These Guns Are Made For Killing, And That Is What They Do.
And yet it happened again. This time with 21 casualties as a result: an eighteen year old boy went into the school and shot his victims. Well, you know the sad story, no need to tell it again.
Some say, it’s important to address tragedies, so I should tell the story again. I won’t, because this hardly will be the last. It happens all the time. Because there are some stupid Americans, that simply allow it.
You know what actually is much more a tragedy? Those idiots, who decline to stop the school shootings, are bleating about preservation of life, when it comes to abort. “Every life count: from the beginning to the end, from conception to natural death” is a quote that frequently is being used by people, who call themselves “prolife”.
But … wait a minute … That last one, that’s peculiar!?! Allegedly, it was Pope Francis who said that. Let’s dig a bit deeper into that one and start with the end.
A natural death
In Denmark, almost everyone knows the TV-series Matador. Matador is a story of a happy fictional city, where the rich families stick together, just to be disturbed by a newcomer. The newcomer is being declined by the old core of the city but finds his own way to win the crowd’s popularity: now, the crowd is not depending on the rich elite’s premises. This results quickly in the death of the owner of the until then only clothes store in town. The man suddenly got concurrency, which made his business unprofitable, while his bank cannot afford anymore to keep him a hand above the head.
The author of the series chose to keep it a secret how the owner of the store died, but the old rich core quickly develops gossip: some talk about smelling gas, or suspect other forms of suicide. The local doctor is expected to tell the truth: he was called out when the shop owner died. But the doctor simply said: “His heart stopped beating. Isn’t that how we all die?”
Every life count: from the beginning to the end, from conception to natural death
— Pope Francis, allegedly
And sure: when we die, our hearts stop beating. Not necessarily in that order. When you think about that, you could draw the conclusion, that every death is natural: if I should stab a knife in your heart, then it’s very naturally that you die. If I cut of your head, or shoot you in the brain, well, you won’t survive. That’s very natural.
But of course, you know, a suicide, or an assassination is not considered a natural death. Even dying from excessive smoke inhalation during a fire in your house is not considered a natural death, no matter if the reason of the fire is arson (intentional), someone who fell asleep with a burning cigarette in his hand (stupidity — there is no advantage of smoking), or a short circuit in the electrical system (accidental). This means, that a death only is natural, if somebody died while there are no other people or circumstances that have intervened, one way or another.
We’re going to park that bit of the quote for a short while.
From conception
I recently told how I was “cut”. Not my hair, my vasa deferentia — you know, the conductors between the testicles and somewhere else in the male reproductive system. I’m not a doctor, I have no clue about it. I only know, I got a vasectomy, which means, I cannot make kids anymore. This happened not long ago, so at the moment of writing, there might be some rests in my system, so I could impregnant my wife (or, technically, any other fertile woman — but I am faithful to my wife). In three months from now, however, that will not be possible anymore.
Before I got that vasectomy, my wife and went through a relatively long procedure of infertility treatment, because my sperm cell count was very much below average. During that procedure, I had to deliver a few portions of sperm to several medicinal instances. Every time, they told me, how many sperm cells were viable, by using the word “alive”. My sperm cells were alive, albeit most of them not in the best shape (mildly said).
Allegedly, God (if he exists), said: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”. As you might know, conception, or the formation of the fetus, is a result of two things: a sperm cell and an egg. So, if that divine entity, who claims the responsibility of life in its entirety, is right, and his claim is legitimate, then he must either have known each sperm cell AND any egg, or alternatively, any sperm cell OR any egg. That means, since it is possible to sterilize men, and sterilize women, at least one of these operations must be against Christian rules.
The Christian change of narrative
However, Christians who claim to be “prolife”, condemn abortion AFTER conception. Vasectomies, tubal ligation or other forms of permanent birth control seem to be totally okay to god, and those who say follow them/her/him. Even the use of condoms or anti-conception (!) pills are not considered religion-illegal (at least not in the United States — the Vatican is yet more strict). But somehow, as soon as a process of fusion between the sperm cell and the egg has been done, the situation is totally different: suddenly they are speaking of “a human being”. While their bible says something different: “BEFORE I formed you”, the anti-abort idiots speak of “AFTER you were formed”.
We’re taking this one with us to the parking lot, where we parked the last part of the Pope’s quote. As a reminder, he (allegedly) said: “Every life count: from the beginning to the end, from conception to natural death”.
We concluded that a death only is natural when there haven’t been any interventions by other people or things. We also concluded that the bible speaks different about the beginning of life than the prolife community. What the Pope called “the end”, he meant natural deaths, and what he called “the beginning”, he meant the fusion between a sperm cell and an egg. So, an abortion, which is NOT a natural death, should be no problem to the Pope. Cool, let’s keep that in mind.
Guns are made for killing, nothing else
Now, back to where I started: the school shooting in Texas. The same people who defined exactly when a life is life, they defend the right to bear a (shooting) weapon. Now, what is a weapon designed to do? Kill. Nothing else. If it wasn’t for killing, guns should not have existed at all. If a gun could not kill, then nobody would be afraid when someone else put a gun against their head. There is no peaceful purpose with guns. To paraphrase a popular song by Nancy Sinatra: “These guns are made for killing. And that is what they do. One of these days these guns are going kill ev’ryone of you”.
So, everyone who defends bearing a weapon is defending the right to kill. It’s that simple. And if those people on the other hand bleat about forbidding abort — then they are not stupid ... They are complete sick in their heads! They should have taken the right to speak (verbal or non-verbal) in public.
