Gun

There is Mechanical beauty and potential energy in guns.   I wish they’d call guns something else, like  the “legally protected health care activity” semantics that are so prevalent in the proposed LD227 bill.  It’s not a gun; It’s a mechanical repository of potential energy.Rarely,  in movie sets, does the mechanical repository of potential energy contain a projectile due to the risk of harm and/or death.  Often, in the media, mechanical repositories of potential energyare culpable for the harm they cause in much the same way as trucks are blamed for accidental coincidental damage. (The truck drove off the roadway and hit a pole)

A misfire from a mechanical repository of potential energy would not have occurred without prior selection, intention, engagement and trigger tension apart from the gun itself.  Any discharge from a mechanical repository of potential energy would require that same stimulus to go off.  The mechanical repository of potential energy has no self actuating feature. It hath no internally churning wrath. It hath no assault labeling conscience or consciousness.  Its inherent inanimate peacefulness is absolute. 

The machining in the mechanical repository of potential energy exquisitely close tolerance construction and has finishing that accentuates its appearance.  The tooling of its interior mechanisms rivals a grandfather clock or a wagon-jack  in connective balance and timing. The style and fashion and composition of handgrips are personal and comfortable.  The fit and feel are purposefully designed for safety first and then looks, and then collectibility.  A mechanical repository of potential energy is a perfect collectible commodity, like a collection of unopened Irish Whisky or ceramic cats or matchbox cars.  The lethality of these collections are indistinguishable and inert. 

When does the mechanical repository of potential energy become a red herring for grievous shaming of ownership?  Gun control and legal wrangling of the Second Amendment and infringement of the spirit of infringement is an unpopular refrain.  It’s not guns that fire up the violence of the populace. The outcry of the discordant gungrabber would have the mechanical repository of potential energy blamed and shamed and red harangued instead of arresting the real stimulus. Guns in a curio cabinet are no more lethal than ceramic cats. 

 Construction dynamite and canned gasoline are far more dangerous yet are quietly shelved in our midst. Get off gun control.  It is concealed carry of loaded propaganda. Plainspoke folk say it’s not the gun it’s the one holding it.  It’s not the arrow it’s the Indian.