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GUNS: THE ESSENCE OF AMERICA

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Since I was a kid growing up in the 1950s guns were promoted as THE toy to own and “play” with.  America is country built on guns.  The invaders of the American continents from European countries we able to kill and enslave all of the indigenous population because they possessed and used one thing:  GUNS.  Americans WORSHIP guns.  A gigantic number of movies, TV shows, books, etc. glorify the use of guns.  Killing with guns is an entertainment.  Killing with guns is a sport.  Guns are power.  Power is “good”.  Killing with guns is the RELIGION of the United States of America.  The right to own and use guns to kill anything and everything that moves is guaranteed in the Constitution of The United States of America.  The US also spends more than 2/3rds of every tax dollar on the military.  So, if you are “shocked” by the use of guns to massacre small children in classrooms of America, you are either an idiot or a hypocrite, or both.  What goes around, comes around.

READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE HERE:  Papa Says It’s Safe”: 20 Astounding Gun Ads | Mother Jones.

 

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GUN TOTUM

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“Standing in front of Providence’s Federal Courthouse in Rhode Island is an unusual monument constructed out of steel, concrete and 1000 used handguns. Dubbed the Gun Totem by its artist, Boris Bally, the imposing obelisk was constructed in 2001 with guns from a firearm buy-back program called Guns for Goods, founded by Dr. Michael P. Hirsch.

Hirsch and former colleague Matthew Masiello founded Guns for Goods in Pittsburgh in 1994, while working in trauma centers at area hospitals during a time of high crime. Researching gun-buy-back programs in locations such as New York, Hirsch and Masiello decided to try their own version of the program in Pittsburgh – but instead of buying back guns for cash reimbursements, they offered gift cards from local merchants in trade for the forgotten or unwanted weapons. To date, Guns for Goods has collected more 11,000 weapons off the streets of Pittsburgh.”

via Amusing Planet