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Not In A Hundred Years….

How many more innocents are going to be gunned down by maniacs and lunatics before the people of this country realize common sense and end their ridiculous obsession with firearms?

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The answer to the above question is – probably not in the next hundred years.

It’s a frightening fact that having spent many years in this country it’s become obvious to me that it’s not just the nutters and testosterone-fueled delinquents who consider it their “right” to carry around firearms. No, sadly, the vast majority of Americans I’ve known and been involved with over my thirteen years in this land – otherwise normal, intelligent, often well-educated people – cannot visualize a society without the right to ‘bear arms’.

Even those who find the idea of automatic weapons repugnant still deem it their right to carry a handgun while in a town or city. Only this week one man said to me, “You never know when someone might pull a gun on you. You need to carry a weapon to protect yourself.”

When I pointed out to him that, if no-one had a gun, there’d be no need for him to carry one, his eyes glazed over with that ‘this does not compute’ look, then muttered quietly that, “…it will never happen.”

The Second Amendment of the Constitution has much to answer for – including many wasted lives. This country’s founders no more desired to see their citizens crazily slaughtering each other, than they wished to see their fledgling nation turned into a plutocracy, or theocracy. The document is quite clear in interpretation and cannot sanely be considered at all relevant in today’s modern American society.

Sadly, for Americans and America, senseless slaughter such as occurred on live TV in Virginia this week, is destined to continue indefinitely.

President Obama’s pleas to Congress to enact gun control will, as always, fall on deaf ears.

Why Can’t They Look Their Guilt In The Face?

This will be a short post. I’ve written on this subject many times over the years, and still it appears, like an annual carcinoma.

Two days ago, on August 6th, the world – or, at least, parts of it – ‘celebrated’ the 70th anniversary of the United States (with the full support of its major allies) subjecting a heavily-populated city to an instant rise in temperature of 60 million degrees.

Both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs were optimized for the burning of civilians. They were carefully constructed for that purpose by the scientists of the Manhattan Project. Thousands were immediately annihilated and perpetual suffering created for hundreds of thousands, if not millions, from the ongoing generational effect of intense radiation.

“Hiroshima” – one only has to say the word to comprehend its horrific meaning, the depths to which human beings sink in their treatment of one another. It was the first of two of the greatest war crimes in our history – Nagasaki was the close second.

The BBC dutifully remembered, as it does every year, those events of seventy years ago. At the end of its website report it asked the same old question – as it does every year:

“Was it right to drop the bomb on Hiroshima?”

Out come the same old platitudes we’ve all heard multitudinous times from those responsible for, or in favor of, the atrocities. As though repeating them will somehow ease the weight on their guilt-ridden souls. Guilt for two unspeakable acts of barbarism. For which no-one, except the victims, has ever paid the price.

Isn’t it time we stopped asking that ridiculous question?

To continue to do so is merely to admit we still don’t know the meaning of ‘right’ from ‘wrong’.

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