Guns - a Holiday gift you won't use

Gun sales have hit record highs, as the gift giving season includes arming people who, most likely, will never use the gift.

Most people want to avoid the situation where a Christmas gift is a politely received item, but one the recipient isn't likely to use. 

Sometimes, the gift might be a boldly printed tie or outrageous socks. Not so with guns. Although Americans purchased gungs by record numbers to give as Christmas or Holiday gifts, the fact is, the recipient is not likely to use the gift. Nevertheless, the expensive gifts of guns are being sold as those given out of "love" and as assurance of "protection" against violence.  

Indeed, while Americans are buying guns in record numbers to defend against numerous potential threats, including the risk of terrorism, the fact it, the guns themselves are dangerous, regardless of who or why they're used.

Guns are dangerious regardless of how they are used.

Meanwhile, no one I know wants to be in a position where they will use guns for personal protection. We don't want to be in a position where we need to use a gun to defend ourselves; moreover, there's no evidence that having a gun makes a person safer than if they had none at all.

As a matter of fact, just how many guns does a person need to protect themselves? If a person owns dozens of guns (becoming more common) the absolute fact is, only one gun at a time can be aimed and fired for any situation. In fact, most dangerous situations, where one might consider using a gun for protection, are totally unexpected and occur when guns aren't easily accessible. When was the last time someone was defended from a gun violence incident, because they were readily armed with their own personal gun? It's a rare event. (Tragically, even the Navy Seal marksman Chris Kyle, was unable to defend himself when he had acess to a gun but was, nevertheless, murdered by a mentally ill man.

In other words, Americans are spending millions of dollars on guns to give away as gifts to  people who will, for the most part, never use them for anything. Meanwhile, the number of guns in the population are so pervasive that it's impossible to say how anyone can feel safer with a weapon, when the risk of being harmed by a gun related accident are, likely, greater than the ability to defend against violence.

Worse, the enormous amounts of money spent buying and selling guns doesn't include dedicated tax revenue to apply toward prevention of violence or to help treat the mentally ill, who are often victims of gun-violence.

Consequently, when gift givers are looking for a gift nobody ever wants to use, then there's every reason to seek out a gun shop to buy just the right weapon. Buying guns are an expensive way to waste money. At least, outrageious ties or socks can always find use as a "regift". Guns, on the other hand, will rust over time and collect dust......because it's the gift we never want to use.

Evil ISIS intends to destroy Western Civilization and Christianity

Obviously, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how the evil Islamic terrorist group ISIS (Islamic State) wants to destroy Christianity.

Even if some Christians somehow succumbed to the ISIS evil practices and became Muslims, the coverts wouldn't be considered "Islamic enough" to be included in the group's extremist zeal.

Every day, the evil ISIS generates an increasing amount of horror. In addition to the execution of innocent hostages, the group is now publicly murdering Christians. There's absolutely no way this carnage can continue. ISIS must be eliminated, regardless of how many civilians are in harms way. ISIS must be eradicated,  in spite of the inability of the disorganized cowards in the Iraqi army's ability to launch an offensive against them.  (In my opinion, without any formal military training, the Iraqi army must participate in eradicating ISIS or risk being among the victims of the terrorist group's barbaric tactics.)

Nevertheless, ISIS can never destroy all Christians. In fact, the evil group will implode under it's evil actions, but not before murdering thousands of innocent people. Since ISIS doesn't have any  regard for the human condition, it makes no sense for defenders of Western culture to hesitate when defending against these terrorists.

Although I haven't seen the "American Sniper" movie or read the book about Navy Seal Chris Kyle, there are several movie clips shown whereby the sniper is faced with killing civilians.  Given how ISIS kills civilians to perpetrate its evil intentions, it seems Kyle's flashes of ambiguity about assassinating non combatants might be a moot issue. Incredulously, in the future, killing civilians might be a cruel necessity if the world will truly eradicate Islamic extremism.  How can I come to this cruel conclusion? Because, Islamic extremist non-combatants who support ISIS are as much a part of the evil as are the military combatants. If Islamic non-combatants, like women and children, are infected by evil, they tragically become analogous to a gangrenous limb that must be removed to save the patient from death.  

ISIS is an evil organization because they murder innocents, execute Christians, violently suppress women and recruit children to serve their nefarious intentions. 

ISIS must be eradicated as soon as possible.

Barbarbic videos like the following must be eliminated from the human condition.

(CNN) In a new propaganda video released Sunday by ISIS, the group claims to have beheaded over a dozen members of Egypt's Coptic Christian minority on a Libyan beach.

The video shows an apparent mass execution with jihadists in black standing behind each of the victims, who are all are dressed in orange jumpsuits with their hands cuffed behind them.

The five-minute video, released by the terror group's propaganda wing al-Hayat Media, includes a masked English-speaking jihadi who says, "The sea you have hidden Sheikh Osama bin Laden's body in, we swear to Allah, we will mix it with your blood."

Then on cue, all the victims are pushed to the ground and beheaded.
Egyptian government officials haven't confirmed the executions.

Is there a way to use a huge Zombonie, to scrape up all the evil ISIS executioners and shave them into the Arabic Sea?  Fish food.