i don't care about guns

there's been so much talk about guns everywhere i turn and i just don't care. i don't wanna come across as insensitive or indifferent... but seriously, i don't give a fuck about guns. take 'em or leave 'em. ban them all or inspire us all to load up on them. i just can't get myself worked up enough to choose a side in what seems to be an extremely polarizing debate.

if you're against guns, i get it. when a gun is doing what it was created to do, all it's really doing is destroying. i'm totally anti-destroying stuff which almost qualifies me to join the anti-gun side... but i'm not anti-gun in the sense that they should be banned altogether. i'm anti-gun in the sense that i wish they were never created in the first place. i'd much rather an existence where no one has guns... not us, not my enemies, and not our government who we have to keep honest from going all tyrannical on us.

if you're pro-gun, i also get that. cuz the reality of the situation is that there are guns in the world and bad people like to use them to do bad things. so what's a good person to do in this cold, cruel world of ours? an effective way to protect yourself from a maniac with a gun is to have a gun of your own. hopefully you have the quicker draw and you kill that crazy maniac quicker than that crazy maniac kills you.

and i also get that if we don't have any weapons at all, then the military and the police and the big bad government is the only side that's armed and that's how we could possibly lose control and fall victim and find ourselves confined to a tyrannical, prison-state existence. tyrannical, prison-state existence doesn't sound fun to me. so i guess if we have guns, the government will be less likely to try and take us down.

not that i think the government is going to get all tyrannical on us. and if they were, they'd do it by controlling the money and putting us all in debt slowly turning us into slaves of a consumer culture that we think makes us happy and keeps us too busy to realize the obvious sad state of affairs around us. but something like that could never happen, right? while i'm on the topic, anyone up for waiting in a long line overnight for iphones and sneakers that were made in china by starving children who get paid ten cents per 18 hour shift? anyone?

i don't think i suffer from indifference. i have a point of view and am heavily opinionated on this topic... maybe too opinionated. i doubt everyone's gonna come clean and throw all their guns into incinerators at the same time so that we can evolve past this and never have to worry or think about guns again. so i'm screwed. and i accept that. i'm gonna let you nuts fight it out on facebook cuz it's fun to watch.