I just finished watching Wayne LaPierre’s response to the current gun debate. He’s wrong. Dead wrong. Armed guards at school? Schools are meant to be educational centers, not prisons. The introduction of police officers into schools has been detrimental to the dignity of students, fourth amendment rights, and have made schools less safe. Now we want to place even less capable rent-a-cops in our schools?
There’s nothing wrong with introducing guns in schools. If you want to let teachers arm themselves, that’s not a cure-all, but it will make the situation better and increase survivability. However, introducing rent-a-cops who use of violence to resolve problems will cause serious problems around a bunch of smartass teenagers. You are effectively taking the TSA and forcing our kids to deal with them daily. If you subject your child to that, well…
And Wayne, grow a pair. Don’t blame this on violence on TV and video games. That’s the dumbest argument I can think of. My guess is that you aren’t that stupid, simply morally corrupt enough to toss someone else under the bus to save your own ass.
Have you ever seen Japan? You know what’s more common in Japan than guns in America? I’ve got 3 words for you buddy:
Tentacle rape porn. (You’re scared to click aren’t you? Don’t worry, it’s a wiki site)
That stuff is practically mainstream. It’s some of the most vile, offensive, disgusting trash on earth. Yet, at least according to this site, Japan ranks #45 in the world for rape. They play the same violent video games we do. They don’t have our problems with violence.
But there’s another takeaway from the NRA press conference. Why do we need our “assault weapons”? 2012 has left us with a markedly less free country than in 1994 during the initial Assault Weapons Ban. Both sides of the spectrum are to blame for this, but big government has backed us into a corner with no cultural or idealogical shift toward liberty on the horizon. Now, with our backs against the wall you seek to take our teeth.
FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
The second amendment exists expressly to protect us not from school shooters, but from IMPERIAL PRESIDENTS. When now even the NRA is advocating reviewing freedom of expression and increasing government influence in our lives, there is something desperately wrong with things. But again, back to the press conference. Big government liberal, you are aggressing upon me every single day. I have never come after you. NOT ONCE. I have never tried to take something that you do away. I let you say what you want, eat / drink what you want, marry who you want. But you come for my money. You come for my guns. You don’t let me smoke in the bar. You won’t let me ride in the back of a pickup. And you interrupt this press conference multiple times, while your cronies in the press interrupt and demand a response to your rude protests. You come for my speech. What, but with a chain around my neck will you allow me? I wouldn’t care about my guns if you weren’t coming for everything else. I have never come for you. I have nowhere else to go, or else I would. Please, I implore you, stop backing me into a corner. You won’t like me when I’m angry.
