Tuesday, May 31, 2022

A Letter to the Ammosexuals

Your guns will not save you.

You sit impassive on a throne of mangled flesh and shattered bone that grows higher and heavier with each passing day’s massacre of the innocent and you lash out with unhinged fury at those who say to you that this is immoral, that this is unacceptable, that this is a travesty of all that is sacred and holy, that this needs to change, and your guns will not save you.

You cling to your guns above all else, above human decency, above morality, above your obligations as a citizen and your duties as a community member, as if those guns mean anything more than bloodshed, as if they make you a “patriot” or a “good guy,” and your guns will not save you.

You throw your faith in a twisted caricature of a god into the faces of all who work to make this world a better place, not knowing or caring that any god worthy of the name will cast you aside and blot your name from memory unto the seventh generation. You will someday face your god and that god will turn away from you, and your guns will not save you.

You stockpile instruments of slaughter because you are weak, because you are too immature or greedy or inhumane to recoil in horror at the cost of your actions. You are content to ignore that cost as long as it is borne by the children of others because you find that cost an acceptable price for others to pay to satisfy your own desires, and to justify that bloodshed as the necessary price of your free access to your precious toys, and your guns will not save you.

You work unceasingly to make more massacres inevitable, to block any effort to fix the problem as every civilized nation on earth has already done, and your toddler-level understanding of freedom and rights has more hold on the shriveled remnants of your soul than the lives you claim to hold dear, and your guns will not save you.

They will not.

6 comments:

  1. I can't believe I have to say this, but then again I absolutely believe I have to say this.

    This post is not a call for further violence.

    It is, in fact, rather the opposite.

    Your comprehension of that simple fact is greatly appreciated.

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  2. OK, I read your comment; then I re-read the piece. Twice. *How* could one take it as a call to violence?

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  3. I have no idea. I do know that people see what they want to see.

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  4. Well, now you've gone and done it! Being civil about this is (al)most duplicitous! So very much more gracious than I. Somewhere nearby a berserker howls in frustration ... 😉

    (I believe that the people who know you and have shared the currency of each of the quarters and dimes you have produced lo these many years will see exactly what you meant them to see.

    And will agree with each and every word.)

    So let it be written ...

    So let it be done!

    Lucy

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  5. Afterthought:

    It's a cryin' shame that the people who really need to read that ... won't.

    Lucy

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  6. Thanks Lucy. I appreciate it.

    It took more drafts than you can imagine to get to this level of civility. Sometimes you just have to get it out of your system before you write the final draft.

    The people who need to read this wouldn't get it if they did.

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