This morning I had a pair of sick-world revelations. I was reading an online BBC report about how Clinton’s ban on the purchase of assault weapons is about to be repealed.
That was sick world feeling number one.
Sick world feeling number two: the BBC, to help its non gun-toting readers along, listed three typical assault weapons — the AK47, the Uzi and something called an AR15, which was described as a civilian version of the military M16.
A civilian version of an M16?
What civilian application can there be of a weapon that fires 1000 rounds per minute, is deadly at ranges over a kilometre and whose bullets can penetrate house walls?
You can imagine the scene in American suburbs. The sun is shining, the butterflies are flapping in the garden. Hubby tells wife, “Hey, hon, I’m hefting my AR15 so I’m just out to cut the grass. And then I’m going to shoot it. And then I’m going to shoot the flowers a while.”
“OK, hon. I’ll be right here in the kitchen with my Uzi shooting the washing up.”
“Then maybe later I’ll put up that book shelf in the den.”
“Make sure you shoot it after. You know you sometimes forget.”
“Hey, how about we get the neighbours round tonight for a cook out?”
“And then we can have a nice shoot out together. Sounds like bliss.”
“Say, did you feed the dog?”
“No, but I did shoot it.”
“Well, that should keep him happy a while.”
Guns don’t kill people. Idiots with guns kill people.