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Wayne and his thugs say more guns the better, teachers, principals, all the Barney Fifes out there. All those armed people will make us all safer.
WELL--by that logic we would be much safer if we opened the nuclear arms locker and gave nukes out to all the countries of the world.
I would feel muuuuuuuuch safer.
Stand Your Ground at the Pizza Joint
Let me get this right: one customer shoots another because the victim was "whiny" about not getting his pizza on time and a shoving matches ensued. The shooter then uses the "Stand Your Ground Law" as justification. I am surprised he was even arrested.
I thought this was an "Onion" article. Sadly, I was wrong.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/18/stand-your-ground-cited-in-shooting-of-whiny-little-caesars-pizza-customer/
Plane Crashes versus Mass Shootings
FAA crash and mass shooting investigations often appear similar to me:
1. Both involve multiple investigating agencies.
2. Mass casualties are always present.
3. Survivors and first responders are often traumatized long after the event is over.
4. The site of the event is combed over for months after-wards.
5. Investigators want to know how it happened to prevent it from happening again.
How FAA investigations and Mass Shooting Investigations are different.
1. When the FAA finds a cause, faulty door latch, improper oxygen system, landing gear failure, etc. they identify and replace the part to a plane does not crash by the same cause again.
2. Mass shooting investigations search high and wide for a why, mental illness, video games, bullying, many different theories. The piece that is always found at a mass shooting is a FIREARM. OFTEN A FIREARM WITH A CAPACITY TO FIRE MANY ROUNDS IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.
3. So, despite the 180 or so mass shootings since Columbine the defective part continues to be found at every scene.
4. We as a people would never accept a lobbying organization preventing the elimination of defective parts from an aircraft. Apparently, our politicians accept it when it comes to murdering our children.
Hypocrisy of the NRA Owned Senators
Among the tragic pictures and words of the past weekend was the article that reported that 31 "pro-gun" Senators refused to defend their position on Meet the Press. They cowered in their homes, I'm sure, waiting for the time and strategy and money to be delivered to them by the NRA. These cowards are all for the 2nd Amendment and care not about the implications of fully arming the population. The consequence of this decision is make schools, shopping malls, highways, and public spaces a shooting gallery.
In their official positions these poltroonish Senators never subject themselves to these same armed individuals. They erected a wall of security between themselves and John Q. Bushmaster. They have armed guards, metal detectors, and armored cars to make sure the 2nd Amendment Crazies never get to them. Of course, this leads these gun obsessed people people to attack where they will-this past Friday was an elementary school.
It is said that our wars would go away the minute we implement the draft because the politicos would never send their own children. Likewise, the 2nd Amendment would disappear when this hypocritical politicos are left exposed as the country's children were this weekend.
I propose if you are a NRA endorsed politician all of your security is to be withdrawn immediately and so you can openly embrace your beloved 2nd Amendment.
Soldiers and Students
It has always been that parents were justifiably worried about having their older children join the armed forces and face danger in foreign lands. Today, parents are equally worried about sending their children to grade school to face an enemy armed and supported by local politicians and gun nut organizations.
Second Amendment Nuts
The gun nuts always state the Second Amendment guarantees all the others. They could not be more wrong. Best I can tell, the gun nut's zealous pursuit of gun ownership yesterday denied 27 people all of their First Amendment Rights. To paraphrase Mr. Nader, the gun nuts have made our neighborhoods Unsafe at any Location. Fed up in my gun nut red state.
By the way, by the logic of the gun nuts, the country would be safer if everyone carried a gun. By that logic the world be safer if we armed everyone with nuclear weapons. I suppose then the NRA would be happy with a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.
My deepest condolences to the families and friends of the shooting victims.
Lunching On the One Percent Bus
This article explains how the Rmoney campaign charged reporters over eight hundred dollars for a single campaign meal. A case of the per diem reporters riding on the one percent bus. An example of what would have happened to all us of 99 percenters if Rmoney had been elected.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/14/news-outlets-to-fight-romney-campaign-over-food-travel-expenses/
Parasitic Corporate Culture
Fox News has convinced the Red States the guvment is their enemy. This article details who the real enemies are:
1. Medical Providers--Insurance Companies
2. Retirement Brokers
3. Banks
4. Higher Education Sharpies and Crooks
5. Big Box and Fast Food Greedheads
Just imagine what Rmoney would have done with this line up behind him.
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/10/5_biggest_threats_to_the_middle_class/
Rubio Updates Us on the age of the Earth
Apparently the earth is billions of years old. Rubio updates previous "I don't know I'm not a scientist man" comment of last week. Included are other incisive updates from scientist Rubio:
1. The earth is not flat--won't commit beyond that.
2. Gravity is a theory yet unproven.
3. Lessening the tax rates on the uber rich is good for all-that is scientific fact.
4. The fewer people allowed to vote the better the democracy.
5. Weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq--it's just not well known.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rubio-earth-is-45-billion-years-old?ref=fpb
Ronald Reagan and his Tea Party Zombies
Whenever I find myself in the unfortunate position of hearing anything about Reagan I do my best to ask the person if he or she remembers where, in all of these here United States, Reagan chose to give his first post convention speech in 1980. Uniformly they don't remember. That would be Philadelphia, Mississippi. Yes sir, the spot near which the civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. His theme, of course, was "States Rights."
As Rethug teabaggers try to strip away voting rights, LGBT rights, health care mandates, abortion rights, and apparently, today, the rights of the disabled in that Senate Vote, I always remember the hater political blood line of others who dare to be different, or less fortunate goes back a ways in time. Cold comfort, but a reality check.
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