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Everyone -- terrorists, criminals, rapists, mentally imbalanced, domestic abusers, gang bangers -- has the constitutional right to possess WMD.
If you think I am using gross exaggerations and hyperbole, check this out: As incredulous as it sounds, the state of Iowa declared even blind people can get gun permits.
Don’t expect Iowa to revoke gun permits for the blind. It’s not even the only state that offers them
Last weekend, The Des Moines Register published a feature story on how gun permit changes that went into effect in 2011 enabled the blind to carry guns. (In one county, three permits were granted to people who aren’t allowed to drive legally.) source
The result of our lax and purely insane gun control laws is the far too frequent pattern of:
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Consequently, we go from one mass shooting to another -- week by week, month by month, season by season -- the vast sane majority of Americans are left asking:
Why can't we pass common sense laws to keep WMD out of the hands of the criminally dangerous?
Why?
Because, we live in an era in which the party stuck on stupid (an assessment from a fellow Republican) controls the House of Representatives -- as a result of gerrymandered safe districts. To make matters even worse, this party is controlled by a faction of people even more extreme.
As President Obama stated:
“I cannot remember a time when one faction of one party promises economic chaos when it doesn’t get everything it wants."
This small -- yet extremely well financed -- faction of the GOP has via a political jihad high-jacked the Republican party's message and agenda.
They have conspicuously worked to overturn Universal Health care; they have stalled Main Street America's economic recovery; they derailed any comprehensive job bill (not even a badly needed win-win infrastructure rebuilding bill can pass in the House); and this faction is the number one reason we do not have more effective and enforceable gun control laws.
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With heavy hearts we pray for all the innocent victims and their families who have suffered the unspeakable horror of the Washington, Dc Naval Yard shooting. This madness has to be stopped!
Background checks need to be more thorough. Ironically, though, it may be the inflated bureaucracy in healthcare already that's often getting in the way of guys like, say, Cho, being identified as disturbed. The system is incredibly complex where it doesn't need to be. Falling through the cracks is a sad inevitably. But background checks do definitely need to be fixed universally.
ReplyDeleteAs for the GOP arm which is headed up by Boehner, I can't wrap my head around their logic. One major bone I have to pick with him personally is his insistence that he's going to defund Obamacare because it's a "failed" piece of healthcare legislation. Oh, ffs. "Moron" would be too kind a word! That's like a cop pulling you over, busting out your taillight, and then citing you for a broken taillight.
Of course it's "failed" if you're persistent in making it fail! Sweet buttered biscuits, man. These career politicians are just lost in their own careers and couldn't give one damn about anything outside of that. If Obamacare is that bad, then here's what you do: Fix it. Implement it, get rid of the nonsense in it, and use the combined 500 IQ points of Congress to create a working system.
I can see where some opponents are coming from in wanting to do away with it altogether. We see with government-run policies for, say, Native Americans, where government's idea of a "fix" is simply to put more money in there. So now you have an individual Native policy costing 7k/year and Natives with the lowest life expectancies in the nation! LMFAO doesn't cover how badly government can screw up--and have screwed up--the healthcare system. So I can't bust all balls. But you also cannot hold the entire flippin' country up due to being butthurt over losing. I think it's a good thing the less they get done, honestly. But it has to be on principle, not on kindergarten shit.
Do like the liberals are famous for. Fund it with provisions. X and Y. Competition amongst states, stop giving waivers, etc.
But back to guns: Both sides need to lighten up and come together on measures which will, at the very least, keep the mental chadrool mouth-breathers from legally purchasing them. Make them get illegal guns like the gangs. Killing is always f'd up; but it's too large a stain when the mentally twisted can get a legal firearm. Force them into seeking other methods, and maybe they'll blow themselves up trying to make pressure-cooker bombs or something.
Well said Josh. In particular when you state:
ReplyDelete"As for the GOP arm which is headed up by Boehner, I can't wrap my head around their logic. One major bone I have to pick with him personally is his insistence that he's going to defund Obamacare because it's a "failed" piece of healthcare legislation. Oh, ffs. "Moron" would be too kind a word! That's like a cop pulling you over, busting out your taillight, and then citing you for a broken taillight."
Unfortunately, the gop is more interested in sabotaging the Obama presidency than working as a honest broker. Gun control legislation was shot-down (pun intended) because although many on the right may be for it, they do not want Obama getting any credit.
Once again, our immigration reform is halted because the same "kindergarten" bs.