Assault on Common Sense, aka The Camp Crystal Lake Effect

I'm not a big fan of slasher movies. All they really are is a challenge for special effects people to make human beings look like they're getting brutally murdered.  A friend of mine said it best in 1984; "It's like Faces of Death, but you don't feel so guilty watching it."  Where's the popcorn!?! (sarcasm)

These movies are the textbook definition off the word 'unbelievable,' but for me the most unrealistic element is not the demi-monster coming out of the grave to kill, yet once again, but rather a major real world disconnect.  Why would parents send their children to the location of a teen slaughter(s)?  The Friday the 13th movies made repeated trips back to Camp Crystal Lake, the site of many of Jason (and his mother's) heinous acts of violence.  You've got to be the worst parent EVER to send your kid to a camp where people were savagely butchered by a machete wielding maniac only a year earlier.  "But Billy, they have paddle boards!"

For the never ending feeder system of teenage victims, I give the blame/credit to what is the most realistic portrayal of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in all of cinema; the never seen, hard working Crystal Lake Youth Outreach Program!

After the first senseless massacre at Camp Crystal Lake, the Crystal Lake Youth Outreach Program sprung into action, with a marketing campaign geared around false arguments: "if you don't send your kids back to Camp Crystal Lake, Jason wins! You don't want Jason to win, do you? You know what would've never happened if THEY would've gone to Camp Crystal Lake? Hitler!" On the outside, it looks like a poorly constructed argument, more bent on the vilification and demeaning of common sense, but shockingly, it starts to resonate with idiots who are desperate to find validation in their own lives.

The CLYOP then buys off every politician they can, paying them to ensure no one ever talks negatively about the 'misdeeds' at Camp Crystal Lake, and they even pass laws which encourage people to send their children to Camp Crystal Lake in larger and larger numbers.  When the next inevitable Jason slaughter happens, they get their sad faces on, talk about thoughts and prayers for the victims, insist that even though August's campers were all murdered, June and July's made it without a fatality, and if we dare address the Jason issue, the slaughter will be SO MUCH WORSE!!!

Comparison aside, the NRA, and their 'guns everywhere' rallying cry, has become a hollow argument to validate a broken, genocide enabling system.  Orlando was it for me.  There's no more discussion needed.  Assault weapons are too dangerous to have available to the general public and need to be restricted.  I'm not going to entertain the NRA/pro-gun kooks arguments anymore.  They've promised safety for 20 years, and they've failed horrifically.  All their arguments are lies, distortions and fantasy, not made in any real attempt to have a discussion about the problem, only made to get people to forget about the latest tragedy.

When I was in basic training in 1988, I watched a drill sergeant beat the living crap out of a young soldier who kept pointing his M-16 at people.  After the third warning, he went off.  Afterwards, he looked at the recruits and said, "there's nothing I hate more than an idiot who does't have the slightest idea how dangerous guns are.  These are not a bb gun, but rather a deadly weapon designed to kill, and you need to treat it as such."

Yes, the individual doing the shooting is the main problem, whether terrorist, anti-gay extremist, white nationalist, sovereign citizen or mentally compromised.  I'm not saying banning all assault weapons will stop attempts to kill, but if Omar Mateen would've entered the Pulse Nightclub with a knife, bow and arrow, hammer, or sword, he might have killed two or three people, but he would've been stopped, and we wouldn't have needed 13 heavily armed, highly trained police officers to take him down.  The reason we needed that much firepower is because his assault weapon evened the playing field.  One deranged lone gunman can become his own combat platoon with one assault weapon, and a few banana clips full of rounds.

No legitimate hunter uses assault weapons.  They're useless in personal protection too, unless you're a drug dealer in a bad 80's TV show.  These weapons were designed to kill as many human beings as possible, as fast as possible.  They're an abomination, and need to be outlawed.

While we're at it, let's also 1) inspect all gun stores inventory for the last five years.  If they don't have the weapon or a receipt for the weapon, and we can prove one of their unaccounted for weapons was used in a crime, charge them with arms trafficking.  2) Start a database of all weapons in the country.  This list should be searchable by the public, so I, as a parent, can know who of my neighbors are packing heat.  I've a right to know who to keep my family away from.  3) The 2nd amendment says NOTHING about magazines and ammunition.  No weapon sold in this country should be allowed to shoot more than 10 rounds per minute.  Large capacity ammo clips should be illegal, and bullet purchases should be limited.  4) Terrorists should not be able to buy a slingshot in the USA, let alone an assault weapon.  If they're on a watch list or no fly list, then no gun purchases, period.  5) Anyone who has a record for violence, assault or murder is forbidden from ever purchasing a gun.  If they're found with a gun, it's an automatic 5 years in prison.  6) If a person has been in long term mental care, or has had a history of psychotic episodes, they shouldn't be able to purchase a weapon.  7) No weapon can be sold in the United States, even between two private parties, without a waiting period and background check.

All of this is legal under the 2nd Amendment.  All of it.  The most important thing is to immediately ban all sales of assault weapons, no exceptions.

Slasher movies and assault weapons - one is a vehicle which glorifies violence, romanticizes carnage, and encourages their fans to believe laughable false narratives about it being the 'American Way' and 'harmless American fun.'  The other is a movie genre.

We can turn them both off, IF we want to.