Gun & Other Issues:

Is MISGUIDANCE the opposite of EDUCATION? .. Maybe 'Obfuscation' might be closer.

- Please be patient as there's a thought forming inside my bespectacled thinning-haired head and I'm trying to grasp it ...

A small "aside" .. I've been watching Mudlarking on London's River Thames - and I'm most entertained by their filthy finds - just by looking and when using metal detectors ... so many live old small-arms rounds, spent cartridge cases, fuzes and fired bullets turn-up in the rubble, slime, and detritus of centuries past. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sLyHQtjmzQ 

(It seems that you require a LICENSE from the Port of London Authority to fossick along this grubby river!) - Of course Guns & all ammunition components are generally BANNED there ..

Percussion Tube Fuzes based on .303 cartridge.
(Trench Mortar, Bagged Charge??)

Section 1 of the UK Firearms Act 1968 creates offences connected with being in possession of ammo to which this section applies without a firearm certificate. Subject to any exemption under this Act, it is an offence for a person - to have in his possession, or to purchase or acquire, any ammunition to which this section applies without holding a firearm certificate in force at the time.

Anyway .. NZ radio was discussing the disastrous dumping & pollution by waste plastics - & the lady presenter interjected something like "How bad is this - as I belong to a generation that fully expected to be blown to bits by a Nuclear war?"

Plastic Trash etc - Can You Smell It?

And I thought "so do I" - then I thought - "BUT THAT DANGER IS STILL THERE - IT'S JUST HAD THESE OTHER STUPIDITIES DUMPED ON TOP."

Various good thinking folk take their turn at promoting their particular and real concerns. Plastic Pollution - Animal Extinctions - Climate Change - Oil Exploration - Fracking - Mental Health Issues - Mercury Poisoning - Under Resourced Law Enforcement - Obesity - Water Pollution/Supply - Overpopulation - Commercial Fish Dumping - Ozone Depletion - Drug Addiction - Cadmium in Fertilizers - Vaccinations - Prison Over Crowding - Housing Shortages - Violent Crime Levels ..  ..  ..

You could probably fill the next ten pages (and more ..) with truly serious issues and immediate dangers that you know urgently need fixing. They loom large in front of us - and then slide off to the side - without being fixed.

So the list keeps on getting longer and the multiple dangers keep-on stacking up - BUT the original BIGGIE hasn't gone away .. Currently we are living with an estimated 15,000 active, targeted, ready-to-go whiz-bang instant thermo-nuclear devices aimed from all around - with the likes of crazed Putins & Trumps in charge.  Think about that .. 15,000 plus nukes aimed at you and your kids and their kids. - They are all around us.

Hiroshima.

Now go back to that pink highlighted list of urgent issues. - I reckon that each and every one of these ills is DIRECTLY the result of greedy, mentally unbalanced, profit and power seeking, tax avoiding, corrupt & unrestrained capitalists. Examine each issue for yourself.

Don't get me wrong here - I know that greed, aggression & ambition are natural human qualities that drive our actions .. but so are empathy, concern and reason.

It's just that WE have the power to restrict, limit & control the bad motivators and to promote the higher level functions.

How is it that failed corporate executives get cash payouts when kicked out of power? - how is it that politicians get REAL wage increases every year while their employers (us) haven't had proper raises in 40 plus years? - How is it that Londoners have been so brainwashed about guns that they are protesting fearfully at police plans to increase the numbers of armed patrols to directly counter knife wielding street thugs!
 - Why is religion still taught in school .. but not 'civics' *

 Obfuscation and Misguidance.

We can fix it .. indeed we MUST fix it. - You and me, there's nobody else.

Marty K.

*The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines civics as "the study of the rights and duties of citizens and of how government works." - The definition from dictionary.com is: "the study or science of the privileges and obligations of citizens."

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