Why, Thank You, Dan For Govsplaining This To Me
You’d think that Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick would be limping from the beating he took on national media for suggesting that fewer doors in a school would solve this shooting problem he have. The Onion tried to make that weirder but they couldn’t.
But, Lt. Dan was back on teevee yesterday, attempting to make himself look semi-sane.
He told George Stephanopoulos and the entire world that guns “are a part of who we are as a nation.” Yeah, and ignorance, too.
Dan cherishes the 2nd amendment. He quotes it wisely and freely.
“You know, talking about a ‘well run militia,’ our Second Amendment, teachers are part of that well run militia, by the way,” Patrick insisted, condescendingly.
Okay, so I am freaked enough thinking about teachers being a militia. Teachers don’t have a great history of properly using weapons. Remember the time they were giving teachers shooting lessons and one of the shot the janitor? Or the one who left it in the bathroom?
And … Dan’s sacred 2nd amendment does not say “well run militia.” It says, for Pete’s sake – well regulated militia.
The word “regulated” is so obscene in Dan’s eyes, that he’s trying it erase it from the constitution.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
Yes, Dan so reveres the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment he can’t be bothered with the exact wording. He probably keeps a copy of “Dan’s 10 Commandments, Paraphrased” in his coat pocket too.
1A couple of things to say, I went to school 12+ years and as I recall none of my teachers had a gun. Hey, my own Mother was a teacher for a gazillion years and she NEVER said I will be late making dinner “cause I need to go to target practice today. Sorry Texas but idiots there.
2Leading the st00pid for national education is Betsy DeVos. Some months back her contribution to the notion of guns and teachers was …
It was January at her confirmation hearing. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/betsy-devos-schools-might-need-guns-due-potential-grizzlies-n708261
Betsy would probably approve a history textbook to be used nationwide, if it had an illustration of Daniel Boone hunting grizzlies with an AR-15. She definitely slept through the part in civics class that indicates that the Senate should have vetoed her confirmation, if they had been cognizant of procedure of “Advice and Consent” laid out in Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
3The Wife has a theory that the members of the 2nd Amendment cult have a relationship to the US Constitution that is similar to the relationship that Protestants in general and most evangelicals in particular (my keyboard wants to type “peculiar”—who am I to argue?) have to the Bible.
While claiming to be literalists (the hardcore anyway) in reality they all fundamentally believe in the legitimacy of their own personal interpretation of the text. The bedrock of protestantism is removal of clergy as the sole authority, and mediator, between God and His believers. We don’t need no steenkin Supreme Court/Priests.
Patrick’s statement is a perfect example of this mindset.
4Yeah, I heard that **** Patrick was peddling. It got some immediate and infuriated pushback from the father of at least one dead child. Pushback is where its at, and none of it should be pretty.
5The 2nd Amendment, thanks to its VERY FIRST CLAUSE (which Patrick tried to rewrite) directly leads back to Article 1 Section 8, which tells how the Militia is to be constituted, regulated, funded, and commanded, NONE of which 2nd-Amendment yahoos ever get right. The Militia is not just some bunch of yahoos with guns, it’s government sponsored, regulated, funded, and designed to do government bidding, including guarding the government against insurrections and piddling little private armies.
6If the Lt. Gov. (Lt – short for lite? :–) had his way, and there were only 1 or two entrances / exits is school, a team of 2 shooters could completely control access – one a each entrance. How stoopid can he be? (I am aware you already know how stupid he is).
– Tom Rutledge
7Teh Gerg, they think they need their popguns to protect them from the Big Bad Gubmint. They forget every time that the government, besides being made up of the yahoos they elected, has tanks, missiles, drones, bombers, bombs, armies, and whole dreckloads of stuff that would make their little arsenals look sick if it came to a firefight.
What it really boils down to is that they are scared. Scared of the government, scared of the brown people, scared of uppity women, scared of people who don’t go to the right church or any, scared of them over there, scared of oh look what’s that, scared of whatever somebody points at and tells them to be scared about. And they think guns will make them less scared.
8They don’t know that the scary thing is already inside their heads.
@BillR
Your wife scores the hat trick!
9+1
The new Republican motto: Billions for guns – not one cent for textbooks.
On a side note – I thought Republicans considered the school teachers to be “union thugs.” As many have observed, if the Republicans really believed this, they wouldn’t be quite so eager to give them firearms.
10I *never* *EVER* saw or heard of a firearm in any of the schools I attended when I was growing up. What has changed in the 40 years since?
More guns…
More paranoia and fear…
11That fool Patrick doesn’t know when to stop chomping on his own toenails. He must be the King of Texas GOP Dumf*ckery.
12(That’s not an honorable title.)
Thank you, BillR for “peculiar”. I read the book about the “peculiar” children, they were actually Good People. But the name fits. I believe it is the very sage Patrick who offered two other explanations for the shootings: ritalin and abortion. He needs to send himself to the dunce corner. Almost every school either has, of could, retrofit the exits with a system that locks from the outside but can be pushed open from the inside. I know that was done where I worked.
13Dan Patrick-one of the few people in TX that can make Louie Gohmert look smart in comparison.
14Whatever the Founders intended, America has never had a well-regulated militia. Just a bunch of incompetent drunks who murdered Indians until those were all gone, then turned itself into a gang that would murder industrial workers whenever the bosses wanted; until Frank Murphy put a stop to that.
Frank Murphy is my hero
15Right on, Rhea, those teeny tiny minds are frightened to death of the “other”.
16Just read about the two Mexican American women who were detained, up towards Canada, because they were speaking Spanish! They had their ID’s proving that they were citizens, one had been born here, but were still detained.
Some ICE agent heard that furrin tongue and got all skeered of them furrinurs.
From the people who gave us internment camps, I give you the Republican base.
The first 10 amendments were aimed at the National (Federal)government not at the states. 1st amendment– Congress shall make no laws affecting the establishment of a religion… It does not say, no state, and some states had established religions at the time of the passage of these amendments.
The second amendment was intended to allow the states to have an mulita to protect the states against invasions including the National government. Read Madison’s notes on the debate on these amendments during the first Congress. Read the various wordings of the 2nd amendment.
No right is absolute. Not freedoms of speech, religion, press etc. Why do some people think the 2nd is absolute? The Repubs have use the 2nd amendment to win elections for years. It is the gift that keeps on giving.” They gona take yur guns” “How would that work. Go around to each house and take guns. Who would do that? Think anyone might get shot. Who would want that job?
There should be a way to keep guns away from crazy people. I think the problem here is that most members of the NRA would not pass. I am a member and i have talked to this crowd. Any one who would believe in that the Jade Helm program was a national conspiracy is not exactly rational. Take their guns and lock you up in an old Walmart store. One of these kinds told me you could not find any ammo in the stores because Obama had purchased it. I tried to get him to walk across the street in Eagle Nest, MN to see if the sporting goods shop had any. He would not.
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