But when a commie talks about guns, it can get downright hilarious.

That's what I encountered in my daily search for the stupid and entertaining in the world of the gun debate, where the American Communist Party ran a post about who is really to blame for mass shootings.

In his farewell address, President Dwight Eisenhower issued warnings about the growing military-industrial complex. While Eisenhower can hardly be considered an exemplary historical advocate for world peace, his address proved to be a fateful warning. Indeed, the military-industrial complex’s “total influence” can be felt across this country today. The current gun violence epidemic is but one of the military-industrial complex’s “grave implications” that has come to fruition.

It isn’t enough to simply legislate what guns or gun modifications are legal and who should or shouldn’t own a gun, if we don’t seriously discuss how and why these guns got here in the first place.

I support red flag laws to fight the gun violence epidemic as I would support red flag laws to fight the country’s opioid epidemic. It would be a positive step to enact laws that prevent doctors from prescribing painkillers to “at-risk” individuals. But such legislation alone would be woefully inadequate to address the totality of the opioid epidemic. To address this epidemic, we’re required to fight against a healthcare system that puts profits over people and a legal system that affords the Sackler family — the founders of Purdue Pharma and Mundipharma — a sense of legal immunity that dimebag drug dealers can only dream of.

Similarly, addressing the gun violence epidemic requires a more holistic approach than what red flag laws alone can offer. It requires us to fight the political influence of the National Rifle Association; an advocacy group that cares more about gun sales than gun rights, as evidenced by their reaction (or rather lack thereof) to the police killing of Philando Castile and their support for gun control laws against the Black Panthers. It requires us to fight the political influence of war contractors from Lockheed Martin and to fight against the executives of companies like Smith & Wesson; companies whose sole purpose is to make a killing off of maiming and killing.

These fights require mass movements. In such mass movements, it’s necessary for us to make clear that mass shootings are a byproduct of the military-industrial complex.

Now, I'll agree the NRA dropped the ball on the killing of Philando Castile, though the official line was that they didn't get involved in any situation like that, which is probably fair. I think they should have made an exception in that case, because lawful gun ownership matters and lawful gun owners shouldn't be shot by police while trying to comply with their orders.

Just sayin'.

But it's funny the author holds the California gun control efforts from the 1960s against the NRA of today, when it's been well documented that the pro-rights crowd essentially staged an uprising and took over the organization well past that.

Regardless, the idea of the military-industrial complex being responsible for mass shootings, even by Gun Violence Archive's metrics, is downright hilarious.

Gun ownership has been valued for centuries in this country. When Eisenhower left office and issued his warning, gun ownership was probably more common than it is today, and was infinitely more accepted by the general public. If the military-industrial complex is somehow responsible for the proliferation of firearms since Eisenhower's time then they absolutely suck at their jobs.

I mean, suck so badly they should rename themselves Kamala Harris. (You know what I mean, don't you?)

But, really, what else can you expect from a communist? They think of everything in collectivist terms, which means some collective must be responsible, but because of their leftist nature, they can't group people in any meaningful way. Instead, anyone who makes money selling goods has to be responsible for anything they can manage to pin on that industry as a whole.

These are the mental defectives who think suing gun manufacturers over what criminals do is a good idea.

I mean, the military-industrial complex, which supposedly weilds so much power, could easily exert that power to deregulate suppressors and machine guns, knowing hundreds of thousands--more than any government contract they've ever seen--would be sold in just weeks. They'd be down with pressing their puppet lawmakers to legalize everything they could, knowing full well that we on this side of the fence would eat it up.

But that's never happened.

On the contrary, we just got screwed by Republican lawmakers who don't seem to care what their own base wants.

Then again, this is a communist we're talking about here. He thinks the ideology of Stalin and Mao, which resulted in 100 million deaths, is a great idea and just needs a little tweaking before it works perfectly, despite no hint of it ever coming close.

Let's just hope he has a caregiver who can keep him away from sharp objects.