In March 2013, I wrote and recorded “The Second Amendment from the Perspective of an Animal.” I created this message because animals aren’t mentioned once in the Second Amendment, yet they sure do take the brunt of it, don’t they?
In both the audio message and the transcription below, I explore the real meaning of the Second Amendment and the psychology behind it. You can either listen to the audio or read the transcription.
Before you do, keep the bullet points below in mind:
- The U.S. makes up only 4% of the world’s population, yet owns 46% of its civilian-held firearms.
- With a population of 340 million, Americans own approximately 400 million of the 857 million civilian-held firearms worldwide, which are spread across 230 countries.
- Those numbers can be seen by survey You can verify with Reuters, Forbes and the Washington post. All three news outlets picked up a story about the Small Arms Survey. Please verify for yourself.
- Thoses number make it crystal clear that “The Right to Bear Arms’ has very little to do with self protection and much more to do with America’s Obsession with guns and killing. The U.S. has an addiction to guns the world has never seen before. As we know, the U.S. also has a Opiate addiction. And like with any addiction if not treated, it will destroy lives.
Here is the audio message now and the transcriptions is below the audio:
“Hello friends, Dr. Harp Seal here, thanks for stopping by. I want to shine some light on the second amendment from the perspective from an animal.
As we all know, the second amendment is the right to bear arms, it is a right people have. Without getting into if its good or bad, it’s just the way it is. I would imagine that a lot of the animal abuses we speak of, like trophy hunts, canned hunting, deer hunting farms or the black bear hunts in New Jersey and so on, are the same people pounding their chest about this precious second amendment.
The right to bear arms was so people can protect themselves. The people that fight tooth and nail for that protection are the same people going on the offense all year round from specie to specie killing innocent animals. Let’s move onto an annual squirrel hunt in Holley, New York, which is a fundraiser for the Holley Fire Department. It’s literally a contest amongst families, kids included, to kill squirrels. We also recently spoke about an annual racoon hunt in Memphis, Tennessee which is a fundraiser for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. And for my last example tonight comes from a twitter picture that recently went viral of a man who blew away a mother polar bear right in front the baby bear and then took a picture of this horrific scene with himself in the picture.
So, where am I going with this? Here’s where: All these people that enjoy killing animals can say: “we did it to feed the locals, we did it for population control or we do it for the kids with cancer”. So I want to cut all these euphemisms and clear the deck; people like to kill animals, they always have. And that’s why they will kill any animal for any cause at any time of the year.
When I think of it in those terms, I wonder if the second amendment is one giant euphemism to kill innocent animals any chance you get. Because animals may not be mentioned in the amendment but sure are taking the brunt of it. I will conclude with Dr. Harp Seal’s revision of the slogan “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. The revisions is: “Guns and people kill animals and people”.
Thanks everybody, have a nice night