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What are Americans Waiting For?

Are they spineless?

All of my life, America has had a gun problem.

Ever since I was a kid, I can remember news of mass shootings in the United States. A school shooting here, a suicide there. Tragedies which you just don’t hear of in other countries.

Innocent lives lost in needless exchanges, or violent suicides, which you just don’t get elsewhere.

I didn’t realise how big an issue guns were in the U.S. until I stayed with a friend in California in 2008. Within 72 hours of landing, I witnessed a policeman draw his gun, ready to fire.

Within a week, I saw the first handgun drawn by an ordinary citizen, ready to defend their home with it.

The first incident happened outside the home I was staying at. Two dogs had got loose in the neighbourhood and, well, were just running amok. One of them had chased and killed a cat, and they were snarling and growling at anyone going near them.

The first Ranger on the scene got out of his car and drew his gun. This happened literally outside my window, within 10 metres of me. I couldnt have had a better view.

When he drew his gun, though, he began shaking so badly I doubt he could’ve hit the side of a building, let alone a Pit Bull.

It was quite a scene. When I say he was shaking, I mean shaking uncontrollably. His hands, knees, head — the lot.

Thankfully, he didn’t fire.

I say thankfully not because he didn’t kill the dogs — they were captured within the hour and euthanised that very day — but because had he fired, he had zero chance of hitting the dogs and might have hit anything within 50 yards of him who were standing by, minding their own business.

When the dogs were taken away by the pound, we asked the Ranger, “Why were you shaking uncontrollably like that?”

His answer was so matter-of-fact, it was like they have to deal with it every day in the police force.

“It’s the adrenaline, isn’t it?”

The first handgun I saw drawn by a civilian was when my host was having a conversation with a neighbour who had come round to ask to borrow his wife’s spare wheel for her car.

My host declined. As it turns out, the neighbour wasn’t necessarily a good guy, and we weren’t living in the best neighbourhood in California. They always gave this guy a wide berth.

The neighbour started to protest, saying, “Come on, help me out.” He started to argue that not doing him this favour was discourteous, as it wouldn’t be that much of an imposition.

I was watching this exchange from the back door and could see not only them talking, but my host’s wife around the corner from them in the living room, out of view.

My host said, “What if my wife has a flat?” and when the neighbour continued to protest, my host’s wife turned on her heels, walked into the bedroom, and came walking back out into the living room holding the biggest handgun I had seen since I’d watched Dirty Harry as a kid.

A .357 Magnum. Equipped with hollow-point bullets. Not as big as Clint Eastwood’s in the film — that was a .44 — but she was 5ft 2", and in her tiny hands it looked like she was carrying a cannon.

Just a few weeks later, my host shot himself in the head with that very weapon.

When I tell you the gun situation in America is bad, I’m talking from personal experience.

Whenever I’ve sat down and had a conversation with a pro-gun American about this, I always get the same response.

“No, mate, you don’t understand. This is enshrined in our Constitution. The right to armed resistance is there to stop a tyrannical, self-serving government from ever taking over again.”

And to them I say now: what are you waiting for?

Your government is full of rapists and paedophiles, America. You know it. I know it. The entire world knows it.

Your government and institutions are full of people who were besties with Jeffrey Epstein, and they will do anything to distract you from those Epstein files, up to and including murder. Your media and “influencers” are lying to you about almost everything every single day to keep you all confused and distracted from this, and while your lives get progressively worse, those people just get richer and richer and richer.

Today, ICE shot and killed a white woman who was no threat to them at point-blank range. Killed her.

Then your entire government, right up to your President, lied about it to your faces. Then thousands of you went on social media to declare that it was a good thing that woman was shot three times in the head.

She should’ve just followed orders, even though it’s not clear what those orders were.

Just think about that.

Thousands of you went online to say that it was right this woman was shot. That her murder was her own fault. Or to listen to and retweet somebody saying just that.

But none of you reached for your guns?

WTF is wrong with you? Are you all cowards?

They’re fucking your kids, covering up for the people who have done it, and blatantly lying to your faces about it while they all get richer — and your reaction is what?

Memes?

They’re even shooting you in the head for no good reason at all, and the first thing some of you do is go online and defend it.

Are you kidding me? You’re going to try and defend shooting an unarmed woman who was no threat in the head at point-blank range?

Have you ever heard of Stockholm syndrome? Because you may be suffering from a bloody severe case of it.

My entire life, I have heard that Americans have to have the Second Amendment, and you have to have these guns and the right to bear arms because of the risk of ever being ruled by a tyrannical government. That to give up your guns would be to give up freedom.

Freedom?

What freedom?

You have no freedom. The only freedom you have is to shut the fuck up or else they’ll come for you next.

You’re occupied.

A group of evil rapists and paedophiles have taken control of your country. People who are not of you, by you, or for you.

So spare me your Second Amendment bullshit.

You’re cowards.

Palestinians are less occupied than you are.

They may be under occupation too, but at least they’re still resisting.

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