Red, White and Guns. The American Dream for the Idiot

 Why does the voice of logic and reason always find itself outside of important social arguments and issues? If there are guns on the street, they will be used. Period. All the 24hr gun permit laws in the world will not prevent weapons from landing in ill intentioned hands nor the destruction it causes. From the founding of this country the right to bear arms was a right supposedly fought for yet I don't understand what this right exactly entails. The right to go to a store, fill out and application and pay a fee? Most Americans don't have criminal backgrounds, the supposed protection the application covers is a joke. And if you're a criminal the last place your going to buy an AK is The Bass Fish and Hunt Store. Hell even I can just roll down to the seedier part of town and get an entire arsenal with no questions asked and better yet no trace. Yet the NRA, right ring Republicans and conservatives take the threat of tougher gun laws personally. In fact despite the fact that the recent Arizona terror was unleashed by a white male with no problems obtaining a gun license, Arizona is pushing to loosen gun laws within its state specifically on its college campuses. Washington DC, Texas, Idaho and Iowa are just a few following suit. What? What the hell do you think will happen if everyone starts carrying a gun. The OK Corral has been closed for years and something tells me that armed paranoid people are the last thing any city needs right now.  The wild west is long gone. There are no Indians riding horseback across 100 miles of prairie land to get you. A nation armed is a nation wrapped in a powder keg with civil dissonance permeated by trigger happy idiots. 
How about we use logic and reason in attempt to remove deadly weaponry from our nation. If you need to fish and hunt, do what you do, but for most of us who experience the outdoors via watching it on TV we need a world in which the 18 year old across the street doesn't have more weaponry than the fish and game dept down the block.

Nina Davis

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