If Guns Were As Regulated As Cars
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Okay.
I'm pretty sure that, probably in my kid's lifetime, our civilization will collapse, at which point all this crap will be moot anyway. Over population, corporatism, global warming, the rise of China and their arsenal of nukes... I often doubt the ability of our government to govern for much longer before they're a wholly-owned subsidiary of the transnational mega-corporations, who will then rape the planet into collapse and war.
I try to be positive, but it's 2am, Congress is full of corporatists, and things that NEED to be done are NOT getting done. No universal health insurance, no shift away from dead dinosaurs, no progressive income tax, no repeal of GATT or NAFTA and the like, no break up corporate monopolies, we can't admit the Senate filibuster is about as useful as an infected appendix, and Christian theocrats are trying to pry open women's legs so they can plant the Stars and Stripes in their wombs and declare them sovereign property of the US Government and Jesus. We're graduating too many lawyers and marketers and communications majors and English majors and not enough engineers and scientists and nurses.
Nobody is fighting against the creation of a wealthy American aristocracy, a class of idle rich. Nobody is arguing that a politically and economically powerful middle class is an artificial creation, and without the protection of trade and labor laws the middle class shrinks to where it was before... subservient to the wealthy and powerful, just like the poor and working class people.
Besides, other nations that have clamped down on gun ownership aren't reaping the benefits. And don't tell me "yet", either, because that's how the corporatists keep pusing Reaganomics. "It will work any day now!"
Dammit, now I'm too depressed to argue.
