President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez all spent some time yesterday pretending to address the issue of school violence. Somehow they all managed to get through the charade without bothering to mention guns, although W did state that school violence is "inexplissible."
[Thank goodness Cheney didn't host one of these sessions--someone might've gotten shot!]
So, let's see. What do the most recent horrific episodes of school violence all have in common? Hmm. Could it be that the perpetrators were all armed with semi-automatic or automatic assault rifles?
What are police supposed to do when faced with a maniac in a school armed with automatic weapons? There's not much they can do.
But the good ol' Republican party, beholden to the nut cases at the NRA, wants you to know that they are worried about violence in schools, and that they are going to do something about it. Why, indeed, they are going to have a number of forums about the issue, and they are going to urge school administrators to work harder to "prevent" such episodes.
In fact, President Bush, who is "troubled" by the recent school shootin . . ., er violence, said that what communities need is a list of "best practices" to prevent the kinds of attacks we've had recently.
Well, thank goodness someone is doing something!
Our guess is that those best practices don't include banning assault weapons, closing loopholes in gun enforcement (such as allowing unrestricted sales at gun shows), boosting enforcement of existing laws and allowing negligent gun sellers to be held liable. Just a hunch.
3 comments:
Um, none of the firearms involved in these incidents were "automatic", or "fully automatic". Do you even know what the term means?
Um, gee, Greg, I don't suppose knowing whether a gun is 'automatic' or 'semi-automatic' would save your life if someone pointed one at you and pulled the trigger... I side with Mr. Curmudgeon - guns definitely are the problem, particularly if Dick Cheney is holding one...
Sorry Anon.., but greg l has it correct. The good ole Democrats want us to believe that semi-automatic weapons are fully automatic. They continue to portray them this way in speeches in the media. Unfortunately, there are far too many useful idiots who will go along with that scam.
The left will not tell you that automatic weapons have been outlawed since the time of Bonnie and Clyde. This knowledge would hurt the cause, so they omit it in discussions and couch their speeches such that they are not lying, just obfuscating. The problem is that the difference in gun type remains hidden because people who have never handled guns do not understand the difference. Because of their lack of direct experience, they do not catch the subtle turns of phrase used to cloak the truth.
As to the NRA, they protect the legal users of guns and do not support legalization of automatic weapons. Does X Curmudgeon's blog above give you the impression that the NRA supports automatic weapons. Of course it does, he follows the prescribed formula of hide the truth, and spin a yarn that is favorable to the cause.
Also, the left would have you believe that the gun is the problem, not the person wielding it. How often have you seen a gun shoot someone of its own volition? There are many common items which can be as dangerous as guns and do superior jobs killing people. Have you ever seen an airplane hit a building? How dangerous can an automobile or a semi-truck be to a crowd of people?
The real problem in the world today is lack of common decency; it is a cancer growing on our society. I'm not talking about morality in the religious sense here; I'm talking about respect for your neighbor, allowing them to live their life in their own fashion and with their own beliefs.
The party of the left, has turned its back on the freedom of thought and free speech movement of the 60's in favor of political correctness and buying votes via handouts. They favor the type of pitch seen above from X Curmudgeon, where they run to the negative or take the side of North Korea or Iran over an American President.
Get with it "Leftists" it's much more pleasant in the middle.
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