Ron’s thoughts on gun control.

Boy . . . they just don’t get it, do they? Lefties. That gun control WILL not – because it CAN not change human nature – eliminate or even mitigate people’s tendencies to wipe each other out now and then.

Evolutionarily, as a species we are barely removed from the African savannah. If cut, we bleed. If slapped, we overheat. The lizard section of our brains still controls much of our behavior, and there’s not a whole lot we can do about it when situations cause our bodies to trigger our fight-or-flight mechanism with a flood of adrenaline.

We are naked apes with a gossamer-thin veneer of cultural maturity borne of a few generations of cause-and-effect observation. But we still love our fats, our sugars, our salts . . . ‘cause that’s what instinct STILL tells us is necessary for survival.

We KNOW better than to eat double cheeseburgers and supersized fries, but where the acumen may be strong, sooner or later the appetite will be stronger and we’ll surrender to the siren call of that extra-pepperoni, extra-sausage, extra-cheese, stuffed-crust deep-dish pizza. Instinct, and in some it’s stronger than in others. Lizard thinking.

It’s like celebrities who demand that we cut back on greenhouse gases because they bought into Pope Algore’s apocalypse scam but then flit around in their private jets to private islands with private fossil-fueled generators and ride in private air-conditioned tricked-out limos to elite-only “Save The Planet” festivals.

We sometimes get the urge to kill some sumbitch who genuinely needs killin. And sometimes we just go amok, berserk, batshit crazy, like members of Congress who accuse the PotUS of obstructing investigation of crimes HE didn’t commit but that his political opponents did.

Or they continue funding healthcare and benefits and entitlements for FREAKIN TRESPASSERS who are breaking the goddam law just by being in the country in the first place and turn criminals loose because it costs too much to put ‘em down or keep ‘em in jail.

No, of course not everyone is as loony as Pelosi, or AOC, or Tlaib, or Farrakhan, or Cher, or DeNiro. Some CAN resist temptation and control their eating or sexual appetites. And more than 99.9% of us can own guns and never go shoot anybody with ‘em.

But there will always be that self-indulgent fat kid who just can’t lay off the cannolis, or the inbred moron who interprets holy texts to mean that he can demand sex from any woman he chooses any time he wants, or that cyberwarrior who gets so frustrated by government indecision, inefficiency, and incompetency that he feels obligated to blow something up to get their attention and see things HIS way.

Without some kind of divine interference or deep restructuring of our DNA, the phenomenon of amok, berserk, green-new-deal, you-must-pass-the-bill-so-that-you-can-see-what’s-in-it loonies will continue to surface from time to time in the form of ridiculous legislation, cults of personality, rapes, bombings, mass shootings, and cannoli addicts.

And if the guns are ALL confiscated and melted down to make Teslas, we’ll follow our British cousins’ example and begin slicing and dicing each other. It’s our nature, and a lotta kids grow up in our society today without positive role models of any kind.

Until we radically change our culture, our biological drives, our destruction of the family unit in favor of touchscreens and the shield of anonymity in personal relations on social media, we will continue to invent new and exciting ways to slaughter each other, whether with Armalites, nitrates, Bushido blades, Louisville Sluggers, or pointed sticks.

The vast majority of people have enough common sense, common courtesy, common dignity to act reasonably in our decaying culture. But the past 50 or so years have clearly demonstrated that we’re rushing headlong into the morass of anything goes where ethics, morals, and self-discipline are concerned.

And in that environment, when you have over 300 million people in a country with roughly the same number of firearms, sooner or later a weirdo will get his hands on one and blow some people away. It’s inevitable.

And if you make firearms prohibitively unaffordable, or legislatively unauthorized, or culturally unacceptable, you’ll get the same result we got from the 21st Amendment – a thriving black market industry making or importing weapons and ammo with reduced quality and zero restrictions and managed by professional thugs.

Ah, hell . . . some things just don’t have simple answers. Some people are born flawed and some have flaws thrust upon them by teachers, preachers, predators, and commentators.

What I know for a fact is that sooner or later the “red flag” concept will materialize, which will lead to universal registration, which will lead to confiscation, which will lead to subjugation. Eventually there’ll be a lib PotUS with a lib House and Lib Senate, and we can call in the dogs and piss on the fire.

Chip, chip, chip away at that 2nd Amendment, libs . . . and when you finally get it whittled down to an unrecognizable nub, go for the First with your “hate speech” and “racist” and “white supremacy” and “triggering” chisels.

And when ALL speech is regulated by Big Brother, you can finally just do away completely with that pesky ol’ Constitution thing and do what the implant in your skull dictates for you from the Central Commissariat.

Man, I GOTTA have a cuppa and some fat pills. Instinct, y’know.

Hopefully both Ron and I will be gone when that happens.