Gun control, oh my teeth savor this one.

I have been reading as many of the silly ramblings and various pissings of the post shooting media responce that I could find, there is several out and about to fill up my morning. The pro gun, the anti-gun, the undecided, they are all over the news right now. I see many people who are angry and scared but I can not for the life of me figure out why they are so scared of the gun and not the nut job that was using it. Sure the stigma of the gun is the impersonality of the weapon, you can use it from a distance instead of up close like a knife, it is loud and easy to conceal, unlike a bow and arrow and of course there is the psychological impact of a small, high velocity projectile entering your body unexpectedly. I will admit that these things are very intimidating, personaly, if someone pulls a knife on me instead of a gun, I would be relieved, it is difficult to fataly wound someone with a knife unless you have been trained to wield it, which most people have not. There is the added benefit of being able to outrun the would be stabber. Handguns, small, easily hidden, chunks of cold metal that become loud, violent, fire spewing, merchants of lead death, easy to be terrified of that. So our ingrained fear makes us fight the scary psychology of guns, with the fluffy psychology of signs and "gun free zones". A sign that says" no guns allowed", might as well say," no killing allowed", or "no psychopaths beyond yellow line", it's all just as effective. Do convenience stores need signs that say," no robbing cashier", would that change anything? Should we post notice on choir boys robes that say,"no raping"? Has a sign ever stopped someones plans to shoot up a public place? The answer is a heartfelt, no. If the worry of death, or prison isn't stopping someone from commiting a crime, then why would a sign? It is just another stupid thing, that makes the stupid, scared people feel less scared but they are still stupidly, blind to reality and that is the sad part.
Now let's examine gun control, this should be a no brainer. On one hand you have the people who think the government should make it harder to get a gun. Well, in most states, it is pretty hard to "legally" get a fire arm. Why is legally in quotation marks? Well, that is the good bit, to purchase a fire arm legally, you have to go through channels and background checks, in most states it takes around seven days before you can get your firearm. On the other hand, in any state in this country, you can buy a non-tracible, illegal gun, for cash Easy as that, no questions asked, no background check ran, just gun for money. People who believe that making it harder for someone to legally purchase a firearm will make illegal guns less prevelent are just retarded, if anything, it will only cause a slight increase in street prices. On the other side, you have people who want gun manufacturers to shut down completely, these people believe that the first step to getting guns off the street is to stop making them. These people are idiots of the highest order. First and formost, only about 30% of the weapons, purchaseable in the United States are actually manufactured in the US, the rest are manufactured in other countries, were our domestic laws will not effect their manufacturing. Next point, guns are durable, they have been around for over a century, and are absolutely everywhere in this country, so if we never got another gun made or shipped into our country, it would still be several decades before the police could snap them all up and one could only imagine how violent the battles would get with the people who were unwilling to give up their guns. Of course, then you would have black market guns coming in from all over the world and with the price of guns rocketing skyward from supply and demand, I can bet you plenty of marketeers would feel the money was worth the risk. If you can buy an AK-47 for five dollars in Somalia and wing it over here and sell it on a 500% mark up I think alot of people would do it. Think of what kind of prices illegal drugs rake in, then think about how efficiently the government has stopped them from coming into the country, it would be the same thing with guns. These are more of these ivory tower dwellers that know nothing of the world outside of the suburbs, I geuss that is part of the reason they are so scared right now, the badness has finally infiltrated the burbs.
Lastly, I am gonna talk about the second amendment, this is what it says “ A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. ” This is, of course, hotly debated, what did they mean by "militia"? What did they mean by "People"? I am gonna take right from my favorite online source, Wikipedia and show you the definition of militia. "A militia is distinct from a regular army. It can serve to supplement the regular military, or it can oppose it, for example to resist a military coup. In some circumstances, the "enemies" against which a militia is mobilized are domestic political opponents of the government, such as strikers. In many cases the role, or even the existence of a militia, is controversial. For these reasons legal restrictions may be placed on the mobilization or use of militia". I gotta interpret that this way, "militia" and "People", mean the same thing. You see, one of the main things that keeps a democracy from becoming a dictatorship is the fact that the people in the democracy can fight back, like we are living in a democracy, get real.