Not bowing my head. Not offering thoughts and prayers. Even made sure I tuned-in to all sporting events 5-minutes late, to by-pass the Moment of Silence. There have been 31 school shootings connecting the bloody dots between Sandy Hook and Columbine. I can’t light another candle. I can’t shed another tear.
Vigils are a hoax.
How much money did America spend in Afghanistan and Iraq, tracking down terror loving terrorists? There’s even a movie coming out glorifying the hunt for Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty,” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, 
ex-wife of the king of the world, James Cameron, who brought us “Titanic.” They might be divorced, but they share a similar kink: getting-off by making a fortune on misfortune. We’re headed off the Fiscal Cliff while Kathryn Bigelow picks out an Oscar Dress and gets ready for her close-up.
By now, the terror loving terrorists have learned to chill-out. They don’t need to do anything. We’re perfectly capable of terrorizing ourselves. It’s not The Taliban. It’s not Al Qaeda. It’s not Saddam Hussein. It’s not Ahmadinejad. It’s not Syria. It’s not Benghazi. It’s not Gaza. Contrary to the popular myth manufactured by Fox News, it’s not brown men with beards and towels on their heads. It’s white men in baseball caps.
THE NRA.
20 children died at Sandy Hook. They were between the ages of 6 and 7-years old; and yet, before they were taken from us, too soon, way too soon, they looked at the world like bigger grown-ups than our Founding Fathers. Case in point: the principal of their school was a woman; the president of their country was a black man. What our Founding Fathers couldn’t even have imagined on their most imaginative day, these children saw as normal.
They were massacred by the 2nd Amendment.
Clinging to the past is an abdication of adulthood. Pretending words can be passed-down, pretending the past is holier than the present, pretending Bibles and Torahs and Korans and Constitutions are sacred is a sickness. Yes, the world is a scary place. But mostly, the world is a scary place because fanatics can walk into a Safeway with an M16A2.
The only thing the rest of us seem to be willing to do, in the aftermath, is offer thoughts and prayers. When did actions and laws go out of style?
On the very same week Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia equated homosexuality with murder, we’re equating silence with respect. The time for silence was April 20, 1999.
Columbine was unlike anything we’d ever seen before. Sandy Hook was just another day in America. Un-bow your heads, wipe away your tears, blow out your candles and scream through the moment of silence: REPEAL THE 2nd AMENDMENT.
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BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN! I watched TV today and saw guns being bought by the hundreds and the same assault weapon that killed those beautiful babies now going for $1000 and flying off the shelves. I’m in Arizona and just got a call from my best friend that her grandsons school was just put in lockdown because a man with a rifle was spotted near the school. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS COUNTRY? Can’t we at least get together and ban assualt weapons and clips that shoot 30 bullets in 1 second? Can’t we at least do that? Can’t we?
When Babs uses the F-Word, she’s reached her wit’s end.
President Obama has a fantastic opportunity here. He can define his presidency with a historic move. He should become the champion for repealing the 2nd Amendment. Sure, it will take a long time to unravel the mess of all these guns spread throughout or country. But don’t let the daunting task stiffle the effort or the work. Once accomplished, generation after generation will look back to our “cowboy violent” years and prase Obama for a great achievement. Repeal the 2nd Amendment!
I just watched his press conference. There was a total of one (1) question about guns. The press spent the entire time going on and on about the Fiscal Cliff. It’s a joke. We’re a joke. We tune-in for the tears. We bow our heads for the moment of silence. And then, when it’s time for the press to hold the president’s feet to the fire, they play The NRA’s favorite game: take the focus off the focus. Which leads me back to my original question: how many children have to die?
Clearly 20 isn’t a big enough number to get the attention of the grown-ups.
We need guns to rise-up and overthrow the government when the day finally comes. I’m sad for the children. But I’m still pro-gun.
IDIOT!
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Where is gun lover Andy? Where are the pro-gun people? The NRA lovers are just waiting formthismto blow over? I listened to a Gun lover last night argue that the principals at schools should all have AR15s. Great idea. Maybe they could get more kids killed. How many bistandards were killed and wounded a couple months ago when the POLICE tried to take out a gunman? Kill the 2nd and set us free.
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The world is about to end. Where is Steve to give us tips on survival? I bought 100 cans of tuna today, 130 cans of veggie beans, 300 gallons of water, paper plates (dish washer won’t work if it goes all bad), 5 machine guns, no ammo (I don’t want to kill anyone, still), and a flash light. Am I OK Steve? Where should I hide? I don’t have a basement. Maybe I will just hide in my bunker, a.k.a. my camode.
My world ended when my band didn’t make it after Lollapalooza. Then I started a new world in advertising, which ended when 18-Idiots smashed planes into buildings, and destroyed my ability to make a living in NYC. Then I started a new world in Chicago, at Joey’s Brickhouse. Which took me from punk-ass to manhood over the course of 7-years, before my world ended again, when the bottom fell out of the economy in 2008. I think for all of us who have a heart, the world ended last week, when 20 children were gunned down at Sandy Hook.
Life happens. Richard Dawkins was asked about the meaning of life, “The universe owes you no explanations”-he’s right. When a degenerate communist kills 20+ kids nothing and no one will stop him. I remember a conversation with my father a decorated Vietnam veteran the day of 9-11. “You can’t stop that Kamakazee shit”. He’s right if someone wants to shoot up a mall or bomb a building no law will stop him. Cold truth you can piss and moan talk about repealing the 2nd which will never happen but this is what it is. Arm every principal and go on with life. Pray for the victims. I don’t have the time or air in my lungs to argue with swindlers like Vince. When he lives a day in the real world we’ll talk.
Andy,
Is that Richard Dawkins from Family Feud? Hogan’s Heros Dawkins?
Is the twenty year old killer really a COMMUNIST? Isn’t that a little dated? You called him that.
Unfortunately, your dad was a product of his own hate; he hated the JAPS. I get it Andy. Do you get it?
I was in my first,year of law school. I was out at a bar. I must have started something. Down stairs, on the street, on my way home with friends, I was hit with a beer bottle on the top of my head. I want down.
I got up, with a bloody head and tried to figure it out. We went home.
An hour later, I got tough. I sweared vengeance. I grabbed my gun. We went looking…….
I had my 9mm Smtih & Wesi, 14 shot clip with one in the chamber, 15 total hydro-shock bullets (very deadly). For some reason, in my stupidity, I was smart enough to leave all the bullets home.
We went back to the bar. My 9 was in my belt. I untucked my t-shirt; it was rolled at the sleeves. We looke d for the asshole that cracked me in the head with a beer bottle. Truth is, we could never of found him. I never saw him. But we searched, and were tough. Thank “ANDY” that no one pretended to find the guy. I was tough. And I went home with my gun.
Sometimes fate intervenes. You were having a bad day. Luckily, your bad day didn’t escalate. That’s all guns do, turn a bad day into a lifetime of regret.
I knew a pregnant woman who shot a serial rapist to death in a home invasion. Would she have a better day being raped. GOD BLESS THE NRA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To quote the leaders of your party, “Rape is a Gift from God.”
Bullshit answer. Would you prefer she’d been raped?
The NRA Press Conference was a revelation. It should be mandatory in all schools as a case study in how very bad people get away with doing very bad things while the rest of us pretend it isn’t happening. CodePink is saying what no one wants to hear. Very interesting who gets the microphone…
About a year later, on my way out of a club, in a car, a friend was getting harassed. I stepped out, punched the ass in the nose, grabbed my friend being picked on and left. Turned out, I smashed his nose good. The cops were lookinging for me.
We’re a culture in love with violence. We’re more comfortable with complaining than offering a kind word. Insecurity in adulthood is more than unattractive, it’s deadly.
Here’s a kind word for all. Chrisian, Muslim, Jew, may we all be kinder to each other, accept the differences among us and try to embrace what makes us special. Merry Christmas and best wishes for a happy, healthy and kinder new year.
I sold my gun to pay the broken nosed kid $600. He agreed not to press charges.
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