THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY
The religious left is spitting nails over the recent defeat of gun control legislation in the US Senate. In as over-the-top, bat-crap hysterical screed as I’ve ever seen from an alleged Christian, United Church of the Zeitgeist honk Chuck Currie was so mad that he libeled just about everybody in sight and even used a word that probably doesn’t escape his lips very often:
The ability of a minority in the U.S. Senate to block common sense gun violence prevention measures — including background checks to keep guns from violent criminals and mentally unstable people — is a victory for the NRA, whose leadership has sided with criminals and terrorists over the common good of our nation.
In short, the U.S. Senators who sided with the NRA’s leadership committed a sin and compounded the tragedy of Newtown.
President Obama has shown great leadership in leading the charge since Newtown in advancing the cause of reducing gun violence. America’s religious leaders, including the National Council of Churches and the U.S. Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops, have joined him and the polls have shown that 90 percent of the American people have supported measures such as background checks. NRA members by a large majority have bucked their leadership to support the president’s goals.
But 90 percent of Republicans in the Senate, joined by some Democrats, where able to block the will of the majority both in the Senate and the will of the American people. Schools, houses of worships, malls, theaters and other public places will also remain unsafe (no wonder terrorists are telling their supporters to exploit America’s lax gun laws). The only winners today are criminals and those who would do violence to the American people.
EASY, there, big guy. You did hear what happened in Boston the other day, didn’t you? Some guys killed and maimed a bunch of people using pressure cookers. If you want to kill somebody badly enough, the absence of a gun is not going to stop you, jackass. Moving on, welcome to the Jana Riess Cliche Festival.
I’m angry.
Yesterday the Senate defeated a measure that would require our nation to run background checks on people who purchase guns at gun shows and on the Internet.
The Senate did this despite the fact that 80-90% of Americans support the measure, which would have eliminated a loophole in the current law. Right now, anyone who purchases a gun at a store already has to go through this exact same background check, so the measure that the Senate abandoned would merely have made the law universal and eliminated the possibility that someone with a mental illness or history of felonious behavior would be able to buy a gun online or at a convention.
There are two major problems going on here. First, of course, is that our nation’s love affair with guns seems to have no end. Where is our common sense? In our rush to defend the Second Amendment, we easily forget that the framers of our Constitution had no earthly idea about weapons that could be purchased by individual citizens for mass destruction of human life. No one who wrote our Constitution could have foreseen ordinary Americans being able to purchase military-grade semiautomatic weapons. (As well, the actual wording of the Second Amendment is about protecting the rights of society to bear arms to form militias, as you can see here.)
Most gun control advocates in this country don’t have an issue with individuals owning rifles, handguns, pistols, or other small-scale weapons for self-defense or hunting. That’s not the question here. This is about weapons that have been used in mass tragedies such as the Newtown school shooting, weapons that do not fit that small-scale profile.
When the Founders wrote the Constitution, Jana, the “militia” was basically anyone who could fire a gun. And I’ve got some bad news for you. Legally, it still means that.
Near as I can figure, as far as Christian leftists are concerned, the only moral approach to the violence problem in this country runs as follows:
(1) Take an idea that hasn’t come close to working and wouldn’t have affected any of the recent tragedies in any way, shape or form and do even more of it.
(2) ???
(3) NO MORE MURDERS!! YAY!!
There’s also the demonization of people who disagree with you, the lies and misrepresentations of their opinions, indeed, the refusal to even acknowledge that they are motivated by anything other than pure evil, as the Spoiled Brat in Chief demonstrated the other day. And it certainly doesn’t hurt when Administration propaganda sheets like the New York Times wonder why you preferred to cover the decimation of some hick town in Texas when everybody else was covering the presidential meltdown.
President Obama hadn’t finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate’s defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.
The channel, a favorite of conservatives, has refrained from extensive coverage while MSNBC, a favorite of progressives, has taken every conceivable opportunity to talk about it.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” have openly campaigned for legislative reforms after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December, which left 26 people dead.
On Thursday, Mr. Scarborough, a registered Republican who promotes his conservative credentials as well as an independent streak, assailed the lawmakers who voted against the background check legislation. Citing the failed Senate vote as evidence, Mr. Scarborough said, “This party is moving toward extinction.”
That would come as news to Fox fans, who have heard comparatively little about the subject. While most of “Joe” was dedicated to guns on Thursday, Fox’s morning show, “Fox & Friends,” didn’t mention the word once. It focused instead on news about a Texas fertilizer plant explosion.
Competitors were quick to pounce. Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, noted that ABC, CBS and NBC had broadcast special reports because they deemed the president’s remarks that important. He called Fox’s decision to skip it “a disgrace.”
Insofar as he runs one, Phil Griffin knows a lot about disgraces.
The ability of a minority in the U.S. Senate to block common sense gun violence prevention measures — including background checks to keep guns from violent criminals and mentally unstable people — is a victory for the NRA, whose leadership has sided with criminals and terrorists over the common good of our nation.
In short, the U.S. Senators who sided with the NRA’s leadership committed a sin and compounded the tragedy of Newtown.
President Obama has shown great leadership in leading the charge since Newtown in advancing the cause of reducing gun violence. America’s religious leaders, including the National Council of Churches and the U.S. Conference of Roman Catholic Bishops, have joined him and the polls have shown that 90 percent of the American people have supported measures such as background checks. NRA members by a large majority have bucked their leadership to support the president’s goals.
But 90 percent of Republicans in the Senate, joined by some Democrats, where able to block the will of the majority both in the Senate and the will of the American people. Schools, houses of worships, malls, theaters and other public places will also remain unsafe (no wonder terrorists are telling their supporters to exploit America’s lax gun laws). The only winners today are criminals and those who would do violence to the American people.
EASY, there, big guy. You did hear what happened in Boston the other day, didn’t you? Some guys killed and maimed a bunch of people using pressure cookers. If you want to kill somebody badly enough, the absence of a gun is not going to stop you, jackass. Moving on, welcome to the Jana Riess Cliche Festival.
I’m angry.
Yesterday the Senate defeated a measure that would require our nation to run background checks on people who purchase guns at gun shows and on the Internet.
The Senate did this despite the fact that 80-90% of Americans support the measure, which would have eliminated a loophole in the current law. Right now, anyone who purchases a gun at a store already has to go through this exact same background check, so the measure that the Senate abandoned would merely have made the law universal and eliminated the possibility that someone with a mental illness or history of felonious behavior would be able to buy a gun online or at a convention.
There are two major problems going on here. First, of course, is that our nation’s love affair with guns seems to have no end. Where is our common sense? In our rush to defend the Second Amendment, we easily forget that the framers of our Constitution had no earthly idea about weapons that could be purchased by individual citizens for mass destruction of human life. No one who wrote our Constitution could have foreseen ordinary Americans being able to purchase military-grade semiautomatic weapons. (As well, the actual wording of the Second Amendment is about protecting the rights of society to bear arms to form militias, as you can see here.)
Most gun control advocates in this country don’t have an issue with individuals owning rifles, handguns, pistols, or other small-scale weapons for self-defense or hunting. That’s not the question here. This is about weapons that have been used in mass tragedies such as the Newtown school shooting, weapons that do not fit that small-scale profile.
When the Founders wrote the Constitution, Jana, the “militia” was basically anyone who could fire a gun. And I’ve got some bad news for you. Legally, it still means that.
Near as I can figure, as far as Christian leftists are concerned, the only moral approach to the violence problem in this country runs as follows:
(1) Take an idea that hasn’t come close to working and wouldn’t have affected any of the recent tragedies in any way, shape or form and do even more of it.
(2) ???
(3) NO MORE MURDERS!! YAY!!
There’s also the demonization of people who disagree with you, the lies and misrepresentations of their opinions, indeed, the refusal to even acknowledge that they are motivated by anything other than pure evil, as the Spoiled Brat in Chief demonstrated the other day. And it certainly doesn’t hurt when Administration propaganda sheets like the New York Times wonder why you preferred to cover the decimation of some hick town in Texas when everybody else was covering the presidential meltdown.
President Obama hadn’t finished his first sentence on Wednesday when the Fox News Channel cut away from his Rose Garden remarks about the Senate’s defeat of a measure that would have expanded background checks for gun buyers.
The channel, a favorite of conservatives, has refrained from extensive coverage while MSNBC, a favorite of progressives, has taken every conceivable opportunity to talk about it.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” have openly campaigned for legislative reforms after the mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., in December, which left 26 people dead.
On Thursday, Mr. Scarborough, a registered Republican who promotes his conservative credentials as well as an independent streak, assailed the lawmakers who voted against the background check legislation. Citing the failed Senate vote as evidence, Mr. Scarborough said, “This party is moving toward extinction.”
That would come as news to Fox fans, who have heard comparatively little about the subject. While most of “Joe” was dedicated to guns on Thursday, Fox’s morning show, “Fox & Friends,” didn’t mention the word once. It focused instead on news about a Texas fertilizer plant explosion.
Competitors were quick to pounce. Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, noted that ABC, CBS and NBC had broadcast special reports because they deemed the president’s remarks that important. He called Fox’s decision to skip it “a disgrace.”
Insofar as he runs one, Phil Griffin knows a lot about disgraces.
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