We need guns to protect ourselves, because after all if we didn't have guns then we'd get shot by the people who do have guns.

It is the utter stupidity of this statement that has wrecked America. Why? Because if there were no guns, then the people with guns wouldn't have guns in the first place, so we wouldn't need guns to protect ourselves from them. But of course the reason by the people who have guns have guns is because we have guns to protect ourselves from the people who have guns.

This is what's know as a paradox. Basically, now that guns are established in America it is night on impossible to remove them, because the first person to lose their gun becomes vulnerable to the people who still have the guns. It's mental, but it's also happened. The US is a society where guns = power and it is possible to for anyone to kill anyone with ease. Great!

But let us not forget the arguments: Guns don't kill people. People kill people. The utter idiocy of this statement is so obvious. When a bullet enters your skull and makes your brain implode, are you killed? Yes. So what killed you? It was the bullet. From THE FUCKING GUN. If the person who shot you was holding a carrot you would not be dead, because carrots don't kill people, GUNS KILL PEOPLE. It doesn't matter what the intent of the person is, unless they have a gun you're okay. True, a carrot can inflict a nasty wound, but it's not nearly as dangerous.

The facts are clear; the more guns there are, the easier it is to kill people. In the United Kingdom, where all handguns are completely illegal, the shooting rate is infetesimal compared to the United States. It's a simple fact; more guns = more shootings. The people of the United Kingdom are not less violent than those of the United States, just for some odd reason we think that arming our psychopaths isn't a good idea.

But let's not forget the central reason why American has it's bloody stupid gun freedom. The Right to Bear Arms is not just a right like freedom of speech, it has a purpose; namely, if the government go mental, then the people will be able to take over by the weight of arms. Sounds jolly nice, but sadly it don't work in the 21st century. Even if enough Americans could be bothered to get off their arses to go and overthrow the government, they'd just get nuked to fuck or blown the crap out of by the insanely huge US Army, Navy and Airforce. The US military could probably take on the rest of the country and win, if it wanted to.

Plus there's the fact that most US citizens are so right-wing and selfish they'd be more likely to overthrow a positive socialist government and welcome in a Fascist one than do anything useful, like shoot George W Bush.

Of course, there's always Switzerland. Look at the happy Swiss; funny-shaped rifles in every home and hardly a single shooting. Yes, but let's remember the Swiss are actually Aliens. I think then things are better put into perspective.

But the basic fact of the matter is that guns are fucking stupid. Give a man a big metal stick made for killing and he'll kill someone with it. Give a man an orange vegetable and he'll make it into a nice soup. I think the message is clear here.
 
 

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