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Monday, June 13, 2016

Insane


Omar Mateen?  Probably.  Donald Trump?  Without a doubt.  Madder than a March hare.  Bat-shit, foamy-mouth crazy.

Today, the tiny-fingered vulgarian really outdid himself:

The Orlando massacre was all that no-good Muslim Obama's fault (of course!), Hillary actually wants terrorists to "pour into our country" (of course again!), all Muslims must be banned (yada-yada-yada!), and we must all rat out our neighbors for the slightest suspicion ("OMG, they're eating hummus!), or face "big" punishment (Donnie loves his punishment).

Then he cranked up the crazy with the predictable (and totally wrong) assertion that the carnage would have been minimized if only there were a bunch of armed patrons inside the club.  Right.  So what we really need is a gun for every student and teacher in our schools, a gun for every movie-goer, a gun inside every hymnal in every church, guns for all at army bases and navy yards (I bet they have guns already), and guns for every customer at every gay dance club.  (BTW, the Pulse nightclub had an armed guard.)  Guns for everyone, everywhere!  How safe!  Yippee!! 

Try this instead:

The problem is not "crazy people."  The real problem today is THE SHEER NUMBER OF FUCKING GUNS IN CIRCULATION AND THE RIDICULOUS EASE IN OBTAINING EVEN MORE!   How many times must it be said?  Whether in the hands of "good guys" or "bad guys", more guns means more gun violence and less personal safety, not the other way around.  America has more guns per capita and more corresponding gun violence than any other developed nation in the world.  We need to disarm, for crying out loud, not strap up.

 Donald Trump's ideas on this topic and every other are a disaster.  Donald Trump is insane, and if you vote for him, so are you.

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