I haven't posted much for the last year, kinda been on a walk about in my own head,
and when I did it was over in Gun Reform and Activism (Shout out to BillH). I kinda burned out. I doubt I'll post much more after this rant but after awhile ya' jus' can't hold it in any more.
December 14, 2012 brought me Sandy Hook which I watched unfold with a three year old in my lap and two grand sons in elementary school. Ever since then I can't get through a Christmas without thinking about all the presents that weren't opened.
Now, on my 49th wedding anniversary I witness 17 deaths in a Florida high school. 17 dead kids that are the same age as the grand son who walked home from school on that day five years ago. So now on every anniversary I get to think about all those valentines cards in backpacks that will go unopened.
I am so fucking mad right now it's hard to hold it together. I've been yelling at the TV for two days.
As I type this the necroguniac's wet dream of universal concealed carry is working it's way through the Senate having already passed the House. The motherfucking gun loving bastards all say CC licenses should be just like driver's licenses and go from state to state. OK motherfuckers, lets make gun carrying like car driving.
Every state has requirements to learn to drive and demonstrate competence before getting a license. Is that true of guns? NO. If you operate a car and abandon it or 'lose it' or it's involved in an accident the VIN number can be traced through a national, searchable electronic database. We can find out who is responsible for that vehicle with a few keystrokes. Lets do that with guns, shall we? OH SHIT OH HELL OH FUCK NO. Every time a car has a defect that causes or maybe might someday cause harm to the public the federal government issues a recall and forces a manufacturing change to fix it. Do we do that with guns? OH FUCK NO. Only gun manufacturers can recall their product and only if THEY decide there's a defect. Gun technology is still the same as it was in the late 18th century and manufacturers fight change tooth and nail and no safety agency can force a recall. If a car maker makes a defective vehicle they have to fix it but if a gun makers does it they just say it is a design feature and THEY CAN'T BE SUED FOR DAMAGES. Don't believe me? Some models of Glock have such a light trigger and short travel that they are FAMOUS for discharging when being holstered or un-holstered causing a wound to the thigh—so often it has the moniker of “Glock leg syndrome” but the gun maker claims it is a design feature and therefore protected by the PLCAA.
Don't know what the PLCAA is? It's a law dripping with NRA saliva that protects gun sellers, distributors and manufacturers from civil suits resulting from the use of their product. Only a very specifically defined issue, negligent entrustment, can be grounds for suit. NO OTHER INDUSTRY ENJOYS THIS PROTECTION, ONLY GUNS. So what if a suit is brought under negligent entrustment? Say a gun store sells a gun to a felon through a straw buyer KNOWING they are doing it. It will take ten years to work it's way through the appeals process all the way to the Kansas Supreme Court with the grandmother of the dead child paying all her own legal costs while the NRA foots the bill for the gun store.
Ya' see, gunz is special. They are soooooo special. The state of Florida as well as several others have preemption laws that prevent local governments from passing gun laws. Only gun laws. The city can tell you how to raise your cats, dogs and kids but can't say shit about your guns. So when a guy in the city of St. Petersburg built a target range in his front yard the police could do NOTHING.
Why are guns so special? Because the gun lobby spends lots of money and because the muzzle suckers will call their government reps every day all day several times a day to bitch about gun control.
That is their sad life, defending the indefensible, spewing the gibberish fed to them by the corporations shoving money into the campaigns of Republican politicians so they can make more money selling killing machines to people who are too afraid to leave their home without a lethal weapon.
Ya' want change? Do what they do.
Call your rep. Every day. Several times a day. As if you had nothing else to do with your life but call and demand a change in gun policy.
That's what the gun loving, muzzle sucking, breach humping, tiny penised, emasculated, wet pantyed gun activists do.
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