Who Will Survive In America?
On June 16 a fourteen-hour Democratic filibuster was held in congress in order to score a deal with the Republicans. Such deal promised a vote on bills demanding an updated background check system on firearm buyers and denying the right to bear arms to those on the terrorist watchlist. However, both measures were rejected by congress. As a form of protest against inaction the Democrats had a 25 hour sit-in on the U.S. House of Representatives’ floor. Yet again, without success, on July 6 House Republican leaders and many Democrats backed away from voting on a gun measure.
They had ridiculous excuses, per usual.
“If the bill becomes law, it will mark a massive expansion of the government’s ability to restrict gun rights on the basis of precrime” said Republican Representative Justin Amash. This strikes me, because isn’t that the purpose, Mr.Amash? Isn’t the goal to prevent more murder?
No, of course not! Because to the members of congress, the people who run our country, all that matters is the hand that feeds their bank accounts and such hand belongs to the National Rifle Association. That which is opposed to every form of gun regulation and spends huge amounts of money lobbying.
Yet where was the NRA and the Second Amendment when Alton B. Sterling was tasered, pinned and shot multiple times for carrying a gun in an open-carry state?
Certainly not saving Alton’s life, neither the lives of numerous black men who have been murdered without justification except them carrying out their right to bear arms.
Upon this I wrote in my journal:
“there’s gonna be a mass insurgence and the guns available will be used against you.”
Like foul faith, no more than a couple days later the shooting in Dallas occurred. The murder of five police officers and wounding of numerous others; civil servants gunned with the weapons sold by those who sign their paycheck.
And sadly this is a vicious cycle. As casualties increase so does the idea that we need weapons to "protect ourselves,” thus more guns are sold and more money is being put into the pockets of those who have suits and bodyguards, those who do not care if the bullet that kills us comes from the barrel of a 9mm in the hand of a cop or an assault rifle in the hand of a demented cunt.
I ask myself,
Who Will Survive in America?