I'm a Proud Arsehole
“I suppose what really baffles me is that I can’t think of a single reason why a civilian needs to own a military-grade weapon, apart from being a monstrous arsehole." - Emma Brockes (Writer for The Gaurdian)
I own an AR-15, so I guess that makes me a "monstrous arsehole". To be fair, I have my moments when I get my hackles up and starting acting like, how we say in the colonies, an "asshole". I tend to act like an asshole when people tell me how to live my life. What property, they FEEL, I should own or not own.
No, I do not own an AR-15 for punching holes in paper at a distance, or for blasting Bambi's dad right in his stupid fucking face. It is simply for my defense, my family's defense, and yes even defense of complete strangers like you. My rights do not spring from government decree. I was born with my rights and they are as inseparable from me, as long as I am exercising them.
Monstrous? Nay. Arsehole? Sometimes, and proud of it.
And in the USA, for another purpose as I write here
(http://uberthoughtsusa.blogspot.com/2018/03/founders-intent-and-second-amendment.html) -- because we have the right to defend ourselves against a government that becomes so strong that it seeks to disarm its citizens, as the Obama administration would have done had we citizens not been as prepared as we were to stop it.
Don't sleep on Trump either! Just because there is a new boss, it doesn't make him any different than the old boss. Yes, we have firearms to defend against governments both foreign and domestic. Will that ever happen? Time will tell, but I don't trust a guy because he's in a suit and is smiling at me.
To be fair the second amendment was written at a time before we had professional police forces here in the colonies, but given that this institution is incompetent at preventing violent crime, despite having near total surveillance, and has no legal obligation to protect you I'd say having a semi-auto riffle that no military in the world uses is reasonable.
i just salute her.
I just bitch slapped her.