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Gun Un-control

Death by Proxy

By Mike WhaleyPublished 6 years ago 3 min read
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No Guns, No Gun Crime

How many murderous gun crimes will Americans tolerate until they realise that gun manufacturers are the cause of mass death in that county?

Why should people tolerate this in their own backyard? This small minority of so-called business people who produce weapons that kill, who are the reason there is so much killing, they are the issue and problem. Yet because there will always be those that trade in guns, there will always be gun crime. It is simple mathematics. To have guns available legally increases the risk of tragedy. To limit the ease of access would endeavour to relieve the availability and ultimately reduce the amount of killing, right? No, sorry, that's wrong. You cannot just limit the production. You have to stop it, full stop.

So why not stop it altogether? Is it because governments have their wheels greased with bribes by weapons manufacturers? Is that why politicians will not change their views and continue to promote the right to bear arms?

Each elected party has not done enough to stop the epidemic that is gun crime, but the fact it is called gun crime in the first place is a simplification of what the epidemic is, and that epidemic is murder. Why call the murder of innocent people just gun crime?

It's not about the size of your gun, it's about the size of your brain! Educate people that guns are murder and just that. They are not tools. They are not a right, because the people they kill lose those rights.

The media highlights on a regular basis another child murdered, children becoming afraid to go to a place of education because of the fear that a gun toting idiot will walk into their domain and reap their lives and the lives of other innocent people in their class. Why should children have to experience dread about going to school? It should be Education, not Apprehension! There have been so many incidents which have seen children come under fire amd die. So how can governments allow this to continue? They show their remorse for the terrible thing that happened on news feeds as they stand behind their bodyguards, but will not go after the real cause of this carnage, the producers of death know as weapons manufacturers.

The worst part about all this are the arguments from those that like to own and use guns. They state, “Not everyone will gun down innocent people, so why should we be punished by losing the right to own a gun?” How blatantly unsympathetic can these people be? They do not give a damn about the mother, father, grandparent, brother, sister, or child that was just killed by the very archaic constitutional right to bear arms, a right that these people hold so dear in their hearts. But what's worse still is the very fact that their world has been so desensitised to murder that they own the very same weapon that just killed a fellow human being, and this is possibly the most shocking thing.

If a company produced an item that injured or killed someone because of a fault, they could prosecuted, yet gun manufacturers who produce items that are actually used to kill people are untouchable, not scrutinised in law courts, not arrested, not jailed, and allowed to walk freely around in expensive business suites pretending they are decent people! The “We didn't pull the trigger, so it's not our fault” argument is running a little dry, isn't it? After all, if they didn't supply the bullet and the trigger, then that murder wouldn't have been so easy.

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Mike Whaley

Writer of Eris Stone and the Book of Shadows, artist/cover design see whaley7780 on instagram. Looking to see a better world.

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