The Brutal Selfishness of the AR-15 Crowd

You want your big ass gun so you can feel like a real man? You are a selfish, delusional asshole.

Karen Shiebler
3 min readSep 7, 2024

So you insist that your precious Second Amendment gives you the right to carry a weapon of war around the local grocery store, huh? You say that our founding fathers were the ones who gave you the right to walk around town with whatever weapon you want. Go, you.

You swagger through peaceful small towns with your Rambo gear strapped to your chest. You order your deli meats with a weapon on your shoulder. You feel strong. You feel protected.

“Nobody can push me around while I buy my bologna. No, sir. I got my big man killing machine with me, loaded for war.”

HooRah to you, you selfish bastard.

You do NOT NEED your assault weapon. I know dozens of folk who hunt deer and turkeys and even bear without one. They use hunting rifles.

If you are so inept that you need to blow a deer into a hundred pieces to kill her, then you don’t understand the concept of hunting to feed your family.

You do NOT NEED your assault weapon. Unless you live in Gaza, Ukraine, Somalia or someplace with no police presence, you are NOT at war. You do not NEED a weapon of war.

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Karen Shiebler

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com