Thursday

19 October 2017

— TGITD (Thank God It’s Trash Day.)

Good Morning All, 

Of course as soon as I promised never to send another poll or survey, my perverse brain immediately started working on a follow-up poll. 

Don’t worry, I’m not going to hit you with it here.

But here are a couple of the questions:

1. Does the 2nd Amendment guarantee every law-abiding American citizen’s right to a personal bazooka?

2. Does the 2nd Amendment guarantee every law-abiding American citizen’s right to a semi-automatic personal bazooka?

3. Does the 2nd Amendment guarantee every law-abiding American citizen’s right to a legal kit to transform a semi-automatic bazooka into a fully automatic bazooka?

4. Are the occasional bazooka deaths of twenty-three new mothers and their babies and seven nuns in the maternity ward of Our Lady of the Shit-Out-of-Luckless Hospital the price we need to pay to insure that you and I and Uncle Jimmy and everyone else can keep our semi-automatic bazookas on display in the den? 

After that, I had similar queries for flame-throwers, anti-tank guns, anti-personnel mines, sticks of dynamite, and jars of anthrax, all of which are meddlesome bloody federal government says we cannot have except under very specific circumstances.

A deer rifle? Sure. A Shotgun? Sure. A handgun in the house for protection? Not crazy about it, but okay. 

The rest of it? Concealed weapons? Teachers packing? Legal silencers? No way!

Especially military weapons. It seems manifest to me anyone who truly believes an American citizen has a constitutional (or moral) right to a semi-automatic rifle has to have a few screws loose. Not to mention a need for a few anger management sessions. Not to mention in all likelihood being at heart a racist, since the sole purpose of these military weapons is to annihilate the perceived enemy. Who … gee, I wonder who they could be? 

As for the second amendment, okay, I'd even go so far as to say that each state's "well regulated militia" can include military rifles locked away for use in an attack by a foreign power. (That is to say, not simply as an expedient to gun down African Americans, Latinos, Muslims, homosexuals, and uppity women). 

But to believe or even try to argue with a straight face that the 2nd amendment guarantees individual citizens’ rights to military hardware is absolute and utter horseshit. 

Such a person, I truly believe should seek psychological help, because there must be some things going on in there inside him or her about which he or she is unaware.

Okay, I’ll stop in a second. I’ll forego an urge to list all the craven U.S. Senators and Representatives in the deep pockets of the NRA and the gun-lobby. The list is east to find, if you want to know what your elected officials are doing to promote "our unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." (Please notice that Life is the first of those three.)

I guess I should go back and tone this down some, since I am mostly singing to choir, but the heck with it. Let it go.

The truth is, I think I’m still in a state of shock that any even averagely compassionate and humane person could support the legality of semi-automatic rifles after all those innocent little kids at Sandy Hook had their lives taken from them.

And on that cheery note,

Go Well and Stay Well and If You Live in America Do Not Antagonize Any of Your Fellow Motorists,

Bhekaron

P.S. The John le Carré quote in the Day Book is most timely.

P.P.S. Jenny, hope you like the poem in the Day Book!

P.S. Two Holly snaps: