I’d like to open this post by saying that anyone who is pro-second amendment and also pro-cop is delusional. Those two ideas are antithetical. This is what I’m writing about today

The Delusion of the Second Amendment

The second amendment to the United States Bill of Rights states that

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

In modern politics, this gets boiled down to “any individual is allowed to own any kind of, and any amount of, guns they’d like.” Now there are some rules on the variety of guns you can or cannot own, but these are pretty narrow. The idea that the men who wrote this amendment were going for is that “the people” need to secure a way to protect themselves from the government, and at that time gun ownership was a solid way of doing that. The well-stated problem with that though is that the kinds of guns the authors had available to them were wildly different than the guns available today.

Not that it didn’t happen, but it’s much harder to go on a killing spree with a muzzleloader, or even an early rifle. The firearms available at the time where a lot more reasonable for self-defense. Oh, someone’s broken into my home? Let me just fire a shot into them, that should do the job. Meanwhile, today any Joe Schmoe can get a gun that could mow down a crowd before you have time to realize what’s going on.

This is one of the main reasons why many calls for gun control are merely trying to scale back the weaponry available to the public. Fine, keep your right to defend yourself, but you simply do not need an assault rifle capable of taking down a herd of moose.

What is an Ant to a God?

The modern “pro-gun” voter is delusional to think that they stand even a fraction of a chance against the tyranny of our government. Our military has been at the forefront of deadly technology for nearly a century now, and these people think that with all the toys on the market they stand a chance against The Industrial-Military Complex.

A favorite point of mine that I’ve seen was made by comedian Niel Brennan, and is available on YouTube. The point he makes is that we should let these guys test their theory by every year letting 100 NRA members go up against the military. Just see how it plays out, ya know? Because truly, how can you make these people understand the insane disparity they’ve found themselves in?

Who do You Think Will Take the Guns?

This is my main point with this post. A common sentiment I’ve heard gun owners say is “Come and take it”. This is meant as a threat. What they’re really saying is “Come and try and take my guns and I will kill you. I will use said guns to defend myself.” These threats are more so directed at “The Left” whom they perceive as the ones “coming for their guns”. This is, of course, another delusion. The specific delusion they hold is that some limp-wristed, blue-haired, pronoun-having commie is going to show up at their door demanding their guns. This strawman is someone they see as being easily overpowered; someone they can intimidate or defend themselves against. This simply would not be the case.

More than likely, any ban on any firearms that could come out would probably take the form of a gun buyback program much like Australia had and is in progress of having again. A buyback program would probably be the most peaceful way of reducing the amount of guns citizens have, but with current American sentiment towards guns would probably not be too successful unless the buyback prices were very generous. There is another way, though. Mark Antonio Wright at The National Review, a right-wing editorial magazine, is a critic of such a buyback program, and he agrees that a buyback program would fail to make any significant change to the amount of guns in the hands of citizens throughout America. He also points out the alternative

There is no other way around it: The mandatory confiscation of the American citizenry’s guns would involve tens of thousands of heavily armed federal agents going door-to-door to demand of millions of Americans that they surrender their guns.

That. Is. Not. Going. To. Happen.

I’d like to offer the following counter point: It. Would. Happen.

The American government has repeatedly shown that it will gladly kill its own citizens for the benefit of the ruling class. In 1921 our government dropped bombs on union workers fighting for workers’ rights. In 1985 Philadelphia police dropped bombs on the home of a black rights group and intentionally let the fire burn down two city blocks of housing, killing six adults and five children in the process. Your government will kill you, and will not think twice about it. The men coming to take your guns will be heavily armed and will meet their objective.

Defunding The Police

The Right are so caught up in race and identity politics that they have completely deluded themselves on who the enemy is, and in doing so have worked to empower the very people they claim to be working to protect themselves against. The people who would take your guns are not well-educated liberals sitting in their ivory palaces. They’re blue-collar police men and women who you just voted to give them millions of dollars so they can buy used military equipment to better take your guns with. With just an ounce of forethought it should be obvious that defunding the police is in alignment with the “pro-gun” mindset. A true proponent for the second amendment should do everything in their power to reduce the power, the physical might, of their government. They’re gladly vote “no” on levies for schools or libraries or parks, but to vote against giving more tax dollars to local police is anti-American!

I’m sure, dear reader, that you are as aware as I am that this is the result of intentional propaganda. Convince the people that the police are For Americans, and that education makes dirty communists, and they’ll gladly give away their freedom and ensure their own oppression. And thanks to a lack of education, it can be nigh impossible to break through to them that they’re giving up power.

United We Stand

I may be against the right of the average person to own anything more than a hunting rifle, but I am in agreement that governments will work to screw over and control their citizens in any way possible, and the best way to prevent that is to ensure that said government can be overpowered, but the way to do that is not individual gun ownership. The way is to take money out of the hands of the systems that would be used to control you, the police, the military, etc, and to instead put that money into building stronger communities.