just another gun rant

I never cared to be told what to do.  My earliest recollections concerning authority figures was ignoring them.  As time went on, and I listened to what they were saying, my attitudes toward authority ranged from ambivalence to disobedience with healthy measures of defiance and anger.  I was the angry young man and I wore that label as a badge of honor.

As my life progressed, I learned to navigate the icy waters of modern society with tools like compromise, duty, empathy, and understanding different viewpoints.  I guess I got tired of rocking the boat and fighting over petty bullshit and settled for playing the game, no matter how stupid it was, with the knowledge that I was still right unless logic and reason changed my mind.  The dictionary term was liberal and I was that to the point of libertine.

I don't think of myself as a liberal anymore.  The people who took over that term are far from free thinkers and lovers of freedom but authority worshipers with a disdain for rational thought.  Liberal went from individual freedom for all to slavery to the nanny state.  I could never align myself with the political liberals of today anymore than I can enjoy the rest of my life in prison.  Talk to a liberal sometime.  They all follow the leader and are just as easy to control as one dog can control a herd of sheep.  Thoughtless, mindless, dumbed down zombies waiting for the mailman to bring their government checks and believe anything their puppet masters tell them without question.  The liberals who actually make money think they can solve the worlds problems by inviting starving, poor people to their table for dinner and feel satisfaction that they did something.  

Then there are conservatives.  Republicans..... I used to spot republicans on the street as easy as spotting a toupee.  They had a certain vibe about them that yelled stuffed shirt authority.  These are the guys who hold the belief that they worked hard, overcame obstacles, and made it on their own, and so should you.  No nanny state for them and they hated how their taxes went to support generations of people who refused to work.  They wore blue collars (Archie Bunker) and white collars (Donald Trump) and their stick-up-their-ass attitudes made me sick.  Conservatives encapsulated all that was wrong and boring in the world.  When I think conservative, my mind flashes pictures of Nixon.  Conservatives, after a sumptuous meal, will let a few starving, poor people finish off the table scraps... in another room.

I differ from both these groups in ways they'll never understand.  I value my freedom as equal only to my sense of self preservation.  I know true freedom is also the freedom to starve to death and I accepted that long ago.  I'd rather die a free man than to live as a slave in comfort.  I could be wrong but I tend to believe the starving poor don't want to eat at anyone's table.  I'd much rather dine at the table of the starving poor in their own home, if they don't mind me bringing dessert.  

Blue collar and white collar are the two working groups in this country, just as bogus as democrats and republicans.  It's always a choice of two opposite points of view in a constant cycle of problem-solution-resolution with just enough compromise to barely satisfy the majority.  I had no problem choosing sides and stood with my union brothers and sisters on picket lines and filed countless grievances for the company slaves.  Going toe to toe with authority, beating them into submission with the contract, and transforming their work slaves into free individuals, by showing them how to stand up and fight for their rights, was my mission.  We transformed the work place from a slave plantation to an operation full of pride, brotherhood, and a refusal to take company shit anymore.  Once the company got the message and played by the rules, business improved, profits increased, wages went up, and everyone was happy.

Unlike a union contract, which comes up for negotiation every couple of years, we have the constitution, designed as a permanent, unalterable contract between the federal government and the people, which clearly states what the government can and can't do.  It also spells out quite clearly and specifically, the rights and privileges of all men, and no government can alter these carved in stone rights.  The rights are simple.  I'll say what I want, I'll defend myself when attacked, get off my land, don't fuck with me for no reason, and the president has to be a natural born citizen.  The liberals invalidated that last one and it was around that time I started to pay attention to these walking dead, owl worshiping, pseudo-intellectual, vegan whores of stupidity. 

My skin crawls when I think of these self proclaimed authority figures telling me how to live.  They're not rich, they're not politicians, there's nothing special about them except they think their president is the reincarnation of Jesus and they're his disciples, pall parroting the chosen one, without the slightest idea what he's talking about.  Hope and change for the first time in their short, putrid lives.      

The merger of big government and big business was a match made in heaven... for them.  Big business relies on the consumer to improve their bottom line and Washington makes laws to keep it all going.  Constantly increasing taxes is nothing more than a government control game they play.  Who gets all those tax dollars is another story but it's not about getting the money as much as punishing the citizens as an ongoing exercise in control.  The big business/government merger is loaded with advantages neither had before.  Government can borrow some tricks from big business like product placement and repetition.  The lapdog liberal media does whatever it's told and, just like TV ads, bombards the masses with a never ending, programmed assault, complete with fake, bluescreen, Hollywood movie-type news feeds,and actor eyewitnesses, until the masses believe the fantasy.  Name three, never ending, noteworthy, bill passing events of 2012 and I'll bet they all feature an AR-15 "assault" rifle with a hundred round "clip" that should be banned because it scares the crap out of most liberals.  Just my opinion, but I'm pretty sure these three "mass murders" were scripted, staged events and carried out by people on the US government payroll.  The AR-15 is nothing more than the product they chose for their market research to test the waters.  How many different Sandy Hooks did you hear about last year?  Product placement... repetition... These are business strategies developed in the last century to sell cigarettes, toothpaste, and Tang.  Now, they want to sell you something else.  Gun control.  And the brain dead masses are starting to buy it with the same religious zealotry as global warming and voting for O'bummer.   
     
And herein lies the rub.  Convince the people to give away their rights and they will lose them forever.  No do-overs.  No government wants the citizenry to have any rights.  The only thing preventing the government from total despotism is the constitution and believing it's meaning.  That, and a nation of 300 million citizens with twice that many guns at their disposal and no way of knowing who has em.  Ask any Texan why everyone is so polite in Texas.  It's because you don't know who's packing.
As much as I despise republicans, they stick to their guns.  I don't know one republican who wants a gun ban but I know plenty of liberals who do and the words they choose are identical to the crap I hear from the liberal,  MSM, talking heads.  As if they gave up thinking for mimicking those smarter than themselves.  The reality is, they're all as dumb as a sack of hammers. 

Most liberals by now know we won't give up our guns so they came up with a compromise.  A new law (as if we don't have enough already) requiring background checks to make sure the bad guys can't buy one.  I heard a liperal on the radio today explaining how this brainstorm of a plan will work.  He said criminals won't buy one if they have to be checked so the only place they can go is the underground market and those gun prices are at least three times higher and before long, the bad guys won't have any guns because they cost too much and there won't be enough to go around.
Is that the way most liberals think?  I mean, OMFG!  I know retarded people who can punch holes in that theory, and they expect average Americans to buy this load of horse shit?  Really?  Really?  REALLY??? 

After Bush shredding the constitution, followed by O'bummer to finish us off, it seems the 2nd amendment is the only advantage we have left and the only thing keeping Uncle Sam from going postal on our asses.
So, who's pushing this anti-gun, carbon footprint, save the children, save the planet, save the oil, lunatics who can't tell the difference between freedom of choice and freedom from choice, agenda?
Do I have to say it?
I'll give you a hint.  These are the people who have been asking the same stupid question for months.  "Why would anyone need an assault rifle with a hundred round magazine?"  To which my answer is... Why does anyone want a corvette?  Why would anyone want to go out for dinner?  Why would anyone want to look at porn?  Because it's rock n roll fun, you liberal asshole!  Go listen to some folk music, hippy, and stay out of politics.

Look, I know some of you out there are liberals.  Some are republicans.  Who's kiddin who?  There's a cross section of humanity representing every race and religion on the planet reading this and I truly respect every one of you and I'll stand up and defend your right to say or do anything you want with every fiber of my being.  I may disagree with you but I'll still fight for your rights.

That said, I'll make you a deal.  I won't push for laws forcing you to unwillingly carry a gun if you don't push for laws to limit what little freedoms I have left.  Deal?