Due to the shooting, Waco, Texas is getting its fair share of attention at the moment. There was a recent melee of murder between two rival motorcycle gangs in Waco, Texas. The crazy part is that all of this happened today (May 17^th, 2015). Yet, it seems so insane that there were 9 people dead because of it. Easily, things can go from 0-100 in Waco, Texas when it comes to murder and mayhem.

If anyone out there is short on memory, they have to go back to the last mass shooting that happened in Waco, Texas. We should all be aware of the madness between the Feds versus the Branch Davidians. And you are welcome for the reference.

And by the way: the name of the restaurant the fight started at is Twin Peaks. I’m sorry, but this madness is so poetic that reality will always be stranger than fiction.

Waco Texas Biker Gang Shooting Part 1

As details emerge, there are some things to consider. For one, the statement “0-100” is exactly what happened:

According to police spokesperson Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton, authorities were already at the scene when a gang fight broke out inside the Twin Peaks Restaurant at around 12:15 p.m. As the brawl spilled into the parking lot, the bikers reportedly escalated from “fists and feet to chains, clubs and knives, then to gunfire,” shooting at both rivals and police. [1]

Another thing that a lot of people keep mentioning is that it was between two motorcycle gangs. No, it wasn’t a crazed shooter that demonstrated our nation’s failing mental health approach. Nor was it the murder of a Black person for no apparent reason. This time around, it was a biker gang vs. a biker gang vs. the police.

When will the curfew be established in #Waco? Oh, that’s right…

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 17, 2015

Oh, and did I mention that these were white culprits? Again, the poetic inclinations are endless. Luckily (depending on your feelings for police), none of the officers were harmed.

Waco Texas Biker Gang Shooting Part 2

Its Jim Beam and Marlboro’s fault! If white ppl smoked and drank less harsh stuff they wouldnt be so violent! #StopWhiteOnWhiteCrime

— The Blakk Samurai (@BlakkSamurai) May 17, 2015

You are a clever duckie, but nonetheless, a racist one #StopWhiteOnWhiteCrime#BlackLivesMatter https://t.co/ppx9OFE6ef

— Connie Collins (@khanknee) May 17, 2015

What is causing such an uproar on Twitter, Facebook, and within Black America has a whole is the fact that IF these were Black gangs members, there would be some “call to arms” for us to have a “come to Jesus moment” over black-on-black crime. Yet, it had to be two white biker gangs causing such a murderous hullabaloo that the comedy had commenced for the sake of enlightening entertainment. Also, many of us await that moment where people are actually going to have these media filled conversations about violent biker gangs. You know: the same way they want to exacerbate the issues of Black people.

I demand @msnbc @cnn & others air detailed analysis of White biker gangs & their violent lifestyle. Just like you do Blacks. Equal coverage.

— Connie Collins (@khanknee) May 18, 2015

Waco Texas Biker Gang Shooting Part 3

Fuck it: let us have a round table discussion on how to prevent this situation from happening from this moment forward. However, we KNOW that this won’t happen. Waco, Texas had a biker gang shooting that left NINE people dead and I bet my top Ben Franklinthat there won’t be much more than a peep coming from these news stations. Compared to the 25/366 coverage of situations involving everything plaguing Black America, I would be worried.

WACO, TX MASS SHOOTING: • 9 dead • 18 injured • 5 bike gangs • 150-200 bikers • 50+ guns recovered LIVE: http://t.co/y0tVvPuth1

— Breaking News Feed (@PzFeed) May 18, 2015

@khanknee It is Texas-these gangs may well have more arms than the national guard…

— M McV (@McVickerMaria) May 18, 2015

Has city been closed down to prevent further deaths & protect citizenry. Has national guard been called? 9 already dead #TwinPeaksShooting

— Connie Collins (@khanknee) May 18, 2015

It’d be sad if Dr. Ben Carson has to leave his church because of this White Biker Gang stuff.#Waco #WhiteLiesMatter

— RiPPa (@RippDemUp) May 18, 2015

Why are white people so violent and angry? #StopWhiteOnWhiteCrime

— TheArdentNegress (@miss_v3) May 17, 2015

Now do we see how white privilege works? Now do we see why these people weren’t labeled “thugs”, “delinquents”, and “cracker white trash” yet? Of course we all do. In fact, I await the rebuttal about how Blacks do these type of things more than whites. So, white privilege is always best when it comes to those that don’t take responsibility and ownership of their bullshit.

Waco Texas Biker Gang Shooting – Undone

I could write a paragraph about my feelings on all this, but I won’t. In fact, I will leave you all with a tweet that summarizes my feelings:

If this Waco shit (9 dead. 100 guns) happened in Baltimore, they’d be occupying Maryland w/the Nat Guard, the Canadian Mounties & the IDF.

— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) May 18, 2015

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You may wanna get comfortable, because this will be a long one.

In Deltona, Florida, a man, Frederick Wenzel IV, was upset because he had to move back home to live with his parents. He got drunk as hell and was possessed by the NRA demon. He grabbed an AK-47 rifle and started firing wherever he felt like it. Luckily, no one was hurt, and he was arrested and slapped with multiple charges, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Imagine the surprise I didn’t feel when I heard how he was arrested instead of shot by police. I don’t think a “What if” scenario that imagines a color reversal is needed as we all know what would happen.

In another part of the country, in Corpus Christi, Texas, Sammuel Tooney went on a shooting rampage in an RV park that killed three people and injured one child. It was reported that he intended to murder the people since he had a long-standing beef with them.

Some people will use the “mentally ill” excuse, but we see too many cases like the next one not to accept it as a case of a few lonely, crazed nuts out to destroy everyone and themselves.

In Bell, Florida, a convicted felon and grandfather of six, one of them being a baby, Don Spirit fatally shot and killed his grandchildren, his daughter and himself. It’s unknown why he did it. But reports say that he had a lengthy criminal record which included accidentally shooting and killing his 8 year-old son and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Pathetically, there are other cases of trigger happy white men who’s gun appreciation have endangered and cost lives. A father in Florida gave a gun to his suicidal son. A man in Missouri shot at a fleeing car after a Craigslist sale got screwed up. And a “survivalist” in Pennsylvania opened fire at a deadly ambush against cops at a state police barracks. Remember, these are just a FEW cases.

Has anyone noticed how most of these notable acts of violence happened in the South? Not that it makes a difference, but it’s not entirely surprising seeing as how it is virtually red with strong conservative values, one of which relies on the Second Amendment’s right to own guns. The only thing is that it is ‘acceptable’ if you’re a white male, especially with the crime and violence we Negroes cause, threatening the existence of the so-called “superior” white race.

A gun rights advocate wearing a bulletproof vest brandishing a firearm in Nashville named Leonard Embody was spotted by news outside a Metro school as a way of making a statement that “guns aren’t dangerous”. Apparently, he suffers from short-term memory or long-term stupidity as he seems ignorant of the long list of school shootings in this country alone. However, Embody is not alone. Open Carry marches seem to be a trend with white gun owners. One group even had the nerve to walk in a predominantly black neighborhood in Virginia. I guess they had a free pass with a black member among them.

I haven’t heard anyone discuss the incessant need for white folks to want to possess guns, not to mention an urge to carry them out in public as if they were fanny packs. It seems like white people seem awfully fearful about what “could happen”, and I speculate that menaces in black skin are at the top of their list. I doubt that these and other incidents of violence by white folks even register in their minds that white people are the biggest threat to white people. The killers and loons reported in local and national news are individuals who simply lost it in the white gaze. To white (male) gun owners, they may even be comrades or in a more outrageous sense, heroes.

Two black males were murdered by the police that are in the national spotlight as of now. One was John Crawford, who held a toy gun in a Wal-Mart store and was shot because…well, you know. Cameron Tillman who was 14 years-old, was the latest prey to be hunted by cops as he was the victim of being another young, black male suspect. Even though the reports say there was a scuffle with police in the latter case, there are no reports that state Tillman was armed. It’s hard to say if they were killed by white officers. Regardless, their lives was terminated due to the distorted vision of whiteness that sees black men as the eternal enemy.

Nevertheless, in most cop and vigilante shootings involving black people, the victims were unarmed. Yet, they scared the shit outta white people. Unfortunately, those white people were packing, and didn’t hold back pulling the trigger. This is a part of what it means to be black in America, you are more threatening WITHOUT a gun than a white person WITH a gun.

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People from other countries, violent third world countries, have come here, to the United States in the past and have asked for asylum. Can I do that now? Can I go to Canada and beg them to let me become a citizen of their great country since my country has become a nation of extreme violence where at any time I can be killed by a right wing scum nut with a gun? Can I? I wanna know!

It happens every day now. Police officers are shot dead in cold blood while they get their lunch. They are shot dead by two lowlife scumbag Tea Party members. They are members of the Republican party as the Tea Party has not separated yet. Has not been told to separate by the “mainstream” Republicans. So therefore they are one and the same. These two individuals were at Bundy Ranch, they hated Obama and anyone on “food stamps.” Sounds very “mainstream” Republican to me.

Brandon & Amanda Miller

They killed two police officers because they thought they were fighting the new “revolution.” They draped an officer’s body in “Don’t Tread On Me” flags. That’s a slogan we hear all of the time from right wingers, who believe that freedom is being poor with guns. So they can fight the awful police and government agencies who want to take their freedoms away. You can see how sick this is. How mentally fucked up these people are, they are psychotics who are running loose in our streets. Murdering our police officers and threatening to do the same to our politicians. Something else we can blame the most awful President of our times, Ronald Reagan for, letting the crazies out of the mental institutions and those crazies were allowed to procreate and now we deal with their evil spawn.

 GLENN BECK MUST BE ARRESTED

 We deal with them on our television sets. Glenn Beck should be arrested. He should be arrested now. In 2010 Beck, one of those crazies I spoke about, told his followers to “Shoot them in the head” regarding the “communists” who want a revolution. Now with the majority of Beck’s audience being psychopathic, that statement is bad enough. But they interpret “communists” in many ways. The police department is communist to them since it is a government run agency that they feel will try to take their guns and freedoms away. It is an agency they must fight. As Beck said, “Shoot them in the head…they might shoot you first.”

Beck is directly, not indirectly responsible for the deaths of those officers. What he said is not covered under freedom of speech as it was a direct order to incite violence and that’s exactly what happened. Beck must be arrested and indicted on conspiracy to commit murder. It must happen now. If not we are saying it is alright to kill police officers, or any other government worker, because they are “communists.” It will happen again if we don’t take action. Arrest Glenn Beck. Arrest him now!

OUR CHILDREN ARE DYING

Of course we also have to deal with these crazies in our schools. One school shooting after another. It has become so commonplace that it’s just a blip on our Twitter or Facebook feeds. The friends of the kids that are killed tweet their R.I.P’s daily. As though they are tweeting “Happy Graduation” or “Happy Birthday.” It is just expected now. Cry for a few minutes then move on. It’s sick and twisted and the NRA loving Republicans and gun nuts just shrug it off. Their solution is to arm all teachers and children with guns. Yes children. The gun nuts post pictures of their three and four year old kids holding guns. I seem them all the time.Those children should be taken away from them.

We are a sick, cancer ridden nation. Republicans want more guns, more anger, more hate. They want to replace their ultra right wing candidates with ultra ultra right wing candidates. Then replace them with ultra ultra ultra right wing candidates. They want to leave our soldiers behind, then call them and their families horrible names when the black President they hate so much brings them home.

They want a revolution that involves not paying taxes, killing cops and having our children afraid to go to school. As a friend pointed out, the police should notice that it is not the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters that kill them, it’s the right wing scum.

We are living in a crazy house that is called the United States of America.

I need to get out of here. So do you.

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You remember how Palin, McCain and the Republican party embraced Joe in 2008. You won’t hear his name mentioned by McCain now, who party due to senility and party due to the way he is able to bullshit his way out of things, often pretends as though certain things never happened. But Joe did happen as did Palin. McCain and the Republican party are to blame for it.

Now Joe is talking about guns. His first comment was “Their dead kids do not trump my constitutional rights.” He was talking about the parents of the murdered children in the Isla Vista shooting. That comment made me want to sodomize him with one of his fictitious plungers. Now he says “Guns are mostly for hunting down politicians.” That comment makes me want to find six other guys to sodomize him with one of his fictitious plungers.

Is he talking about politicians like Gabby Giffords? You see this might be a joke to Joe. The same way putting targets on the backs of politicians and talking about being “locked and loaded” might be a joke for a douche bag like Palin. But it’s not a joke. Because someone with almost exactly the same looks as Joe, you know, bald head, crazy eyes, the “American red neck look” as I like to call it, did actually shoot a politician. Almost to death. That same gunman killed several people including a little girl. So funny ain’t it Joe?

Now there are even people on my side of the aisle (the sane side) who think guys like Joe are just a cartoon and don’t represent millions of people. Can we really be that naive? Would you like me to show you the photos and videos of Joe talking at McCain/Palin rallies, with prominent Republicans looking on? You see guys like Joe and that Kincannon asshole are EXACTLY what the Republican party has become. It is what they ARE.

It is also what the pro-gun movement has become. A selfish, I want my guns and ammo no matter what movement. No heart, no soul, no caring about fellow human beings…as un-American as could possibly be. In my last column I wrote that I have given up, that the gun nuts had won and that this country is finished because of it. I received responses from people who begrudgingly agreed with me and others who still hold out hope. They don’t want me to give up on the issue of gun violence.

With people as dumb as Joe the Plumber, Todd Kincannon and that fake hillbilly from the phony reality TV show leading the way for the Republican party, how is it that Democrats still don’t own this country? I ask a rhetorical question because the answer is simple. They represent millions of Americans who believe in exactly the same things. They represent a Republican party that still has lots of money and power. Same as the NRA. This is why we see Joe in the news. The media realizes millions WANT to see him, that they stand up and say “Way to go Joe!” We progressives tend to live in a bubble sometimes, we talk with people who agree with us, live in places where we feel most comfortable, around our own.

The reality is that the America we now live in is overrun by people like Joe. They bring their guns to family restaurants, into bars, and churches. Yes they are mostly men whose dicks are small so they need big guns to replace their miniature manhood. This is the new America. The America of Joe the Plumber.

Damn. I swear I was going to try and be more positive with this column. I just can’t be a phony. You want an answer to the gun and violence problem? We can start by destroying the NRA, by any means necessary. Yes the problem goes deeper but this is the heart of the beast, kill it and the rest will die off eventually.

But really, what are the chances of that?

Joe the Plumber wants his guns. To hell with your kids and your politicians. The target is on their backs and he don’t give a shit. He is the Republican party, he is millions of Americans. He is unfortunately not a cartoon character.

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I guess I could have said money and power but it’s one and the same. Violence is how we achieve our power. So it’s no surprise at all that another mad MALE goes on a killing spree. He had left some video and some writings saying that he didn’t have this or couldn’t get that and this is why he needs to kill. Some people are saying he ( I won’t mention his name because he would want that) was a spoiled rich kid. Maybe. The others weren’t. The other killers I mean. But there was one thing that united all of them, well the most obvious thing. They were all Americans.

They all had access to as many guns as they could get their crazed hands on. But there I go again, getting into the arguments I and so many others have made many times before. I’m not gonna go there. It’s pointless. The NRA has money and power and so they control the issue. They control the feckless politicians (Republicans AND Democrats) and therefore no matter what happens, innocent children killed, innocent young girls killed, elderly folks, Jewish folks, whomever, it doesn’t make a difference. Nothing will change.

There are people who are saying BUT THIS TIME it will be different. This time. Because a father is passionate and crying. It won’t. It won’t because he doesn’t have money and power. It won’t because there are too many people like this guy…

Todd Kincannon.

He is not alone. In fact there are enough people like him around now with money and power to destroy the country. That’s exactly what they are doing. Yes our first reaction is to say oh he is just one lunatic. It’s an isolated incident. But it’s not. You know that as well as I do.

KIncannon has the belief that so many other Americans have. That might makes right. That if only our boys were tougher. If only they were warriors. Those of us that are sane know that is EXACTLY the problem. That boys have no outlet for anger. What are they going to do? Go to a father like KIncannon with their fears? He would just say something like “come on grow a pair son!”

But guys like Kincannon want our boys to be MORE aggressive. To carry guns and be ready to use them. He is one sick fuck but he is among many sick fucks in the country. They are winning, heck I believe they have won. The proof is what we are seeing on an almost daily basis.

There is more proof. When I see the remarks from someone like Kincannon, I don’t feel like I want to change things. I don’t feel like I want to call my Representative or the NRA or anybody. All I feel is hatred. All I feel is loathing. I want awful things to happen to him and his kind. I can’t mention those things here. It might be illegal.

This is what I feel. It’s what I feel when there is another mass shooting.

They have won. We are done.

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At the time of the shooting, Draper — an anti-violence activist — was returning from a fundraiser for teen anti-violence group Project Orange Tree. Draper was one of 27 people wounded overnight by gunfire in Chicago. Yep, keep up the great work, NRA; you guys rock!

Leonore Draper had just returned home from A Charitable Confection, a fundraiser for teen anti-violence group Project Orange Tree, when she was shot outside of her home in the 1300 block of West 116th Street, police said. Officers said they heard shots fired in the area around 10:30 p.m. and when they arrived at the scene, they found Draper, 32, in her car with gunshot wounds to the arm and chest.

 

A neighbor said she didn’t realize Draper had been shot until she saw the shattered car window.

 

“I saw her and I kept waiting for her to get out of her car but she didn’t and then I noticed her window was shot out,” said Robin Anderson. “She was 32. That’s it.”

Lenore Draper

 

Draper was transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where she later died, officials said.

Watch the video below:

The new organization will combine Mayors Against Illegal Guns — a group formed by Bloomberg and former Boston mayor Tom Menino — and another group, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, which was founded shortly after the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., in 2012. Those shootings were the impetus for the latest failed attempt at increased background checks for gun-buyers.

 

“There is no question that more needs to be done to tackle this deadly problem, and that’s why more than 1.5 million Americans, nearly 1000 mayors and moms in all 50 states have already come together to fight for common-sense reform that will respect rights and save lives,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “This new organization will bring more people into the fight against gun violence, which affects every town in America.”

With Chicago having the dubious distinction of being the epicenter of gun violence as highlighted by President Barack Obama in the wake of the shooting death of Hadiya Pendleton. To me, it just seems right that Draper would be the face of this renewed push.

Fpr Draper tpo die in vain would be tragic.

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Now this was an horrific event as another unstable American youth went ape shit in the hallways of our schools and began to stab anyone who passed by. However, we can only imagine the horror if this student had a gun, the usual semi-automatic weapon that most of these unstable kids get their hands on. I’m sure we would be talking about another 10-15 dead kids and maybe teachers as well. Thank goodness that by some happy chance this kid didn’t have the ways or means to get a gun.

Of course the gun loonies, through their skewed, gun obsessed way of seeing things, see this as yet another reason to scream about how there are weapons other than guns that can hurt or kill people. They do not acknowledge that none of the people stabbed are dead and that they would indeed be dead if this kid had a gun. That small fact seems to get lost within their obsessive compulsive love and sick fascination with firearms.

Those of us who are not gun loonies can see the stark difference between the damage a knife can cause and a semi-automatic weapon. Not the gun loony. They somehow see a knife, a stick, a broom, a coat hanger, nunchucks.. you name it, on the same level as guns. This is because reason and logic means nothing to them. They are blinded by their obsession, just as one can be blinded by a drug, or sex obsession. The obsessed will find so many different ways to validate and justify their obsession, no matter how extreme it may be.

So gun loonies and the NRA (professional gun loonies) will continue to scream about how this student was able to hurt so many people without a gun. That if a person wants to hurt another person they will find a way even if they can’t find a gun. They will scream about how an armed officer in that school could have shot the disturbed kid to death. Of course this would come after he already stabbed many people and then there would still be at least one dead in this story, instead of none. That would be if this armed officer shot straight and didn’t hit several other people by “accident.”

But there I go again trying to use logic. It’s impossible. 22 people are alive. Hopefully all will survive this horrible tragedy. This is because the weapon used was a knife, not a gun.

Doesn’t matter. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” will continue to be the mantra of the millions of Americans with “OGD.”

Obsessive Gun Disorder.

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Immediately following the shooting we started to hear about guns on military bases and how it is not allowed to carry a concealed weapon. Of course the NRA and the gun loonies of America (their actual name) began screaming about how this could have been prevented if guns were allowed to be carried by all on the bases, even though most officials are against it. Once again their answer is more guns equals less gun violence. But wait….

Fort Hood shooter, Army Specialist Ivan Lopez

All we have heard about is how good guys with guns stop bad guys with guns. Now, there are MP’s on bases that carry guns, many more than we would ever have at, let’s say, an elementary school. They are better trained than any police officer or security guard at a school would be. Yet, this still happened, as it has before and unfortunately probably will again. You see gun violence is usually unpredictable and quick. The people who are shot don’t usually see it coming, that’s why they get shot. This is why the idea that if there were only others with guns to stop things, is a stupid, illogical “argument.” Will the “good guy” with the gun be at the exact spot where the sudden violence takes place? If so, will that person react properly and with the precision of a “Dirty Harry”? In the movies yes, but you see folks, this is real life. Gun loonies, because they are, well, loonies, don’t live in the real world. They live in the movie fantasy world where the good guys with the white hats are always in the right place at the right time, and kill the bad guys with the black hats.

What happened at Fort Hood was a supposed good guy with a gun, a soldier in the United States military, became a bad guy with a gun without warning. Nobody knew he was going to become a bad guy with a gun, but he did. But what he really was, in reality, was just a guy with a gun. And more U.S. gun violence ensued.

The talk should be about fewer guns period. We should also be talking about mental health. What made this good guy soldier snap and become a killer? We hear that they were “looking into” this soldiers issues with PTSD. They obviously didn’t look into it fast enough or just didn’t care enough. This is because we live in a country that is very quick to hand someone a gun or a badge and very slow to “look into” mental illness. What makes good people go bad?

Our answer is.. who cares? Just hand out more guns to people who we THINK are the good guys. If they end up being the bad guys, well, that’s just tough luck. For the most part we have given up in this country when it comes to curbing gun violence. We cheer when Piers Morgan, a smart, passionate man, who spoke out routinely against gun lunatics, loses his show. Hey, he’s just a foreigner who doesn’t love this country! USA USA USA!

Shooting after shooting, kids, soldiers, mothers, fathers, all dead. I can only imagine what they think of us in civilized nations when they see these horror stories happening day after day. All of those normal, sane people around the world must be thinking to themselves, “look at those animals, killing each other.” They don’t make any distinction between who might be a “good guy with a gun”, or a “bad guy with a gun.”

We are just Americans with guns. Those two words have become eerily and depressingly synonymous.

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– Ras Kass, “Anything Goes”

Rick Perry never ceases to entertain me. But before I yap about him, let me get the scenario going.

Many people can say and do some of the most questionable things for the sake of money and support. Or, you can say that they will say strange things DUE to that said money and support. Some will mention things they should not believe. Others will bring up issues that sound shockingly foolish and off-center. At the end of the day, the power of the dollar will make any fool holler.

And what that fool hollers will have the possibility of arousing shrugs, eye rolls, and subtle anger.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry

The fool that hollered goes by the name of Rick Perry. Representing the great state of Texas as governor, Rick Perry advised states and the federal government not to try to close loopholes that allow guns to be purchased without background checks because gun companies did not appreciate that “attitude” [1]. This was said during a panel discussion that dealt with gun laws. Connecticut governor Dan Malloy noted that his state started their own background checks due to the Sandy Hook shootings. Still, Rick Perry found a way to disagree with the idea of having background checks for all.

This is one of the things he said: “The Second Amendment pretty much is a good amendment. And we support it in the state of Texas. The restrictions you’ve seen states like Connecticut — and when you think about the Northeast, that was the Silicon Valley, if you will, of gun manufacturing and you’re seeing those manufacturers leave the Northeast because the taxation, the regulation. And just the attitude towards manufacturers of weapons.” [2]

All I can say is this: Wow.

Understanding How Rick Perry Operates

Okay, that is a falsehood. I’m going to say way more than that. Let us just be honest for a moment: Rick Perry is a whore for gun manufacturers. In fact, he is vying to be their bottom bitch. Let me break this down for you all:

Rick Perry is the same man that received campaign support from the NRA. He probably got more NRA money than Charlton Heston. [3]

Rick Perry is the same man that applauded a Texas school system that allowed staff members to bring guns to school. [4]

Rick Perry is the same man that would have rather pushed for prayer instead of stronger gun laws. [5]

Realistic Expectation of Rick Perry

So, what could be expected in such a situation? There was no other way for his commentary to go. He did not get into anything worth talking about. Rick Perry mentions a bad attitude toward gun manufacturers. Therefore, Rick Perry made it clear where his loyalties lie.

And this, my good readers, is the problem with political support. Politicians are, in too many instances, whores that can be bought and sold. If you can be easily swayed by those that show the most money, you can easily become someone’s hooker. Plenty of situations over the course of American history will show this (just look it up). In short, political support can be bought.

What makes this an even bigger issue is the fact that politicians will always have the possibility at being bought out. This will never bode well for the common man/woman. If there are issues that go against big corporations or groups with deep pockets, then best believe the money will do the talking and the walking. Many of us want to think that politics is about the people. Yet, politics is easily a game of monetary thrones.

Rick Perry and the True Issue of Political Support

This is just another example of how politics is run. There are only two true ways to combat this: we either pool our financial resources or only vote for politicians that are about the people. The latter will seem to be nearly impossible. The former may not be realistic if we don’t get it together. I understand not wanting to play in this dirty game. In the end, the game won’t change and the game doesn’t wait.

Capitalism will always reign supreme when your politicians are well dressed prostitutes. And Rick Perry, for a prostitute, sure does know how to wear a suit and tie.

[Originally posted at Chocolate Covered Lies]

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The numbers are staggering, depressing and now just simply a fact of life in the Unites States of America. There is no end in sight. None. Smart, caring people in the MSM such as Piers Morgan consistently talk about what we need to do as a country to stop the violence. Morgan, who is British, is often derided by low brow, low life, uneducated Americans who tell him to “go back to England.” The same way their ignorant fathers told people who were against Vietnam to “love it or leave it” in regards to living in this country. These people are scum but Morgan, to his credit actually interviews some of them. At first I wondered why because I would simply punch their teeth down their throat if they said that stuff to me. However as I watch Morgan allow them to spew their pro-NRA bile, I understood that it was important to show these people for who they really are.

The big problem, the huge disappointment is that they are winning. They want guns and violence and deaths of children and that’s exactly what is happening almost daily. Yes they WANT deaths of children. NO doubt about it. It’s not being cynical, it’s being honest. They want this because it creates a huge scare across the country which makes dumb people buy more guns. Sales go up, the NRA and their friends make money and they are all very happy. Capitalism at its best!

Howard County Executive Ken Ulman (L) and Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon speak to reporters after a shooting in Columbia, Maryland January 25, …

It has gotten to the point where most shootings aren’t even covered in the news anymore. The threshold seems to be five deaths. More than that and it gets coverage. Over ten deaths and it can become a major story for about a week and then it goes away. Sick ain’t it?

However we can’t blame the MSM for this one. Gun violence has become such a way of life here that it’s almost like car accidents or burglaries. You simply can’t cover them all. This is what the USA has become, a cesspool of violence in which our children can’t even go to school anymore without fear of being killed. Where parents simply do not know if they will see their kids return home from school. This is what WE are. This is what WE have become.

Of course the NRA talks about the need for even MORE guns. So far the police they have placed in some schools have done no good at all. What a shock eh? They have just ticketed students for things like not wearing a seat belt. There have also been horror stories of these officers leaving their guns in school restrooms by mistake. There have even been accidental shootings.

But this is the stuff I and other sane Americans said was going to happen. It won’t change but will only get worse. Only a matter of time before one or more students get killed by an officer who can’t shoot straight. There will be more and more “normal, average” shootings with teenagers taking guns to school and killing innocents.

I know people like Morgan and others want me to talk about ways to end the violence. How we can defeat the NRA and get the right people elected to Congress. But I’m done with all that. There is no way to stop it, and there is only one way to avoid it. To leave the country.

Yes those parents who want their kids to survive their school years must move to a normal country with sane people who don’t need a substitute for their small penis issues. A country like Great Britain, a great country that after a mass shooting in 1996 actually took action and removed most guns. There hasn’t been one mass shooting since. Or if you don’t want to travel that far you can simply move north of the border to Canada. Another country where gun violence pales in comparison to the USA. And they have cowboys there too!

No there is only one answer. To leave. It’s over here. Things will only get worse. The gun culture is way too ingrained here for anything to change. It has been going on too long, the people are too selfish and ignorant to see things any other way.

Just leave parents, please, just leave. Take your family somewhere else and live a normal happy life.

Go now and don’t ever look back.

[Origibally posted at America The NOT So Beautiful]

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