Take comfort in the fact that every time someone types out the phrases "should of (sic) complied" or "play stupid games win stupid prizes" a spirit appears like in A Christmas Carol and shows them the future where they die alone without ever having known the love of another living being.
We hear you, we see you, and we know - as you do - that you're a miserable sorta-excuse for a human being who will never know a moment's happiness let alone be tolerable to any other person. Your existence is a cancer on the world and everyone forced to encounter you, even for a moment, is worse off for it. And unlike this woman shot down in cold blood, the moment you die will pass entirely unnoticed and unremaked upon. It will be like you never existed, and you know every word I said here is true. That's why you act the way you do and talk the way you do - because at night, when you're alone, you know all of this. The only thing that never occurs to you is that everyone around you knows it about you, too. You think your act fools anyone, and that's the scariest thing to you: the possibility that people see you for the coward you are.
They do. We do. Sleep tight. ...
It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.
If you're grasping for anything to feel good about right now - and that's a very difficult thing to find - feel good about the fact that not everyone is as much of a spineless, collaborating coward as our elites. Total strangers will risk their lives to stand next to you. ...
Nan says:
One assumes Vitter keeps his weapon tucked safely in his diaper.
I'd like to see those flaming hypocrites also start taking piss tests for drugs as part of being able to hold on to their jobs. They want the rest of us to do it just to hold down a minimum wage job at Walmart, but won't pee in a cup themselves.
Mrs. Chili says:
Really? Is this even a question? We all KNOW that Congress is a "do as I say, not as I do" institution. They're all for term limits and salary caps and universal health care (and, as you point out, a completely irrational reading of the Second Amendment), as long as those things don't apply to them (well, except for the gold-standard health care thing…)
Flaming hypocrites, indeed.
jazzbumpa says:
That's right. I say, keep the guns in the C & W bars, where they belong.
Nick says:
Missing the point a bit, isn't it? The whole reason pro-gun people want to be allowed to carry on campus is because campuses are NOT secured facilities.
If it were feasible (or desirable) to put metal detectors and armed guards at the entrance to a college campus, then I'd be just fine with restrictions on concealed carry. Until then, however, I see no reason why someone who has passed a background check and concealed carry class, and is legally allowed to carry a firearm across the street from a college campus, should be a criminal if he/she carries one onto campus.
oldfatherwilliam says:
Nick misses the point. Campuses are not the issue. Buildings and classrooms are the issue. That's certainly feasible, and it can be imagined that discard and retrieve rooms could be placed at every entrance so that paranoics could scurry between them fully armed.
Prudence says:
I love the concept in abstract, but I'm a DC resident and frankly, the idea of Michele Batshit Bachmann with a gun fills me with horror. There are bats in her belfry, bats with rabies and plague.