The news media has moved on from the Oregon school shooting, as it always does, but the aftermath of the tragedy remains, as does the need for common sense gun laws.
But we know the NRA will be up in arms (no pun intended) to prevent that from happening.
Which leads me to say again that I really, really, really do hate the NRA. Honestly, I cannot think of a more useless, worthless, and menacing organization in the country than this bunch.
Moreover, what is truly disgusting is the support it has among Republicans in Congress who are awash in warped values.
Consider this. Republicans are on a Planned Parenthood witch hunt, but are cheerleaders for the NRA, yet Planned Parenthood provides healthcare services around the world to almost five million people while the NRA is trying to get as many guns as possible in the hands of as many Americans as possible.
Last week Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood, was vilified by Jason Chaffetz, a Republican representative from Utah who wants to be Speaker of the House, for receiving what he termed “an excessive salary.”
She makes $590 thousand a year, and that includes retirement benefits.
Wayne LaPierre, NRA president and CEO, makes $970 thousand a year in salary alone.
I wonder if Rep. Chaffetz believe LaPierre’s salary is excessive. If he had been testifying before Chaffetz’s committee, do you think he would have been questioned about his salary as she was?
I know the answer to both of those questions, and you do, too, and the reason we do is obvious.
Republicans believe owning a gun is a basic right of all Americans, but having healthcare is not.
They do in spite of the fact that in 2013 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported there were 33,169 deaths related to firearms.
What is more, gun violence costs the American taxpayers something like $229 billion (with a B) a year when all costs related to it are considered, costs such as medical treatment, hospitalization, long term medical disability, trials, incarceration, and security systems in homes and schools, to name a few.
Like I said, I really, really, really really do hate the NRA.
Here is the simple truth. Gun laws are not complicated, and, contrary to what the NRA says, are certainly not a threat to anyone’s Second Amendment rights.
Nor is registration the first step in the government taking away all guns.
Frankly, I wish the government WOULD take away everyone’s guns and make people rent them during hunting season and return them when it’s over.
I would rather have a gun free country than worry about needing a gun to fight a tyrannical government.
Anybody stupid enough to believe guns and rifles would defeat our nation’s army, or believe such a circumstance would ever happen, is already too dangerous to own a gun.
I heard two Republican presidential candidates say after the Oregon shooting that gun laws cannot prevent such a thing happening.
My thought was, “Well, as long as you have your way we will never know, will we?”
And that is precisely the problem.
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