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By Joel S. Hirschhorn<\/strong>, guest contribution<\/em><\/p>\n

December 11, 2012<\/p>\n

Puzzling me for a long time is the inconsistency between two claims by gun and Second Amendment supporters.\u00a0 One is that what they worship is critically needed to defend themselves against a government that they would view as oppressive and unacceptable.\u00a0 The other is their belief that the US government has already become awful, stealing their liberties.<\/p>\n

Why then, I keep asking myself, have we not seen a violent uprising among the untold millions of Americans owning guns to take back their government?\u00a0 Why do we not see what goes on in European nations, namely violent public uprisings against governments?<\/p>\n

There is more private gun ownership in the US than any other nation.\u00a0 We have a far right part of the population with considerable public presence and power. \u00a0FOX News, the Tea Party movement, and countless groups and think tanks angrily attacking the mainstream media, liberals, and leftist politicians as well as just about everything done by President Obama.<\/p>\n

So, why hasn\u2019t the massive number of gun lovers who worship the Second Amendment actually done what they claim is exactly needed, what the Second Amendment was created to give them the right to do, and what their massive gun power supposedly gives them the means to accomplish?\u00a0 Especially when they lose major elections, when their Republican and conservative politicians fail to deliver to them?<\/p>\n

Are the paranoid doom and gloom gun lovers waiting for things to get a whole lot worse before they actually implement the grand plan to use their guns to overthrow what they see as an evil, unconstitutional and oppressive government?\u00a0 Or, do they just invoke the Second Amendment as a convenient rationale for fighting all attempts to better control guns?<\/p>\n

From their perspective, how much worse does the government have to become before they finally get the courage to use their guns and restore American democracy and liberties?\u00a0 Do they think elections will save their nation?<\/p>\n

After all, on a number of recent occasions, such as the election and reelection of President Obama, gun and ammunition sales have skyrocketed, despite an already historic level of gun and ammunition ownership.\u00a0 Yet still these millions of gun-happy constitutionalists do not act.\u00a0 What is going on?<\/p>\n

Is it rational to explain all this by seeing the gun crowd as being incredibly patient?<\/p>\n

Is all their talk and high-minded claims to be the last hope to save the country just a bunch of empty rhetoric, camouflage for fighting better gun control?<\/p>\n

Here is what I think explains this remarkable contradiction.\u00a0 In truth, the gun crowd that see themselves as the ultimate patriots, like the original revolutionaries that fought the British and created the USA, is itself conflicted by self-interests.\u00a0 That is, most gun owners are receiving so many economic benefits from the existing government and economy that they are unwilling to risk all of them by a massive disruption of the whole US system.\u00a0 Just like we saw incredible numbers of protesting Tea Party people looking old enough to be collecting Social Security and Medicare benefits, the overwhelming majority of gun nuts are also feeding off of the national system they keep attacking.\u00a0 They keep buying more expensive guns and ammunition, gold and hordes of long-lasting survival foods to satisfy their paranoid thoughts.\u00a0 They keep giving money to right wing causes.\u00a0 They listen all the time to right wing radio and TV pundits.\u00a0 They have enough wealth to afford lots of things, especially expensive guns.\u00a0 Yet they do not ACT.\u00a0 They do not REVOLT.\u00a0 Even when their favored politicians lose.<\/p>\n

Most of us do not equate the gun crowd with the plutocracy run by the richest Americans and corporate interests that aligns itself with Republicans and conservatives.\u00a0 The plutocrats, however, have no desire for a revolution that tears down the whole US political and economic system that they so benefit from.\u00a0 What the plutocracy has accomplished, against all logic, is to manipulate the gun crowd into supporting political causes that maintain the status quo that allows the upper rich to get richer.\u00a0 We have far more economic oppression than political oppression.<\/p>\n

In other words, keep spending your discretionary money on guns and ammunition and all the other things so heavily marketed to the most paranoid people as evidenced by all the advertisements on right wing stations for gold and survival foods.\u00a0 Keep thinking that you need guns to combat criminals, except there is no evidence that crime has actually been curbed by the massive gun ownership rather than other factors.<\/p>\n

But by all means keep listening and spending rather than actually REVOLT and bring down the system.\u00a0 Enjoy your guns.\u00a0 Just don\u2019t take any risks and use them as defensive political tools.\u00a0 Don\u2019t do what so many angry Europeans have always done; actually go the streets to bring down governments.\u00a0 Or what we see Egyptians doing.\u00a0 Of course, all those angry citizens do not have guns.\u00a0 Still, they put their lives on the line.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that the whole gun Second Amendment movement seems like just another aspect of conspicuous consumerism that keeps the US economy humming.\u00a0 When I see millions of these right wing gun enthusiasts give up their Social Security and Medicare benefits I will start to take them more seriously.<\/p>\n

CNN has recently reported<\/a> important information, including: US gun owning population is on the decline with those gun owners stockpiling more firearms; 20 percent of the gun owners with the most firearms possessed about 65 percent of the nation’s guns; the US with 5 percent of the world’s population owns 50 percent of the world’s guns; the number of households owning guns has declined from almost 50 percent in 1973 to just over 32 percent in 2010.<\/p>\n

The National Shooting Sports Foundation reported<\/a> the economic impact of firearm sales \u2014 a figure that includes jobs. taxes and sales \u2014 hit $31 billion in 2011, up from $19 billion in 2008, an increase of 63 percent despite the economic recession.\u00a0 Fighting gun control has paid off for the gun industry.<\/p>\n

There are good reasons to support better gun control laws, but fearing political revolution and violent overthrow of the government because of massive gun ownership may not be relevant.\u00a0 Democrats will likely keep fearing any emphasis on gun control even though the majority of their supporters favor gun control over gun ownership.\u00a0 As pointed out this year before the election: \u201cFigures provided by Michael Dimock, Pew\u2019s associate research director, show that the biggest shifts toward opposition to gun control have come among the same blue-collar whites who have displayed the greatest alienation to Obama across the board.\u201d\u00a0 Also, note that Pew found 72 percent of Republicans said it is more important to protect the rights of gun owners, compared to just 27 percent of Democrats.<\/p>\n

As to the roughly, at most, 100 million American gun owners, keep fighting more gun control laws.\u00a0 Keep buying even more guns, keep the multibillion dollar gun industry thriving.\u00a0 Keep screaming about your Second Amendment rights.\u00a0 Keep voting for Republicans.\u00a0 Keep listening to Limbaugh and Hannity and all the other idols that are among the richest Americans.\u00a0 Keep deluding yourselves that you are the only hope for the nation.\u00a0 Don\u2019t face your hypocrisy.\u00a0 Delusion is the opiate of the right.<\/p>\n

Or, just give up, bite the bullet and shoot yourselves.\u00a0 Make us gun control enthusiasts happy.<\/p>\n

I agree with Sanjay Sanghoee<\/a> \u201cThe belief that we need to stockpile guns of every kind to protect us from our own government is a sign of deep paranoia and madness. And to the people who think that way, let me ask you this: do you really<\/em> believe that if the U.S. government decided for some reason to direct all its military might against you<\/em>, you would stand a chance against them?\u201d\u00a0 Of course not, this is why all the adoration of the Second Amendment is a smokescreen for fighting better gun control.\u00a0 Gun lobbies protect their business, not freedom and liberty.<\/p>\n

The key conclusion is this: Though we need a constitutional path to major political reforms other than elections, even a Second American Revolution, the best path is not through the Second Amendment but rather through what the Founders gave us in Article V, namely a convention of state delegates<\/a> with the power to propose constitutional amendments.\u00a0 The nation would benefit from transferring the passion for Second Amendment gun rights into support for using the Article V convention strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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