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Bang, You’re Dead | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust
Oct. 12, 2013
Apropos of the recent Roseburg, Oregon, school massacre that left nine dead, President Obama said, were going to have to come together and stop these things from happening. Thats an understandable sentiment, and the president has to say something, after all. But within the context of how life is lived in this country these days, were not going to stop these things from happening.
And what is that context? A nation physically arranged on-the-ground to produce maximum loneliness, arranged economically to produce maximum anxiety, and disposed socially to produce maximum alienation. Really, everything in the once vaunted American way of life slouches in the direction of depression, rage, violence, and death.
This begs the question about guns. I believe it should be harder to buy guns. I believe certain weapons-of-war, such as assault rifles, should not be sold in the civilian market. But I also believe that the evolution of our Deep State the collusion of a corrupt corporate oligarchy with an overbearing police and surveillance apparatus is such a threat to liberty and decency that the public needs to be armed in defense of it. The Deep State needs to worry about the citizens it is fucking with.
The laws on gun sales range from ridiculously lax in many states to onerous in a few. Yet the most stringent, Connecticut, (rated A by the Brady Campaign org), was the site of the most horrific massacre of recent times so far, the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting. The handgun law in New York City is the most extreme in the nation limiting possession only to police and a few other very special categories of citizens. But it took the stop-and-frisk policy to really shake the weapons out of the gang-banging demographic. And now that Mayor Bill deBlasio has deemed that racist, gang-banging murders are going up again.
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Bang, You’re Dead | James Howard Kunstler (Original Post)
Tace
Oct 2015
OP
The armed citizenry is a deep threat to the armed and unarmed citizenry! You see it every day!
Fred Sanders
Oct 2015
#2
enough
(13,262 posts)1. I wonder if the "Deep State" really has to worry about the armed populace.
With its control over militarized police, drone warfare, the armed forces, communications, data, etc., it hardly seems an armed citizenry would be that much of a threat to the Deep State.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)2. The armed citizenry is a deep threat to the armed and unarmed citizenry! You see it every day!
"World News Trust" opinion writers should be trusted to give good opinion on gun control because......?
enough
(13,262 posts)3. Hey Fred, you can say that again! Sorry I missed your post, spot on, thanks (nt).