The time for tears, prayers, special thoughts and the intellectually corrupt dogma of the country’s shrieking gun nuts is over, folks.
It’s time to fix what’s wrong with America. We can start with the U.S. freak show Donald Trump, his legion of cognitively handicapped minions and the conniving gun industry.
Team Tea Party is trying to paint our country’s notorious “biggest ever” mass shooting in Orlando as a failure of national security caused by the Obama Administration and as a success for ISIS in their war against the world.
Nope. I’m done with politely trying to point out how lame the whackadoo gun nutters in this country are, and you should be, too.
Victims of the Orlando massacre were still bleeding when Trump and Co. began their spurious, tiresome and predictable fountain of fear and loathing for Muslims, for Democrats and for anything and anyone who seeks to impede the fantastically suicidal flood of guns that America is drowning in.
The message from these sophomoric gun goons is consistent: No gun law, no way, no how could ever make America safer, and if any elected official dares to go there, we will crush them.
They certainly have before, right here in Colorado. Claiming that they used their political might to right the wrong of this state’s pathetic gun-control response to the 2012 Aurora theater shooting, three Democratic state lawmakers were unseated by gun-rights activists. In reality, it was an unsurprising political maneuver that took advantage of voter apathy during a special election, and it was reversed the very next year.
But the shuddering fear these gun goons wield in Colorado and Congress is palpable. So much so, that the NRA and the unendingly rich gun industry — and the mindless Second Amendment drones who are controlled by gun-nut money and their vapid Facebook memes — extort lawmakers to crush any attempt at reforms.
Of course, there will be plenty more revealed from the investigation into why the Orlando shooter unleashed hell at the Pulse nightclub. But it’s already clear the Orlando slaughter was not in any way an ISIS or al-Qaeda-type terrorist attack, as Trump and others are fulminating about. Trump’s unhinged rant about banning Muslims only illustrates how intellectually inept he and his faithful are.
You can wish for a world that makes sense only to Archie Bunker all you want, it isn’t real. Omar Mateen and his unfathomable massacre are much more similar to the sick crimes of James Holmes in Aurora and Adam Lanza in Newtown than those of the Boston Marathon and San Bernardino.
Of course we should have a basic mental competency check before we hand out a weapon of mass destruction to anyone. Of course we should prevent people who are deemed too dangerous to be allowed on airplanes from going to Walmart and amassing an arsenal. Of course there must be some limits to gun ownership and usage in this country — they’ve been there all along.
Nobody with any power or influence is saying we should melt the guns. Nobody. We just want moderate, desperately needed limits. These requests are not unreasonable when reasonable people consider them. But the people who are holding hostage any hope for change in America believe and tell others that President Obama is conspiring with Muslims and possibly ISIS to promote terrorism in the United States. These unreasonable people believe and tell others that if we ban listed potential terrorists from buying guns, the government will put all gun-owning Americans on that list. These unreasonable people believe and tell others that if we limit gun ownership in any way, we make it possible for the American government to take over, ummm, what? America?
That’s irrational, paranoid thinking that has not only become mainstream madness, it’s actually part and parcel of the Republican Party platform.
The undeniable psychological instability of Trump and Mateen have revealed plenty. Our public safety programs and protocols are being held hostage by groups and individuals seeking profits, political gain — or other ways to relieve that uncomfortable buzzing so many of these people suffer from while lining their “Duck Dynasty” caps with layers of aluminum foil.
We’ve got to abandon any hope for persuading Trump minions and other assorted gun goons from seeing reason. Instead, this is the year all of us must pay serious attention to where candidates for all offices line up on considering gun control.
Electeds who can’t see the logic behind at least discussing how to keep guns out of the hands of mass shooters are as dangerous to Americans as the growing number of sick shooters themselves.
No more ammo-babble from those who believe they channel long-dead constitution framers. Send people to the White House, to Congress, to the state Capitol who demand and exhibit intelligence, reason, sanity and, above all, a desire to try to stop American mass shootings.
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