Think about the Portrait of Our Dystopian Society, which Senator Lindsey Graham Painted in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Hearing regarding Gun Violence — Then Consider that He and His Anti-Government Ilk Are Directly Responsible for the Anarchical State of Affairs that He Says People Now Need Guns to Combat

30 January 2013

Citation — to the pertinent CSPAN video clip

Josh Israel, Lindsey Graham: GOP-Forced Budget Cuts Will Mean Fewer Cops, So People Need To Arm Themselves, Think Progress and CSPAN (30 January 2013) (with an embedded segment of the much longer CSPAN video clip entitled, Senate Committee Investigates Solutions for Gun Violence)

In the above video — Senator Lindsey Graham addressed gun control advocates

Specifically:

Baltimore County Chief of Police, James Johnson

and

former Navy Captain/astronaut Mark Kelly — (Gabby Giffords’ husband).

Senator Graham told them:

[B]ecause of the fiscal state of affairs we have, there will be less [SIC] police officers, not more, over the next decade. Response time are gonna be less, not more.

So, Captain Kelly, I really do want to get guns out of the hands of the wrong people.

I honest to God believe that if we arbitrarily say nobody in this country can own a 10-round magazine in the future, the people who own them are the kind of people we’re trying to combat to begin with.

There can be a situation where a mother runs out of bullets because of something we do here.

I do know . . . in some circumstances, the AR-15 makes perfect sense.

© 2013 Josh Israel, Lindsey Graham: GOP-Forced Budget Cuts Will Mean Fewer Cops, So People Need To Arm Themselves, Think Progress and CSPAN (30 January 2013) (with embedded segment of much longer CSPAN video clip entitled, Senate Committee Investigates Solutions for Gun Violence) (paragraph split)

Senator Graham’s “perfect sense” dystopia

According to the implications of Senator Graham’s statement, the United States has gotten so violent that American citizens and residents need to carry lots of ammunition and AR-15s around with them. Just as the U.S. military carries truckloads of ammo and fully automatic versions of similar rifles in Afghanistan.

We might as well be intentionally aiming at living with the equivalent of Al Qaeda and the Taliban. Good guys and bad guys, both with “kill everybody” guns.

The irony of Senator Graham’s stated position

Senator Graham — and his fellow-minded, anti-government fanatics — are the same people, who insisted on lowering taxes, boosting defense spending, feeding plutocrats, destroying labor unions, and striking down even the simplest public safety regulations.

So much so, that state and federal governments cannot even maintain the basic social and physical infrastructure that Americans justifiably depend on.

These same “guys” are now recommending that we all arm ourselves against the predictable anarchical consequences of their doings.

Do I exaggerate? — Probably not, consider Missouri

A Missouri Senate committee is considering legislation that would mandate that first graders take an NRA gun safety course:

Sen. Dan Brown, R-Rolla, told the Senate General Laws Committee Tuesday that his bill was an effort to teach young children what to do if they come across an unsecured weapon.

Under his bill, the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program would be taught be a certified instructor in first grade classrooms across the state. The program is already being used in some schools, but it is not a state requirement.

Of course there is nothing inherently wrong with this.

Other than its assumption that the United States is so awash in firearms — which are just lying around — that we are going to have to depend on 6 and 7-year olds to make stumbled-upon weapons safe.

Have the rest of us given up on achieving a reasonably safe and sane America?

Do we really want to live in fear of everything that moves?

Should American women aspire to larger purses, so that they carry their Super Mag Thug Stopper hand guns at all times?

Must we content ourselves with being imprisoned by insanely rigid ideological thinking — which was never especially relevant, even in the times of the founding fathers?

Is it socially desirable to construct a nation in which our laws and self-protective behavior virtually mandate an arms race between and among citizens?

Is “Paranoia” America’s new middle name?

The moral? — While American roads, bridges, and airports crumble — at least we will have our unregulated guns left, so as to fight over the decrepit spoils of what once was a great nation

Americans are already so inured to our decline into a plutocrat-dominated anarchy that we do not recognize the self-destruction embodied in the representative statements that come from Senator Graham, Wayne LaPierre, and almost everyone else on America’s Insane Right.

A veritable Land of Loons.

And we wonder why the rest of the civilized world takes our alleged ideals less and less seriously.

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