April 4, 2018: Buy More Guns - Protect Yourself (from Yourself?)

 

4/4/18: Since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas the president has done nothing to address concerns of survivors and parents who visited the White House. (See: 2/14/18.) 

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Buy more guns: Protect yourself from yourself.

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Well, who needs more gun legislation! This great nation leads the world in number of guns in private hands, something like 300 million. And people keep buying more every time talk of gun control is mentioned. This is why, with so many guns in individual hands, we are the safest nation in the world and also happen to be one of the leading advanced nations when it comes to murder rates. So, to be even safer, we need to spend a few billion dollars on a big, beautiful border wall. 

If only we had that wall, or, if only Jermon Perry had had a gun, he might be alive today. Had he been armed he would have had the chance to shoot the assailant pointing a pistol at his head. Jermon might be attending elementary school next year, had he had a concealed carry permit. Jermon was shot and killed by his 7-year-old brother, who found his father’s gun while looking in drawers for candy. 

We all need guns!

If only we all had AR-15s!

 

What is the solution for every gun problem? Seventeen teachers and students slaughtered at Stoneman Douglas? Buy more guns! You say Jacob Burdette, 25, shot and killed his mother and her boyfriend, with a gun she bought? She should have bought more guns. You are driving down Interstate 5 and something about your maneuvering enrages another driver. He shoots but misses. You should have had a gun, should have kept one hand on the wheel and returned fire. Buy guns!!! A woman shoots three co-workers at YouTube headquarters in Bruno, California. If those co-workers had all been packing heat, everything would have been great. You are about to commit suicide? Of all types of attempts, those involving firearms end in fatalities 82.5% of the time. Drugs or poison (1.5%). Ha. Not good enough. Jumping? Still not the best way to end it all (34.5%). If you intend to kill yourself, you need guns! 

Playing with your own pistol – and you shoot yourself dead? Should have had an AR-15 to protect yourself from yourself.