Okay, This Has To Be Rock Bottom. It Just Has To Be.
I want you to consider the NRA and their odd relationship with little children.
After claiming that violent video games were the cause of the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, they almost immediately released a video game for children, teaching them how to aim. Okay, I admit that it was probably for adult members of the NRA, too, because anybody who has to have a 30 round clip to hunt ain’t a very good shot.
Here’s another doozy.
They went after the President’s children. They are determined to create the angry black man they oh so want, aren’t they? You do not go after a man’s children and not get a reaction.
They put an ad on their website saying that President Obama thinks his children are more important that yours because they get armed guards at their school.
Oh crap on logic!
There is a distinct difference between deserving and needing. Those little girls have armed guards everywhere they go. There is a reason for that. And the reason is that the NRA is freekin’ nuts.
Okay, I’m going to try real hard today to talk about something other than guns. But on the upside we got the lunatic fringe to quit talking about trans-vaginal sonograms.
I’m going to apologize in advance to Momma.
These people are batcrap crazy.
I have lived long enough to see (1) President of the United States assassinated, (1) His brother…. also assassinated, Martin Luther King…. assassinated… (1) President of the United States survive an attempt to assassinate him. The list of massacres by people with guns is just too long to even remember any more.
The current African-American President of these United States, for the reason that he is African-American… alone, has received more assassination threats than any President in modern history. A lot of them have included threats to his family.
They deserve all the protection from these NRA whack jobs that we can give them.
No way in hell it needs to be justified. It’s the damned law.
1Did those idiots ever think about what would happen if the Obama’s daughters were kidnapped? I no longer find the lunatics amusing. Actually, they’re starting to be a bit scary.
2An app that 4 year olds can use to learn how to aim and shoot a gun? Now any bunch that tries to sell that one to the public has to be suicidal! Its more than time to drop in on NRA headquarters with butterfly nets and gently lead Ol’ Wayne and his posse out of the room and put them some place where the walls won’t hurt them.
3If you think this is rock bottom you are an optomist. I thought they hit rock bottom a long time ago , but they never fail to disappoint. They seem to have no self censoring capability, they don’t seem to even understand when they are appearing nuts to other people.
4Obama’s daughters go to a Quaker school where lots of children of politicians and diplomats go. I got that message the other day. I just flat out tell the Tea Party people the truth. Anyway Obama’s daughters aren’t the only ones going there to school. Pray for their family, esp with inauguration coming up.
5NRA video game? Reminds me of some other groups who think THEIR way of believing is THE ONLY WAY. I mean, the NRA can give out THEIR video game but they don’t want anyone else giving or selling them.
6Appalling. Just…. no words.
7Look at some of the comments being made by gun nuts on sites like Prison Planet. 11 guards may not be enough.
8I had an email from a close relative – ” Guns don’t kill people – people kill people”. My response: Yes, people do kill people, that’s why they don’t need guns! Those poor guns have been getting a bum rap for years. Protect the guns! Put the assault weapons in protective custody.
9There’s crazy, yes, but there’s also just plain mean and vicious. This is mean and vicious. It’s not like the people who made the ad don’t know that Presidential families all get protection and have for years…heck, Nixon’s and Johnson’s girls had Secret Service assigned to them. And back then I don’t think ANY school had armed guards (could be wrong. I know mine didn’t, in the 50s and early 60s.) So everyone knew there was a difference between the President and his family–there’d been assassinations; there’ve been assassinations and attempts at them in my lifetime.
So it’s not mental illness, unless mean is a mental illness and lying is a mental illness.
It’s rotten no-good bad character, is what it is.
10If it is the app for the iPhone…the images shown include coffin-shaped targets.
About hitting bottom…there was an episode of Numbers that talked about how a starter incident can then trigger additional similar incidents. I think we are seeing that very much today. This person did a massacre, while it is still relatively fresh, then someone else or two do more and that incites the next set of behaviors.
The more that the worst behaviors are sensationalized, the more likely that others will jump on the band-wagon to be sensationalized themselves.
We cannot hit bottom as a living society, because we have too many bad models helping to lower the bar with each incident. Look at how the tactless and coothless behaviors have infiltrated TV…or music…and recognize that people start thinking such behavior is “normal” or “desired” because they see others (especially celebrities) doing so.
And the saddest part is, that even if you create imagery that is higher behavior standards…people would not watch it because it often lacks “drama.”
11The definition of shameless doesn’t begin to encompass the utter lack of conscience displayed by the NRA. Do none of them have children? Does not the person who made up that ad have children? OK maybe they’re all eunuchs which could explain some of the fascination with firearms. But how about nieces and nephews? Can none of them imagine the children they love going to school and not coming home?
No, they’re all just whores for the firearms manufacturers, that’s the only explanation.
12EMoon, you’re absolutely right. There is help for mental illness and there is no cure for mean or for liars. I’m trying very hard not to be overwhelmed by these monsters and it’s foolish to ignore them, but they spread like disease, and test our tolerance too far. Call it treason, maybe, or media terror-
13ism, but it’s time to make a call. They want our attention and they’ve got it. We are better than this…..
In the spirit of compromise let’s agree to putting competent armed guards in every school if the NRA will agree to pay for it, every penny, with taxes on guns, camo clothing, ammunition, gimmie caps, gun cleaning equiptment, and dumb.
14Those NRA guys need to come on down to Texas. My school district, Klein, has had their own police force for as long as I can remember. IIRC, they have over 30 armed cops.
Hell fire, last year they built a jail big enough to hold 8 people.
15I’ll bet you a bullet that the NRA will find a way to sink lower than this, especially now that the President has announced executive actions designed to control gun violence.
16There is no bottom with lunacy and greed.
17I’m starting to be of the opinion these people have not lowered themselves a bit. This is their natural level. This is where they live,and how they think( if that word can be properly applied here).
18I vomited a little bit in the back of my throat when I saw that NRA ad…. Yeah, I have a touch of that crud going around… but that ad was nauseating, overwhelming. Frightening. Disgusting. Just disgusting. I hope it backfires on them. I refuse to believe that the vast number of NRA members and gun owners would condone a media campaign that mean spirited…. I mean… do people REALLY believe the lies and misrepresentations in that ad? Awful. Our President and Vice President, in that Press Conference today, showed an amazing grace. Oh freakin’ wow….
19This isn’t rock bottom. Rock bottom is to be found with the damn fools who are claiming that the whole Newtown shooting
a. never happened
b. was done by the government to give an excuse to grab the guns
c. has “crisis actors” playing the part of so called parents on the tee vee
Oh hell, I’m so mad I’m fixin to foam at the mouth.
Hippie in the Hollar.
20Hey, I’m all for having Secret Service in every classroom in the US. But then, who’s going to pay for the teachers?
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