I’m not a big gun person. In fact, I’ve spent many days arguing with loser rednecks that the second amendment is bullshit, it does more harm than good, and we may as well just get rid of guns in order to prevent the continued recurrence of tragedies like Virginia Tech, Columbine, etc.

That’s just the simplified and insipid argument I use on the idiots–I don’t expect it to work, and sure enough, it never does. How can you expect to get into theoretical arguments about gun rights with a person who invariably feels good & entitled about Being Dumb, and who votes against their own interests by installing Republican drones into government that fortify the wealthiest one percent of the country into an indestructible oligopoly that’s not only immune to all laws but has it within their power to enslave an entire mass of people using insurmountable debt and fuck-you interest rates?

Anyway, the ironic thing about gun laws is that one of the most important reasons TO keep guns around is so that we can create a militia to overthrow a government that gets too cocky and starts taking away all our civil liberties. Um, where the fuck were the militias in the last 8 years while George W. Bush was raping this country blind? Oh, yeah, they comprised the 30% supporting torture and lassiez-faire capitalism gone diabolically evil; they didn’t mind having their phones wire-tapped just so long as they got to see some Arabs ass-reamed at Gitmo on Fox News every night.

If anything, we should introduce gun law legislation to the smart liberal elite people in New York City who drink cappuccinos and, god forbid, read books that don’t start with the words “King James” in the title.

The other ironic thing, while I’m at it, about the gun-nut faction of the country (let’s just generalize on the “slim chance” that broad sweeping generalizations are more true than false)–is that most of the Red states that are proudly anti-tax also receive more tax money per capita than other states. Texas and Alaska, especially. For every dollar of federal taxes that Alaskans put in to the pot, they receive $1.8 back in spending–Alaskans are nearly doubling their money, which you can’t even do in Vegas on most good nights. Yet they don’t want to pay taxes. What a bunch of spoiled idiots.

And precisely this–this entitlement to complete stupidity–is what it means to be American. We have a rotten, terrible society–one that refuses to help heal its sick, or help anyone out at all. In fact, it’s anti-American to help people out. What if they get ahead of you?

Anyway, this was supposed to be a trip report about shooting guns on some forest service land and swilling a giant bottle of rum in between burns on 5.13d’s … but apparently I have been sidetracked.

No matter. This will do.