Well did’ja hear? Americans are looking at gun regulations! Not just Americans, but even… Republicans!!! And not even just, kind’a ‘normal’ republicans but even the NRA!!! The all-powerful National Rifle Association, mouthpiece of right wing, second amendment, right to bear arms obsessives have actually said that something needs to be done, in the wake of the latest mass slaughter of the innocents in Las Vegas. Normally, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. But this ‘event’ got out. Meanwhile, in the 3 days since the Vegas massacre of 59 people, 87 other Americans have died in random gun crimes throughout the country. But they don’t really count. Probably because most barely make the newspapers.

The NRA could have said that more stringent questions need to be answered before selling guns. But that would affect gun sales. They could have had some limit on buying bullets. Hmmmm, that too affects the ‘bottom line’. So they’ve instead all come out demanding a ban on ‘bump-stocks’. WTF?

A stock is the bit at the back of a rifle that sits against your shoulder. Or against your hip if you’re Arnold Schwartzenegger. Its the butt of the gun. And some clever psychopath designed a special one, called a bump-stock. Because in America you can legally buy any fucking gun imaginable. Massive monster canons, 3-mile range sniper rifles, whatever ya want. As long as its not ‘automatic’. Automatic means its a machine gun. Pull the trigger and the bullets fire until you take your finger off. That’s automatic. And illegal over there. Semi-automatic is when you get just one bullet for every trigger pull. And hence slows down the number of schoolchildren, concert-goers or church devotees you can kill in any given time period.

A bump stock takes a semi-automatic rifle and makes it into a fully automatic machine gun. You could actually hear it in the videos of the Vegas killing. Not the 20 rounds-a-second type Kalashnikov ‘spray’ but the constant, regular ‘tat-tat-tat’ of rapid fire. That was the bump stock wot did it. Turning a ‘perfectly innocent’ thing, like an assault rifle, into something that can commit mass murder. Without that bump-stock, its just a soft cuddly thing. Like a Barbie doll. So we need to ban them.

Perfect. Won’t affect any sales of guns or bullets and will appease the world and those horrible Democrats. Shows that ‘America cares and listens’. This is emphatically NOT just some pathetic attempt at token gesturism.

Yesterday, gun shops sold out completely of bump-stocks.

Happy Friday

A xxxx