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Tea Party Conservatives 'ain't going to find it easy to tune in to all those people tuning out' and turning their lives over to Government Employees living on taxpayer money and spending taxpayer money as if it were water from a bottomless well...it sort of reminds me of the late 60's when a hippy tried to put a flower in the barrel of my M-14.
Will Your child be safe with a bullet proof back pack and body armor?
Were the mass murders of innocent children, teachers and school administrators at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newton, Connecticut a wakeup call for parents across America concerning child safety? According to Fox News, many parents are seriously considering sending their children to school with bullet proof back packs and various degrees of body armor to keep them safe.
Is the nation now at a point where Barbie dolls, Nintendo games, and toy soldiers are going to be replaced with pink and blue bullet proof backpacks and form fitting child size body armor under the Christmas tree?
The violent murders by Adam Lanza of 20 children has re-opened a national debate concerning just how safe are children and what measures or precautions can and should parents take to keep their precious kids safe.
Fox News reported on Wednesday, December 19th that a Utah company’s sales of bullet proof back backs and other safety clothing manufactured by the company Amendment II is literally going through the roof. With an approximate increase of 500 percent in sales since the murderous assaults in Newtown, Conn., parents and perhaps grandparents are grabbing up the, “pint-sized” protection safety lightweight armor called RynoHide.
While President Obama and his newly designated gun-control czar Vice President Joe Biden search for ways to strip gun rights from legal owners by the president’s end of January 2013 deadline, parents are left to fend for themselves.
If stricter gun control measures was the real solution, how does the president and gun control advocates account for the massacre which robbed the young children of their lives in Newton, Conn.? The state is one of five states with the strictest gun control measures in America.
What about the 270 children who were murdered in President Obama’s hometown of Chicago over the past three years. In fact Illinois leads the nation in strict gun control measures. Their gun ban law ban had deprived thousands of home owners of their right to protect themselves in their residence, from home invaders and gang violence until the 2010 U.S. Supreme Court overturned their 28-year-old handgun ban.
Just how many gun control measures will it take before liberal gun control activists and politicians wake up and address the real problem; which is the mentally unstable shooter pulling the trigger. So, whether it is a Columbine or Aurora Colorado massacre or a Newtown, Connecticut mass shooting, it is the shooter that special presidential task forces, national commissions and any other so-called violence solution panels should and must focus on.
Depriving Americans of their 2nd Amendment rights by using a drip, drip, drip method, until finally the nation’s citizens are disarmed is not an option; citizens are willing to witness or permit. This potential constitutional stripping peril was addressed in 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was insistent in the 2010 court decision which overturned the Chicago City Handgun Ban.
Justice Alito stressed:
"It cannot be doubted that the right to bear arms was regarded as a substantive guarantee, not a prohibition that could be ignored so long as states legislated in an evenhanded manner."
Expert: Psychiatric drugs likely cause of Lanza's extreme violence
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NEW YORK – From the moment news emerged Friday that a young man had carried out a horrific massacre of elementary-school children, politicians from local city halls to the White House have been restoking the age-old push for more gun control. While guns have been a common denominator in mass slayings at schools by teens, there’s another familiar element that seems increasingly to be minimized.
Some 90 percent of school shootings over more than a decade have been linked to a widely prescribed type of antidepressant called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or SSRIs, according to British psychiatrist Dr. David Healy, a founder of RxISK.org, an independent website for researching and reporting on prescription drugs.
Though there has been no definitive confirmation that drugs played a role in the Newtown, Conn., assault, that killed 20 children and six adults, media have cited family members and acquaintances saying suspect Adam Lanza was taking prescription medication to treat “a neurological-development disorder,” possibly Aspergers.
Healy cautioned that the public needs “to wait to find out what Adam Lanza was on, and whether his behavior does fit the template of a treatment-induced problem.”
However, in an email to WND, he said he suspected prescribed psychiatric medications was the cause of Lanza’s violent behavior.
Healy said that while the public waits to learn more about Lanza, there are two general points that can be made.
First, he said, “psychotropic drugs of pretty well any group can trigger violence up to and including homicide.”
“Second, the advocates of treatment claim both that it is the illness and not the drugs that causes violence and that we are leaving huge numbers of people untreated.”
But Healy argued that if this were the case, “we should not find that comfortably over 90 percent of school shootings are linked to medication intake.”
Dr. Peter R. Breggin, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist and former full-time consultant at the National Institute of Mental Health, told WND it’s likely that problems for Lanza began with “getting tangled up” with psychiatric medicine.
Breggin insisted there has been overwhelming scientific evidence for decades correlating psychiatrically prescribed drugs with violence.
Writing in Ethical Human Sciences and Services, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, in 2003, Breggin concluded SSRI drugs could be a factor in suicide, violence and other forms of extreme abnormal behavior, as evidenced in case reports, controlled clinical trials, and epidemiological studies in children and adults.
Since the 1970s, Breggin has testified in approximately 100 trials, including one in which Judge Robert Heinrichs ruled the adverse effects of taking Prozac drove a 16-year-old in Winnipeg, Canada, to commit an unprovoked murder.
Breggin appeared before the Veterans Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010 in support of his 2008 book “Medication Madness: The Role of Psychiatric Drugs in Cases of Violence, Suicide and Crime.”
Breggin testified to Congress that research conducted in the medical science demonstrates a causal relationship between antidepressant drugs and the production of suicide, violence, mania and other behavioral abnormalities.
He warned Congress of the risks of giving these drugs to heavily armed young men and women in the military.
Mainstream religion
Breggin asserted that establishment media “ignores the scientific evidence linking psychiatric medications and violent behavior because psychiatry is the religion of the mainstream media, and they don’t want to see the dangers of psychiatrically prescribed drugs.”
“Besides, the drug companies also have incredible influence through advertising such that they can call the shots,” he said.
He believes the Lanza case fits the pattern of school shooters in some of the most famous incidents in recent memory, including the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado and the massacre at Virginia Tech in 2007.
“Adam Lanza has in common with many of the young men who were shooters that they were outsiders who lived in the shadows, who deal with a lot of shame, humiliation and isolation,” Breggin explained.
He calls the psychiatric diagnoses “worthless.”
“We know exactly who they are,” he said. “They are called ‘geeky’ in the extreme. Not a single one has ever come forward with a close friend. They are alienated from their families, and they have been involved in psychiatry.”
Breggin insists that instead of psychiatric treatment, children of this kind need “more reaching out, more socialization, more caring, more involvement.”
“Our schools, our families, and our communities need to be aware of the kids who are withdrawn and violent, not because they are going to become violent – hardly any of them are going to become violent – but because these are really hurt kids,” he said.
“We can call them evil, we can call them mentally ill, but the pattern is really quite clear,” Breggin continued. “They are highly intelligent and highly withdrawn and they are all involved with psychiatry, so the claim psychiatry is going to do some good is really ridiculous.”
In many school shootings carried out by minors, court documents are sealed and the extent of chemical use is unknown to the public.
But in a number of high-profile cases, the link has been reported:
- Kip Kinkel was withdrawing from Prozac and had been prescribed Ritalin when he murdered his mother and stepfather then shot 22 classmates, killing two, in 1998.
- Christopher Pittman was withdrawing from Luvox and from Paxil when he killed his paternal grandparents in 2001.
- Elizabeth Bush, who fired at fellow students in Williamsport, Pa., in 2001, wounding one, was on Prozac.
- Jason Hoffman, was on Effexor and Celexa when he opened fire at his El Cajon, Calif., high school, wounding five.
- Shawn Cooper of Notus, Idaho, was on antidepressants when he fired a shotgun on students and staff.
- T.J. Solomon, on antidepressants, wounded six at his Conyers, Ga., high school.
- Eric Harris was taking Luvox when he and fellow student Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher and wounded 24 others before turning their guns on themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado.
- At Virginia Tech in 2007, where 32 were murdered, authorities found “prescription medications related to the treatment of psychological problems had been found among Mr. Cho’s effects,” according to the New York Times.
“Violence and other potentially criminal behavior caused by prescription drugs are medicine’s best kept secret,” Healy said in a statement last month. “Never before in the fields of medicine and law have there been so many events with so much concealed data and so little focused expertise.”
In the past six years, Healy has authored two best-selling books analyzing the degree to which the pharmaceutical industry has influenced medical doctors to prescribe antidepressant drugs to patients with psychiatric problems: “Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression,” in 2006 and “Pharmageddon” in 2012.
Recently, Healy’s RxISK.org added a “violence section” to its website, allowing users to enter the name of a prescription drug to find out the side effects recorded in the more than 4 million adverse drug event reports filed with the FDA since 2004.
Was Lanza on meds?
Writing for Slate.com Monday, Emily Willingham was quick to warn against demonizing Asperger’s syndrome, or autism in general, as the cause of Lanza’s violence. Likewise, in a New York magazine piece titled “Asperger’s is a Red Herring to Explain the Newtown Massacre,” Adam Martin wrote, “As the nation sets out to understand how Friday’s massacre came to pass, some are rightly worried that the high-functioning form of autism will become unfairly stigmatized.”
Nevertheless, credible sources have not withdrawn published claims that Lanza was on prescribed psychiatric medication at the time of the shooting.
On CBS’s “60 Minutes” Sunday, Mark and Louise Tambascio, friends of the shooter’s mother, Nancy Lanza, said Adam Lanza was being medicated for Asperger’s.
“I know [Adam Lanza] was on medication and everything, but she homeschooled him at home cause he couldn’t deal with the school classes sometimes,” Louise Tambascio told CBS reporter Scott Pelley. “So she just homeschooled Adam at that home. And that was her life.”
Her comment followed Mark Tambascio explaining to Scott Pelley that “friends told us that [Asperger's syndrome] did dominate the Lanzas’ lives.”
In addition, the Washington Post reported over the weekend an unnamed former neighbor of Nancy and Adam Lanza in Newtown, Conn., recalled Adam as “a really rambunctious kid” who “was on medication.”
The story became confused when a now discredited source claiming to be Adam Lanza’s “Uncle Jonathan” told several publications, including the Sun in the United Kingdom, that Adam was being treated with the strong anti-psychotic drug Fanapt.
Later reports found no relatives who knew “Uncle Jonathan.”
Separately, law enforcement officers have found evidence Lanza played graphically violent video games, the Hartford Courant reported on Sunday.
The Express in the United Kingdom reported Monday that Lanza had “an unhealthy obsession for violent video games” and that his favorite video game was said to be a “shockingly violent” fantasy war game called Dynasty Warriors, which is “thought to have given him inspiration to act on his darkest thoughts.”
Interviewer: Why would a creator create tapeworms, disease viruses, and other bad things? Why do you think such things exist in a world of intelligent design?
- Ann: Your question is incomprehensible. I assume you are trying to ask me: "Why would God create tapeworms?"
- My answer is: God also created mosquitoes, which I hate. But purple martins love mosquitoes and would probably all starve without them. It's kind of a “big picture” thing. Of course that doesn't explain why He created Michael Moore. For that, I have no explanation. My guess is that disease, pestilence, and Michael Moore are all perversions of the good that God created, a result of sin entering the world through Adam and Eve.
Ann: For 20 years, the Democrats wouldn’t let Jimmy Carter within 100 miles of a Convention podium. The fact that Carter is now their most respectable speaker, next to Bill Clinton, that is, tells you where that party is today. Maybe they just want to remind Americans who got us into this Middle East mess in the first place. We’ve got millions of fanatical Muslims trying to slaughter Americans while shouting “Allah Akbar!” Yeah, let’s turn the nation over to these guys.
Ann: Just what to do? Democrats call Republicans Nazis, the Republicans quote the Democrats calling Republicans Nazis and “both” are using Nazi imagery. (It’s a cycle of violence!)
Ann: When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker [the young American who fought for the Taliban] is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realise that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.'
Ann: 'Few failures have been more spectacular. Illiterate students knifing one another between acts of sodomy in the stairwell is just one of the many eggs that had to be broken to make the left's omelette of transferring power from states to the federal government. (on forced integration of schools)
Ann: 'The rich are the ones who pay taxes, so of course an across-the-board tax cut helps them the most. As soon as the poor start paying their fair share of the tax burden, they'll get a tax cut too.' (on the Bush Tax Cuts)
Ann on Christianity: "Jesus' distinctive message was: People are sinful and need to be redeemed, and this is your lucky day, because I'm here to redeem you even though you don't deserve it, and I have to get the crap kicked out of me to do it." She then mocked "the message of Jesus ... according to liberals," summarizing it as "...something along the lines of 'be nice to people,'" which, in turn, she said "is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity."
Favorite Bible Verses:
- So do not be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the roofs. Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10: 26-28)
- Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. Matthew 10:32-33
- All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. Matthew 10:22
- If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. John 15:18
- A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: "If anyone worships the Beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or the hand, he, too, will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of His wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the Beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name." Revelation 14:9-11
- But the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all the false, their part will be in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Revelation 21:8
- Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. Matthew 10:34
- ...It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the Water of Life. Revelation 21:6
December 19, 2012
In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre.
Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple victim public shootings in the United States between 1977 and 1995 to see how various legal changes affected their frequency and death toll.
Landes and Lott examined many of the very policies being proposed right now in response to the Connecticut massacre: waiting periods and background checks for guns, the death penalty and increased penalties for committing a crime with a gun.
None of these policies had any effect on the frequency of, or carnage from, multiple-victim shootings. (I note that they did not look at reforming our lax mental health laws, presumably because the ACLU is working to keep dangerous nuts on the street in all 50 states.)
Only one public policy has ever been shown to reduce the death rate from such crimes: concealed-carry laws.
Their study controlled for age, sex, race, unemployment, retirement, poverty rates, state population, murder arrest rates, violent crime rates, and on and on.
The effect of concealed-carry laws in deterring mass public shootings was even greater than the impact of such laws on the murder rate generally.
Someone planning to commit a single murder in a concealed-carry state only has to weigh the odds of one person being armed. But a criminal planning to commit murder in a public place has to worry that anyone in the entire area might have a gun.
You will notice that most multiple-victim shootings occur in "gun-free zones" -- even within states that have concealed-carry laws: public schools, churches, Sikh temples, post offices, the movie theater where James Holmes committed mass murder, and the Portland, Ore., mall where a nut starting gunning down shoppers a few weeks ago.
I love Christmas lights. They remind me of the people who voted for
Obama. They all hang together; half of them don't work, and the ones that
do, aren't all that bright.
For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not understand, no explanation is possible.
Liberals have nearly destroyed this country socially. Disloyal corporations have almost sold America away!
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
Average Americans hold on by their fingers while a recession and mass murders beat more into submission.
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
Politicians ignore the very voters they begged at election time.
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
Obamacare will make more businesses close or stay open by firing workers.
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
People have given out or given up in what I call a ” non-economy. “
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
Whether or not fighting back works remains to be seen, all I can say is:
FIGHT BACK AMERICA!
I do it daily.
Tell me how you fight back.
Cap Black, The Hood Conservative, says,
” Fight Back America! “
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” Be your OWN Superhero!”
I’m going to ask a Question to the Tea Parity members. I have written our Senator from the state of Wyoming but I don’t seem to get a very good answer.
Obummer wants more money to spend, has anybody up in Corrupt DC ever ask him why he needs more money to spend. Make a list and produce it to the American people, and allow the American people to say “Yes or No” about this so called revenue increase with raising Taxes on everyone.
Some how we are allowing 600 people that can’t seem to get it’s head out of the sand in telling the American people what’s good for them and what’s not.
Not any of them could ran a lemonade stand and make a profit.
I’m still trying to find out they need more money for “What so they can give it to the people hoe wish to kill us” or to more bankrupt green energy companies. Or maybe to pay back his Union buddies that got him elected Illegally.
Can anyone tell why?
Just because this Butthead won the election doesn’t mean he should get his way. He’s like a little kid throwing a temper tantrum when they don’t get their way. Has anybody looked the Healthcare bill that was passed and see just how many taxes are in that bill “21” to start with, and not one of those taxes help the American people. No not one.
All of them “STOP DIGGING THE HOLE DEEPER” as for the debt.
Of course these people that make billions of dollars have stuck their foot in their mouths a few months ago. You take actors, athletes just how many jobs have they produced. All they know how to do is get in trouble and get their hands slapped.
I’ve taken sometime and thought about what happened in Newtown and it saddens me very much. We ask ourselves “Why” and the only thing that I can come up with is our Judicial system, and the bleeding hearts of America. I guess I could go on about this problem but I would be blowing smoke to the wind. At what age to we start teaching our kids and grandkids right from wrong. Theirs 3 things that parents are forgetting to teach kids today. Manners, respect, and be polite towards one another specially towards adults.
To be completely honest I seat back and think about our freedoms and they are being taken away one by one, and wish to ask the people of America just how many freedoms do you have to give up before “We the People” wake up.
We try to elect people with some brains to go to Corrupt DC but somehow on the way they seem to lose their brains. All they want to do for so many years is TAX and SPEND our money on stupid things. We could stop paying taxes like so many of them and see if they have enough jails to lock 300 million people up. Or better yet try to elect people with common sense and spend the taxpayer money right.
Like I have said in this blog I just blowing smoke to the wind because they in Corrupt DC will never listen to anything I or any American has to say about what is going on. Even thought they are being paid by our tax dollars.
I am making an appeal to all of you to contact your reps in Washington to weight in on important issues like:
1. No accountability for Bengazhi
2. Short sale of Citizens' money to bail out GM
and others.... your choice (unlike Obamacare)
You can contact your reps at
Senate: SENATE dot GOV
House: WRITEREP dot HOUSE dot GOV
By Ben Klayman | Reuters – 1 hr 17 mins ago
(Reuters) - General Motors Co said it will buy back 200 million of its shares from the U.S. Treasury and the government plans to sell its remaining stake within 15 months, all but assuring a multibillion dollar loss.
Treasury said it will sell its remaining stake of about 300.1 million shares "through various means in an orderly fashion", and could begin the process as soon as January.
The auto giant, dubbed "Government Motors," received about $50 billion from the Treasury as part of its bankruptcy restructuring in 2009 under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
The stock sale is part of a broader push to wind down the controversial financial bailout.
The GM sale will raise the proceeds that Treasury has recovered to $28.6 billion. With $20.9 billion left from the original bailout, the government would have to sell its remaining shares at an average price of $69.72 to break even.
If Treasury sold its remaining stock at the price GM is paying now, it would come up short by more than $12 billion.
Please join us by emailing your reps in Washington against this short sale of our tax dollars !!!
We MUST BREAK EVEN OR MAKE A PROFIT ON OUR TAX DOLLARS - OTHERWISE WE HAVE GIVEN OUR MONEY AWAY !
DEMAND A PROFIT !
Original link at:http://news.yahoo.com/gm-buy-stake-treasury-plans-full-exit-holdings-131103066--finance.html
Strap on your seat belts, here's my latest self-defense thought:
Your God-given being should be the only " gun license " needed to possess fire arms, holstered or concealed.
Let's allow that to sink in. All government gun licensees should have visions of fees paid to judges; sheriffs; police chiefs; etc strolling in their minds eyes.
Remember, you became your own gun license at conception.
By the way, this isn't a hate-the-law screed or related commentary. This a loving call to remember the original "license" God wrote on our souls, the natural right of self-defense.
When responsible Americans ask government permission to arm ourselves as private citizens or moreover, private officers, we become less than American.
Supporters of training and background checks say this keeps felons and other disqualified applicants from privately owning guns or becoming armed security.
Making it harder to own guns or work in an armed capacity isn't gun control- it's people control. A disarmed populace is hostage to thugs and government, unable to ward off either.
A national repeal of licensing requirements could be done with one simple act: notify government you intend to possess weapons in public.
All a " possessor" would then do is pass a background check and have this choice entered into a database.
Perhaps your drivers license or state ID would have an identifer so officers would know you've chosen to be a possessor of weaponry.
Imagine not needing a license or paying fees to guard your or others God-given person hood? Feels like you're a citizen again, instead of a subject asking those on high for permission to protect what they ( hopefully ) don't own: yourself!
You would still be subject to all self-defense legislation where you live, but at least your status as a living license would be restored.
Imagine the burden of license fees on low income Americans barely able to meet utility; rent and food costs? A one-time notification process appreciably eases this burden.
The more government gets out of our way to defend ourselves, the less crime we'll have. Criminals aren't interested in risking their lives,
They like passive disarmed folks who won't shoot them during botched robberies or burglaries. The idea of an America where most law abiding citizens are secretly armed with little hassle scares them.
Gun control is the worst form of people control. Helplessness is the goal and one unworthy of a constitutional republic.
Government must recognize each citizen as his own gun license and stop interfering with our liberty expressed as self-defense.
Socialists want the politburo surrounded by armed guards while the guards surround unarmed peasants.
Recognizing our role as our own gun licenses means we've left the path which made the former Soviet Union a hell on earth.
Time will tell.
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So Sad.
As we send our love and prayers, we all must endeavor
to persevere.
I recently sent this link out to a number of friends.
I know some of them are very conservative, some are liberal, some are military, some are teachers and college professors. I expected to hear the whole gamut of comments. One of the most disturbing is from, an otherwise intelligent, retired college professor, a PhD.
Below is what he said, and my reply. What do you think? We had all better prepare ourselves for these conversations. Our politicians can't agree to fix the tax code, cut spending, or balance a budget; but they rammed through Obamacare and they are building support to ram through their unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership.
Sent: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 5:21 pm
Subject: Re: Breeding Ground for School Shooter
I respect your opinion, but I disagree.
First: the term "assault rifle" is a vague misnomer. Any rifle can be an assault weapon. For the military, their "assault rifles" are capable of firing AUTOMATICALLY or in 3 shot bursts. The civilian versions, while similar in "appearance", have no such capability. The civilian versions operate just like any other semi-automatic rifle.
Second: Our 2nd Amendment, like our 1st, does not have "qualifiers". In fact it specifically states that it is an unalienable right meaning, the government did not grant us this right; it is a right derived by virtue of being born a free person. It also stipulates that the government may NOT restrict that right. We already allow certain restrictions by permitting background checks, and limiting military weapons to either the military or police, or in rare occassions individuals who go through a lengthy permitting process and pay the government a license fee. No average, everyday citizen, crazy or not, has access to those types of weapons.
Third: Even though I may not desire to own an AR-15 or AK-47 "style" of rifle, I detest some bureaucrat telling me that, as a free, law abiding, sane, citizen that I am not trustworthy enough to own one. They, nor you, have that right, just as no one has the right to tell me which church to go to or what newspaper to buy.
Fourth: Having a weapon, of choice, that an individual is competent at shooting, is EXACTLY the point. It does have a direct relationship on a person's "self-defense", the AR style rifles ARE indeed used in hunting, sport shooting, competitve/recreational shooting. In fact, they are one of the most widely used guns in America today.
Fifth: Your comment: "People who would buy such weapons are precisely the ones we don't want
to have them." Is not only inaccurate, but displays a lack of understanding of the real underlying causes for these tragedies. As stated previously, many, sane, competent, decent, law abiding Americans currently own these rifles and enjoy using them for a variety of lawful purposes; the guns, their caliber, their capacity, nor their appearance are the problem. These shootings did not happen because the shooter had an AR-15; they happened because the shooter was, for whatever mental or emotional reason, not acting rationally and committed a heinous crime while breaking the existing laws. More laws will not fix the problems with evil, crazy, irrational behavior.
to have them." Is not only inaccurate, but displays a lack of understanding of the real underlying causes for these tragedies. As stated previously, many, sane, competent, decent, law abiding Americans currently own these rifles and enjoy using them for a variety of lawful purposes; the guns, their caliber, their capacity, nor their appearance are the problem. These shootings did not happen because the shooter had an AR-15; they happened because the shooter was, for whatever mental or emotional reason, not acting rationally and committed a heinous crime while breaking the existing laws. More laws will not fix the problems with evil, crazy, irrational behavior.
I am saddened, and sickened by the carnage this single person inflicted on so many families. Like most people who see it, I am angry. Rationally, I realize, I cannot be angry at the gun or the millions of Americans who choose to own and use that type of gun in their own "pursuit of happiness" that is guaranteed under our constitution. I am ANGRY as hell at a society that fails to place the blame where the blame should be; on the individual who committed the crime, and his family and friends who supported him and enabled him. I am ANGRY that the American culture has declined to such a state that we no longer mourn the deaths of millions of unborn babies by abortion; in fact, we elected a man to the Presidency who not only supported late term abortion, he voted for and even went so far as stating that an aborted late term baby, that happens to survive, should be left to die because that was the mother's intent. Talk about callous! Talk about insensitive! Talk about disgusting!
I am also saddened that intelligent people, such as yourself, are inclined to accept a knee jerk reaction, which will not solve the real causes of much deeper societal problems of mental health, drug abuse, etc.
We have some really serious problems in society today. We should be brave enough to face the facts that several generations of permissiveness decaying moral values, political correctness, drugs, and the destruction of the traditional family are more at fault than a specific type of firearm. There have been guns around for centuries. True, until the 20th century we didn't have high capacity, weapons, but we have had semi-automatics since the early 20th century and it has only been in the past couple of decades that we've seen this level of violence perpetrated on our most vulnerable citizens. Rather than rushing to judge those who legally own, and lawfully use, these weapons, I would encourage you to get involved in a meaningful investigation and dialogue to put the blame where it should be and begin to change society's value system rather than restrict a free American's constitutional right to keep the arms he or she chooses will best suit them.
Bill
Ther tragic murder of 20 babies before christmas and their torturous grief, that I know all to well, of the parents of those babies has me reliving that tragic day in late november when my 4 year first son was called to join our saviour, Jesus, I know there are many many others that are reliving the loss of their babies around the most holy day in the christian year. I also recall the loving condolances from family, friends and strangers when they heard about my loss. Tragedy,s of this type seem to rekindle love in the hearts and minds hundreds, thousands, millions of people as they share our grief and that outpouring of heartfull love is a reminder that the day of birth of Jesus, the holy prophet of love is approaching. The grief that I have endured those many years ago has made me more grateful of my God, that he thought enough of all his children to send his only son, a mortal to teach us the value of love. Upon reflection of my life and the manner I have lived it, striving every day to be that which God created me to be even though I was not always aware of doing so and unaware of the incentive that was driving me toward that goal until recently. It could be that I had an unknown wish that there would come a day that my Jimmy would go to God and point to me on earth and poroudly proclaim to God "thats my dad".
So I find good reason to glorify the birth of our Lord with prayers of thanks, within my grieving, for the blessings which have come to all by the birth of Chirst, in a manger on a day when a bright star in the heavans guided three wise men to that manger. So rejoice in the birth of Jesus and have a very merry and thankful christmas.
Bill Uthe
Found this on PJ Media this morning. It makes a really good argument for hardening schools...
RGIII (Robert Griffin III), superstar quarterback of the Washington Redskins is the latest black under attack by the Blackness Gestapo. The Blackness Gestapo are racists, black and white, who troll the airways keeping blacks in-check, faithful to their blackness. They believe to be authentically black, one must behave and think in certain ways. Blackness Gestapo mandated authorized black behavior includes having a chip on your shoulder against whites, maintaining an eternal victim and entitlement mindset, never achieving success without Democratic Party programs and never ever voting Republican. Blacks must call themselves African-Americans and display an urban edge via their speech, attire and attitude.
Blackness Gestapo enforcer, ESPN analyst Rob Parker accused RGIII of not being black enough. Griffin comes from a great military family. His fiance is white. He is extremely articulate. He wants to be judged by his performance on the football field without regard of his skin color. Wow, what a radical concept in our new “everything-is-about-race” Obama America. Doesn't RGIII sound like he embraces the dream of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr that people be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?
But worst of all, rumor has it that Griffin might be a Republican.
The idiotic self imposed suppression of black liberation and growth by the Blackness Gestapo goes way back.
In the 70s, I remember watching an episode of the sitcom, “Good Times”. A black politician was criticized by the black community for coming across too white. To prove his blackness and win black voters, the politician had to show he could speak an urban language called The Dozens. Clearly, the absurd restrictive message of the episode was regardless of ones education, racial loyalty requires that blacks maintain remnants of the hood.
Remember, the 90s comedy TV show, “In Living Color”? A standard joke of the program was the black guy who did not sound or behave like he came from the ghetto. The message was blacks who speak English correctly and prefer sushi over fried chicken are traitors trying to be white.
I witnessed the same brain-dead behavior from blacks here in Florida when brilliant articulate black Republican Jennifer Carroll ran for Congress against the Democrat incumbent do-nothing-for-her -constituents Corrine Brown. Brown's district was mostly black and ghetto. Brown had been in office forever without much positive change in her district. Carroll was smart and loaded with fresh new ideas. Brown won reelection hands down. Word on the street was Carroll sounded too white. Give me a break! Racist idiots!
Blackness Gestapo Generals Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton had a “tude” against Obama for running for president without hood “creds” such as theirs. Obama had to prove his blackness by spending 20 years in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist church. The mainstream media partnered with the Democrats in hiding Rev. Wright's racist rants from the public to protect their first black serious socialistic/progressive contender for the Oval Office.
If I sound a bit frank in my language, it is because I am tired of Blackness Gestapo thugs threatening and stifling the growth of blacks. How dare they dictate the behavior of myself and other blacks.
American blacks are blessed to be born in the greatest land of opportunity on the planet. Just as whites are not monolithic, neither are blacks. We are individuals. Our God given birthright of freedom grants us opportunity to explore limitless tastes and behaviors without being chained by Authorized Blackness.
Forty years ago, I met a black fencing master – as in sword fighting. I was elated. I carted the brother to recreation centers across Baltimore. I wanted black kids to see black excellence beyond basketball, football, baseball and entertainment. I wanted them to see that blacks need not be limited in their abilities, hopes and dreams.
So Blackness Gestapo thug Rob Parker, get a life and mind your own business. RGIII is free to be whomever and whatever he wishes without you and your homey's approval. Wimp conservatives/Republicans say we must pander to your ilk to win the urban vote. That “ain't happenin'” as far as I am concerned. I will never sacrifice principles and values that I know are right and best for all people to the false god of votes. Racist thugs like you must and will be defeated.
Heck, this RGIII kid is so good, I just might become a Redskins fan. ...Nah. Go Ravens!
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
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