Over the years I have been witness to a sad situation, but recent trends have the potential to turn the sad into something tragic. Watching the slow decline of any human being in need of help, but not having the wherewithal to offer that help, can wear on the conscience of any feeling person, but to watch delusion bring human beings to the brink of self-destruction without the power to lend aid and comfort is maddening. The first step, as always, is to raise awareness.
I am talking, of course, about liberals without guns. Many liberals grew up with guns, own them and know how to use them. However, many more underprivileged liberals grew up in households without guns. Many have never even held a gun. Such deprivation and unfamiliarity has led to attitudes that range from the squeamish to outright rejection of firearms of any type.
For much of our history, these attitudes caused little harm. Most liberals were able to lead fairly normal lives, only being subjected to the occasional roughing up by authorities at protests or a light neck stomping for confusing a right-wing counter rally with the left-wing protest they originally sought. But the times, they are a’changin’.
As violent Tea Party rhetoric heats political discourse to the boiling point, there emerge real threats to the physical wellbeing of liberals, threats for which they are completely unprepared. The “rogue individuals” impelled to act by this violent rhetoric, are “acting alone” but against little effective resistance. Unarmed liberals tend to run, scream, bleed and die when faced with a concrete expression of 2nd Amendment rights.
This is where you can help. Won’t you please donate your lightly used revolvers, semi-automatic pistols, riot shotguns and assault rifles to Guns for Liberals™. All clean and well maintained firearms in good working order are acceptable. You may also wish to donate ammunition, and new, brand name ammo is greatly appreciated, but please, no reloads. (Not everyone is as conscientious about reloading as they perhaps should be)
With your help, every women’s clinic, coffee house, Democratic election headquarters, food co-op and Unitarian church can become a liberal redoubt bristling with firepower. Can you really justify owning fourteen assault rifles and a veritable arsenal of handguns of every caliber and type when so many liberals must go without? Please find it in your heart to donate just one weapon to Guns for Liberals™ today. You may or may not regret it.