Here is a solution for America’s obsession with guns.
Sell all the guns you can folks, put discount prices on them if you wish.
Then sell each bullet for $5,000.
I must confess, the concept of high-priced ammunition comes from the mind of comedian Chris Rock, but the joke holds some truth … at least on the surface.
Actually, with Americans killing one another on a pace that ranks right up there with Syria and Iraq, this might not be such a bad law to pass.
Of course, it never will, because America’s political machines are controlled by the National Rifle Association, big banks and big pharma. These people pay good money for their politicians.
But putting an unholy price on ammunition would certainly circumvent that Second Amendment stuff about the right to bear arms wouldn’t it?
Bear all the arms you want guys, but the bullets are gonna cost ya.
No more spraying the theatre or schools with guns equipped with double-capacity ammunition magazines.
It’s better if you have to save up for a year to buy a bullet before you go out to destroy the neighbourhood elementary school. You miss with your first (and only) shot, so you go home and wait for the police, who will also be paying $5,000 per bullet, so the chances of them shooting you, who would be bulletless, are remote. Their budget wouldn’t stand for it.
Now, I know this idea won’t go down well with the guys and girls who want to bring down that big buck or those snow geese. But they can still go out in camouflage pants and vests and take their photos and drive their ATVs, snowmobiles and tank trucks around the fields. Eventually, the birds and deer will catch on to the fact that these guys are just making a bunch of noise, not killing them, and they’ll become a lot friendlier, so we won’t have to put them in zoos or circuses. Fishing will take on a whole new team of advocates.
Ya, I know, stupid idea but I’m just trying to help here.
The big flaw though, is that after the American rule-makers injected such a mandate, we’d have to convince the rest of the people in the remainder of the countries in this world, that they, too, needed to increase the price of bullets.
We know, they’d dump the rifle thing and immediately turn to missiles and bombs, which would probably cost less and do more damage and we’d be right back at square one, only with even more dangerous weapons.
I guess the moral of the story is, those who want to destroy, will destroy and all we can hope to do is try to convince them to keep the damage under control and to stay out of their way until they’re finished.
I know that’s not a very good answer for those 30,000 or more people who die by way of guns in America every year. The advocates of the Second Amendment will say that’s the price they’re willing to pay for democracy.
The rest of us say … Really dude?
Just think, with pricey bullets, the hunters would have to learn how to spear snow geese and in the meantime, those bent on murdering, would find some alternative weapons to wreak their havoc.
So I guess I just shot down my argument haven’t I? And pardon the pun.
Fire away America, I’ll watch the results on TV if you don’t mind.
