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All we can do is warn (and

Richard Day — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:50:36 +0000

All we can do is warn (and hopefully train) our children and our loved ones to avoid harm.

And I have no idea how to do these things properly.

Individually we must apprise our neighbors of our presence in the neighborhood; find out who is 'guarding us' and who has firearms; find out who seems to be a bit free as far as fire arms are concerned; make sure our schools check every bag and every child that enters our educational centers; attempt to enact legislation that somehow concerns what types of weapons, what types of bullets, what types of clips are available to the public...

But the NRA will fight any attempt to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of the public and they will fight any attempts to limit the locations where these weapons might be carried.

So far, we have lost every single battle on this issue.

dd, without going into

Aunt Sam — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:41:15 +0000

In reply to BOUM!

dd, without going into detail, there was an incident decades ago, where if I would have had immediate access to a gun, I would have used it! That was a learning experience for me and to this day, I am thankful that there was not a gun for me to use in the 'moment'.

But, I came to understand that there are those who given the opportunity (of which there are more than not) to use a gun, they will not hesitate to do so. Also, there is NEVER a reason to have guns unsecured in a home with children. And, IMO, common sense decrees that automatic weapons are not utilized for anything other than to needlessly maim and kill others.

The NRA is the monster we all should fear both in the light of day and the dark of night.

HAHAHAHAHA I was thinking,

Richard Day — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 20:30:18 +0000

In reply to We must replace legislation

HAHAHAHAHA

I was thinking, you recall how bad a speaker Reagan really was. I mean he had more pauses reading his flash cards than Obama has thinking about his answers to questions in order to formulate a decent opinion.

And the repubs just laud ole Ronny's great oratory!

Romney says our President is contradictory in his message; that our President is responsible for 2 million jobs lost before his legislation had even a chance to act; that our President is a socialist; that our President continually apologizes to other nations on behalf of all Americans; that our President spent too much time at Harvard (where Mitt spent a year longer); that our President somehow ignores terrorists (whilst more terrorists were removed from the world's population than any other president); and that our President cares not for the middle class as if Mitt ever gave one goddamn!

With great communicators (at least by numbers) like Corsi and Limbaugh and Erickson and Hannity and McDonnell and Boehner and Cantor and hundreds of others who seem to be constantly recognized by MSM; we are reminded that Americans will buy (fake) chocolate cereal, robes you put on backwards, cars that gulp down gasoline at 10 MPG, prepackaged pastas that are nothing but garbage to the taste, pretend bandages that attack tried and true veterans, spoiled rich kids with no sense of humanity like w as their chief executive, energy methods that cause earthquakes (for chrissakes), gun policies that murder our children whilst in elementary educational facilities, sports that ruin the thinking abilities of our youth (starting with concussions), appointed regulatory agents who openly accept postponed bribes in order to turn their heads when open felonies are apparent, card board cutouts of shamans who make tens of millions of dollars selling The Christ, media heroes who test the winds and proffer fictional histories and billionaires who claim empathy with those who do not have squat.

the end

We must replace legislation

Wattree — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:03:52 +0000

In reply to Yeah, I kind of gave up on

We must replace legislation with education.

Americans are the Beverly Hillbillies of the world. We lack sophistication, and take pride in our stupidity. We want to be gunslingers. We're like children enraptured by the myth of the wild West. The only reason Ronald Reagan was elected and worshipped as president - in spite of his ignorance - was because he reminded us of John Wayne.

Yeah, I kind of gave up on

Richard Day — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:30:35 +0000

In reply to I wonder how long it will be

Yeah, I kind of gave up on guns as an issue years ago. My side lost.

It just seems to me that there are more shooting incidents lately at colleges and schools and malls.

I saw that this 8 year old girl who was shot when a gun fell out of a child's back pack just got out of the hospital. I mean she was in hospital for something like two or three months.

And now it is the norm for schools to check all packages brought in by all the students!

I wonder how long it will be

Verified Atheist — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:14:54 +0000

In reply to BOUM! Ha Hi Momoe! Keep them

I wonder how long it will be until "R" shows up defending guns…

(Guns aren't high on my radar either way, but I think common sense regulations are, um, common sense.)

BOUM! Ha Hi Momoe! Keep them

Richard Day — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:21:36 +0000

In reply to These are the sad facts of a

BOUM!

Hi Momoe!

Keep them grandkids away from guns!

These are the sad facts of a

trkingmomoe — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 06:11:48 +0000

In reply to BOUM!

These are the sad facts of a gun filled society. Good post Richard.