AUTHORITY FIGURES ARE RUNNING RAMPANT IN THE U.S.

AUTHORITY FIGURES ARE RUNNING RAMPANT IN THE U.S.

(FRAZER CHRONICLE)

(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

Apparently we are a sorry collective lot of people here in the United States…..at least domestically, on the national stage, not so much. We US citizens are coddled and cajoled into and out of all sorts of domestic situations…..and I’ll be damned, back into again some of the same crap we just were steered out of.

 

Gun violence here in the United States is awful, thousands of people die every year by firearm activity, whether by suicide, by mistake, or by murder. It doesn’t really matter which way the fatal shot was administered; the results are always the same, blood, smagma and the involuntary execration of bodily fluids. Getting shot to death by a firearm is never, ever pretty.

 

People on the streets of America are under attack by authority figures every single day of the week, and probably twice on Saturday. I have blogged before on the danger on the streets of the United States, so I won’t bore you with numbers…..well maybe just a few! I ran across an article while researching for this blog, and wouldn’t you know it, I felt that I simply must share it with you-all. The info is from PolitiFact.com, a reputable outfit that I’ve used for several years now, and their information has never steered me wrong.

 

Now these figures are from 2013 which actually isn’t that long ago when one considers that either a data base or manual record keeping of civilian shootings, or deaths involving a weapon is sorely lacking here in the United States. Probably gun owners, gun sellers, and the policing organizations would rather not dwell on the negative side of the issue of people getting wounded by gunfire, or worse killed.

 

JUST THE FACTS MA’AM

Some people say that statistics can be rearranged to conform to whatever it is that people might want to prove. Me, well I believe in the power of statistics as a gauge to track what might be happening regarding a certain subject. In this case when somebody tells me that 87 people die every single day of the year due to gunshot wounds I immediately sit up and take notice.

 

When that same person tells me that 270 people are shot every day with a firearm, and that 100,000 people suffer gunshot wounds every year I don’t just take notice, I raise out of my chair and begin looking over my shoulder to see who’s following me. And I think that I’m aware…..huh, I guess I’m far from being informed.

 

These figures aren’t influenced by either liberal or conservative types, the data comes from the federal Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC); experts in the field who keep the most reliable statistics on the subject. Apparently there are also another 13,851 non-fatal injuries from BB or pallet guns which are not included in that 100,000 figure listed in the previous paragraph.

 

The only area of the study by the CDC that I guess I would have issues with is the 18,735 suicide killings by firearms, although these people are wounded…..(beyond repair) I don’t think that those figures should be counted in with the 100,000 people that are injured by a gunfire shooting.

 

Besides the 18,735 who commit suicide by firearm, there are 11,493 homicides, 554 unintentional shooting deaths, 333 legal intervention deaths, and 232 undetermined deaths by gunfire. If you discount the 18,773 suicides by gunfire, there are still 81,265 people shoot during an average year in the United States, or about 35 deaths per day, down from the 87 if you count suicides, however still unacceptable as far as I’m concerned.

 

With this background, the country’s authority figures consider that they are more than well equipped to hand out sorts of advice with regards to all sorts of issues that are confronting the world at this time. Forget about the deaths in the streets of America, forget about the 80 some thousand that are shot but don’t die in the US, what the hell, the authority figures work better with foreign problems than domestic stuff anyways.  

 

AND NOW THE U.S. PASSES OUT ITS BRAND OF HELP TO ITS NEIGHBORS AND ALLIES

The United States is by far the most militant country in the entire world today, just because most of our authority figures (elected, appointed and enlisted) think and say that “the United States is the best equipped, and has attained a higher plane of rationality” does not make it so.

 

This attitude is self-consoling and delusional: it is not rational, but only enervated, and confuses its own lack of interest in the future with moderation. After the great blood-letting of the past two twentieth century world wars, and the war on terror that is currently fourteen years on, somebody needs to step forward and halt this ongoing madness.

 

We don’t even have to go back into the twentieth century to make a body count to show that wars of the world are being waged through a thin veil of major world-wide credit and debit corporation balance sheets.

 

The twentieth century military skirmishes and declared wars have taken more then 8,621,000, this figure after the world collectively had learned a lesson from the two world wide wars that took a combined 60,670,868 human beings.

 

What the world authority figures learned from probably the bloodiest segment of world history  was that the human conscious could take wars with smaller casualty lists, less collateral damage, and worst of all, turn a blind eye towards those people who advocate war mongering where smaller amounts of human degradation and petulance occur.

 

For some, in other countries, waging war is as common as mom and apple pie is here in the United States. For decades and generations, the mentality of war has been passed on from father to son. As a people, US citizens are beginning that long and arduous path down the generations of military families. There is no honor in this perceived path to glory, what it is, is a ticket to a loss of a father, a son, daughter, aunt, uncle, or other relatives, or worse horribly disfigured and completely reliant on others for help.

 

For the United States authority figures to pass weapons, military advice, and military support that includes American boots on the ground is ridiculous and moronic. And for the US citizen to allow this dispensing of governing and justice is distasteful to me. Oh I know what some might say…..”if you don’t like it here, move.” And that would be fine with me…..except the way that the United States authority figures are passing out their way of governance, and weapons, a guy like me would be hard pressed to secure that utopian nirvanic place.

 

I must add that I have absolutely nothing against military personnel, nor do I hold anything other than the highest regard for those veterans from World War II. But since that time wars have been engagements of profiteering for those world-wide military corporations. As a people, peace lovers of the world need to reign in their authority figures before we’re all pushing up the daisies.

HAVE A NICE DAY!