NRA

First a word about our lovely press. If I hear one more reporter grovel and squirm about how we don't really want to hurt the NRA or take away any gun rights or do anything unreasonable, no, no, we just want to assume there is a solution to the carnage that does not inconvenience any of the gun loving yahoos that watch our networks .... then I'm going to I just don't know what. Reporters: Please leave open the possibility that a double digit percentage of Americans don't care one whit how much restrictions there ends up being on guns. We just want the insanity to end, and if that means…

You've seen this horrid person in this horrid video calling for white people to take up arms and kill black people (and maybe Jews). In this video, the NRA calls white supremacists to arms against everyone. In so many words. The ad uses mostly dog whistles, so if your head is stuck deep in the sand, or up some orifice or another, you may be able to block out the message. But anyone with 2+ neurons to rub together and who has not been living in a cave for the last 30 years knows the exact meaning of "clenched fist" and "I'm freedom's safest place [gasp]" against the propaganda spread by…

A few of the recent pieces I've liked: Tim Dickson in Rolling Stone: The NRA vs. America Tammie Smith of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and Reporting on Health: Where you live determines how long you live Leah Garces at Food Safety News: Why We Haven't Seen Inside a Broiler Chicken Factory Farm in a Decade (via this Superbug post, which has links to more related stories) Charles Kenney at Small World (Businessweek): How the CIA is Hurting the Fight Against Polio Sarah Kliff at Wonkblog (Washington Post): How Ohio's Republican governor sold the state on expanding Medicaid  

I have been writing about this topic for years. Lately, I have been ignoring it. Last few massacres, I didn't say or do anything. I think Gabby Gifford's shooting was a last straw for me; I became too disgusted with our situation and I became too disheartened with the number of people who require that we Americans remain an utterly unique society in that we shoot each other at record rates. Somehow, it seems, that makes us good. Others claim that because there are problems in the world with higher body counts, this problem of guns in the US should not be addressed at all. That is utterly…

I dare you to tell me that this is not an argument for stricter control over access to firearms: The identities of the two ninth-grade students found dead in a Lakeland park were released Wednesday, and authorities said they were both shot in what appears to be a case involving suicide. ... Deputies found the two Tuesday evening "on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds," the sheriff said in a news release. Deputies recovered "a long-barreled weapon" near one of the bodies, he said. strib Here's the facebook page related to their death.

tags: A Brief History of the United States of America, humor, funny,comedy, African-Americans, Black Americans, guns, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, NRA, National Rifle Association, racism, streaming video This video explains the intimate relationship between guns, freedom and racism. Yes, I know there are exceptions to this guns-freedom-racism link, but I grew up among morons like this, and I couldn't escape from their festering hatred fast enough.

No one was shot in the following video. So don't worry about carrying around guns. It's perfectly safe.