Guns Kill People

Guns don’t kill people.  People kill people.  I remember hearing that phrase quite a bit over the last several decades. It’s almost like saying fast food doesn’t kill people, just the people that eat it.  Or, smoking doesn’t kill people.  Cigarettes kill people.  At the end of the day it’s just silly semantics.  Since the overwhelming majority of guns need to be handled by people - guns kill people.  Guns were made to kill.  That’s their sole purpose.

Whether we admit it or not, guns have and will forever shape the future of the world.  Since the first gun toter arrived in what we now call the US, the destruction began - killing the way to power.  We would quickly come to learn that he who has the guns has the power - and that’s not changing any time soon.

This being said, evolution as explained in Einstein’s theory, has changed forever.  It’s no longer about survival of the fittest.  It’s about who controls the guns.  Intelligence and genes are both non factors.  Wealth and power are.  This will greatly impact the future of our existence.

And then there’s all of the people who are up in arms over the perceived government’s mission to violate the 2nd amendment and take their guns.  People swear that the government is going to confiscate their misdirected sense of security.  The reality is - that’ll never happen - because it’s unnecessary - for a couple of reasons.  Firstly, the government will always have bigger guns and more people to use them.  Always. And they’re not always the brightest among us.  That in and of itself is scary.

When you couple that with rapidly increasing seemingly unregulated government surveillance policies being put in place, you, the individual gun owner have, for the most part, already been muted.

The scariest part about guns is they’ve taken and continue to take the lives of some of the brightest among us.  Those who speak out and challenge systems.  Those who demand justice.  Those who speak truth to power.  Those who question the validity of the American dream for all.  Know this - if you speak too much truth and generate a following, you invite the big guns.  The guns that ensure power structures cannot change.  The guns of capitalistic justice.

If we still think that stocking up on guns and ammunition are key to survival, how far have we really come as a society?  People lived successfully for thousands of years without guns.  Are we even moving forward?  Do we understand the aforementioned hypocrisy around guns - that no matter how many we have, the government always has bigger ones?

If we don’t now, we soon will.