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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

Buster Gammons















Sunday, January 25, 2015

Let Me Know When You Begin To Feel Safer


The NRA and its gun-nut brethren are always telling us lies about how guns are just a tool for personal safety, and that the best way to responsibly protect yourself is to carry a gun.


About a month ago, in an Idaho WalMart, a two year-old boy reached into his mother's custom-made concealed-carry purse, found the trigger and shot his mom dead.  A tragic "accident."







A couple days ago, a 62 year-old black man with an open-carry permit walked into a Florida WalMart with his pistol legally holstered on his hip.  He was choked from behind and wrestled into submission by three white men who were yelling, "He's got a gun!"  The men were later charged with assault and battery.





And so, what are the lessons?


  • Real 'Muricans won't let anyone take away their god-given individual rights.  Mountain mamas and old black men have a legal right to behave just as stupidly as anyone else.  (And I don't think God ever discussed firearms.)


  • These sad incidents illustrate yet another good reason to avoid WalMart.


  • The personal safety and self-protection arguments are a total crock -- the exact opposite of the truth.







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