The thing about guns...
Anything
I ever wanted to try, do, accomplish, learn, achieve, or master, first
required I start at the bottom. Be it my first watermelon planting
consisting of dropping an entire packet of watermelon seeds into one
large outdoor planter and then later on learning why that was not a good idea, to my first bicycle that I rode with only the the left handle bar intact, thus giving me less of a chance to stop before crashing into brick garage wall, my first job; selling
custom imprinted Christmas Cards door to door at a way too young age, my
first...and only, tennis racquet, my first car, a red white and blue baseball glove that Dad bought for me as a surprise but probably was not the best choice for a glove, In every instance I was
using either a hand me down or a very crappy version of the real
thing. EVERY...TIME.
So why when it comes to guns suddenly it is any
gun at age 18? Everyone one of those who says, "It's criminals
that use guns illicitly, not me", why compare oneself to a criminal,
that's a pretty low bar comparison in my opinion.
The path to responsible gun ownership can include not allowing anyone out there to buy a gun at age 18.
Just
as any veteran of war who slogged through mud and rain in a foreign
land, lost a body part, came back to the U.S. with PTSD that may never
go away, hearing loss and loss of health; most likely did not go to all
that trouble so someone new to the gun game could buy a gun relatively
easily and effortlessly and kill others who were unarmed, not up close, hot eye to eye, but
by using a scope, soft pull, once per second firing privilege.
Hanging
one's hat on, "When guns are taken away from citizens is the first step
to Government aggression towards its citizens", is ABSOLUTELY a valid
argument to make. The over two dozen mass murders of people by the tens
of thousands to well over a million around the world by their own
government or a coup government proves that. But that is a far cry from
the first time user of a gun who has been given approval to buy or
purchase ANY gun.
First time purchasers of a gun should be limited to
something that can't be used from a far distance with a scope, nor can
rapid fire kill people they never knew or ever looked in the eye. Even
the amount of ammo should be limited on a first time purchase.
I also question why someone who owns very little property of value is entitled to a gun at a young age. I also question why it is legal to take guns off of one's property.
So what is the underbelly to today's escalating use of fire arms to kill people they never met, or to mete out revenge against a specific place they had a bad experience with? I think Artificial Intelligence the developing of stronger and stronger drugs, having no complete Border Wall, social media, and a corrupt mainstream media are five significant issues driving more and more public gun use.
I will update this specific post in the near future to explain why Artificial Intelligence, stronger drugs, and no complete Border wall, social media, and a corrupt mainstream media are working hand in hand to escalate drug violence.
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