Tragedy
There are two observations I want to make about the terrible tragedy at Virginia Tech.
First, those gun nuts who came out of the woodwork to say that there are no gun laws that would have stopped the shootings, and furthermore there should be more guns need to go find an island somewhere and live on it, because we don't need them in America.
Semi-automatic pistols with 15-round clips have no place in a civilized culture outside of the police department or the army. The second amendment to the Constitution clearly references an organized militia, not a right to wild-West shootouts. Civilized countries with real gun laws don't have a fraction of America's gun violence. Get real.
It comes back to the question we should all ask NeoConvicts and other modern conservatives: what kind of country do you want to live in? Do you really want to live in a place where we're all 'strapped?' Is the solution to gun violence really having most people carrying? Should every shoving match or road rage incident end in bullets and death?
Really?
The second point is this: as great a tragedy as yesterday's massacre was, it's every day of the week in Iraq. Every day that many or more Iraqis are butchered. And every ten days that many Americans lose their lives.
Think about it.
And Georgie wants it to go on forever.
First, those gun nuts who came out of the woodwork to say that there are no gun laws that would have stopped the shootings, and furthermore there should be more guns need to go find an island somewhere and live on it, because we don't need them in America.
Semi-automatic pistols with 15-round clips have no place in a civilized culture outside of the police department or the army. The second amendment to the Constitution clearly references an organized militia, not a right to wild-West shootouts. Civilized countries with real gun laws don't have a fraction of America's gun violence. Get real.
It comes back to the question we should all ask NeoConvicts and other modern conservatives: what kind of country do you want to live in? Do you really want to live in a place where we're all 'strapped?' Is the solution to gun violence really having most people carrying? Should every shoving match or road rage incident end in bullets and death?
Really?
The second point is this: as great a tragedy as yesterday's massacre was, it's every day of the week in Iraq. Every day that many or more Iraqis are butchered. And every ten days that many Americans lose their lives.
Think about it.
And Georgie wants it to go on forever.
posted by fiduciary at 8:39 AM
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