I don't believe that arming individuals is the correct means of protection in
a troubled society. However, an argument has been put forth to me that the only way to retain our rights and save ourselves is through the use of guns and force. The threat of a mass shooter at a shopping mall, or home invasion, or robbery, or the threat of violence during a government protest march, is reason enough for society to stockpile arms at home.
The ones who have power over life and death in this world are the ones poisoning the air that we breath, the water we drink and the food we eat. And they can, because they have the money to do so. Now
space is full of junk coming back at us. We'll need to duck and cover. The very organizations that are set up to protect us are working in tandem with those
poisoning the planet. Bureaucrats go from government positions to
corporate positions and back; it's a revolving
door of corruption and conflict-of-interest with only their own
greedy interests in mind. We're dying of cancer and other chemically
induced diseases, our food has been transformed
into non-food and we devour and inhale poisonous chemicals at every
level of the food chain. What are we protecting?
Here's what I see: I have my loaded gun beside me to protect my
family and my home, but I'm already dead. The killers slithered into my
home unawares, like an odorless gas, and struck my family down with
disease and disorder when I wasn't paying attention. Instead, I was watching television, drinking Diet Coke and snacking on Lays
Cheese Flavor Chips, dreaming of the day when I, too, could become
rich. I became obese, like two thirds of the American population, perhaps morbidly
obese and therefore immobile, and while I was eating and
protecting my right to bear arms, deregulation took away my right to
clean air and water and my right to know the chemical contents of the
food I was eating. The meaning of the word 'freedom' was skewed and
redefined for me on television, the greatest propaganda
tool ever invented, as my true freedoms were being torn out from under
me. Sure, I'm gonna protect my household, my wife and children, but
I've already been struck down by far more that I gladly
embraced years ago. I'm already dead, my mind and
my body, but oddly, I don't know it because those that would show me
I'm dead have been marginalized or perhaps killed. Education is out of
reach and television has indoctrinated me. So where is the freedom, or
my rights, that I'm protecting? They're an illlusion now because they were removed years ago without my permission.
