wrote after the last mass shooting and the subsequent advocacy for more guns. Let me tell you what happens since it’s long:
A law is enacted where everyone is required to carry a gun for protection, even teenagers who are old enough to drive a car and/or be tried as an adult. It’s called The Safest Day — which is a wildly ironic title because nobody’s safe at all because everybody has a gun.
That’s right. Damn near everyone dies in the end. And it’s just as appropriate a story now as it was after the last mass shooting, and likely will be at the next one.
Photo Credit: Peretz Partensky/Flickr
Free speech no longer works the way it is supposed to. Should we fire it, too?
“We have all these guns — nearly one for every man, woman and child in the country — but no stories about heroic gunmen foiling a mass shooting. ” Your ignorance is not a limitation of reality. I’ve seen two recent articles listing the recent mass shootings thwarted by a civilian and I haven’t been paying attention to the news. “Meanwhile, America’s children are being sacrificed at the altar of an iron god.” I have a loaded firearm less than an inch from my genitals. Big bore hollowpoints. I’m waiting for it to jump out of the holster, out of… Read more »