Monday, February 19, 2018

NRA: CAN YOU HEAR US YET?

TO THE NRA AND ITS SUPPORTERS:

IF you gave a flying fart in space about cops, cop killing, and "blue lives," you would be out there pounding the pavement for sensible gun laws.

IF you gave a flying fart on earth about the-right-to-life, you should be equally concerned about lives following the exit from the womb, and be out there pounding the pavement for sensible gun laws.

IF you gave a flying fart about this country, you'd take your fingers out of your ears and start listening  to what almost every parent and child says about school safety and guns.

IF any of you gave so much as a tinker's dam about the safety of OUR children, you would just ban assault weapons. PERIOD. END OF DISCUSSION. 

ANY LEGISLATOR WHO ACCEPTS NRA MONEY SHOULD BE VOTED OUT OF CONGRESS FOR PUTTING THEIR POCKETBOOKS ABOVE THE NEEDS AND SAFETY OF OUR KIDS. 

ARE YOU GETTING THAT NOW, NRA?

Once upon a time, the St. Valentine's Day Massacre referred to seven guys getting whacked in Chicago in 1929. The plan was for the Capone gang to execute 7 members of the Moran gang over a dispute about booze distribution. They used Tommy-guns. It was a mess. 

But not even close to the mess AR-15-type weapons left in Sandy Hook, Sutherland Springs, Pulse nightclub, Las Vegas, Aurora, or Stoneman Douglas High School. These are not hunting rifles. They are not defense-of-private-property rifles; they are weapons designed for mass murder. IF YOUR CONGRESSCLOWN THINKS THAT'S OKAY....VOTE HIM/HER THE HELL OUTTA OFFICE.

No other developed nation on this planet has our massacre of children record. NONE. No other developed nation on this planet allows assault weapons to be bought with or without a background check. 

IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE TO PROTECT YOU OWN KIDS, THEIR TEACHERS, THEIR COACHES, THEIR SUPPORT STAFF, MAKE SURE YOUR CONGRESSCLOWN KNOWS BANNING THE SALE OF ASSAULT WEAPONS IS WHERE YOUR BUCK STOPS.

Looks like our kids are going to take to the streets on this issue...and I am with them all the way. If We, the People are too spineless chickshits to do this ourselves, the least we can do is contribute to and assist our kids in taking control of this issue. 

Our own Sibley High School has started a GO FUND ME page to help get kids to the Washington Protests on March 24th (not March 4th.) Check your own high schools. Across America kids are taking up the cause of self-preservation. Maybe this is the one agenda item that will unify them the way Vietnam unified us. 

Teenagers are extreme experts at social media. This may have stirred a hornets' nest the likes of which we have never seen. If Feckless thinks he can tweet, I would advise him to stand well back. He's about to get clobbered.


The Wifely Person's Tip o'the Week
Kids won't let you go to Washington with them? 
Pitch in. Offer to drive. Make sandwiches. Make a difference. 

BONUS TIP
Want more information about what is and is not automatic, old but excellent:
Mother Jones: A Non-Gun-Owner’s Guide to Guns

2 comments:

  1. Excellent. Horrifying. More power to Sibley High School.
    Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

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  2. A participant in an online discussion about this issue posted the following and I am reprinting with his permission:

    "A variation on your idea... I think we need to be more specific than just saying "assault" weapons. "Assault" weapons aren't an official classification. Gun owners never talk about their weapons like that. Instead, limit the number of rounds per minute that a gun can shoot and the size of the magazines it holds. Then to take it further... anything faster or bigger than that can only be stored and used at a gun range under lock and key."

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