They'll stone you, just like they said they would

If we are to remain free, shouldn't ALL citizens be armed at all times, always ready to shoot it out?

With the recent shooting at the Ft. Lauderdale airport we learned that the Florida legislature was entertaining a bill that would have allowed concealed carry in airports.

Sheesh. The carnage was bad enough with five dead and several wounded but it sure would have been worse with many more armed civilians responding to the gunfire, fearing for their lives, not knowing who was shooting and why.

America does seem to becoming more of a free-fire zone every day. The same people who decry the gang-shootings in Chicago (blaming that violence on libs and Obama) desire that all Americans be free to protect themselves as the gangs in Chicago do. They just don't exactly own up to that. They might be a little jealous of their darker counterparts in arms. There is a certain freedom to being a gangster.

The US is the largest supplier of arms in the world. If there's a war going on, we're supplying it. Often, we're supplying both sides. Business is great but, it could always be greater. Yesterday's millionaires are losers if they are not today's billionaires. There are more guns in this country than there are people and that is still not good enough for some. Those some are the gun makers and sellers themselves and the people who love guns. It's not like every man, woman and child in the US actually has a gun in their possession but, that appears to be the sales goal. On that capitalist surface, can you blame them?

Conservatives and republicans love to tout that the USA is the only country in the world that has the Second Amendment to its Constitution, guaranteeing it's citizens the right to bear arms. Whatever you believe to be the founders intent regarding the 2A, realize now that it's little more than a sales tool. Imagine if any product, say- marijuana- had an amendment to the Constitution making it an unalienable right. Even conservatives would be touting a fully-stoned nation.

That's where the money would be. And that's where the ALEC law makers would be. Well, I would not feel alone- EVERYBODY must get stoned...

But, it's guns, not weed. It's pushing death upon American life rather than mellowness. The need for protection rather than recreation. And just as you shouldn't be high all the time, you shouldn't be armed and ready to kill all the time. There's no need for either now, is there?

With Trump as the CEO of America, the sales pitch of a democrat taking your guns away is off the table. What we will see in its place is new laws concerning open and concealed carry. State's rights might get a wee bit infringed when cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco  and New York object to 50 state, Federally ruled gun laws where those and other major cities are forced to follow the same rules as Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia. Not every city thinks like the fine denizens of rural America do. There are millions of reasons why they shouldn't, and they all have lives to live that don't involve taking the lives of others for fun and profit in some dystopian American nightmare.