SINCE DE DAYS of Audie Murphy, John Wayne, Bonanza and Dallas I been fascinated by Amurca, this vast, diverse land that does attract people like a magnet and where people does hold onto the almighty dollar and the almighty Visa like if dem just win the lottery; Amurca, where the streets apparently used to be lined with gold, iffing you prepare to wuk hard, work extra hours, tek little vacation, one day this land of the free (buy one get one free) could mek you independent and financially wealthy, just like Bernie Madoff and Allen Stanford and in next to no time, iffing you don’t spend all the money pun useless things, just like them you could go from zero to hero and in no time you could lose it all and be pun he streets begging like Ted Williams of recent YouTube fame.
But Amurca is also a strange place where the right to bear arms, not hands, is treated as a sacred right and where almost every year and/or full moon, the freaks does come out and mow down people in public places, schools, restaurants, universities, post offices, you name it.
A freak could just walk into a gun store and purchase more guns than Osama Bin Laden got and carry them home and plan to assassinate anybody he don’t like or anybody who frig he up, just so! Some of these freaks got better weapons of mass destruction than the police.
And still Amurca cannot work out the relationship between this easy access to guns, this right to bear arms and the mass killing that does go on in Oklahoma, Columbine and myriad other places. Any talk ’bout gun control and the National Rifle Association gone ballistic, guns blazing, shots fired left, right and centre in defence of the right to bear arms, like this is the 18th century!
So now the latest mass killings left six people dead and a US congresswoman fighting fuh she life in Intensive Care. And hear the talk: we need to better protect public officials.
Instead of focusing pun de real problem, Uncle Sam gwine come up with ways to protect elected officials from the people who elect them.
Them should check Bubbadus and see how we does do it ’bout here. Not a fella ain’t gwine touch a member of Parliament nor de Senate. Prime Ministers does walk ’bout and talk to people just so, do their own shopping and mingle and drive ’bout the country; politicians does visit the outside women, park by the house and go home early in the morning and not a fella don’t get harm.
Get rid of the guns and you would see a big reduction in gun crime. Wunnah is too bright a people not to understand that.
A friend of mine pun a recent trip to the land of Walt Disney and the home of the Bulls, Heat, Spurs, Jets and Green Bay Packers went into a hardware store and saw what he thought was a police display of arms retrieved from a drug bust with a Mexican cartel, only to find out that it was just a display of guns for sale at a branch of a famous store.
They had hand guns, rifles, all sorts of dangerous weapons so he ask “Brudder man, how difficult is to own one of these pieces?” and the man reply, “Once you got a driver licence and a clean record, you could buy any.”
Just so? I feel it is my right to wear army fatigues and drive a Hummer painted in camouflage, not pay taxes nor 17.5% VAT but I know what the outcome would be!
I Market Vendor gone fuh now. You have a blessed and a wonderful day, yuh hear?