BILL CLINTON FOR GAME WARDEN
His assertion that we have, in the United States, a “gun
culture” is no more enlightening and no
less true than the assertion that we are a violent and gun-crazy culture. Should we cater to the crazies?
We also have a “drug culture” is the United
States. Indeed: we have three such cultures. We have the drug culture that uses cocaine
and crack (a wonderful example of how the rich and the poor are alike), and a
drug culture that lives on prescription drugs (rich people only), and a drug
culture that uses marijuana (mostly young and middle-aged leftists). As a nation, we hate and despise the
pot-users (pot is harmless for adults), ignore the prescription-drug addicts,
and use a wonderfully perverse double standard for poor coke users and affluent
cocaine users. (Can anyone imagine a
Darien, Cennecticut, mansion being raided as though it were a Detroit coke
house?
Sure we have a gun culture. Criminals have guns, lots of poor people have
guns, and the white and maybe affluent population of the United States has a
hundred guns for every one that poor or black Americans have.
Who are the “gun culture” people Bill Clinton is
asking us all to pay attention to, to cater to?
Are they black people? Poor
people? Of course not! They are what are called in some places the “red-necks”—and
the rich and middle-class Americans who are willing to entertain the idea of
shooting somebody, to protect their property.
Which is more important in a civilised society: money—property—or
human life? Ask the question another
way: does my way of life trump society,
civilisation?
I am an old man.
It has taken me a long time to figure out these arguments—which are so
simple that they prove that I am myself a simpleton.
So if you have long sincw figured out these things,
and know what to do to solve these very serious problems of ours, please let me
know.
Sincerely yours,
Bert Hornback
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