Gun Debate From Another Angle

URL and to post comments: http://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2013/10/10/why-dear-slavey-embraces-gun-culture.html Thursday,October 10, 2013 Dear Slavey,  There was yet another mass shooting in the US this week. Should I just lock and load and forget all the moral and constitutional arguments for and against? Are we heading toward a fully armed society where it's completely normal for everyone to be packing? Seth in Louisville, KY Dear Seth, Yes and  yes. I've given up on this issue. We not only live in a Police State; we also live in the Wild West. My acceptance of US gun culture was cemented by an incident in my neighborhood last week. It's an upper middle class kind of place - nowhere near a 'bad' neighborhood, but an elderly neighbor was walking late at night and someone stuck a gun in his face. He was saved by someone driving by who shouted, "I have a gun too and if you dont't leave him alone, I'm going to use it." So enjoy your firepower, but learn how to use your weapon safely and keep the damn thing locked and away from children with the ammunition stored away from the gun until you plan to use it. If you have kids, get something they can relate to, like an Elmo doll, and shoot its puffy little head off in front of them so they understand what a gun is capable of doing to them or their friends. And PLEASE don't leave it loaded under you bed if you want to see your kids graduate grade school. Your kid will find it and play with it and he or she will die.  Oh, and if you're depressed after a crisis, remember that having a gun around will make it really easy for you to find a permanent solution to your temporary problem - so store it at a neighbor's house for a few days.  Good luck, Slaveys Slavey makes his middle class living on a contract basis in Southern California. He's not poor but definitely not rich - and plans to stay in California for the duration of the economic collapse. The opinions and advice in Dear Slavey should always be checked by your own experts, but has guerrilla style street-smart advice for middle class people on how to negotiate their way through the Police State of America. For more check out TDV Homegrown where Slavey is a regular contributor. Have a question for Dear Slavey? Email to tdv@dollarvigilante.com. Thanks to a real world experience Dear Slavey has accepted an unassailable fact of life: If only cops and criminals have guns, then innocent people will die while waiting in vain for the cops to arrive.  I have to add that there is no gun problem. There is a mental health problem as some of the stressed out subjects of the most expansive and powerful police state empire ever break down after being force fed dangerous concoctions from the government-backed corporate pharmaceutical cartel.  If you think it's a little "out there" to suggest that the government would happily push dangerous drugs instead of making sure we had access to safe ones, just remember: alcohol is perfectly legal while marijuana possession will get your home invaded, your pets killed and you tossed in a rape room for a few years.  While I believe that you can buy whatever you want from air rifles to nukes, I understand the fear that so many people have about every man, woman and child being armed to the teeth at all times. First of all, I'd much rather weapons be disseminated throughout the population instead of all in the hands of governments which use them to brutalize their subjects or kill thousands of foreigners.  But in a free world, there'd be much less need to be armed with deadly force because there would be virtually no crime. There'd be no prohibition and no involuntary poverty without the government thwarting wealth creation and price deflation and entrenching an underclass with stolen funds. And the market in a free world would undoubtedly devise non-lethal personal protection devices that were at least as effective as firearms in thwarting an attacker.  All this talk of drugs and firearms brings to mind the recently and dearly departed Silk Road which we just began to cover in TDV Homegrown just days before its demise. Woe was we. But the market and its adherents never rest (which is why the state will eventually go down) and we're already looking forward to covering Silk Road's replacements as well as ways to profit from the grey and black market (i.e. free market) exchanges. Also in the upcoming issue Justin O'Connell will reveal how to exchange bitcoins for both fun and profit. Make sure you sign up in time. Click here to learn more.  Regards,  Gary Gibson Editor, The Dollar Vigilante