Jen Sorensen for March 20, 2018

Right again, Jen. Gun nuts are just plain NUTS!

They are a Death Cult. They worship devices of death and recite mantras of BS to defend their Cult. Dead people are called statistics to dehumanize them. Suicides don’t count, they have no importance. Another dehumanizing tactic. Assault weapons never hurt anyone, the victims just saw them and spontaneously dropped dead because they didn’t understand how cuddly they are. They need the guns that aren’t military weapons to fight against the government in war. Now if that ain’t a logical fallacy, what is.

What does one hunt that requires you be able to spray the area with a fire rate of 17/second?

I think this is worth sharing once again (apologies if you disagree):

You’re afraid we’ll take away your guns. We’re afraid your guns will be used by evil to take away our children.

How many of your guns have we taken? How many of our children have been taken by evil using your beloved guns?

Whose fears are unfounded?

We hear a lot about the rapid-fire capabilities of assault-style weapons, but not so much about the deliberate destructive force of the ammunition for those weapons. Muzzle velocity is very high, so the kinetic energy of the projectile is very high. The slug is long and thin so that it tumbles upon entry, thus dissipating all of that kinetic energy in the target’s body, destroying flesh and bone to a much greater degree than a slug that would pass right through the target. This diminishes the argument that these guns are used for hunting—the ammo destroys a lot of meat. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/health/parkland-shooting-victims-ar15.html

This just in less than 1 hour ago: Another school shooting, this time in Great Mills High School in Great Mills, Maryland.

Profoundly good (and horribly sad) today, Jen. Thank you.

“…mass shootings would no longer be a problem”? That’s right! Why? Because after the gun smoke clears, there would be no more mass (of people) left to shoot.

No one is advocating for taking all guns – but it will happen if we can’t make sensible laws to protect citizens. Demanding that we all use the politically correct term for guns is a ridiculous from people who refuse to call people by their preferred gender identification, and willfully distort Nazis and Socialists. If everyone understood guns, we wouldn’t be able to stop mass murderers from getting guns. But with sensible legislation, put forth by young adults who have survived school shootings, we might be able to make it safer for future generations.

As someone I know once said, “I may not be a helicopter pilot, but I know when I see one lodged inside a tree I can safely say that guy f(word)ed up.” You don’t have to be a gun expert to know that people shooting up theaters, churches, and schools is a big problem.

Will the NRA begin offering specialty life insurance to members who are victims in mass shootings (to qualify must be killed in a group of four or larger) ?

What gets my goat is when I hear 2nd Amendment fanatics say that the AR-15 isn’t an assault rifle because the AR doesn’t stand for assault rifle. Mass shootings on an all too regular basis and what these people care about are definitions. Truly reprehensible.

I was stunned to see an old “Paladin” (for those under 50, a western set in ~1870s, run at the height of the westerns craze of the late ’50s) re-run this morning about a nice guy being bullied by a gun-toting slob who told him to “strap on a gun or git outta town.” So the guy hires Paladin to teach him to shoot so he can go home again. Long story short, bully gets killed by nice guy, nice guy becomes the guy he killed. Why? Because “strapping on that gun made me feel like SOMEBODY.” 60 years on, here we are….

Some are saying that if we regulate guns, then mass killers will find other ways to kill masses. Let’s see:

1. Timothy McVay used ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3—sorry, not sure how to do subscripts here) fertilizer to kill 168 people in Oklahoma City in April 1995. Since then regulations and vigilance prevent anyone but legitimate users (eg., farmers) from buying large amounts of the stuff. Not so many copycatters using this method.

2. Mohamed Atta and 18 colleagues used airplanes to kill about 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania in 2001. Need I point out the increased difficulty since then of getting a box cutter or other items that could turn an airplane into a WMD past security? Not so many copycatters here, either.

But we cannot do this with firearms that can be used as WMDs?

They were armed with just simple common box cutter knives and one of their own got them on board. The pane’s cockpit should have been sealed with an armored door.What happened there? Also one armed air marshal could have taken them all down. Where was he or she?

That law that protects gun makers from being sued needs to be over turned.

Ban the AR-15, the weapon of choice for school mass murderers.

Why is it that the federal government is NOT ALLOWED to collect data on gun violence?

Is collecting information about guns exactly the same as total confiscation of all guns?

Actually, what HAS happened and what IS CURRENTLY happening is very simply that forces in the Kremlin and other ideologically opposing parties have finally come to the conclusion, correctly, that America needn’t be “conquered”, they merely needed to be “neutralized!”

So the oppositional forces set out to isolate America (big, beautiful wall, anyone?) by convincing the rest of the world that we were crazy isolationists who rejected the rest of the free world (let’s destroy trade agreements and climate accords while selectively banning SOME people from entering our country in a purely arbitrary and haphazard manner.) And they did all this by injecting a willing (I believe one of their early leaders referred to his kind as a “useful idiot”) ‘mole’ into power! At the same time, they decided that since they were NO LONGER having to actually invade the country, they would encourage the natural “crazies” within the country to believe they had a “right” to arm themselves while both playing to and encouraging their natural paranoias and fears of “The Other”. They did THIS by infiltrating and taking over an existing domestic terrorist group known as the National Rifle Association and using that group to not only ‘buy off’ a nominally national political party through generous political contributions, but also, at the same time, encouraging the belief that “THEY” were going to cause, in some nefarious, possibly clandestine manner, the confiscation of your guns (and, possibly, to kill your first-born, at the same time, though THAT part of the plan was never spelled out, in detail, I assume.)

And it’s working, people; it’s working! To increasing portions of the world, not only are we the “Ugly American” (is that book even still available?) we’re also the “Crazy American”, as well!

The people who claim that their expertise about guns trumps my concern about gun violence (and yes, I’ve run into them) are beyond absurd. I know guns are designed to kill people. I know bullets come out of them and make holes in people. Everything else is a very minor detail.