Opinion/Editorial
GUN COWARDICE
“My aunt’s fanny,” is an old expression, giving appropriate words to items of intent or action that, in reality, are noted to simply be lies. The U.S. congressional houses are agreeing on a gun control bill because of the outrage of the public in no longer wanting to deal with the mass murder of children in schools.
Congress, both houses, are merely lying. No limitation on the sale of assault rifles. No change of purchase age from 18 upward. No universal background checks. No limit on gun-show sales with no identification of any kind. In other words, no nothing. All the little junk the overpaid, overdressed, and integrity-lacking representatives and senators did paste together, in order to say they were doing something about the problem, is lip service. Mental health checks here or there, some added school security, more useless training of police, and so on. In other words, nothing, while shouting they are doing something.
It’s not that the public does not want gun control. The public overwhelmingly does. The problem is that the public’s representatives are afraid. Afraid of a nasty anthropoid minority they are fearful will come for them. They’ve never studied anthropology. The minority is not coming for them, not in this culture. The more shouting and bellicose this minority, the more it shows its own weakness and fear. This minority isn’t to be feared, but this collection of weak-kneed, wispy, and cowardly representatives certainly is to be feared.
Guns were invented back in the 1300s and have ‘improved’ mightily as time has gone by. No more pointing gunpowder and rock-filled barrel and touching a lit match to a small hole in the ignition end. Guns were invented as an extension of the bow and arrow, an earlier means of reaching out in the distance to bring down game humans aren’t capable of catching. Before that, it was speared. But here we are, the original purpose for these hunting ‘extensions’ now morphed into hitting other humans with small fast-moving pellets to, many times, lethal effect. The male need to hunt for game to provide sustenance is genetic, as has become the need to possess tools that can reach out into the distance and take down that game.
Little boys, as soon as they are able, before their first year on the planet, are converting any object they find into a knife or a spear. As they grow, they have a longing deep inside for a BB gun (as so well illustrated in the movie Christmas Story). Once coming of age these male humans want guns, real guns, even if they don’t shoot them at any time after getting hold of them. This is the enormously powerful force that is driving the nation’s continued increase in the purchase of firearms and the storing and even usage of them. This very powerful psychological, sociological, and anthropological force is not something that can be overcome with education and training. The genetically driven force is there to maximize survival, which it does to a certain point.
However, such forces can be regulated, controlled, and even suppressed (society does that in other areas, like in sexual matters, driving regulations and so many other rules of conduct that tend to suppress natural human tendencies). Guns are a tough one, however, as control of them has proven to be. The force is not only powerful, it is a force that can be cloaked with lies and deception, not to mention ignorance. The phrase ‘guns don’t kill people, people do,’ is typical of this kind of deception, which logically is like stating; ‘poisoned air doesn’t kill people, breathing does).
If the guns are there like if the poisoned air is there, they certainly can and do kill people. Since most people don’t kill anyone in their lifetime with a gun it is difficult for those humans uninitiated into real combat, to understand, or even care, that others are not like them and that the destructive power of firearms, even legal firearms, is so immense. Several standard thirty caliber hunting rifles can shoot effectively through two or three telephone poles and at maximum ranges of over a mile, which means someone can stand at Black Point and easily shoot all the way across the Geneva Lake waters.
Regulations, ordinances, and laws intending to rein in the proliferation of guns are going to be very difficult, because there is no rationality driving the craven need for male humans to acquire, possess, and even shoot these devices. That hunting game supplies less than one-thousandth of one percent of food supplies in the United States should come as no surprise to anyone. The majority of all game is not even butchered for consumption. It is the act of “reaching out” to terminally strike another living thing (with the genetically driven rationality of survival at its foundation) that is the igniting and driving force to shoot firearms. Women, and those males who allow intellect to override this powerful genetically driven force, are the only hope for limiting the continued spread of firearms possession and the mortal and morbid results that continue to grow across all walks of our society. The representatives elected in America of late (mostly male) neither give evidence of having this kind of overriding intellect nor the integrity to admit that this is a significant problem area. Those who do understand are too afraid to do anything about it.
