The first song on the first album:
A day with Frank Zappa 1971
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
New Jersey Cop Injures Himself in a Negligent Discharge - Reported in the Passive Voice as if it Were the Gun's Fault
An off-duty southern New Jersey police officer suffered a minor hand wound when a pistol he was unloading at his home accidentally discharged.
Gloucester Township police say the shooting occurred just before 3 a.m. Sunday.
The officer's name was not disclosed, but authorities said he serves on the Gloucester force and the weapon involved was a pistol that he owns. The discharge occurred at his Bromley Drive residence in the township.
The officer was treated at a hospital and released a short time later. No other injuries were reported.
Authorities said the shooting remains under investigation.
What do Gun Control Advocates Mean by "Gun Control?"
Last year after another horrible accidental shooting made headlines, someone pointed out that “we don’t want to control your guns. We want YOU to control your guns.” It’s a line I’ve parroted here many times because it’s so true. The fact that we have so many gun accidents, mass shootings, gun crime with stolen weapons, etc. is proof that gun owners cannot control their own guns.
Case in point: this good piece on the absence of responsibility and gun safety from our national conversation on guns. This quote from Ladd Everitt, of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, resonates:
“There’s no reasonability and no discussion about what one’s responsibility should be. It’s long past due to have a serious discussion about the responsibilities that come with these Second Amendment rights.”
I don’t understand why this has been ignored. It’s all “mah rahts!” and full stop. The gun loonz shout over anyone who dares point out that not all gun owners are the most responsible ever, and even the most responsible gun owner has moments of being irresponsible. It’s as if merely owning a gun makes them “one of us” and they don’t need to be accountable for their behavior, ever.
18-Year-old School Shooter, Karl Pierson, Bought Gun Legally
Karl Pierson and shooting victim Claire Davis
Business Insider
The 18-year-old Colorado high school student who shot a classmate in the head and then killed himself in the school's library on Friday legally purchased a gun one week before the attack, ABC News reports.
Karl Pierson's target was reportedly a faculty member at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colo., but the number of weapons he had on him suggested that he intended to harm more people.
"His intent was evil and his evil intent was to harm multiple individuals," Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said during a press conference Saturday.
Anyone over the age of 18 can legally buy a shotgun in Colorado, according to the Associated Press.
Monday, December 16, 2013
What do the Gun-Rights Advocates Mean by "Right?"
The "right" these gun nuts keep talking about is this:
right to life
right to self defense (to protect life)
right to own a particular inanimate object called a gun
This bizarre and wild jump from the second proposition to the third is what they refer to as "the right." It's total made-up bullshit. Furthermore the 2nd amendment had nothing to do with it. They hijacked the amendment for their crazy argument and repeated it a million times until it took on a life of its own. But, it just ain't so. There is no "right" to own guns.
right to life
right to self defense (to protect life)
right to own a particular inanimate object called a gun
This bizarre and wild jump from the second proposition to the third is what they refer to as "the right." It's total made-up bullshit. Furthermore the 2nd amendment had nothing to do with it. They hijacked the amendment for their crazy argument and repeated it a million times until it took on a life of its own. But, it just ain't so. There is no "right" to own guns.
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