Give it a try

Sunday October 23, 2005 - 9:01AM EDT

I read about this vote on a gun ban in Brazil and it is a puzzling situation. First I think what would it really do when such a large percentage of the guns are illegally trafficked. Second I hear about the NRA leading an ad campaign to vote against the ban. That is just plain evil. Sure the NRA has become an international organization but what the fuck kind of shit is that. How do you go into another country to export your rhetoric. Espcially since their constitution says nothing of right to bear arms. That is just sickening. Then most disheartedly I hear that polls and opinions show that a lot of Brazilians think they have a right to defend themselves so they will vote against the ban. I don't know why this mindset keeps appearing so much. It is not so much as defending yourself as is the way people think they need to do it. With guns. Thinking that guns represent the right to defend yourself is the mark of ignorance. Or maybe what I mean is that it is something that people don't think about just an idea that has been put in their head. An ideaology that has become entrenched. An ideaology that doesn't belong in modern society. It is an idealogy that need more thought in modern times. Posession of a gun has become the last resort and worst way to defend yourself. It seems that people always go to guns for defense before anything else. Funny how some will cheerish a gun as defense then say something about valuing human life. Not to say you won't run into those tough situations but to think that those are your only options every time is ludicrous. You have to at least give the making guns illegal a chance. The negative effects of gun owenership far outweigh the perceived benefits.