Letters to the Editor
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Logic Shmogic
How dare you make a cogent indisputable logical summation! Surely the terriers are just waiting for the libruls to dissarm our great nation so they can come here and, and, uh, . . . . . . . . something.
Oh, that's right . . . . . kill us!
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The Perfect Scam
It's perfect, really. Republicans run for office on the platform that the government is feckless and corrupt. Once they're in office, they make sure this is the case. Then, at the next election, their platform is "See? The government is feckless and corrupt!" and people think, yeah, they're right about that; better vote for the smart guys. And when Democrats campaign by running on and on about what they'll have the government do to help you, voters just think the Democrats are really be out of it; anyone can see that the government is feckless and corrupt, so we keep on getting Republicans elected.
"And so it goes." Perfect!
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We may also surmise
We may also surmise that whatever drugs cho was taking also didn't work.
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As if the elimination of a few hundred thousand
idiot fat lazy stupid Americans is a bad thing.
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Gun Laws only make a situation worse
The problem with gun laws is not that they don't work. It's that they make the situation worse.
Why else is it that all the most violent cities are located in states with the strictest gun laws? I've lived and traveled all over the country.
I've heard more gunfire in New York, Boston and Oakland, Ca. than I ever did in living in Florida, a state with relatively lenient gun laws.
Every bit of crime statistics I've ever read confirms my own observations.
If you really want to do something about situations like what happened in Va., let's focus on mental health care and why people who really need the help don't get it.
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The REAL Problem
The real problem here is free speech. Peoplecan say whatever they want to! The press can publish stories critical of President Bush and the conservative agenda! Amazingly I heard a comment that Cho's rampage was a copycat crime caused by the "Liberal" media!
Yes the agenda is to make all govenment seem ineffective by making running it so it is ineffective.
Haans
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Another problem with gun laws
The problem is that legislators wrongly assume that if you own a gun, that you are a potential mass murderer.
As a law-abiding, responsible gun owner, I can't begin to say how offended I am. Don't worry, though, I won't go "postal." That's only a bigoted stereotype about gun owners.
No, like any intelligent, civilized person, I'll simply debate the issue on its merits.
Rape obviously should be a crime because someone is harmed. Same goes for murder and robbery.
My owning a gun HARMS NO ONE! Until and unless I use that gun in a manner that harms or threatens another person, it's no one's goddamn business whether I own one.
This mentality that we must disarm all gun owners, by force if need be, is the same mentality that got us into that war in Iraq, only on a smaller scale.
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Ridiculous
Hell's Liberal, don't even try telling me you can't see what's wrong with your argument. Your owning a gun makes it MUCH EASIER for you to harm someone, which is the whole point and sole reason for you owning it. Basically what you're saying is that the government should trust every single one of its citizens with the same level of responsibility as police and military (which I agree has not been much lately, but certainly should be a higher standard).
Actually this comic strip's argument applies to this issue here too. Conservatives, the NRA, and the gun movement have been responsible for flooding this country with more guns than people so that now they can say 'banning guns won't work, there are too many and criminals will get them anyway.'
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Another problem with gun laws?
Gun control does not necessarily mean that anybody has to turn in their gun. I also seriously doubt that there are many people who think gun owners are potential murders who can go postal at any minute.
There is a very wide range of possible gun control measures - you could have registration and registered bullets, you could have triggers locks (though these may be unreliable) you could have waiting periods, you could ban certain people from having guns (e.g. people with previous convictions, or psychologically unstable people).
On the other hand, the way I read the US constitution I don't think there is much which could be legally done in terms of gun control.
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It's not Guns and it's not Americans
It's both of those things together. Sorry but there is no legal solution to that problem. We are violent halfwits and we love to pretend that being violent halfwits is our godgiven right.
Way back when when they were banging out the Constitution, no one would have seriously wondered whether guns would be taken away. It's absurd. In other words, the clause is not there to ensure that people keep their guns. It goes without saying that people back in the 1780's had guns. No, the point of the clause is to ensure there really is a 'well regulated militia', an organized or semi organized force held in abeyance to make sure that NO usurpers whether internal or external would ever imperil the nation or the government. It has nothing at all to do with you, your redneck buddies and gun shows. Zero. Sorry but that's the way it is. Now, the fact remains is that we as Americans don't care about that. We don't worry about what the Constitution says or means. We're idiots, literalists because it suits our stupid selfish purposes to read it that way. Why? Because we loves us our guns.
BTW, and for what it's worth, George Washington, that Stalinst commie hippie autocrat you Republicans love to hate, HATED the militias because they were universally undisciplined, violent, untrained, and more of a danger to everyone around them than they were to the Redcoats. In other words, you, your Sig Sauer are precisely the kind of whackos that Washington had little need for.
But lucky for you you have a Federally protected fantasy life.
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Hell's Liberal
Why else is it that all the most violent cities are located in states with the strictest gun laws? I've lived and traveled all over the country.
Actually, there was a study done recently that showed that the more guns there are in a state, the more violent crime existed in the state.
I've heard more gunfire in New York, Boston and Oakland, Ca. than I ever did in living in Florida
Remember Sesame Street? One of these things doesn't belong? You're comparing 3 cities with a state. Where'd you live in Florida, a swamp? Heck, since you just heard it, I'm betting 1/2 of it was backfire from cars.
Also, you're not providing any context. I've heard MUCH more gunfire in rural PA than I ever heard in NYC, Washington, Boston, Chicago and Columbus combined. I've spent lots of time in all those cities too. I think I've heard shots once or twice in the cities and been to shooting ranges and near hunting grounds in PA.