All fundamentally operating on the system / medium of a weapon as a Christian-purifying instrument. Like the adage, “to a hammer, everything is a nail”, so has it become with guns too. Something must be purified. This means, having to make someone wrong, for the opportunity to wield a gun. 

These, the extremely difficult and uncomfortable tropes and themes and beliefs at the heart of the American system, and its Constitution. The number one place it bakes that in, is the 2nd Amendment. 

This is most tangibly understood by the largest instrument of America today, which is its Department of Defense. By its very name, indicates that it is thinking itself perpetually offended by everyone else. 

America, as we fail to appreciate, fundamentally needs an enemy to understand who it is. This is seen in all of its narratives, movies, scripts, television shows, political campaigns, all sounding the same: “defense of our values!” and “defense of freedom!” Everything in defense. Of what specifically, no one ever knows, except to defend the right to defend. 

This is seen in U.S. government. Nearly every member of Congress will approve its massive defense budget, without blinking an eye. Defense, the principle America never questions, because it is in fact the only real principle it has. 

To understand how ridiculous this has become, imagine a farmer. More so, imagine the actual act of farming. When planting seeds and tilling the soil, does one go around saying “defending of freedom!” or does one just want the plants to grow. Does the farmer argue with the sun, the rain, the soil, saying “in defense of freedom!” or does one just do the work of the farm. Let’s assume no pagan sacrificial rites are happening here. It is simply, get up, roll up your sleeves, do the work, repeat.

However, the American picture of a farmer, has become the one with a gun. How did this happen? Other than an occasional stray predator, there is no real ongoing need for farmers to own guns (that is, in the way Americans promote guns). The farm is not being attacked by hunters next door. Today, the hunter can far more easily hunt the item down in the grocery store aisle.

I.e., humans no longer live in an age where they need to kill the farmer, to get the food. Not to mention, if someone is going to commit a stealing crime, they are more likely to hold up a convenience store or bank and steal money. Then stupidly go use that money to buy a bigger gun. And so forth. 

Thus do I use farming as the prime illustrative example, of how meaningless is American gun culture. If it is no longer needing to defend the most fundamental needs (food / sustenance) then what exactly are the guns for? What exactly are they defending? 

Many are passionate about the “right to bear arms”. I am not saying it is not a right. However, must such a right actually be based on something real, rather than a principle-for-the-sake-of-principle, while grounded in nothing. If it not grounded in any real thing, then the right is easily abused, and becomes a big display, waving guns in the air. 

Some in the 2A camp, are staunchly anti-government. To clarify, it is one thing to be critical, and present alternate solutions. It is another thing to be anti-government merely to have something to defend against. This is not a statement about recent events. 

The most important thing to point out, is that the system has maxed itself out. Thus are complainants coming out of the woodwork, in the form of protests, discontent, violence in the streets, shootings and more. 

However, no amount of that, nor any “anti-government” do anything to change anything, except cause the government people dig in its heels further. And looking legitimate doing it, by saying they are “defending our values”. Thus in fact, all operating in the same modus, of defending themselves against the other, each merely wielding a different kind of instrument. However, are they commonly all instruments of defense.

In other words, it is not actually about government at this point. It is that the American people are caught in its prime modus behavior: defense. It just happens to be, that its most prevalent societal structure (government) is about defense too. However, did this begin before government was put in place, which are its roots in English Christian-defense culture. 

Returning to 2A and those who staunchly defend it. We see they are not actually defending themselves against an overbearing government. They are mirroring them. 

As they do not realize, the endless volley it has become -- like mirrors facing mirrors. Each side is simply repeating back versions of the other side’s arguments back to each other, and on and on. 

However, if the point is defense beyond a concept, then defense itself must now be re-addressed. Does it really make sense to say one has the “right to bear arms” in an era when threats now come in the form of cyber warfare, pandemics, etc.? 

The right to bear arms will not protect, say, a mall, if the building has many points of vulnerability, failing infrastructure, etc. And if there is a shooter, perhaps there should be shutdown systems instead, automatic electrical shut downs, special water systems, all which could at least disorient an armed intruder, until properly-trained persons arrive. 

Let’s returns us to guns themselves. The very fascination with guns themselves, is something we never address. Yes, we need to look at the psychological makeup of people who should never go near them. However, what about people who pass such psychological tests? What explains their obsession? 

It is because they all fundamentally believe in St. George. And they don’t even know who he is.

George precedes the unicorn, and was originally named George of Lydda, and became a saint after being a martyr for “bearing arms to defend Christianity.” However we need to realize that dying for a cause, does not mean that the point was to bear arms. However, did this become how George of Lydda became George the Warrior. Eventually did he become George of Godly Right in Arms and War.

A fundamental education in America should include learning the etymology of its first President’s name, George. 

George is from the Greek and it means farmer. 

The greatest defense of America, is to have something to defend in the first place. Ironically, then we’d feel less defensive. However we will feel more defensive, if we think the point of farming is to own a gun. 

As for gun manufacturers and the NRA who’d undoubtedly give me an F-rating for saying this: you are welcome. 

What would America have without my land at the 38th parallel? The nation with the luxury to say a semi-automatic is a right... from inside a nation protected by 2 vast oceans. Meanwhile that same nation could not win the war at the 38th parallel. Thus make that 2 vast oceans, and a single piece of land at the heart of the entire Cold War. Again, you are welcome.

America, the nation with a false sense of security built up in a culture of guns. This that causes peoples in other parts of the world to want to buy guns too. At some point, weapons became more than semi-automatic weapons, and those that can be launched as missiles, from aircraft carriers, and more. 

Or on a smaller scale, drones. In the time it takes a poorly-trained owner of a semi-automatic to use the weapon .. might a new form of weapon been invented, one can do 100x the damage, at exponentially faster the speed. Faster, because it will have predicted the poorly-trained shooter’s actions to begin with. Or use the prediction to make the shooter himself the weapon.

This is not to say guns do not have a place in America. They do, for a special-trained group of persons, for which America should invest the same. Including, for the establishment of a large training center Commandery, and the best training in security, protection, guardian, etc. This would pull from law enforcement, auxiliary, national guards, and more, and would present a model and template, across America. Since I am on the subject of guns, it is only gun-related aspects of Commanderies that I mention, but there are many more aspects to Commanderies, and capabilities (fire, medical, maintenance, logistics, rescue, etc. I also only colloquially use the term Knight Commanderies, as this assumes females as well. Common sense prevails, that some tasks requiring sheer brute muscular strength, may favor male participation.)

The main topic here however, is guns. We need to no longer see guns as some God holy thing. Wielding a weapon is not God-giving, nor God-making. However, has this been the implied value proposition of gun ownership in America, this whole time. The values it adopted from its British masters, particularly in its misunderstanding of its patron saint, St. George.

Thus is the answer not a simple one. 

America should not only invest in a true highly-trained corps, but invest in the true revolution, that is, the one it never truly had. American should invest, and significantly, into a historic re-writing of the Constitution and Amendments. The formation would pull from America’s most accomplished in arenas of justice and law. It must also include America’s best in academia, world history not just American history, and from the private sector too. Viewpoints in aviation, infrastructure, transportation, manufacturing, workers practices and rights, logistics and maintenance, subject sciences especially geology, emerging sciences in geomagnetics, atmospheric sciences, marine sciences, chemistry, and more. 

It must also take into consideration of the dangers of technology in the age of cyber and surveillance. This endeavor would absolutely not be about politics or finger pointing, which would simply replicate the mirrors-looking-at-mirrors, which is a rabbit hole to nowhere. In sum America must adopt a corpus understanding of the world not just a theory-and-paper one. A system-framework mindset not just a set of new media outlets. Instead, to create a true body constitution, from the ground up. 

It is an utter, utter disservice to the American people, to fail to consider the new kinds of technologies, the new kinds of maps, mappings, geographies, new spheres, that exist outside its limited body of law. 

One of the most limiting laws that it must re-consider, is the one that uses the phrase “right to bear arms”. This has become to the point of doctrinal, and in fact has already reached that point. As American didn’t realize, this is because the “right to bear arms” is based on the armiger-system of England and its codex “Dieu et Mon Droit.” God and My Right -- and right arm. The right to bear arms. 

It is only as legal sleight of hand is the word “God” not included in 2A. Effectively, has the word God been presumed the whole time. If this were not true, the entire southern half of the U.S. would not pride itself on slogans such as “Guns, God, America.” 

Guns on their own, do not convey the breadth of weaponry being used today. It is to the point we now have a new made-up word: “weaponize.” 

Thus does the phrase “right to bear arms” no longer apply in a world where the most dangerous of weapons are invisible -- precisely to the degree we do not perceive them as weapons. And thus because we have no Constitutional framework or language to address them, have we indeed come to the point where we need to concoct a new quasi-vernacular, through a made-up word “weaponize”. How do you legally address “weaponizing” when its not even a word legally recognized by the Constitution? Thus do we see it is the Constitution itself that is lacking in its wording - and more, lacking in its very word-understanding of what are arms, and weapons, to begin with. 

All the things then cumulatively set the stage for anger, blame, divide. And sooner or later gunshots are heard, and the tragic cycle that goes on and on and on.