Michael Bloomberg |
Sunday, June 8, 2014
SMART MONEY GOING TO GUN CONTROL SINCE NEWTOWN
Saturday, June 7, 2014
FAULT FOR GUN VIOLENCE PLACED EVERYWHERE BUT WHERE IT BELONGS...THE NRA
It's the media, it's the criminal world, it's video games, it's the U.S. government. The National Rifle Assn.'s list goes on and on but fails to identify the real reason we have so much gun violence in this country: The NRA. It's opposition to reasonable gun control, things like background checks. Wacky Wayne LaPierre, NRA head, has one solution to the problem: more guns. Based on the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, there are about 300 million guns in the United States. Access to firearms is about as easy as getting an ice cream cone, maybe easier. So we need more?
Missouri repealed a law requiring background checks leading to a 16 percent increase in the state murder rate, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Think Progress. Another study from this site reports that states, "...with more expansive background check laws experience 48 percent less gun trafficking, 38 percent fewer deaths of women shot by intimate partners, and 17 percent fewer firearms involved in aggravated assaults. How many facts like this are necessary to convince Congress and...wacky Wayne?
Missouri repealed a law requiring background checks leading to a 16 percent increase in the state murder rate, according to Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Think Progress. Another study from this site reports that states, "...with more expansive background check laws experience 48 percent less gun trafficking, 38 percent fewer deaths of women shot by intimate partners, and 17 percent fewer firearms involved in aggravated assaults. How many facts like this are necessary to convince Congress and...wacky Wayne?
HERE'S A NEW ONE-NRA DOESN'T WANT TO CALL SHOOTINGS "SHOOTINGS"
So what the hell do you call them, a reunion for gun nuts? This gaggle of reality restricted gun lovers over life complains the media "race[s] to label anything with a gun as a shooting." Although not directly related to the Isla Vista California shootings--oh sorry, I meant to say a completely innocuous use of firearms to kill innocent people in order to protect the rights of the radical double digit gun culture--the video was released right after that killing spree. Maybe the NRA is just pissed since in Santa Barbara three people were stabbed, only three killed with a gun; how could this killer be so inconsiderate to use a knife. Strange reasoning but then we're talking about the National Rifle Assn. The above article points out, "Firearms are used in 69.3 percent of murders. Of 37 public mass killings between 2006 and 2013, 33 involved firearms..." All gun control advocates eagerly await the latest epiphany from wacky Wayne LaPierre, NRA head.
Friday, June 6, 2014
SOUTH RISES AGAIN...WITH MORE RACISM
Not just the old South anymore |
But not like the supervisor at the Memphis cotton company who told a black employee, you can't drink from the "white" water fountain and if you do we'll hang you. He was fired but the damage was already done. You just wonder how much more of this is going on in the South, or the North, or the Midwest, or the Southwest, or the West or the Northwest.
NRA CRACKS BUT DOESN'T BREAK
Some unknown but probably guilt-ridden staffer in the lobbying arm of the National Rifle Assn. , the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA), chastised the morons in Texas for flagrantly brandishing their weapons in public. Does wacky Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's head, have a revolt going on? Probably not since any loosening of the rules would bring every gun manufacturer in the country, their bread and butter, down on the organization. Be damned with the membership, these pathetic individuals out there swaggering around with assault weapons to prove their manhood while looking completely asinine. But the NRA's top mouthpiece, Chris W. Cox, better known as Mr. Propaganda, set the record straight. He had a discussion with the staffer, who is probably now in the unemployment line, telling him we do not, "criticize the lawful behavior of fellow gun owners,” even if they are complete idiots.
SEATTLE YESTERDAY-ATLANTA TODAY-GUN VIOLENCE GOES ON-ANYBODY CARE?
Masterminds of columbine |
Thursday, June 5, 2014
TEA PARTY STUPIDITY
Your Tea Party in action |
There are suspicions about Bowe Bergdahl’s capture by the Taliban,
something the army will have to deal with. And it is a fact that there are
questions about whether or not Obama's prisoner trade should have been made
which the President will have to deal with. Both are items that are newsworthy
and deserve attention by the media. Whether or not Obama smiles when Bergdahl's
father supposedly praises Allah is not news. It is pure idiocy. Only the
bottom-feeding Tea Party site, perhaps the repeatedly erroneous Fox News, would
be guilty of even mentioning this sort of thing so egregious it isn't even up
to sensationalism. But the Tea Party did
and is further confirmation of what a gang of morons this organization is.
IT'S TIME TO AMEND THE 2ND AMENDMENT
The title above guarantees that I get the attention of gun owners and their renegade bunch of gun nuts. My congressman, Rep. Paul Gosar, a Republican, says that new gun laws that would interfere with the rights of these gun huggers would be unconstitutional. Like background checks that could have prevented most of the recent mass shooting. Yes, I know, it would also have to include a mental health database, something that Gosar and his GOP buddies are holding up. So, if changing the 2nd Amendment won't work, let's amend it to an interpretation that the Founding Fathers really meant. You know what it says, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has written a book, Six Amendments: How and Why we Should Change the Constitution. He was, by the way, was against the District of Columbia v. Heller outcome. He says for one thing that Heller didn't preclude the barring of assault weapons. That's a start but his revision of the 2nd is even better: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed." Amen. That will get many of the guns off the street.
A one-sided Court |
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
WHY ISN'T CDC ALLOWED TO DO GUN VIOLENCE RESEARCH?
Ask wacky Wayne LaPierre who heads up the National Rifle Assn. He or his minions tell us it isn't needed. But the real reason is that the horrifying statistics that would result would shatter all the bullshit coming from the NRA that protects guns under their trumped up figures. Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), who gets an A+ rating from the NRA, is willing to reconsider gun control and has talked with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) about the gun violence research. They are ready now as they were in the 1990s until the NRA forced cuts in funding. But more than a year ago Kingston opposed this same funding when competing in a primary. Just shows you what these people will do to get reelected. Congress did approve some funding for the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), which keeps tabs on things like youth violence, child maltreatment, domestic violence, and sexual violence.
But what we need are hard figures on how many people are getting shot each day and how many of them die.
But what we need are hard figures on how many people are getting shot each day and how many of them die.
WRITING CONGRESS A WASTE OF TIME
On the recommendation of Josh Horwitz, Exec. Dir. of the Coalition to Stop Gun
Violence I wrote to my congressman, Paul Gosar, a Republican, to let him know I favor reasonable gun control. He let me know that the 2nd Amendment was something he revered and compared it with the right to trial by jury. It's the same old sanctimonious bullshit that's been coming out of most Republicans for years. Gosar is firmly supported by the Tea Party, which should tell you something about the man right there. But my reasoning for not wasting your time writing these eight balls is that they never answer you. I stated simply to Gosar that I couldn't see how anyone could oppose background checks to purchase a gun. I also asked him to fight for a federal database of the mentally ill to support those background checks. He didn't mention either in his five paragraph reply, only canned crap that had probably been dictated by wacky Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Assn. (NRA).
So, Arizonans, don't vote for Paul Gosar in November. Vote for Democrat Mickel Weisser.
So, Arizonans, don't vote for Paul Gosar in November. Vote for Democrat Mickel Weisser.
GUN CONTROL SUPPORTING THE RIGHT CANDIDATES
Gabby Giffords v. wacky Wayne laPierre |
BULLYING SHOULD BE A CRIME AND PARENTS ACCOUNTABLE
Most of us are in no position to judge the reason some kids and adults are bullies. It is said that bullies have an inferiority complex, thus, this is their way to feel superior. I was bullied once by a kid in grammar school who was half my size. I won but learned later that he was from a broken family and had to fight for everything he got. But I do not remember anyone in those days--or even when my kids were in school--resorting to suicide as a result of being bullied. If my kids had done it, they would have been grounded for life. Mark O'Mara, the former attorney for George Zimmerman and a family practice and criminal defense attorney, has tried to get a law passed to outlaw bullying in Florida with no success. He is trying again.
My take is that schools, where a lot of bullying takes place, should be more vigilant in monitoring episodes. When discovered, the parents should be notified at once and told to take measures to prevent it in the future. If the same child is a repeat offender, he or she should be suspended from school and the parents then held accountable. Yes, that would take a law against bullying.
My take is that schools, where a lot of bullying takes place, should be more vigilant in monitoring episodes. When discovered, the parents should be notified at once and told to take measures to prevent it in the future. If the same child is a repeat offender, he or she should be suspended from school and the parents then held accountable. Yes, that would take a law against bullying.
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
DOES LIMITING CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS REALLY INFRINGE ON THE 1ST AMENDMENT?
I say no and here's why. Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible
citizens participate equally—either directly or indirectly through elected
representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws. The key word here is citizens participate "equally." How can anyone compete against secret big money the likes of which is fostered by the infamous Koch brothers. Yes, I have one vote as does any American citizen but what good is that vote if Congress is already bought by the Bobbsey Twins? And it's not just conservatives who pull this trick; Democrats are also guilty. So did the Supreme Court screw up? I think so in their zeal to protect 1st Amendment rights. As with the numerous quirks from the interpretation of the 2nd Amendment, did the Founding Fathers envision giving the right to billionaires to rig elections?
THANK GOD I'M NO LONGER A DEMOCRAT
As many as ten gutless Democrats in the Senate are believed to have decided to vote against President Obama's nomination for surgeon general, Dr. Vivek H. Murthy. Because he tweeted, "Tired of politicians playing politics w/ guns, putting lives at risk b/c they're scared of NRA. Guns are a health care issue." Guess who went ballistic. And, oh yes, here's a doctor that supported the Affordable care act, probably also a negative by some of these same Democrats. But it's Wacky Wayne LaPierre's National Rifle Assn. herd of misguided fanatics that put the icing on the cake. Of course the un-news network Fox picked it up and did their part to skew facts. And as I said in an earlier post on Democratic Socialism, the only focus of these Senate Democrats is to get reelected, even if they feel Murthy should be confirmed. Pathetic.
AMRERICAN DEMOCRACY v. DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
According to Wikipedia, a Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens participate equally—either directly or indirectly through elected representatives—in the proposal, development, and creation of laws. But we all knew that since we have lived in what is supposed to be a democratic society for all our lives. Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. Sounds like both sides agree, sorta, but the differences arise in the implementation of the political philosophy. If there is anyone in the U.S. that believes the people are in control of our government, then they simply have their head in the sand. The elected representatives of the United States Congress have one common goal in what they do...get reelected. Canada is a social democracy and so is Great Britain, as well as many other European countries. Many have modified the philosophy to fit their needs but it works.
NRA DISCOVERS ANOTHER WAY TO JUSTIFY GUN VIOLENCE - A PARODY
PARODY: Wacky Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Assn., has found the solution that will solve most of his problems when it comes to someone being shot by one of the guns he is sworn to protect. We all know it is his life's work to insure that every gun manufacturer in the U.S. sells at least one handgun to every person in the country, and that does include newborns. So with millions of guns on the street it was incumbent on LaPierre to get help for the millions of people who would be shot. He admits the numbers will be in the thousands, eventually the millions of those wounded, but unfortunately there is nothing the bloody crusader can do about the victims who die. These people are no longer a priority because they can't purchase guns.
The process is simple. Each time someone is shot but not killed they pull out their Wounds R Us kit which includes a secret "Save a Life for Gun Rights" pen that fires a spongy projectile into the wound coated with something to stop the bleeding immediately while it expands in the bloody hole. The NRA sells the product online and it is available in all gun stores, where, unfortunately, you must ask for the product since it is kept under the counter. Wacky Wayne is elated by his new discovery, and as he has explained to his many gun company benefactors, at last we have the perfect answer to all these unreasonable gun control advocates.
Now there is a new product designed to close gunshot wounds which looks like an invention that will save many lives in the future. You can read about the real XStat here.
The wacky one, Wayne LaPierre |
Now there is a new product designed to close gunshot wounds which looks like an invention that will save many lives in the future. You can read about the real XStat here.
Monday, June 2, 2014
BRITS ARE GOOD WITH STRICT GUN CONTROL
AR-15 ASSULT RIFLE |
MORE GUNS = MORE GUN DEATHS
Guns aren't safe, so says a recent Simpsons' cartoon. And this correlation carries through to more injuries. There is no humor in the fact that with the United States sporting the obscene statistic of 88.8 guns per 100 people, compared with Japan at 0.6, Australia 15 and Canada 30.8. If that wasn't bad enough, the U.S. has 3.21 gun homicides per 100,000 people. Japan is 0.01, Australia 0.14 and Canada 0.51. Unless the very meaning of math has changed, and by sheer deduction, more guns, more death, duh, the U.S. is in need of some reasonable gun control. No sense asking anymore why Congress doesn't get this. We know it's wacky Wayne LaPierre and his NRA renegades who control them. It's time to rid Congress of the gun nuts. 2014!
Sunday, June 1, 2014
5 MYTHS ABOUT GUNS EXPLAINED
A scientist for Public Health Watch, a part of the Open Society Institute, has come up with a recent report that addresses five important questions on the safety of guns. First, “More Guns, Less Crime” isn't true and, in fact, increases gun violence. Second, "Guns don’t kill people, people kill people" still requires the gun for the person to do it. Third, "Criminals don’t follow laws" is meaningless with several studies proving gun control laws lower gun deaths. Four, "Armed populations prevent tyranny" is ridiculous since in no developed countries except Costa Rica is a militia used for self defense. Five, "A gun in the home makes you safer" is hands down false when in fact it increases the risk of accidents, suicides, assaults and homicides. This report is a must-read!
THE VA SCANDAL
I live in Phoenix and when the news broke from a Dr. Sam Foote that there were shenanigans within the VA Hospital here we all thought it was just a carry-over from the state bureaucracy run by a bunch of incompetent conservatives that have trouble finding their way home in the evening. It wasn't, and now we know the extent of this systemic problem. It goes all the way up to the White House and many believe that the administration and Shinseki had early warnings that were either ignored or not acknowledged. Montel Williams, a veteran himself, put it into perspective.
GUN CONTROL PREFERRED
There are eight companies who have banned guns from their premises: California Pizza Kitchens, Peets Coffee & Tea, Whole Foods, IKEA, AMC Theatres, Buffalo Wild Wings, Toys R Us and Disney World.
There are four that have made guns unwelcome in their establishments: Starbucks, Chipotle, Chile's and Sonic Drive in.
Now where are we going to eat, have coffee and entertain ourselves?
There are four that have made guns unwelcome in their establishments: Starbucks, Chipotle, Chile's and Sonic Drive in.
Now where are we going to eat, have coffee and entertain ourselves?
LAUGH FOR THE DAY
When Donald Trump calls someone else a clown, in this case, President Obama, you have to wonder what planet this fuzzy headed moron is living on. He did it on the Tea Party site, but, then, he is certainly in good company.
Saturday, May 31, 2014
BBC SAYS U.S. WON'T CHANGE GUN LAWS AFTER RECENT VIOLENCE
If Newtown didn't do it--20 children killed by guns--then Isla Vista sure won't, says Tim Krieder on BBC news. What could be more pathetic than the fact these two incidents plus Tucson, Aurora, Columbine and Virginia Tech along with other individual gun violence on a daily basis is thrown in our face by the Brits. Those folks across the pool, by the way, have had sane gun laws for years and thousands less per capita deaths. But, then, they don't have wacky Wayne LaPierre to deal with.
TEA PARTY SAYS "MARTIAL LAW IS IMMINENT!"
They warn, "Obama is...Freedom Stripping America," a ruse TPers have been using for some time now. To milk the pathetic group of supposed patriots of their money. To give them the finances to spew the crap they do on a daily basis. They told these fruitcakes they could get Obama impeached. They didn't. They told their brainless followers they would take control of the government. They didn't. And the Tea Party is failing miserably for 2014. When will we be able to write this gang of morons off?
Thursday, March 7, 2013
The latest in gun control
What we need is big time gun control |
There’s a hitch in the passage of gun control laws in the
Senate with Republicans objecting to the Democrats who want some record keeping
when it comes to passing a law to require background checks. The Guardian reports that
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) wants private sales made at gun shows and through the
internet, not only to be put through the FBI-maintained National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS), but they also want such sales to be
recorded.” The GOP (and the NRA) says
no.
The National Rifle Assn. (NRA) led by head gun fanatic Wayne
LaPierre, has always been against any kind of registry of names on who owns
guns fearing that once that is in place, the government will come into gun
owning homes and take away their weapons.
"There absolutely will not be record-keeping on legitimate,
law-abiding gun owners," Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican, said. This kind of thinking should illustrate to
the American public just what a group of gun worshipping maniacs LaPierre and
his NRA minions are.
And Chris Matthews,
progressive anchor for MSNBC’s Hardball,
said: “Support Gun Control or an American President Could Be Murdered,” in a
closing commentary in a show last week.
It is worth repeating, below:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Let me finish
tonight with this: I was in a big city hospital recently and the issue of gun
control, gun safety came up. The doctor said if I wanted to know the impact of
guns, he could show me, take me down and show me. Look, gunshot wounds can be
truly horrible. The reality justifies the discussion, today, about the need to
try and do something about the proliferation of assault rifles, huge ammo
magazines and the loopholes in the requirement that there be background checks.
People have told us of the horrible sight of those young kids up in Newtown,
Connecticut. I personally don't want to be part of a movement to keep those
semi-automatics flying into the hands of all sorts of people as they are today,
the hoarders, the survivalists, the paranoid, the criminal and downright
politically nutty.
Why? Because the next mass shooter
could well emerge out of this pack. Check the shooters of John F. Kennedy and
Jerry Ford, who got shot at twice. Look at the men that shot Bobby Kennedy and
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X and George Wallace. They all had political
motives and they all had guns. Got them easy and put them easily to use. And if
you're not against this movement, you're with it. Write your congressman and
say what you think and what you feel. Do it tonight before you go to bed. The
address of Congress, for all the congressmen is Congress, U.S. Congress,
Washington, D.C., 20515. That's Washington, D.C. 20515. It will get there. And
that's Hardball for now. Thanks for being with us.
Well done!
Did you know that the United States, specifically Waikiki, Hawaii,
is a haven for tourists who just want to shoot guns, all kinds of guns, because
the gun laws in this country allow you to do pretty much anything you want with
a firearm? There are four shooting
ranges along Waikiki’s Kalakaua Avenue where they learn how to shoot assault
weapons. A large majority of these
tourists are Japanese, who are frequent visitors to Hawaii anyway, here because
they can get their hands on guns they are not allowed to own in Japan. There, only shotguns are legal.
USA Today says that, “…fewer
than 1% of Japan's population owns a gun and the death rate from gun-related
violence is extremely low.” There were
only 19 gun-related homicides in Japan in 2010 and in comparing that with gun
violence in the U.S., “47% of Americans own a gun, according to a 2011 Gallup
poll, and 8,583 Americans were killed in gun-related homicides, according to
the FBI's 2011 crime report.” It is
pretty pathetic to think that tourists coming to America do it because of loose
gun laws, which causes the gun carnage in the U.S.
But on a final note, at one of this country’s
largest firearms manufacturers, Beretta USA, one of its lunatic executives,
Jeffrey Reh, the company’s general counsel, is quoted in The Washington Free Beacon as saying, “Maryland
Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley’s Firearm Safety Act of 2013 is ‘tantamount to
a legislative effort to ban certain books.’”
Just when you think you’ve heard it all.
Wacky Wayne would be proud of this sycophant of the gun rights
fruitcakes who probably, himself, has never read a book outside the law. Amen
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