Monsters and Corpses

Guns. They are tools for ending life.

All too frequent in the US, they have ended human lives. Because the US is handling guns wrong. Not the banning methods of the UK that have knocked the percentage of homicides caused by guns to 10% (vs US's 60%).*

Nor the intrinsic self responsibility by the Swiss who in their history have only had one mass shooting** (defined as any incident where four or more people were injured or killed because of a gun, compared to the US's 353 mass shootings in 2015 so far)*.

In terms of personal safety from muggers or home intruders, semi-automatic and automatic guns are unnecessary.

In terms of fighting back the US government if it turns on its people, they are as efficient as hiding under your blanket from a theoretical monster in your closet.

In otherwords, useless against an enemy that may never appear anyway.

Lets say theoretically though.

I will cite the fictional Dystopia of Hunger Games-the Capital vs the 12 (once 13) districts.

Once a great revolution was fought by the Districts.

Then the Capital blasted an entire District off the map with an air raid and bombs.

During the Second Revolution of Panem they did it again.

We have that technology now. If an armed revolution formed equipped with only guns, the government officials would never get close enough to them for bullets to mean a damn thing.

Nor would they send armed soldiers and expect them to turn on their friends and family.

If the US government turned on its people, it would not give them a fighting chance like that.

Not when drones, nuclear bombs, and chemical warfare exists.

Which means the 300 million or so guns in the US, nearly one for every man woman and child (in the hands of a third of a population) do little to nothing for our protection.*

Instead in the absence of legal regulation and social responsibility, guns turn men into monsters and children into corpses.

Sources:

*

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34996604

**

http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/