I think though…sometimes
I don’t know
and I want to go live in some place like
Austrailia
eff it. I was about to say Montana or Idaho but no…I’ve got it in my mind to go live in Australia with their Christian, Male president [joke]
But seriously
Australia is the promised land to me
I am a gun owner.
I grew up around guns.
And by “around guns” I mean there was a rifle that leaned against the wall near the front door.
I remember laughing once when we had relatives in from out of town “We should probably put the gun somewhere else” My mom said… So I picked it up and put it under her bed.
None of us ever hurt ourselves
We all practiced shooting.
My mom and dad both had hand guns.
And I was gifted one on my 18th birthday.
One of the first dates me and beau went on was to a gun range. I “taught” him to shoot (he has terrible aim but at least he knows how to load and if he needed to fire at say a rhino then he’s good to go).
This doesn’t make me a gun nut just someone who never felt guns couldn’t be kept safely.
Of course they can.
But not everyone is a group of (fairly) sane individuals who keep a gun with only the idea of hunting and the safety of their family in mind.
And we can’t keep living in a world pretending that the framework of our country is so great that it can’t be improved upon.
I used to think along the same lines as “From my cold, dead hands….” but it isn’t my cold,dead hands that we keep seeing. It’s movie goers, holiday shoppers, and children. It’s people going about their every day life and having it ended all because we’re just so fucking stubborn to see the truth.
I can’t pretend anymore.
It will be a massive undertaking and it will be hard but we need to give up the guns.
Now.
I’m not even saying all the guns. I still think we should be allowed to keep rifles for hunting, etc. We have certain animal populations that get out of control. And there are many scenarios that would necessitate a portion of the public having some experience.
And with extensive background checks, etc I think we should be allowed A (one) hand gun per person.
And , of course, arm the police as much as you want.
And have stocks of arms set to go should we ever need to protect our land on this soil. Locked away until that day comes.
But the semi-automatics and high capacity guns in general need to go. They belong on a battlefield and that should not be America’s cities.
So today I no longer support the second amendment as it is currently interpreted. We HAVE to make a change if we want this to stop happening. We are too great a nation to keep allowing this. This can’t go on.
It seems so weird to think I am best friends with someone whom I just asked the following question:
“I’m just curious…do you know what an OTP is?”
I regret making that post. I’m gonna delete it. Getting involved in arguments with silly people is a facebook thing.
It’s weird to think my life was with someone else for ten years and then we broke up. And I was sure that I would never get over it and never go a day without thinking about him but I think about him less than I think about TV shows I watched ten years ago (Buffy was ten years ago omg!). So yeah weird. but good. I mean not the pain and breaking up but good that I got over it all.
I love Q. Growing up Q was my Q not Q.
I AM DYING INSIDE YOU GUYS AND OUTSIDE I AM GOING OMGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hello cute boy reading on the subway….these are my pants and I am inviting you into them.“The Fellowship of the Ring,” by J.R.R. Tolkien
The New Yorker: “Guns and the limits of shame” (via lauraolin)
I remember. Mostly, the people in the UK felt that not having things like this happen was a good thing. I wish these massacres would persuade the American voting public of the same thing.
(The UK had 14 Firearm-related murders last year; the US, with a population only 5 times that of the UK, had 9,369. Per this website.)
