The Monster Factory

Citizens have guns –not for self defense against criminals or marauders- but against government. Against tyranny.

Americans don’t trust government. They never have. They never will. (Our British cousins are luckier in that way).

In the founding documents we have the following right: Our second one: any citizen not in the regular army has a right to a gun.

So, there’s that.

Hard to argue against. Who wants to render defenseless our best people? Who is going to stand for that?

No one knows how many guns there are in this country. Sensible guesses suggest one per: 310,000,000 guns or rifles. That’s a lot of guns to buy or confiscate or somehow get rid of. It would require a dictatorship to bring that off. A fast dictatorship.

Doesn’t seem likely, does it?

We are the richest society the world has ever known. The smartest. And, there is a lot of freedom here. So, naturally, we are a society that creates monsters. We do it with movies, books, the internet, the organizations within. We do it with desire, with boredom, with drugs, with expectation.

Creating monsters in a land with –probably– half a billion guns in it gets you what you see:

Dead Children.

It is tempting to say “There’s nothing for it.”

Laziness usually is tempting. And gives you more dead kids. The only serious question is this: What can you really do?

We can protect our children. With veterans, with retired cops, we can staff every school in the country with a protector. A strapped, no nonsense man born for the work.

We can do it next month.

The Job 2.22.18