Notes to myself
Trump, and the NRA’s ideas around guns, are filled with holes, BULLET HOLES. I have written extensively about Toxic Masculinity, and there is a direct relationship between the damaged American Male, and the incidence of gun marketing, distribution, sales, use, murder and terrorism within our country. Enough is enough, my fellow male (and supporting female) citizens who are hypnotized by the destructive potential of their weapons of war, and by the extremist hooligans that so effectively promote their value to our diseased society.
Human and Civil rights are not equivalent to gun rights, period, and, in fact, supersede all philosophical claims to dominion by extremist gun rights advocates. Owning a gun is a privilege, NOT A RIGHT. The 2nd Amendment has been fine tuned by neurotic, overzealous gun rights advocates to promote ideals not conforming to a rational, effective approach to gun safety and ownership. Gun violence against innocent Americans is NOT SUPPORTED BY OUR CONSTITUTION, no matter what the idiots who blindly support the 2nd Amendment claim. No individual is a militia, no matter how megalomaniacal their minds may be, and it is utter nonsense that paranoid people use that as an excuse to stockpile weapons of mass-destruction. See US Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger’s comments on this issue, if you do not trust my point of view.
This is not a political statement. This is a statement of common sense, law, reason, and love. Those who “politicize” this issue with divisive, hateful reasoning, form their deadly alliances (see NRA) around their fears, to help prevent our society from healing. It is up to us to challenge these defective ideas in open forum, and to vote out of office all politicians who support politically sanctioned mass murder, and strictly regulate or ban the weapons used to assault our families, our own bodies, and our sensibilities.
An American society dominated by the self-destructive and other-destructive fantasies of sick minds, (including the ultra-conservative “Christian followers” who believe in Armageddon, and who are doing everything in their power to create the conditions for it), have created this unsafe, upside down world where weapons of mass destruction are worshiped as tools of freedom and safety, rather than being seen for what they are, which are tools for murder, propagation of fear, bullying, and self-righteousness.
The floodwaters of gun violence have been created by the unleashing of weapons upon our society by the twisted advocates of the 2nd Amendment, gun manufacturers, the NRA, and insane minds who understand nothing but fear, self-preservation, and hatred. It is impossible to save ourselves from the ravages of flooding brought about by the dam bursting, so why don’t we work on preventing the dam from bursting in the first place?
Freedom is not preserved and protected through the threatened use of lethal force of one citizen upon another with guns. Freedom is preserved and protected through the understanding that the enemy lies within our own consciousness, and then healing our world through insight, and the cultivation of collaboration, unity, justice, and love. To the extent that Christian America believes in their weapons, is the extent that they do not believe in their supposed Christian ideals, period. The ultra-conservative “Christian” gun promoter is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and should be recognized as such.
Time to listen up, America. Time to shut up, NRA, and the politician’s feeding at their troughs of gun violence, death and insanity.I just have to wonder when terrorism will hit these individuals in political power right where it hurts most, and then they can finally decide that their pro-gun, pro NRA positions are steeped in insanity and nonsense. When they start to feel the pain of the rest of our country, then they will act on behalf of gun control, rather than obfuscate the issues while monetarily profiting from our suffering, as they have in the past. People that profit from the deaths of innocent civilians are worse than terrorists. Why does America support domestic terrorism? Do we understand that our culture is disfigured, diseased, and in need of dramatic change? Guns kill people, and the people who supply guns to people KILL PEOPLE.
There are those who prefer to gloss over the darkness in our society, and call the evil, bullying, and cruelty by names other than what represents the truth of the matter. Learn to recognize these people, and remember that in any coercive society, including Hitler’s Germany, these types of individuals were part of darkness’ support network, whether inadvertently by their own ignorance, or intentionally by their own malevolence.
I have spoken out against guns and gun violence since 1980, and my voice has been drowned out by those who speak louder than me. Now, I am starting to believe that the silent majority is finally going to assert itself, and our country steer towards more rational approaches to gun ownership, and control. Our culture is INSANE, as are the people who support the unfettered DISTRIBUTION AND SALE OF GUNS AND AUTOMATIC WEAPONS. Once again, their specious reasoning and heartless, hollow arguments are filled with holes, the bullet holes of death to our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
NRA and the politicians who do not act to reduce the proliferation of automatic weapons are sponsors of national terrorism. Just how many automatic weapons does it take to make you feel safe? It is just that many weapons that it takes to make you unhealthy, insane, fearful, and outside of the picture of potential national healing. Gun violence directly stems from a national mental illness, and guns are never the proper medication to alleviate the symptoms.
A $25,000,000,000 wall will not keep gun related terrorism away from America, and Trump is the biggest idiot, and most evil leader, this country has ever seen, as he continues his patterns of ignorance, deceit, hubris, and self-promotion. A 25 billion dollar monument to Trump, and America’s, stupidity is threatened to be built. Who will be saved by this project?
What is America going to do?
It is time to stop buying products from companies that support gun violence. It is time to start picketing leaders and manufacturers who profit from gun violence. It is time to vote out every politician that will not rise up, and renounce their affiliation with the NRA, as long as the NRA resists progressive agendas dedicated to making America Safe Again.
BOYCOTT ALL STORES THAT SUPPLY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS TO THE PUBLIC!!!! Boycott all providers who cater to the NRA, including the shipping company FedEx. Vote for politicians who respect our Civil Rights and Human Rights, and who are not beholden to the NRA, and the other prophets of darkness.
We really are not a “Christian nation”, which may not be a bad thing, taking all factors into consideration, especially the spiritual destruction that our supposed “National Religion” has experienced through political rape and pillage. I believe that Christianity has long since died in this country, and has been taken over the last several generations by politicians and zealots intent on the disfigurement of our society, through contortions of our nation to conform to their own dark, selfish needs. These economic and political bullies create an imbalanced, disfigured world where economic and social disparity reigns supreme, and where violence and mass murder have become culturally acceptable byproducts of the need to serve their own conscious desires for self-promotion, corporate welfare, as well as their NRA masters. Little do they understand, that these are also unconscious desires for their own self-destruction, and the destruction of all others unlike their own mistaken understanding of themselves.
I am not an American Christian, I am appalled and disgusted by those in political power who profess a belief in Christian religious ideology, and go ahead and rape and pillage America in the name of their corrupt Gods of power, hubris, death, and greed. .I follow the directions that Truth and Love create for me in my life. I am not afraid to confront darkness, wherever it might appear, in the Church, in the NRA, Congress and in the White House, in our corporations, in my family, or even if it is within my own mind and heart
What is the true source of your fear, those who stockpile weapons and fear monger? Patriotism does not support terrorism, Christianity does not support gun violence and terrorism, and true patriots, be they Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, agnostics, or atheists do not get confused by this.
If this latest assault against our Spirit in Florida has not brought you to tears, if you are not impacted by this gun violence, then all is lost for you, and I am sad for you, and for the people who count on you. You can’t make America safe or great again, by blindly following the idiots that profit from our own self-destruction.
Thoughts and prayers ALONE are for those who can’t or won’t act.
I want people to ACT, while your thoughts and prayers keep you spiritually in the game, and acting courageously against the oppressors and the evil-doers in Congress, the White House, automatic weapons manufacturers, distributors, and vendors, and the NRA.
Jesus, in whatever form “he spiritually exists today” would take his “spiritual sword”, and hack the ideas behind 2nd Amendment hooligans to pieces. If you are seeking for guns, and for weapons of war, you are not seeking for peace.
Holster that weapon, partner, and start working for real, lasting peace!
That is what Jesus would do.
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world (of guns, greed, gonads, or gold) gives, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. (John 14:27)
Jesus of Nazareth
Please, save yourself.
I am angry, and I vote.
