Jesus… so a couple days ago in the midst of the hysteria I made a post on my personal Facebook about ignore the media hype, the sky’s not falling and you’re more likely to get hit by a bus than shot in a movie theatre by a Bad Man With A Gun.
And it seemed to be over, one person insisted there oughta be more laws [as if the fact that there’s already laws against shooting people and killing them wasn’t good enough, as if criminals give a flying fuck what the laws are anyway], but that seemed to be that, over and done on Friday night.
Two fucking days later instead of letting the matter drop, they’re back on my post trying to get the last word and throwing out arguments that a five second Google search can refute.
Now, I don’t give a fuck about “assault rifles” either way because it seems to me there were plenty of shootings during the 10 year ban on them and there are millions of them out there that never hit anything other than paper targets, so it’s pretty clear that they don’t have any sort of magical power to take over your mind and make you into a mass-murdering zombie. That’s about as logical as the argument in some parts of the world that women must cover their hair because women’s hair sends out some sort of mind-control rays that make men turn into slobbering sinning maniacs when they see it [but apparently a piece of cloth can contain these evil hair-powers].
You’re responsible for what you do in your life. Not the tools you use to do it, not your upbringing, not the music you listen to [or don’t – remember how Marilyn Manson got shat on for Columbine? And the kids who did it didn’t even like Manson, they thought he sucked.], not the video games you play, not the books you read. You.
And then the comment that guns should be licensed. This is Canada, dude. They already are. And most if not all of the 50 US states also have various regulations and other laws, some of them are officially licensing even. My understanding is it’s unconstitutional for the Feds to enact laws, but individual states can and do.
Little thing called Google, fucking learn to use it, eh?
Didn’t plan on playing Ted Nugent’s advocate this evening, but it’s turned out that after a promising start on some live arrangement shit and practise in the early evening, my stupid phone has been going off with Facebook notifications.
Which I should probably ignore, but it’s kinda hard to when people insist on imposing their political bullshit on my personal profile’s wall.
So I’m watching deadmau5 work via his live video feed [and drooling over his wall o’ modular synth goodness] and arguing about gun laws in the USA with another Canadian.
Well, at least deadmau5 is accomplishing something useful… and tomorrow I think I shall leave the phone turned off.
