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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















Friday, December 14, 2012

This Needs To Change, And Very Soon

Surely didn't mean to get ahead of the news curve.  Couldn't resist the juxtaposition of Ohio easing its gun laws with the story unfolding at a grade school in Connecticut.  It's still unfolding.  It now seems it was just one shooter, not two, like I posted previously.  Twenty-some people are dead, most of them little kids.  An unspeakable tragedy.

Both President Obama and Jay Carney said that "today" is not the time to talk about American gun policy, but is instead a day to focus on the victims and their families.  OK.  Not today.  Fair enough.

How about tomorrow?  How about real goddam soon?!  And to hell with a policy "discussion."  We need a policy CHANGE!  A big change, a 180-degree turnaround.  It could start with a linguistically correct interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.  It could start with Democrats showing some backbone.  It could start with the GOP immediately and permanently severing all ties, financial and otherwise, with the NRA.

Obama today said it's time for "action" on the issue of gun violence.  I sure hope so.

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