Was
anyone really surprised by what came out of the National Rifle
Association's news conference yesterday? After a week of silence
about the deaths at Sandy Hook Elementary, Wayne La Pierre, the NRA's
head honcho stepped to the mic and basically told America to go fuck
itself.
His
right to own guns trumps any right we the people have to life liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, period.
His
right to own weapons of mass murder trumps any desire that we the
people may have for living in a world with no guns.
As
La Pierre said, “guns don't kill people. People kill people.”
In
Wayne's world it's the violent video games and violent action movies
coming out of Hollywood that are responsible for the proliferation of
violence in America. Cowboy movies made us kill off all the Indians,
apparently.
His
solution is to put armed men trained by the NRA in every single
school in America and he demanded that Congress pay for them. “you
know how to stop a bad guy with a gun, a good guy with a gun,
shooting back at him.” That was Wacko Wayne's big solution to
ending American gun violence.
Not
fewer guns or better background checks or waiting periods or better
mental health care for Americans, or studies as to why it seems
white guys want to kill everyone in sight before they off themselves
or die by cop. No Wayne wants to add more possibilities of violence
to the mix.
What
next shooting 101 for K-4, to be taught immediately after recess?
“The
truth is that our society is populated by an unknown number of
genuine monsters — people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by
voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever
comprehend them. They walk among us every day....”
Sounds
like good ole insane Wayne was describing himself in that last quote,
doesn't it. The monsters among us have already been profiled and
it's funny how they all look like Wayne, talk like Wayne and walk
like Wayne.
Maybe
we should let law enforcement work the profile, backed up by the
improved mental health offered by Affordable Health Care, along with
a reinstatement of the ban on assault weapons, better background
checks and waiting periods, for starters.
Then let's work on limiting bullets and mass-kill magazines.
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