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A few p!ssed off comments about the Florida massacre
by
FellowTraveler
Community
(This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
at
6:36:09pm PST
Why are we even talking about the latest idiotic ideas of the powers that be?
When a roach farts in T*p’s skull and makes him say something idiotic, everyone stops what they are doing to “rebut” what he says and to show they are smarter (me too, sorry).
We need to talk about the end to assault weapons, period.
There’s no point in rehashing the lunacy of armed teachers. It’s not even going to start to happen.
Remember the Las Vegas shooting? That was a long time ago, wasn’t it? Florida will be off the news cycle in a week.
Don’t stop the fight.
I loved it when a couple of years ago some Democrats started to proudly tout their 0% NRA rating. The Republicans are the party of death. There is no other way this can or should be framed.
If you elect Republicans, innocents will be murdered with weapons designed for massacres.
That is a calm, clinical, and objective observation.
The big story about the NRA is that they are at the top of the news.
I’m glad that some good, brave and smart students have punched the NRA back on national TV. But, the NRA are, by the most benign interpretation, an advocacy group. They are not elected representatives. Why is LaPierre’s face at the top of the news? Why do we even know his name, or Loesch’s, as opposed to the head of the builders’ association or the Chamber of Commerce or what-not? Because
the Republican Party has willingly let themselves be ruled by a trade group, whose wishes are inviolate, and who thus rule all of us.
That is the big story.
(Obscenity warning)
FUCK THE SECOND AMENDMENT IN ITS ENTIRETY, up and down and sideways.
I know, there’s history, and Monroe blah blah, and muskets vs. M-15s, and maybe a comma would have clarified things with regard to militias, and Scalia’s interpretation, and blah blah blah. I don’t care about its history. I don’t care about its original intent. In the end, the Second Amendment has done nothing useful in 200+ years. Its only purpose now is to help the NRA sell murder for money.
You know what?
The constitution is not holy.
It’s a body of law, that has been largely used for good. It is not a religion (and if it were, I’d be an apostate, because I don’t believe in religions that justify murder.) It has accrued some stinkers: the 18th amendment will forever remain on the books, just to show us that the constitution is written by mere fallible people. Just repeal the second amendment. We don’t need that thing. We very much need to be protected from shooters. That’s what’s holy to me.