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It’s time to face the facts. The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution has both outlived it’s usefulness and been perverted far beyond its original intent.

Based on the English Bill of Rights (1869), as the US Supreme Court has said, the English law was to reinstate Protestant‘s rights to have arms after being disarmed by James II. The American cousin was no doubt influenced by both the English law and the conditions of occupation by the British military leading up to the American Revolution.

The intent of the law was to prevent the government from militarily taking over the nation. This was back in the days where the citizenry and the government had access to pretty much the same weaponry.

In 2012, well, let’s just say that your personal arsenal wouldn’t be much of a match for Marines with BDMs or a Naval Carrier Group with fully loaded warplanes.

Additionally, since the Civil War, there really hasn’t been much in the way of a tyrannical government to fear. Sure RWNJs and Tea Partiers like to claim that this (or really any Democratic administration in the last 50 years) are putting the US on the road to tyranny, you and I both know they’re full of s**t.

Today, in Newtown, Connecticut, was the 36th mass school shooting since Columbine in 1996. That’s 2.5x the number of school shootings during the same period in the rest of the world combined. The dots on the map at the top of the page represent every mass shooting incident in the US since 2005.

After every single one, the cycle goes:

1. Shock.
2. Now is not the time
3. Police investigations.
4. Questions about “is now the time?” shouted down
5. Half hearted follow up stories
6. Distraction and everyone forgets.

Lather.

Rinse.

Repeat.

It was said after Columbine.

It was said after Virginia Tech.

It was said after Gabby Giffords, a sitting member of Congress, was shot in the head.

It was said after Aurora.

It’s being said now.

Bob Costas was pilloried by RWNJs for daring to bring up America’s obsessive gun culture during halftime of a Monday Night Football game. They weren’t upset because he was right that Jovan Belcher and Kassandra Perkins would probably still be alive if there weren’t firearms in the house.

No. They were upset that he dared say anything at all.

To some people, it’s never the time to talk about gun violence.

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Yeah, there's more at the link above if you can stomach much more of it.