The scenario is a sleepy Texan town close to the border of Mexico. A distraught 18-year-old mental patient, who has been coerced by unknown forces, buys two assault rifles, enters a suburban elementary school and starts shooting young children as a political statement. The gunman is either apprehended or shot and a rampage of vocalizing pacifists demand that the government prohibit the owning or bearing of firearms. The question here really is not the gun industry but the social fabric that caused a young citizen to run amuck. However, this paper focuses on the second amendment and the right to bear arms.
The memory of the public is very short. Just one hundred years ago, outlaws armed with state-of-the-art repeating rifles and sidearms would commander whole towns, take all the money, rape all the pretty women and be off in a swirl of dust towards their next objective. This is called the wild, wild, west. Farm owners had to maintain an arsenal of rifles and shotguns because occasionally, desperados would infiltrate and conquer their rancho. It seems like the supply of criminals is endless but the human aspect of life is a topic for another dissertation. It was only a militia of colonials armed with French long rifles that gave their lives, their liberty and their health to start the great and peaceful nation that we love and live in today.
Pacifists and feminists and the like all believe unsavory characters should be poisoned and euthanized in the local hospital as a fitting punishment for their crimes because it is non-violent. This sounds like cruel and unusual punishment to me. The pacifists mandate that violence is now a felony with one year of mandatory imprisonment so now the rich can poison who they like at will and get away with it. It is logical to assume that the best recapitulation against a poisoning miscreant is to punch them out, but now violence is anathema in our present society. In a developed high-class society where violence is prohibited, the one who can afford the best poisoner wins, and that is that. Maybe this is why some seemingly innocuous teenagers go berserk and start killing.
This author is not a psychologist or licensed psychiatrist but notices that owning a firearm is masculine and almost all successful men have at least one. They feel that bigger and more is better and this is the manly way to go. All gun experts like big weapons like 357 magnum, 45 ACP and 50 caliber browning. Watch U-tube and learn. Little machos all have 22 rimfire and most of the handgun accidents in the United States are caused by 22 rimfire weapons. If a reader has ever fired a handgun, they know that recoil is daunting and only experts prefer the big calibers.
A solution but now a panacea for this dilemma can be the statutes for firearm possession and licensing. May it be the age to possess a firearm for everyone be raised to the age majority of 21? People, let it be so. As a placation to all the incredibly wealthy gun manufacturers, a law should be added to the 2nd amendment as a rider to the effect that only new firearms bought from the manufacturer can be obtained and all old or used firearms be confiscated and destroyed. Anyone owning or selling a used firearm without registration be subject to immediate incarceration for six months. This way the rich can get richer but the poor will protected from a minimum of firearms in circulation.
This essay is a sample of Americana at its best and it does not take a 100 page treatise written by lawyers to convey the simple formula of gun control. New guns only, ownership and possession by age of majority of 21. There are thousands of used weapons floating around at gun shows, America only has to make it so!