What the FUCK!! did he just say??

That's probably what some of you might say after reading this.

I have had an epiphany. Yes, another one. And this one is a whopper.

I was responding to the second fight call in less than 20 minutes, all of them for the most moronic of reasons, when it dawned on me. Now, I've had this consideration before in little bits and pieces but it apparently decided to all come flooding to me at once in a huge cohesive steaming pile of brilliance.

It's not the gun that commits the robbery or the homocide. It isn't the genitals that commit a rape or molestation. It isn't the narcotic or other substance that causes dependence or addiction. It isn't the swung fist that beats a loved one, crushing whatever trust that should exist with the unsupported claim of love and devotion. It isn't the words themselves that are uttered that cause grief and strife.

No inanimate object or extension of ourselves causes the torrent of human misery that we commit against each other on a regular basis, not on it's own and not of it's own volition. No ladies and gentleman, the most fiendish weapon ever devised is the human brain.

For that reason I propose legislation to have the human brain declared a weapon of mass destruction. As such you would need to pass an extensive background check, an IQ test, a random quiz, and a drug screen (we don't want that weapon to be contaminated do we?) prior to allowing someone to carry one concealed in public. Of course if you do not possess said permit and are found to be carrying one, particularly if you use it (God forbid), then you could be charged with a felony and have any potential future rights taken from you. That would of course require removal of the weapon, or disabling it by means of either physical or chemical labotomy (we can quibble over details later, after all "it's for our children's safety").

I realize that the above is rediculous, nobody would consider that would they? Well, maybe. After all they heavily considered such practices including forced sterilization for the mentally handicapped to prevent them from breeding. That was in THIS country by the way in the 30's and 40's. The Third Reich weren't the only ones dabbling in eugenics (think I'm full of shit? linky: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=qYHscsPFF-wC&dq=Eugenics&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=absRhAFpT-&sig=s8Z9WIMNaUbEIsSu93WYtGrRo20&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result )

What I outlined above uses undeniable reasoning: try to argue with me. Ask any scientist in any discipine and they will point out that the biggest sexual organ is the brain, the brain makes all of our decisions, the good and the really shitty, albeit with our help in most cases but sometimes without our participation such as the case with the mentally and emotionally disturbed.

Blind reasoning is bad enough but when we use such logical constructs with A PRECONCIEVED AGENDA, it's more than reasoning abscent of humanitarian concern it's conspiracy.

The biggest harm we commit against ourselves every election and throughout all legislative sessions is allowing some three-piece suited prick to convince a group or be convinced by a group to blaim yet another social ill on anything other than our humanity. Trying to pawn off our guilt onto some material or property like IT caused the incident is nothing more than a quazi-deception, a half-truth we tell ourselves to try and mitigate our responsibility.

The described thinking has resulted in legislation such as prohibition, the bull-shit "war on drugs", gun-control, forced castration, etc.

The vast majority of people who consume alcohol do NOT drive around running people over or beating their spouses, but they cause a hell of a lot more pandaleriam than your majority of pot-heads. The vast majority of firearms owners never do anything more with their weapons than lock them away and jealously guard them. In fact, if anything anti-gun legislation has only spurred public demand and a surge in the firearms industry.

I don't know about you but I've never seen anybody dragged around by their genitals, frothing at the mouth in a semi-concious trance while their willies seek out an unknowing victim.

Murderers CHOOSE to kill their victims. Rapists and Molesters CHOOSE to sexually abuse the weak. Thieves CHOOSE to rob and steal. Addicts CHOOSE to plunge in that needle handing over their sanity to a chemical substance. Drunk Drivers CHOOSE to get behind the wheel and risk those around them. Firearms accidents are NOT accidents, someone CHOOSES to ignore basic fundementals of safety and mishandle or fail to secure their weapons, setting the stage for the tragedies trucked out every year "for the children".

Every time some new statistic gets wheeled out we shouldn't be ganging up to cast our votes in support of the next empty piece of paper promising nothing more than a further reduction in our civil liberties. A major cornerstone of our Constitutional Republic (not Democracy, look it up) is that as long as we don't victimize someone else, we should have the freedom to practice our lives in any way we choose. Our country was founded on idealists looking for freedom OF religious practice not FROM it. Restricting ANYONES right to worship whatever they want, an artichoke maybe if they're in season, and in anyway they see fit, so long as someone else's rights and freedoms aren't infringed upon, is so Orwellian I don't even want to consider where we are eventually headed if it continues.

I should be able to have an anti-aircraft battery in my back yard as long as I do no harm with it. Attach it to the back of my SUV, hall it out to a suitable location and make large holes into something inanimate. Who am I harming? Nobody. Every year, enthuisiasts pack into locations in Kentucky and in the deserts to fire fully-automatic weapons, flame-throwers, grenades, cannons, and other really FUN and Hilarious items. They don't go racing around neighborhoods blasting away recklessly. People who do drive-by shootings are not enthusiasts, they're cruel and disenfranchised people who have been raised (or not raised depending on how you look at it) in a loveless environment or in such a callous mentality that they hold no value to their lives or anyone elses, they lash out to cause harm and dischord and the most theatrical way their small minds can come up with is with a gun or car-bomb.

So, what do we do to potentially lessen the harm caused? Easy. First we have to accept that we all hold responsibility in the cause of the social issues which create people capable or willing to do the kinds of harm we are afraid of. While we are doing everything we can to rectify these issues we should be creating punishments so severe that people will literally think about what they are doing and decide whether or not the risk outways the reward. And, while we are at it, growing the backbones to have the will to see that those punishments are carried out.

Everybody wants more prisons, nobody wants them built in their county. Dumbasses. The last place an escaped convict wants to hang out in is the community he's been forced to inhabit against his will for the last few years.

On that note, right now it's not unusual for someone who has robbed a bank to get 30 years in the pen. Meanwhile, some dipshit molests a schoolyard worth of children and he gets 5 years in the pen (maybe) and 10 years probation where he has to sign a list and tell his neighbors he's a peder-ass. What the FUCK is going ON?

Is money THAT much more important than everything else? Apparently it is.

This election year don't vote with your heart, vote with your head. Demand that the candidate actually identify their platforms and ideas. Challenge them at every turn, don't accept Change for the sake of change. What the fuck are they wanting to change? What part of your life are they wanting to fuck with NOW for God's own sake? Do THEY even know?

Why are we accepting as a matter of course that politicians are being bribed and coerced?

Why do we acknowledge and decry on one hand and then grudgingly surrender to the FACT that our politicians are entering office with barely a dime to their name in most cases and then leaving office wealthy? Ever do the numbers? Their annual salaries, no matter how well invested (legally that is) can add up to the net-worths after several years in office.

The responsibilty they have to us should outweigh the power they have over us. And it's OUR responsibility to swing the balance of power back into OUR hands.

Vote fuckers, and maybe read a damn book or something.