John McCain |
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
JOHN MCCAIN's TIME HAS PASSED
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
NEIGHBORS KNEW OF LAS VEGAS COUPLE'S KILLING PLANS
Walmart Las Vegas shooting |
Krisa Koch, before the killings. Their actual words were "the couple had told her they were going to carry out an attack." Koch said, " she thought they were 'crazy,' so she dismissed what they said." And then the woman the pair of murderers was staying with, Kelley Fielder, "She said she saw the pair leave the home early Sunday carrying weapons and ammunition." Good God, what does it take when there are killings like this daily in the newspapers and on television and the radio. Are these people just stupid or is this an extension of the American public's dismissive nature of the shootings taking place throughout the U.S? Either way it's pathetic.
ERIC CANTOR LOSES HOUSE SEAT IN VIRGINIA PRIMARY
Progressives can gloat over the House Majority leader's loss in today's Virginia primary but that's
only if that translates into a negative reaction to Tea Party candidates as it did in 2012. Eric Cantor trails his Tea Party backed opponent, David Brat 55% to 44%. Apparently no one saw it coming and hopefully this might be a precursor to the Democrats taking back the House in November. TPers have an inherent ability to really piss off sane voters and one can only dream of a replay of some of the 2012 races. But if Cantor is considered the most conservative in the House, God help us if Brat does win. Everyone says this seat is solidly GOP but time will tell.
Eric Cantor |
LAS VEGAS SHOOTING CONCEALED CARRY CIVILIAN SHOULDN'T HAVE DIED
I've said it before and now it's happened again; a vigilante type carrying a gun in public has died as a
result this time. He shouldn't have but it is this kind of cowboy mentality promoted by the National Rifle Assn. that leads these folks to think they are ready to defend the American public. They aren't. It takes months of training for a police officer to know what to expect in crucial situations like this but I doubt if the armed guy, Joseph Wilcox, had anywhere near that. He didn't anticipate an accomplice and she shot and killed him. In the Gabby Giffords Tucson shooting in 2011, two Arizona gun gauchos tried to come to Giffords' aid and nearly shot each other. In Arizona the only thing necessary to carry a gun around on the streets is to have a pulse. I am firmly against open and concealed carry permits and hope that the Supreme Court will soon make this a thing of the past.
Cici's Pizza Las Vegas shooting |
WHERE IS OBAMA? WHERE IS CONGRESS? AS THE CHILDREN KEEP DYING
Reynolds HS evacuation |
Monday, June 9, 2014
NRA WANTS TO ARM MENTALLY ILL
I touched on this in an earlier post, “NRA wants to weakenVirginia Gun Violence Prevention Law.” but the mentally ill factor deserves
more coverage. Although the Newtown shooting was horrendous due to the number
of young children shot and killed, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, was the
worst ever. Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed 32 people and injured 17 others. He
was mentally ill. MSNBC provides some background: the Gun Control Act of
1968, prompted by the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther
King Jr. and Malcolm X, said once you were banned you stayed banned. After Virginia Tech, Congress passed the NICS
Improvements Amendment Act, requiring states to submit mental health records to
the national database.
After consideration, the NRA said this is no good for their membership. But you could pass it, if first the words "mentally defective" in the amendment were more narrowly defined, which I am guessing would keep it from identifying many of their members. Second there had to be an easier way for those deemed mentally unbalanced to get their guns back. Meaning some backwoods justice of the peace could say, "Halleluiah, they have been cured." A doctor's order would even be sufficient to get back his or her arsenal. The Gun Control Act of 1968 blown to smithereens. Does anyone else get just how stupid this all sounds?
And doesn't this remind you of the fact that Iowa wants to arm the blind.
TEA PARTY IS WORRIED WHETHER OBAMA IS SANE?
Now here is the epitome of the pot calling the kettle black except in this case the pot should be called an idiot. In a recent Tea Party post the headline read, "Psychology Expert Worries ‘Erratic’ Obama May Not Be ‘Sane.’" Either the guy is completely incompetent--something an association with TPers might suggest--or it's the usual misinformation we get regularly from Fox News, this time coming from CNN castoff Lou Dobbs.
Here's a typical quote from this organization of fruitcakes:
Here's a typical quote from this organization of fruitcakes:
“If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways of shutting that whole thing down.” -Todd Akin.
The Tea Party is the group that thinks that people don't die of breast and prostate cancer anymore, believes you give off more CO2 riding a bicycle than driving a car, when a physician removes a child from a woman's body he has removed the biggest organ in her body, and there is no one who doesn't have health care in America...the list goes on. It is hard to imagine these individuals functioning in a normal society, and, of course, some of them don't. Hopefully November will be the deciding factor whether or not this bunch of morons survives or expires, preferably the latter.
LAS VEGAS JUST THE MOST RECENT GUN VIOLENCE-WHERE'S THE UPROAR?
Why haven't we heard from wacky Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Assn., during the recent gun violence? There was Santa Barbara, then Seattle, Atlanta, and now Las Vegas. Four incidents of horrific gun massacre in four major cities in less than three weeks. A total of 13 killed and 16 injured. Did I hear, "Guns don't kill, people do?" Or maybe it was some left-overs from the mob in Las Vegas that made them do it. Could LaPierre be trying to decide whether we can call these "shootings." What bothers me most is the fact that the American public remains quiet, as if these kinds of events are now considered acceptable. Hey out there, don't you care that your friends, neighbors and relatives are being slaughtered with one of the 300 million guns on U.S. streets?
Maybe when it's one of your own you will.
Maybe when it's one of your own you will.
NRA WANTS TO WEAKEN VIRGINIA GUN VIOLENCE PREVENTION LAW
The Virginia Center for Public Safety reports the NRA wants
to scrap a Virginia database that is state-of-the-art and second to none in the
nation. The National Rifle Assn. is calling on its members to help repeal the
1989 law, the Virginia Firearms Transaction Program (VFTP). The VFTP
works along with the FBI’s National Instant Background Checks System
(NICS) to check the background of those purchasing firearms in the Commonwealth
of Virginia. This helps catch those people not eligible to purchase firearms
like felons and the mentally ill. And the point is it works much better
than NICS. So why would anyone want to get rid of it? Only a bunch of morons
that value their stupid gun rights over the lives of innocent people.
ThinkProgress details how the Bush administration proposedlegislation requiring states to share mental health history. It was passed by
Congress but not until after the NRA watered it down significantly. The final
bill set up restoration programs for the mentally ill, in effect to put guns
back into their hands. And the definition for "mental defect" was
narrowed to make it easier for this person to get his or her gun back. It's the
typical NRA gun-running philosophy to keep putting more weapons on the street.
Which means gun manufacturers sell more and give more money to the NRA.
Pathetic and disgusting but seemingly approved by a lot of the American public,
also pathetic and disgusting.Sunday, June 8, 2014
DEMOCRACY ALLIANCE PAVING WAY FOR GUN CONTROL-NRA CRINGES
Wacky Wayne LaPierre in his glory |
SMART MONEY GOING TO GUN CONTROL SINCE NEWTOWN
Michael Bloomberg |
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.
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