So I'm watching this "interview" right now and it's kind of fucking hilarious. You aren't required to watch it to participate in this discussion, but I highly recommend it.



Alex Jones is a narcissistic lunatic, but I do share a viewpoint with him. The 2nd amendment was not ratified to protect hunters, it was ratified when invasion from Britain was still an imminent possibility and it was generally understood that civilian militias won the revolutionary war. While an invasion is an extremely low possibility in the USA at this time, that doesn't mean it won't become vulnerable later, and more pressing (though I think Jones finds this threat more probable than I do), civilians must be permitted to regulate a militia in order to protect themselves from government and military, were it ever decided that democracy was no longer efficient.

So while Piers Morgan believes there's no reason for AR-15s to be legal, I believe if the cops and soldiers can have them, the people should get them, too. I also believe that prohibiting guns is the same as ignoring the major illness behind the recent massacres. We are being desensitized to violence and violent people are being glorified by the media. We use drugs and coping mechanisms for our problems and therapy has become a can-kicking practice. This psychological state of this country is extremely unhealthy and it's been slipping for some time.

I do not think it's ridiculous to believe that the US government would swing into fascism. The country already uses the prison industrial complex for sweatshop labor. It's not such a leap for me the conceive of more changes, probably under a democrat because republicans will be too busy getting pissed off about issues that don't matter while democrats will just be satisfied that scary republican didn't get into office. While I find this outcome to be pretty unlikely (no matter what Alex Jones says) I believe it is important to remain vigilant and remember why the second amendment exists.