Raaaargh!

Oh my goodness. If I have to hear one more person tell me that its their right to have a gun and their country will collapse if they don't have that right, and they need that gun to protect themselves against their GOVERNMENT, I will probably lop someone's head off. I am not speaking about a nation but about the large contingent of that nation that doesn't realise that, despite its nation being founded on the right to defend oneself, firstly, times change and therefore the context of that constitution has changed and hey, there are a whole other bunch of countries where their citizens manage to 'defend' themselves without needing to own a gun.

When I made that point tonight I was told 'yes, but I'm a citizen and you're a subject'. Oh wow. If I wasn't part of a civilised society where guns and violence don't equal freedom, I might have poked the dude in the eye with my steak knife.

Oh, and I forgot to add. According to this worldly, insightful redneck, all the gun problems of said nation are caused by black people. You might read about all these massacres in the press (and I wouldn't have even mentioned race if it had not been for the ignoramus comment made by this 'man'), where some white dude has shot a bunch of people, but according to my wise acquaintance (this is just someone I met in a restaurant by the way), the real gun crime is perpetrated by black people, it's just that CNN doesn't report it when a black person goes off and shoots 80 children.

Said acquaintance told us that when Barack Obama was elected, he decided that Obama would run his country and he himself would 'run' his 'own' country. And when he feels his country has become something else, like Obama's country, he will leave and make his country somewhere else.

Well, go on, dude. Do it! The sooner people like you leave, the sooner sense will prevail. I hear there's room on Mars and if you're quick enough, you might be able to win one of those one way tickets. Maybe the whole of the NRA would like to join you?