Cation, Warning, what enters your mind through your eyes & ears changes the structure & function of your brain via neuron rewiring called adaptive plasticity.
Fortunate you can use your free will or agency or layered mental executive function to deliberately take captive any thoughts & control them so as to have total complete self control. In this way your mind can be a master of its self. Many people turn to religion or God himself for additional ideas about wise ways to control thoughts & thinking.
Gun & Pen
The spoken or written word can be blessing or a curse. A pen in real life can also be used as a stabbing weapon, as can pencils. You do not hear law makers talking about imposing new pencil & pen control laws. The pen can no more write something on its own than a gun can load itself, chamber itself, point itself or shoot itself. Thus gun control laws are really about controlling people. People who harm other people are whacked out or satanic or evil. For all of history people have been hurting other people long before modern guns existed. War is insane, expensive, not very effective as many people die in war but the same problems that were being attempted to correct with the war, persist & even and often get worse, so not only does the cost of war penalize societies, it also does not solve the intended problem the war was created to address.
Bullets come in many sizes & calibers & types, especially 12 gauge shot gun shells. The 22 cal LR for example is a popular low pressure, low energy, relatively high performance tiny bullet & tiny rim fire case that produce very little noise similar to a cap gun. As bullets travel through air they drop because of gravity & gas friction. The spiral grove machined into the gun barrel applies twist spin as the hot expanding chemical gas from the case gives rise to a many thousands of PSI of hot expanding gas behind the lead or copper or depleted uranium bullet, thus the gas pressure shoves the bullet down the barrel. The soft metals of the bullet conform slightly into the spiral groves or rifling in the inside edge of the barrel, thus imparting mechanical spin on the bullet that radically stabilizes & improves the bullets trajectory.
Thus bullets & cases & guns & barrels are just mechanical devices powered by chemical energy, deliberately created by people for the purpose of hunting & for use in armed conflicts, though police & other law enforcement use them to exert deadly force & I personally shoot target practices & carry as EDC with a permit etc. I have been shooting guns since I was a small boy, with my Dad & Grandpa back then, they are both dead from end of life age issues now, so I remain, with a enthusiasm for firearms as a lifelong member of the NRA & completely oppose any gun laws that deprive people like me of the freedom to keep & bear arms.
I know all about the machines guns used in wars. If the government can have machine guns with large belt fed magazines, then people like me should be free to do the same. I have never committed a crime & was a Boy Scout & made an Oath to God & my country to help other people at all times. Some people are sick, mentally sick, and are out to kill, steal & destroy other people just like satan. I watched COPS on TV as a kid & saw the low life' people in America that the police have to deal with, so bad that many police officers end up with PTSD & end up seeking psilocybin therapy to undo the traumatic memories or aid them in forgiving & forgetting the toxic negative thoughts.
Gun crime are a societal problems because of social decay of individuals. In particularly homes without fathers or absent fathers who do not show their children love. There are many single mom's in the world, where the father of their children leaves the family, leaving the mom & children to fend for themselves. Some of these children end up in gangs or associated with other low functioning people who poisons their minds with toxic ideologies & evil thoughts that cause them to execute crimes, like armed robbery. I saw all of this depicted in the TV show COPS shot live on location. Some of the children on my school bus routes are fatherless. My own genetic father took off while my mother was still pregnant. I have never met him, heard from him, nothing, he flat abandoned me, leaving a hole in my heart that on God can fill now. Black coffee early in the morning helps too! I really pulls at my heart strings to see the loneliness & sadness in the eyes of the fatherless children on my route.
