That’s Not The Cure, That’s The Symptom
The NRA, with it’s huge lobbying system, won a hollow victory yesterday. Hollow in that whatever laws are enacted today can be revoked tomorrow. Let them who love their weapons dance in the street waving their M-16’s like Hamas militants; our nation is never very far from violence in the streets at the best of times. These are not the best of times.
Hollow again, because the most powerful weapon ever created is replicated in all countries everyday. This weapon is so insidious, so dangerous, that the entirety of human history is replete with stories of the damage this weapon causes. From as far back as humans have recorded, this weapon has maimed, murdered, and committed boundless atrocities, and yet never have the powerful addressed this problem. The weapon is?
The human mind: Nothing that man can create can rival the unparalleled destructive propensity of the human mind. The overwhelming majority of people cannot control their minds, cannot understand that to comprehend the inner workings of their consciousness is, in fact, the highest calling attainable to humanity. The simple act of knowing how our untamed minds can adversely affect ourselves and others, and the accompanying heart-felt desire to improve our own lives through taming our minds, can achieve wonders. This, more than any weapon, ideology or cultural bias, can transform the world.
Guns aren’t the problem. The problem is people.
October 25th, 2005 at 1:19 am
Unwittingly, the NRA has arrived at a real truth: guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
Frankly, given the ongoing takeover of America by an unelected elite, gun control is the last thing on my mind right now, other than, perhaps, under the rubric of proper aiming of a weapon.
- Badtux the Gun-owning Penguin