gun control questions

GUN CONTROL QUESTIONS


Around four years ago I read “Enemies Foreign And Domestic” by Matthew Bracken. I just finished reading it again after a loyal minion sent me the trilogy by that author. I enjoyed it the first time, not minding the high price tag at all. I would never, ever, spend the money they want for fiction new releases. $35 for a new hard back. Inconceivable! Most mass market fiction is not worth spending five bucks an hour on. Especially since it will be out in paperback soon enough. But for genre specific books, I don’t mind at all. I spent the unheard of sum of over $30 for “Unintended Consequences” back in the early to mid nineties. Not once but twice. My goodness, now that was, and still is, the giant of militia books. Just as it doesn’t appear that anyone will ever top Ayn Rand and “Atlas Shrugged”, I can’t believe anyone will ever come close to “Consequences”. Bracken probably comes as close as is possible. Not that I particularly love militia fiction. It is a nice change of pace but it certainly isn’t my everyday cup of tea. But when it is done right it is if nothing else very entertaining. Bracken does it right. He certainly deserves the price of his books. I have nothing but good to say about them. I’m about a third into the second book, “Domestic Enemies” and I love that even more. Bravo.

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Of course, as much as I like the fiction tale of Second Amendment rights being fought for, you know where I stand on the issue. I feel that until folks actually have an empty belly they won’t fight back, regardless of how patriotic they are. Too many times we’ve seen gun rights assaulted with nothing more than a whimper and a brief upsurge in the sales of PVC pipe as everyone buries their plastic poodle shooters. But reading the book did bring up some questions in my mind. I know you are going to dismiss them, as you always do. But perhaps at least I can plant a seed of doubt that will eventually germinate and once I am dead you can look back and say, hey, maybe that beautiful bastard had a point after all. I wonder if the battle to control guns isn’t pretty much a scam. How, please hear me out. I know this seems silly because of course all oppressive regimes want to keep their citizens from shooting back. But there are certainly more than one way to skin a cat and the way to control Americans isn’t necessarily the same one used in Germany or Chile. Are we being feed the wrong set of worries to distract us from the real agenda?

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I’m sure that our political toadies sincerely believe in their crusade. Whether pro or anti gun, they fight for what they believe in. Or what they are told to believe in by their voters. Not that the voters really are anything more than window dressing. I believe in true voter control like I believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. It is part of the illusion to keep the herd quiet and lined up at the slaughter chute. But the politicians are among most of the “American Democracy Myth” believers. They themselves are controlled by the bankers. If the power to control the purse is with the bankers then the politicians will dance to the tune of the paymaster. But the politicians are like most people and lie to themselves to face the image in the mirror the next day. They truly believe. Which makes it much easier to control the whole process. I’m not claiming that “the gnomes of New York” sit in a smoke filled room and micromanage the politics that safe guard their financial empire. They don’t have to. They set macro policy and the details, while messy, pretty much sort themselves out. As long as unimaginable amounts of money continue to flow into their pockets, it is all good. Do you really think the bankers care if you are armed or not? In fact, I believe it is far better for them if you are actually armed with an evil assault weapon.

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If you are a fat cat banker with a mansion and an armored limousine, do you care if some punk ass bitch with a carbine takes a few pot shots at you? What is the harm? The range and penetration is crap. Since you most likely don’t own an antique bolt action in thirty caliber, the tactics of the issue are in their favor. Not to mention they live in a urban, more heavily controlled area. But strategically, they are even safer. If the punk even thinks you exist. 999 times out of a thousand the perceived target is one of your paid flunkies, the politicians. Who are protected anyway, courtesy of the taxpayer. The bankers have little to fear due to their hiding in plain sight behind false targets. The idiots in an investment firm with public outrage directed at “performance” bonuses? Smaller cogs in a much larger machine. More false targets. The politicians might care if the public is armed or not. But the bankers only care about controlling the money. And every last Constitutionalist is led around by the wallet. And since the more important issue to the banker is that the politicians never slip their leash, the regular mode of operation is to have two sides which pretty much cancel each other out. One side pro gun control, pro socialist, pro health care reform and the other side pro gun, pro free market. Slowly but surely a little bit more power is always grabbed by the politicians but since obviously no one side ever gets irreversible control it is all still in the hands of the real masters.

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A politician gets too big for his britches and there are many ways to respond, from letting the trained dogs in the CIA perform a little wet work to allowing an under represented political party to achieve a “surprise” victory. Which are performed by an army of underlings least the big boys ever get too close to such mundane details. Deniability through hundreds of layers. I’m not claiming I’m so smart I can figure all this out on my own. I’m just wondering aloud how the pieces fit when the bought and paid for politicians constantly cancel each other out generation after generation. To include gun control efforts. You are being ruined economically, which leaves no target for all your guns to be used against. And you will be controlled by food. The bankers don’t care if you are armed. They will be out of the country by the time you start using your arms to keep yourself fed. In the meantime, they stop any potential revolution. Most areas are strictly controlled, with a few parched and unproductive areas allowed to keep gun ownership as an escape valve from the urban areas. Does it strike you that the freest gun states are almost the same places the American Indians were banished to after all their good land was taken away. Think about it.

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