re: #310 Targetpractice

Think I’m start to run into one of the reasons why nothing gets done after every mass shooting, namely I’ve reached the end of my patience for arguing with gun cultists and their obsessive need to believe that the answer to gun violence is simply more guns. As if when everyone is armed, nobody will want too shoot for fear of being shot. As if MAD should be a daily way of life.

It is a collective delusion of Americans. The truly deranged are those who believe that in every other place on Earth, removing guns has somehow made peaceful nations into killing grounds, and that guns in every hand will somehow make everyone safer. But even those that don’t still cling to the fantasy that ‘law-abiding’ gun owners will be able to protect themselves and others, presumably by outshooting all the bad guys.

Nancy Lanza had all the guns she could ever want. She trained with them, used them regularly, and no doubt after every fresh tragedy she and the rest of the folks at her gun range congratulated themselves on being ‘responsible, law-abiding’ gun owners who got their guns legally and used them for the ‘right’ reasons. All the guns she could want, and she couldn’t protect herself in her own home. And that fantasy world has now had very real consequences for everyone else.

And still, Americans insist on protecting their fantasies over the lives of their neighbours and children.