I actually HATE to do this. HATE IT.
I've been waiting to write and respond to the Professor's post regarding our hating, loathing, total dislike on all levels of 'nigga shit', but without fail, everyday, I hear AGAIN another story of a death, deaths, DEATHS of other people due to the use of the ubiquitous hand gun.
So far our blog has at least 4 if not 10 different posts that are directly related to American violence and the wonders of the hand gun. The professor wants to ban hand guns, the NRA would rather shoot the Professor before banning a single gun because, after all.. PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE, not GUNS.
Except, people are killing people WITH guns, a lot. People are killing people in certain places at a rate of slightly more than one a day. Yet, the NRA (thats the NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION) still remains set in its beliefs that every American not only has the right to own a gun, but should also know how to use them. Some people even argued that the Virginia Tech 'massacre' would have been less bloody if the students were allowed to carry their guns to and from their dorm. The argument is that some Rambo, Tj Hooker, Manix, James Bond dude would have had the savy to not only pull out his gun, but also to take aim and kill Cho Swang-hee (Fuck him and his name). Yeah. Thats the fantasy that is the USA. Movie shit... Thats what we really believe as a society. WE NEED MORE GUNS IN MORE HANDS SO THAT WHEN SOMEONE FLIPS OUT WE CAN SHOOT THEM BEFORE THEY SHOOT US?!?!?
Well thats not how it works. In 'shoot outs' between two parties guess what happens. Well, innocent bystanders get blown away in the crossfire, because most of us arent Rambo or BOND.. most of us are more like bad bugs bunny characters who can shoot 15 bullets and miss our target consistently... even at 10 - 15 feet. Hell all of the killing taking place so far this year has had me reading about the famous GLOCK enough to know that only a seriously trained shooter could hit someone with 90-100% accuracy. The gun has a natural kick that is supposedly unnerving, and that causes the gun to fire low most of the time.
But I'm ranting. The point of this post is to pay homage to Chris Rock. Give him some DAP because of all of the people I've ever heard discuss GUN CONTROL etc., he is the only person who ever said anything that makes sense. LET PEOPLE HAVE AS MANY GUNS AS THEY WANT.. just raise the price of BULLETS. AS CHRIS ROCK SAYS>... we dont need GUN CONTROL, we need BULLET CONTROL..
I almost HATE that we have two Chris Rock videos on our site, except this particular show was Rock's greatest moment. Outside of calling out the ignorance that is niggadom, he somehow picked up on a concept that no one in any anti-gun lobbies has ever EVER shouted. His truth and honesty are so on point it is hard for me to imagine that no one has started to lobby for more expensive bullets..
By way of example:
20 cigarettes (chosen because the cost of cigarettes is directly related to the fact that they are taxed, almost, more than any other 'adult' vice on the market) cost roughly 6 bucks. That would mean smokes cost about thirty cents a piece. Now, cigs get taxed at a very high rate because politicians, lobbyist, civic leaders and health professionals, as well as the generally ignorant dumb-ass public, have decided that due to their health risk, due to the fact that cigarettes may cause cancer and other lung related disease, due to the fact that second-hand smoke has been shown to cause cancer and perhaps death, that they should be used to raise cash for cities i.e. people. Cig taxes pave streets, repair signs, and are used for a variety of city/state maintenance related jobs... and in a way, even being a smoker, I can say: GOOD.
Now, a box of 100 9mm bullets costs about 11 dollars (or at least the box I found for sale online). That means each bullet costs about 9 cents. NINE CENTS.... and guess what, without the surgeon general telling me a DAMN THING I can tell you that of that 100 bullets each and every single one of them has ZERO HEALTH BENEFITS! Every bullet in the box can kill upon its very first use. But, do we tax bullets? As Chris Rock says, will we raise the cost to a box of bullets to represent a price that makes a murder 'make sense'? If bullets cost 10 bucks a piece, would we see a reduction in drive-by shootings where fools spray 50 - 30 bullets into a crowd? Would people waste 500 bucks on one life? I do not know the answer but I would like to find out. Can someone tell me if there is a lobby to demand that we tax bullets? We could use the tax money to pay our police, maybe fix up some schools, perhaps, since shootings will be reduced TRUST ME, we can use the taxes to start cleaning up crappy parts of town.. who knows.. but lets find out.
For the gun/hunting nuts... I'm not raising or taxing bullets on rifles so you can still hunt. See, I HATE guns because they only kill people, that is all they are really used for. The number of people who actually HUNT is so low, sure, they can still go get their dicks hard shooting Bambi and Thumper -have fun-. But I know I'd rather see a guy get out of his car with a shotgun vs. a handgun... With a shotgun, I know to quickly head the other direction, with a handgun -you never know when or how the psycho is gonna let loose with a barrage from the semiautomatic hand of death.
Right now our values are askew. Remember: 30 cents for 1 cigarette, that MAY or MAY NOT kill the person who smokes it. After a few hundred thousand cigs, there are still people who walk this earth.. ALIVE. ONE, nine cent bullet caught in a crossfire, perfectly aimed at your brain, shot with precision at your heart... and you DIE.
You have to wonder why we live in a society that does not take this serious and you have to wonder why we needed a black comedian to see this so clear.
