Karma and the NRA

An interesting concept about Karma (as it relates to guns):

"A person who becomes the victim of a random wild-animal attack might discover that in a past life he once abused nature by killing animals for sport."

Case in point (from CNN.com):

"Katherine Chappell went to South Africa on a volunteer mission to protect wildlife. But as the 29-year-old American was taking photos of a pride of lions at a safari park on Monday, one of them leaped up against the vehicle she was in and fatally attacked her, according to accounts of the incident."

Ms. Chappell's life mission was to care for animals. Quite possibly her spiritual mission was to erase bad karma created in a previous existence - same soul, but different body.

The primary reason most people purchase or in some other way, acquire guns are:

1. To protect themselves.
2. Hunting for sport.
3. To commit crimes.

In the 21st century, it is rare that people purchase guns to hunt for food.
Here's an ominously glaring statistic found on the website, smartgunlaws.org:

"Guns kept in the home are more likely to be involved in a fatal or nonfatal unintentional shooting, criminal assault or suicide attempt than to be used to injure or kill in self-defense. That is, a gun is more likely to be used to kill or injure an innocent person in the home than a threatening intruder."

Evidence shows that the presence of firearms in the home makes a person more vulnerable, not less. Statistics clearly show that guns do not keep owners safer from harm, objective studies confirm that firearms in the home place owners and their families at greater risk.

"A study published in 2013 by the Violence Policy Center, using five years of nationwide statistics (2007-2011) compiled by the federal Bureau of Justice found that defensive gun use occurs at a dramatically lower rate, about 98.5% lower than the gun lobby has claimed."

"The V.P.C. also found that for every one justifiable homicide in the United States involving a gun, guns were used in 44 criminal homicides. This ratio does not take into account the tens of thousands of lives lost in gun suicides or accidental shootings every year."

Human beings are erroneously considered highly evolved, thinking beings, and nothing could be further from the truth. There are far more advanced 'thinking beings' that share the cosmos with us. These entities are wise enough to do away with weapons that kill one another at an alarming rate. We have interstellar neighbors that are wise enough not to fuss, and fight over medieval manuscripts purportedly from a 'divine invisible deity' who shows favorites.

N.R.A. supporters will foolishly retort, "we need to keep our guns to fight off the government when they take our property, our liberties." Well, your AK47 or whatever weapon you or your backwoods neighbors may have, are no match for the weaponry of the U.S. Military.

This is not the 16th century, where you would do hand-to-hand combat with your government. One push of a button and your entire block is obliterated. So what chance would you have with your weapons? ZERO. Not only do you have no chance, but you would also be endangering the lives of thousands of innocent people (not that you would care).