Sorry To Bang On About This...

[waitingman]

... well, okay, maybe only a little bit sorry, but...

Dear People of the USA... okay, not all of you, but you know who you are... What the fuck are you doing?!?!?!?

In that article, there are a couple of photos of protestors in quasi-military garb, holding semi-automatic rifles (or are they fully automatic? I don't know - I don't own one & I don't need one!) 'protesting' outside a State Capital building. What the fuck do you need the guns for?? Who are you going to shoot... & why???!!! How is this okay... how do you justify attitudes that bespeak actions like this??

Nobody's shooting at you... the 'enemy', if you must have one, is microscopic & invisible... What makes you think you can kill a virus with an AR-15... what makes you think threatening to shoot government officials, or health workers, is the right way to go about restoring your supposed 'rights' that you think are being removed... What makes you think dressing up as soldiers & waving guns around is the right way to go about anything??!!??

And then there's the photo of the protestors smearing their faces & hands all over the doors of a government building. That's a sure way to guarantee you'll catch something... & with any luck it will be nastier than Covid19. Please share it with your friends...

Frankly, you're an international embarrassment to your country. Land of the free & home of the brave? I'm pretty sure your founding fathers never had behaviour like this in mind when they wrote the Constitution you like to misrepresent... just like Jesus would never condone this shit, no matter what your 'preachers' tell you he said...

Behaviour like this, is making me think the Chinese Government weren't being over-reaching when they literally welded people into their homes at the height of the outbreak. I'm pretty sure they remembered to let them back out... didn't they??

Comments

[pink_halen]

Sadly, the US founding fathers did not envision the development of the gun. At the time the Bill of Rights was written guns were rather ineffective. Guns were basically blunderbusses with terrible accuracy.

Along with that was a change in the interpretation of the Second Amendment which probably did not originally mean personal gun ownership but has come to mean that.

It is true that AR-15s are not suitable for anything other than killing humans. Deer seldom shoot back but we didn't act to limit them as we should of before they became a cult. It is somewhat heartening that the National Rifle Association has gone bankrupt trying to influence our Congress.

There is an overall ignorance that is sometimes hard to fathom. It is mainly because of poor education and a lack of critical thinking. Because of that many more will die.

I am terribly saddened by the turn of events but at this point I cannot imagine what will make them "See the Light."

By the way, In the news story you see a photo of a man wearing scrubs standing in front of a silver pickup in an attempt to stop the protesters. That is four blocks from my building. In another photo of that scene published in the New York Times you can see where I live.

[waitingman]

On one hand, I'm sorry there are people in Denver who believe this crap... On the other, I'm glad that your medical & emergency workers are fed up with this crap & aren't afraid to show it...