My short rant on gun rights and a gun nut troll hammer:

1. The original idea behind the Second Amendment was that the states could form militias as a check on the power of a central government. Those who have heard of this thing called the Civil War, know that the notion that the states could use their armies against the federal government was put permanently to bed at Appomattox in 1865. The modern form of the Second Amendment is called the National Guard.

2. The other idea behind it was to allow people who hunted and defended their homes on the frontier to do so. We don’t have a frontier anymore, and looking at the systematic genocide of native Americans as a good thing marks one as crazy.

3. But let’s say you are a strict constructionist and demand that constitution be read as it was meant at the time of writing… O.K. if a state of the union wants to conscript every male over the age of 18 into a militia and issue them a muzzle loader… ok.

4. On a more serious note, the idea that your common gun nut, with his gut hanging over his tactical pants, can take on the army or the marines with his home arsenal is pretty ridiculous. The Army and the Marines have all sorts of hardware that should never be in the hands of any civilian as a matter of common sense, but as a matter of the Second Amendment, dude seriously, what is your bushmaster going to do against a predator drone? What exactly would the brave Texas Navy (seriously, a real thing) do against a modern destroyer, other than blow up, burn to death and sink?

And while we are at it, it is all the rage for certain wingnuts to talk secession. I get that it is about as difficult to get certain rootin’ tootin’ Texans (and others) to threaten secession as it is to get a sorority girl to do fruity shots, but seriously, Appomattox, modern Marines, napalm etc…

5. On a more serious note… the solution is not everyone has a gun. If you imagine a crowded dark theater or a school with a shooter and a bunch of cowboys trying to shoot the shooter clearly, what you see are a bunch of dead kids in the crossfire and the copps not knowing who to shoot, leading to a lot of cowboys getting clipped by the cops.

6. I’m not saying that target shooting isn’t fun. I’m not saying that hunting isn’t a legitimate and since we’ve killed the predators, even necessary sport. Ok I get that, but the new laws aren’t aimed at those things. On the other hand, Mr. tactical camo who sees his gun as his “manhood licence” is really just an overcompensating loser who sees a weapon as a substitute for his little used cock. I am not interested in seeing others die just so some dipshit can have his tough guy masturbation fantasies. No seriously fuck him. He will just have to learn to be a productive and capable man in order to assuage his feelings of inadequacy instead.