The outrageous lies spouted by mouthpieces for the gun manufacturing industry at the congressional hearing on gun control this week should put an end to attempts by gun safety advocates to treat the gun fetishists with respect.
It's past time to call them out.
The Rude Pundit explodes the "Nazis banned guns" myth and then exposes what's really going on with the guntards:
The Rude Pundit understands that there's a lot of people out there who like to fellate their guns and call it love. He understands that there's so many who are jonesing for that first rampaging black man to come bursting in during a race riot so they can finally find out what really happens when Bushmaster fire hits human flesh. He understands that there's a whole lot of people invested in chasing the phantoms of resistance, as if they could actually survive if the government turns on us.Or as Isaac Asimov put it:
If you think you need to be armed with assault weapons because you might have to fight a government that wants to take your assault weapons away through laws passed by a legally-elected body, you are a traitor and kind of a dick. And if that's the best you've got for your argument on why you need to have military style weapons, then you, dear, dumb friend, are believing a whole heaping shovelful of lies.
Come, fantasize for a moment about something other than Jesus with a strap-on shaped like a Ruger reaming your asshole. Fantasize that many non-Jewish Germans opposed Hitler and wanted to rise up against him. You know what would have happened? The enormous Nazi army would have massacred them. The Third Reich existed because the German people wanted it to exist. Give it up.
Fantasize now that the American government wants you dead. Fantasize about the sound of that drone carrying missiles. It's a nearly silent whoosh. You hear it? You think your semi-automatic whatever could stop it? Now imagine being turned into blood vapor.
Really, though, it's never gonna happen. And neither is the race war. And chances are pretty damn good that you're never gonna get to point a gun at anyone other than a family member or yourself.
But, if nothing else, give up the Nazi analogy. Considering all the Nazi shit that shows up at gun shows in an approving way, you just look like hypocritical yahoos attempting to be smart, and that's just fuckin' pathetic.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Am often reminded of how prophetic Asimov has been. Perhaps a bias as the Big Three - Asimov Clarke & Heinlein - were the most influencial my early reading. I chuckle when I think of the conclusion to the first book, where our "heros" used a computer (that a novel concept for the era) to boil out the bullshit of a poltician's speechifying to.find he hadn't said a bloody damned thing. Kinda' like the Internet, or the Blogtopia of my fellow Cascadian's coinage. I have long disagreed on one point, though...
ReplyDeleteViolence is simply the last resort.