All this to protect the rich? What a bunch of fools. Someone has drunk too much kool ade.
Let’s look at the reality. We are coming out of a recession. Can we afford to do a nose dive right back in?
Who are these Republican losers who refuse compromise? Send them packing. Yes, I trust Obama, not the trogladytes who are running us over the cliff like the natives used to do the buffalo.
Should Sequestration go into affect, those losers will have thrown their party to the wolves. The Republicans will forever own the financial disaster we will be mired in. There will be no forgiveness.
Many people feel more comfortable with canine support rather than guns.
Take my house, for example. When the mailman or other delivery people approach my porch, the hounds of hell cut loose. They make one hell of a racket. You can often hear me hollering and cussing at them. I sound demented and crazed. What person would want to break in my house. There is no warm fuzzy feeling.
I can’t have a gun now. I would shoot the “homeland security.” I have already threatened to buy a shock collar for one of them.
Today the term “ghetto” takes on all sorts of meaning not around when Elvis sang his hit “In the Ghetto” in early 1969. Today, if we say something is “ghetto” we probably mean urban black. Not so, back then. Up until that recording, Ghetto was more universal, had its roots in European oppression, but still spoke of community and way of life. Ghetto soon evolved into meaning urban inner city in America, without much hope.
As we all settle and adjust to yet another mass murder in our country, there is something else to consider. As shocked and rattled as we are by Gabby Gifford’s’ attack, the Aurora Theater massacre, and now the Newtown, Ct murders, we are overlooking how many little children are killed by guns yearly in the inner cities of our nation.
These little children are just as innocent as those 5, 6, and 7 year old babies were in Newtown. Their parents are as horrified and shocked and without consolation as are the parents of the dead in Newtown. The inner city parents can make no sense of wanton killing either, much less the loss of their child.
The inner city kids who have died didn’t have the right address. They didn’t come from a nice neighborhood or have expectations of non-violence. Or did they? No one expects their little child to be gunned down or to catch a stray bullet in his stroller or his mother’s arms.
We need to think about these children also, not just the children of Newtown. These children have just as much right to safety, and yes, to life, as the little Connecticut children. How many innocents will die this year while we all babble on in our middle class accents? One is too many. These children are not expendable either. Yet nearly 300 little kids have died in Chicago in three years. The gun debate must include them.
Elvis Presley got it over 40 years ago. Apparently not everyone does, even today.
