Gun Control

Yesterday, I heard that the NRA would not be participating in Joe Biden's gun control talks because it would make it appear that they had some responsibility for gun violence. Today, I hear that the NRA is in fact meeting with Joe.

I keep wondering what it must be like for the families of the slain children in Newton, CT, to know that their children had to lose their lives before the government would make a serious effort to prevent this type of thing.  It's not like there weren't plenty of previous lives lost to make that point.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

I Will at Least Pass This Along...

Obama reacts to the old story repeated in Newtown: “each time I learn the news I react not as a President, but as anybody else would -- as a parent.” Well, it’s certainly true that he has yet to actually react as a president, which I believe is his fucking job.

  WIIIAI

Amen.

Moving Along, Having Seen Nothing

I'm going to forego any more posting about the massacre in Connecticut (I think - and boy, that other shooting in Oregon earlier this week is just background for this now, eh?), because if not, all I'm going to be saying is: Tears and grief from our national leaders and international friends are about as useful as tits on a boar; our litanized thoughts and prayers for the fallen and their families have about the same value; our days (or hours) of news running down the particulars of each incident and refusal to seriously investigate just WTF is going on in this country that has made massacres almost commonplace is more "senseless" than the killings; the terrorizing of our school children by our own people takes a back seat to our irrational fear of some America-hating turbaned suicide bomber, and so we put all our money and resources into a ridiculously overblown anti-terror industry while leaving our shamefully underpaid teachers and our supposedly precious children to fend for themselves against a growing contagion of mentally fragile people out on the streets with assault weapons instead of health care....

Well, I've got nothing.

...so hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

For the Love of Pete

Another school massacre this week.