. . . Come the most ridiculously ignorant things.
The city council of Charlotte, NC voted to allow transgender people to tinkle in the restroom of their choice. Hooray for Charlotte, an oasis of sense and reason in a desert of dumb. Speaking of dumb, NC's Republican governor, Pat McCrory, called the council's action an "extreme change in the norms of society," and claimed it violated the right to share a restroom only with people born with the same anatomy. Say whaaaat?? There is no such "right." It seems McCrory himself has a different anatomy -- shit for brains.
Big headline in my local fishwrap. Gun store owner: "No laws could stop what happened." The "happening" he was referring to was the Michigan Uber driver who shot and killed six people and wounded two more. The store owner's reactionary comment about laws being useless is the same logically false B.S. the gun nuts spout after every mass shooting (which happen damn near every day). Let's try this again, gun nuts: Laws don't prevent or eliminate crime, they reduce it. Laws against murder don't prevent homicide, and laws against theft don't eliminate robberies. But you wouldn't conceive of a society without such laws. America needs to join the rest of the civilized world and enact or reinstate common-sense gun control laws. It took us a couple hundred years to get so gun-stupid, and it may take just as long to wise up and reverse the trend. So let's not waste any more time. Let's begin.
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