The Right to Arm Bears
Forget the title, right off the bat.
I just think it’s a funny wordplay.
This is about the right to bear arms, and where it went wrong — and yeah, somewhere along the line it went way wrong.
See back in the day, most weapons needed some kind of cocking between each shot.
Then some dumb-ass capitalists decided it was a good idea to create an arms race that was on the individual, rather than the nuclear level.
Lo and behold, we have all these AR-15’s and their geeky techie kits and customization's that just will not stop with aftermarket parts and additions.
The geekification of the right to bear arms emerged in full force.
It was like Silicon Valley somehow infiltrated the firearms industry, and now we have people hacking their fully and semi- automatic weapons like they would tune up their gaming CPU.
Now we have an entire millenial demographic raised on energy drinks and first person shooter video games, frustrated young men obsessed with tricking out their gear who are easily triggered.
Not a good recipe.
Guns only interest me about as far as they evolved until Henry Ford started making cars.
If consumers had been kept on single shot, bolt action rifles and single action revolvers, they would have evolved a much more nuanced sense of their innate right and dignity for self defense.
Instead we have mass shooters who have been weaned on the gamification of warfare, under a ‘more is more’ approach to splattering the enemy with endless rounds of haphazardly aimed shots.
Progress?
I reckon it stopped right about when Henry Ford started pumping out his auto-cars and when guns went from hunting rifles to auto-gizmos like the famed Tommy gun that was used to kill Bonny and Clyde.
Yeah, something will have to be done about this, and if AR-15’s were taken off the market, and a buyback program was implemented to reduce the amount of guns heading south of the Rio Grande, I wouldn’t gripe about it.
Come to me when the government wants to take away bolt action hunting rifles, if you want to discuss our right to bear arms.
