There are individuals in our nation who don’t like guns. Unfortunately for law-abiding gun owners, these folks aren’t content to simply keep their opinion to themselves. They are either honestly mistaken about the reasons for their opposition to gun ownership or they are outright lying about their motives. The real reason the anti-gun group is opposed to firearm ownership is one that most of them aren’t even aware of or are aware of and won’t admit to. The truth is that their subconscious or conscious-but-unadmitted-to reason for being opposed to guns is a liberal, utopian fantasy-the stuff of artistic “dreamers”-and nothing more. There are legitimate reasons to own and carry a gun.
When anti-gun people are in proximity to someone who happens to be carrying a gun, they oftentimes become either offended or frightened and will state their objection to the fact that they had to be near one. Occasionally they will ask, “Why do you think you need a gun?” Sometimes after the person carrying the gun has left the area, they will comment to others about the fact that said person happened to be armed. There have been incidents when a person opposed to guns saw an armed individual inside a business he or she was at and went to the manager or owner demanding that guns not be allowed on the premises or else they would take their money elsewhere. Yes, these folks cause their own blood pressure to go up over having seen a firearm.
If asked why it is that they are opposed to the existence of guns, they will tell you that guns are unnecessary and cause unjustified loss of life. They will point to deaths-due-to-firearms-each-year statistics (which usually runs about 30,000 per year) to prove their point. They will say they never felt the need to carry a gun, which in their mind means no one else really needs a gun either. They may state that the very existence of firearms creates negative energy and actually causes more violence in the world.
Anti-gun people don’t really care about saving human life as they state when arguing against gun ownership and the right to carry a gun. If they really did care about human life then they would have been on board with the attempt to outlaw late-term, third-trimester, partial-birth abortions. There are approximately eleven thousand such abortions performed each year, and the reality is that there is no medically-necessary reason for an abortion that late in the pregnancy. Sure, the argument has been made that these procedures are necessary in rare instances when the mother’s life or “mental health” (that could mean anything) is in danger; but in these rare instances abortion is still not necessary to resolve the physical or mental issue at hand. All that needs to be done in such cases is to induce labor and take the baby early.
Also, there are eighty thousand alcohol-related deaths each year. Where is the demand on the part of the anti-gun folks to restrict or ban the production, sale, and ownership of alcohol? When is the last time there was ever a movement to require background checks for the purchase of Jack Daniels? One would think that a group of people so devoted to preserving human life like the anti-gun group claims to be would be outraged over eighty thousand unnecessary deaths from a substance that is itself unnecessary. That is not the case though.
No, concern for human life is not the reason the pro-gun control group wants to see the extermination of firearms from the face of the earth. There are actually two reasons why the progressive left is opposed to ownership of firearms by individual citizens. The first reason has to do with control; the second is a matter of world-view ideology.
Far, far left progressive extremists-young, no-nothing, crap-for-brains anarchists types and no-borders, open society Marxists (probably both)-though they will never admit it, in the name of fairness, seek total government control over every aspect of society. They believe the only way for their to be fairness in the world is if government has total control over individuals and individuals exist to serve the greater good-the collective. These people know that history has proven time after time that individuals never go along with this ideology unless forced to. It is, therefore, necessary for the state to be in the position of being able to force collectivism upon the masses. If individual citizens have firearms, this is not possible because they will resist and fight back; and the state will be denied control. This means that the only group that should have guns is the military. As stated, extremist, collectivist, Marxist types will never admit to this; but it is the way they think; and it is a reason they dislike the fact that citizens are allowed to own firearms.
The second far-less-extreme reason the let’s-get-rid-of-guns group is opposed to weapons has to do the fact that the existence of firearms is an insult to their naive belief in the goodness of humanity. Progressive liberals believe the world should be just as John Lennon described it in his song Imagine. They believe the world should be a place where everyone loves everyone else and works for the good of all of humanity, a place where we have dispensed with this silly nonsense of religion, a place where we all live together as one, a place where violence is no more because people have become enlightened and have seen the errors of their history. Liberals believe this is actually possible because people are basically good; and if the masses were just a little more enlightened as they are, this John Lennon view of the world could actually become a reality. This is their hope and goal.
Perhaps the world should be more like Lennon’s song. The reality is that it is not. The reality is that the world has never been, is not now, and will never be the way John Lennon imagined it should be.
The reason the world will never comport to the progressive idea is because people are not basically good. People are on a core, base level pure consciousness. This consciousness is neither good nor bad; it is simply awareness. The problem is that along with the pure consciousness aspect of our mind (the superego), we have this thing that is also in our mind called the ego. The ego is all about executing the drives of the id, which means it is all about survival of the individual, which means it is self-centered, which means that most people care primarily about themselves and their immediate, close community which is an extension of themselves.
The ego also motivates people to do things that are detrimental to others for the purpose of advancing the self and the individual sense of existential value. This is the core reason people assault, rape, kidnap, torture, steal, and impose their religion and religious tenets (Islam) on others by force. This means people are not basically good. For the most part people go along with the instructions their ego gives them and sometimes do a lot of bad things.
The existence of firearms is a wake up call to this reality, a stark reminder that people are not good and do not value the greater good of the entire world population. The existence of firearms, militaries, and police forces are undeniable proof that people are not basically good.
Liberals do not like to be reminded of this and forced to see humanity as it really is. They become greatly offended and angry when forced to see that their Kumbaya, utopian fantasy about the goodness of people is nothing more than a silly fairy tale. They, therefore, seek to remove all reminders of the reality of humanity, which is a reason they don’t like guns. Again, they will never admit to this as they will never admit that they seek total government control of the masses.
Here are some examples of how the ego manifests the drives of the id in ways that are detrimental to others (all of these incidents occurred in Knoxville, TN):
- In November of 2016 in the Home Federal Bank parking lot on Merchant Road a man was assaulted with an aluminum baseball bat and robbed. He got out of his vehicle carrying a bank bag, which was a clear sign to the thieves that he had a substantial amount of cash. This deemed him a worthy target.
- In January of 2017 a carjacking occurred in the Walmart parking lot on Clinton Highway.
- Sometime in 2014 in the same Walmart parking lot an elderly lady had finished her shopping and was walking to her car when she was approached by two young men in a small white Toyota truck. They told her how they were down on their luck and asked if she could help them out with some cash. When she declined, they assaulted her and stole her purse.
- Way back in the early 1990’s a man pulled off the road on which he was driving due to the fact that his vehicle began overheating. A few minutes later two men pulled in behind him pretending to offer assistance. They assaulted him with a baseball bat and robbed him.
- In January of 2007 Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom were kidnapped, tortured, and raped over a three day period and finally murdered.
These few incidents listed are just that – a few. These kind of actions on the part of people who have no respect for others go on all the time. Crimes of this nature occur because people act on the impulses and motivations of the ego for the self-centered reason of increasing their own sense of existential value. This is part of what is known as “human nature”, and it therefore means that people are not basically good, contrary to what the progressive left would have us believe. Behavior of this type is the reason many people carry a gun.
The liberal left might argue that violent crime, in the great scheme of things, doesn’t happen all that often and is restricted to a few isolated incidents here and there. That would be a naive argument based on ignorance and a desire not to see the world as it is. If crimes of the type listed above happen only once a year in the entire nation, that is one too many occurrences and is more than enough justification for citizens to own and carry firearms.
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