The National
Rifle Association’s mission, in our Nation today, is just that: “any firearm, in anyone’s hands (sane,
violent criminal or not), to be taken anywhere” would equal Freedom in
America. The people who run the NRA are
not insane; they are owned and guided by the dollars of munitions
manufacturers. The NRA functions just as
our government does. When the battle
lines are drawn between the common good and large dollar interests, it is the
power of money that always wins the day.
It isn’t just your elected representatives that are owned and ruled by
large corporate dollars. The appointed
U.S. Supreme Court is also (example: Citizens United Decision).
“Two years
ago last week, President Obama ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) to get back to studying the causes of gun violence.” - The Washington Post. This order was issued by Obama in response to
the massacre of children at Sandy Hook Elementary. Congress responded to the order by not
funding the research, due in no small part to NRA influence. I’m not sure that I would support such a
study myself. You can easily predict the
study’s outcome. It will show a bell
curve of the American population. A
couple of standard deviations to the right of this violent population, will be
the mass murderers, who would like to shoot up large numbers of innocent
students and at their tip, the few who actually do so. At the center, or top of the curve, is the
simple majority (you and me). We enjoy
violent video games, violent TV series, violent films and read the stories in
our newspapers of our Storm Troopers of The American Empire vanquishing “the others
or the terrorists” in lands far, far away.
We each own one or more deadly weapons.
On the left of the curve, are a tiny number of pacifists (these are the
people who think), they don’t belong here in America any more than the psychopathic
killers on the far right side do. The
right and left indications mentioned are not political beliefs; they are
positions represented on a bell chart.
The Political Right might tend to align with the NRA, but that is a
topic for another day (you dumb-ass Ultra- Right-Wingers need not take offence).
In today’s
paper, there is also an editorial written by Fareed Zakaria in which he quotes
Andrew Bacevich, military historian, in pointing out that before Syria,
Washington had already launched interventions in 13 countries in the Islamic
World since 1980. Zakaria wonders if one
more intervention, into Syria, will really do the trick of stopping terrorism. You do wonder if the U.S. interventions aren’t
part of the cause rather than the cure.
There seems at least to be a positive correlation. The munitions manufacturers and the NRA would
certainly not like to see the killing stop.
Can’t make any money if that happens.
That concept is our Nation’s true moral guide. God Bless America’s Corporations.
Comments are welcome, Old Buz
