nd<\/sup> Amendment as rationale for owning an AK-47 is mad and should be seeing a mental hair care professional. And really, shouldn\u2019t people who feel a need to own guns (without any obvious necessity for them) have to see a psychiatrist every week? Isn\u2019t there something delusional and potentially destructive in that desire to be armed, something that suggests an anti-social character waiting to emerge in the worst possible way?<\/p>\nWe all know that guns are not just part of American culture, but bound and smothered by politics are a part of the economic machinery that governs the nation. Politically, such elephants in the rooms as Global Warming and Gun Control, matters that need to be addressed with utter urgency and sincerity, weren\u2019t even spoken about in the US Presidential debates. Is that not crazy?<\/p>\n
Still, the fact the President Obama went on TV and spoke about gun control is a good sign. Hopefully, this suggests a tipping point may be at hand, and what is truly important will no longer be held hostage by political and economic interests. Maybe something like the Overview Effect is happening to all of us, and we\u2019re starting to realize that not getting shot is a civil right and that all living things are mysteriously bound, obliging us to serve the whole rather than the self.<\/p>\n
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