Ralph Yarl, 16, Missouri. Kaylin Gillis, 20, New York. Payton Washington, 18, Texas. All shot this week by good guys with guns after committing innocent mistakes. Kaylin fatally. This is living the [NRA] American dream.

Warren Burger, Republican Supreme Court Justice appointed by Nixon [America’s first dictator, by the way], said that the Second Amendment “has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires. … The Framers clearly intended to secure the right to bear arms essentially for military purposes.”

It is the culmination of the 1977 NRA ‘Revolt at Cincinnati’ and like a plethora of right wing shit destroying democracy and legitimate civility in this country, Ronald Reagan inculcated it into American culture. I sincerely apologize to all generations subsequent to mine for voting for him, the father of the radical conservative movement.