Sunday, February 3, 2013

But Pablo, that doesn't make sense!

Ah, let me explain.

I hate guns, but I am anti-gun control.

Here goes, once again, my opinion no one wants to hear anyway.

I hate guns. Guns were a man-made solution to problems that could have been solved by conversation. "That only happens in a perfect world," I was told.

Really?

I recall that not two weeks ago I had the day off of school in honor of a man called Martin Luther King, Jr. Also, I remember being a Christian, follower of a man who called all to lay down their arms and love each other. Ask anyone, and they'll tell you that the key to love is communication.

I realize that it's too late to not invent guns, and, at least ideally, no one should have guns. Not even the government. I would call for global disarmament. No one, absolutely no one, should have a gun. Yes, the gun isn't the problem, and since we can't take the man out of the man, we can take the gun out of the hand of the man. All worldwide guns should be in the ocean somewhere where they cannot be retrieved.

"This is so pro-gun control!"

Hold your horses.

See, the problem with this debate isn't guns and whether they're automatic or if criminals can get to them or if Obama shoots them, it's about rights. If we let the government take away a right that is so explicitly set forth on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, it becomes that much easier for the government to take away other more important rights. That's just the way things work with people with power: give them an inch and they'll go a mile.

That's why I'm anti-gun control.


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