Defenders of 2nd Amendment Quick To Throw 1st to the Wolves
April 22, 2013
Who could have seen last week coming? Certainly not my Sunday Night post, which was quickly upstaged by a deadly bombing in Boston and a fertilizer manufacturing plant explosion here in my home state. Also last week, even the pathetic
You’ve probably heard this “battlecry” before:
“The second amendment is there to protect the first!” Yeah, but who’s going to protect it from YOU, the gun-wielding nuts that seem ready, willing and able to sellout the first amendment if it means they get to keep their toys? President Bush violated The Bill of Rights left & right for seven years all in the name of “security”… which reminds us of another
Jon Stewart also rightly pointed out last week that when it comes to “terrorism”… a FAR less frequent crime… Republicans are prepared to move heaven & earth, trample every constitutional right from “Habeus Corpus” or “Miranda”, to “indefinite detention of American citizens without trial”, all to prevent the next attack. But when it comes to far more prevalent (and lethal) acts of gun crime, we can’t even agree to make it harder for convicted felons (or even an alQaeda terrorist) from going to a gun show and buying a semi-automatic assault rifle
Last week I Tweeted (are you following M.R.S. yet?):
Anyone notice the same R’s calling the gun control legislation “toothless” are the same guys with the pliers? bit.ly/16Yg2Nl @maddow
— Reporter Mugsy (@MugsysRapSheet) April 15, 2013
If there’s one person to blame for the inability of our government to pass even the most rudimentary and publicly popular piece of gun control legislation just four months after the slaughter of twenty 7 year olds and six teachers, look no further than Senate Majority Leader (for now)
But now, following their inability to pass even this “toothless” attempt at gun control, we hear Democrats adopting the rhetoric of the minority that obstructed them, saying “Yeah! Maybe we DO need to look at violent movies and videogames“… despite the fact these same violent movies and videogames are available in nearly every other country on Earth without the same bloody carnage seen in America day after day.
Republicans are now asking: “What is it about our culture that breeds such violence?” It couldn’t POSSIBLY be our
Postscript: Another popular battlecry during the gun-debate:
“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.” – Thomas Jefferson.
…is a fraud. He never said it. The closest he came was:
“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms [within his own lands or tenements]”
…making NO mention of “government tyranny”. Just thought you’d like to know.
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April 22, 2013
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Posted in: Crime, Guns & Violence, Partisanship, Politics, Right-wing Facism, Right-Wing Insanity
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Grant in Texas - April 23, 2013
I’ve traveled to 49 nations now and everywhere you see mostly American movies playing as they are most popular. Gamers are just as numerous in Japan, Australia, and elsewhere as they are in the USA but they don’t seem to have a problem with gun violence. Maybe such low gun deaths elsewhere is because the rest of the world ‘s nations have gun control measures in place. Born before WWII, my earliest memories are playing “Japs and Germans” where we children used our homemade rifles to play war games. They were most often fashioned from broom handles, nails for triggers and sights, etc., as there were no metal toys to be found and the newly invented plastics hadn’t arrived on the market to be used in toys and housewares. After the war, we boys wore holsters with steel cap pistols everywhere so we could play “Cowboys and Indians” so for several more years we continued playing “killing games” (sometimes with the “lethal” Red Ryder B-B rifle!). When school let out in the early 50’s afternoons and our homes began filling up with their first television sets, we watched Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Cisco Kid, Hopalong Cassidy and Sky King taking out the “bad guys” until dinner time. However, many of us didn’t even grow up to become hunters. I have a shotgun in my home but not sure it works anymore as its been collecting dust for decades. It was my grandfather’s so is more of an heirloom now.
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