Gun Control and the Power of Disinformation

The War on Guns… 

For instance, If you know anything about the “war on drugs” you know that there was no actual war on drugs. There was a highly publicized problem happening in regard to the prevalence of drugs; opportunists saw this as a chance to leverage this emotionally personal “cause” and utilize it for their future success.

Using emotionality to manipulate large portions of society, it’s common [in politics and religion].

Hopefully, now, you understand why it makes me question what this “war on guns” will actually do… to our already oppressed communities (not just POC, but again, poor whites in fly overstates cannot be ignored either).

It’s gotten so bad that I’m unsure as to how exactly we can wade through it. None of us have the time to do that and, even if we did that’s not exactly where we would want to spend our time and energies…

What I see about Jesus is that during his time, all of the critique and the systems at large that controlled the collective conscience of his context, is that he simply disconnected from it.

What I mean by “disconnected” is he operated outside of their systems, constructs, rules and laws. If alive today, I don’t think he’d even engage the mainstream media.

He’d be aware of it, but wouldn’t be controlled or manipulated by it.

A vast majority of gun violence does not involve AR-15s (unpacking this in next post).

If we stop focussing on what we need to prohibit and then we redirected our energies re-focussing on what we need to start doing… I guarantee you we’ll see more positive change and far less gun violence take place.

It’s behavioral psychology 101: instead of implementing things that punish those who do “wrong,” we implement rewards for those of us who are doing “right.”