Fucking gun nuts

I recently shared a link on Facebook about some stupidity about arming children with concealed weapons "fer a saffer Murika!" And made a comment "repeal the second amendment already." And of course, within a very short time, some nutbag starts in with "herp de doo, we can't do that cuz MURRIKA!" This was my response:

The second amendment was ratified at a time when the height of military technology was the fucking MUSKET. (Sure, there were cannons, but they were bulky, had poor aim, and had a tendency to not go off the way they were supposed to.) Also, most of the country was being reclaimed by the wilderness after the Indians were still trying to recover from a massive smallpox die-off (germ warfare). That was a time when it made sense for everyone to be armed, because guerilla warfare actually worked back then. Now, the only people who need guns are... well, maybe the FBI or ATF, if they have smugglers or organized criminals to fight, but nobody else needs guns anymore. Nobody fucking hunts for food these days, nobody's fighting Indians (not legally, anyway), and guns only bring tragedy and genocide these days.

Some people are like "We need the second amendment to defend against the military in case of a coup!" Well I have news for them: the military laughs at your puny guns. The military can nuke your whole fucking city, or bomb just your house in particular, or send sniper drones after you or something; these stupid little militias people organize are completely pointless, and most of them are run by racists and nutty doomsday cultists anyway. The UK doesn't allow guns, and they're a lot safer. Australia, for all its recent faults, doesn't allow guns in their country, and there hasn't been a mass shooting there for decades.

So pardon me if I think the second amendment is pointless, outdated, obsolete, and fucking dangerous in this day and age. Excuse me if I think it needs to be repealed. I stand by my stance.

Old fogey

I may only be 32, but I am very old fashioned about some things. Even curmudgeony, you might say. I may buy stuff at Starbuck's when meeting my GF, but never their "coffee." Those people don't know how to make real coffee. I tried ordering ordinary brewed coffee once, and they gave me this abomination called Americano. Not really a huge loss, though, as I have completely lost any taste for any kind of coffee; between having developed an extreme caffeine sensitivity and IBS, there's also the fact that I just can't stand the taste anymore. This despite beginning my coffee addiction at age 5. (I shit thee not.)

I'm also reluctant to get into gadget crazes. Mostly that's from being poor, but also old-fashionedness. I didn't get a cell phone until my mid 20's, even though they were all the rage even in high school, because I didn't see the point. I only got my first cell phone, a TracFone, because it was cheaper than paying for a landline, though I fell in love with the texting feature, despite not having much use for it for years and years. Even now, when I could have gotten a smart phone (even if I couldn't afford Internet on it), I didn't get one.

Then, too, I only join social networks for my own reasons. I got on Twitter only because LJ's Twitter aggregation posts made it easier to share links with people on LJ (back when LJ's Twitter aggregator actually worked.) I only joined Tumblr because so many of my LJ friends had (LJ) Twitter aggregator feeds full of Tumblr links of stuff I wanted to share, so I made an account. I only joined Facebook for their games. And aside from LJ and DreamWidth, Tumblr and Facebook and Twitter are the only social networking sites I'm even on. Five social networking sites in all. (Well, 6 if you count Soup.io back when everyone thought Tumblr was going to be turned into the new Facebook by Yahoo, but I don't go there anymore.)