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IRA, NRA...TSA, NSA...WTF!
IRA, NRA...TSA, NSA...WTF! "If I had one wish, I wish I were Wonder Woman"....Trisha Ann Glynn 1970s Ireland was a dangerous place to be, with the IRA trying to remove British influence. 1980s Colombia mixed drug lords and President Reagans secret jungle wars making for memorable politics and profit. 1990s Africa was diamond mines, soldiers and apartheid offering variety to being killed as a civilian. 2000s era brought a bloody nose to the United States. I thought with the World Trade Center airline attacks, we would wise up. Increase our security and be more aware. Instead Tea Party a**holes crying about TSA airport security watered down scanning efforts. Making it easy again for the domestic terror branch to move freely about the country. A profit driven NRA, armed hate inspired, paranoid wing-nuts with easy avenues to weapons. Most recent result: the Copper Top Bar shooting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. And the Century 16 Theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado. I've seen increased police patrol at theaters in Florida and Alabama. This will go on until the public is interested in the next shiny object. Meanwhile crowds continue to gather at baseball games, racing events, malls, beaches and churches. The NRA is happy with the general public buying millions of dollars worth of guns and ammo. Because the NRA is a business. The magazines are now catalogs that boost gun sales. The gun safety courses take a backseat to membership drives. The profit goes toward political candidates, supporting their agenda. The Constitution protects my right to own firearms. Not the political fund raising group called the National Rifle Association. I own a rifle for deer season, a shotgun for ducks, and a handgun. There is no reason for one person to order 6,000 rounds of ammo. Having a full tactical uniform with CS gas canisters is pure terrorism aimed at the public. This latest shooting will increase gun sales, as did the 2008 election scare nonsense of democrats coming to take your guns and bibles. As November 2012 draws close, red state hysteria will prompt more revenue from firearm sales. Carrying more guns does not make you bulletproof. Extra ammo is useless if you have no target. Guy in a bar, said in Texas and Florida, the "stand your ground" law would have saved the victims.....Really? How? Think about the number of people dead or injured, had everyone in the Century 16 Theater started firing at where they thought the attack was coming from. They would be shooting at a small target protected by kevlar, in the dark. Yeah, that sums up the bullets with no brains, mentality. Now think about if the shooter had not been able to buy that much ammo, that kind of riot gear, CS Gas, or AK 47 rifles. If security was actually taken serious in this country. Theater exit doors don't open from the outside, they have to be wedged open earlier. People dressed as Batman and Catwoman on opening movie night, I understand. But a wacko in full assault gear with a rifle? HELL NO! We still have summer, labor day, olympic crowds gathered at bars, football season, and the end of year holidays. Wake up! Look around, be careful, and stop sleep walking through your day. Some of you I have met, had sex with, or just drinks. Some of you, we chat, e-mail, or talk on the phone. I never had contact with the Holmes guy on this site. Maybe I could have talked him down. Maybe not. The rest of you, I want you to be around alive and well. To say I'm right or just to call me bitch. |
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Well gun control...the debate could rage...in Canada we have gangland shootings in BC and recently Toronto is going insane...I have no credentials, but the perspective is drugs are being sent to the US for guns. We recently disbanded a national gun registry. Politics weighed heavily on the decision, we are also taking a page out of the US by rattling the tough on crime agenda - the costs of which are downloaded by the Federal govt to Provincial. In Canada the rural areas use guns for hunting and do not want much govt interference, in the cities, there is a fear of crime and guns and they want controls - so it is kinda a polarizing issue. However, at least we enter into a dialogue in this country, where as I heard, but cant site the source, a statement that the mass shooting sprees are "the price we pay for our freedoms" - incredible - only a Nation so founded and rooted in the gun, could feel its okay to sacrifice its own for some right that has long played out. (Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought the right to bare arms was to ensure the state (king) never had the upper hand over the populace) Final comment - the differences between our countries, and gun control, are rooted in our cultures and founding - so dont anyone get flipped out by what I've said here.
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