Dec 07 2008
If ignorance is bliss……….
……….than the majority of Idahoans must be nearing nirvana. My ears were assaulted with a barrage of ignorant and ridiculous Obama paranoia this weekend. The first comment being, “Obama wants to make Mexico and Canada part of the US!” Let’s think about this one for a second. Try to imagine a reason or justification here………no I refuse. It is a waste of my intellectual power.
The second and most discussed topic was Barack Obama’s desire to take away everyone’s guns. I live in a state were guns are EVERY WHERE. The majority of them are used for hunting. It is not unusual on my jogging route for me to trot by someone pulling half a deer carcass out of their Ford F-150. But these are not the guns that they are worried about. They want to make sure that their semi-automatics and assault rifles are still safely nestled in the protective blanket of the second amendment.
I came home, I googled, I read and a smile spread across my face. It seems that any measure whatsoever of gun control is taken as a desire to “take away all of our guns.”
I should admit that am not a champion of gun rights. I believe that they are dangerous and personally lost my friend in second grade when his brother accidentally shot him in the face while playing with Dad’s “unloaded” rifle. I admit also that I do not understand the need to have multiple assault weapons in the house. I am not in love with the idea that there are thousands of ignorant rednecks armed to the gills in my state. If that last statement sounds elitist, I am completely comfortable with that.
Now the gun loving are accumulating weapons that they never before wanted but now need lest certain fire arms become illegal. Insane. It’s like a woman getting pregnant on purpose and then having an abortion because at this time she has the right to have one.
I will take the time to remind everyone that even if President Obama wanted to rip every gun out of every American citizen’s hand (which he does not) he would have to get it through Congress first. Anytime a hysterical conservative wants to have a remedial lesson in how our democracy works please come to me. I will take your hand in mine and slowly, oh so slowly, walk you through the basics.
Have you ever encountered a little kid that just HAS to be angry? I mean, for no good reason at all? While there are plenty of things to be concerned/angry about, 98% of them are the fault of the conservative movement and the Bush Administration, so the righties have to make shit up. It’s sad, and more than a little pathetic, but it’s all they’ve got.
Guns don’t kill people, but they sure do help.
Nice to see you back! This is something I go back and forth on. I feel like if I want to get a gun, and I’m a law-abiding citizen and whatnot, then I should be able to. Do I need a semi-automatic? No. Nobody does.