Anyone With Eyes Would See This Coming
Over the past eight years (at the very least) those of us who tend to "lean left" have been subject to a barrage of hate, disdain, and abuse from those who disagree with us. This was particularly the case after the United States' first African-American President was elected. Racism that bubbled beneath the surface for years boiled to the surface.
I'd keep seeing this characterization of "liberals" as some type of coward who sat in a corner crunching on granola. Nothing could be further from the truth. Liberals are actually more courageous, preferring the randomness of "the undiscovered country" - the future - to the comfort of a false history. They tend to see the world as it really is, rather than some false Norman Rockwell-like painting.
I put up with threats and intimidation tactics from people who assumed liberals never touched a gun or knew anything about them. I thing this false image gave the taunters and abusers a level of comfort - they felt like they were intimidating people who would never fight back. They were acting like bullies, pure and simple. I've always been honest about my gun ownership and I know many others who feel the same way I do. Many people I know from the military, disgusted with how veterans have been treated, feel the same way as well. Would you say they didn't know how to handle a weapon?
Still, the bullies felt safe hurling their insults. Even this country's current resident of the White House felt comfortable hurling these types of insults and encouraging "the second amendment types" to "do something" about Hillary Clinton.
I began warning people - take away people's ability to get health care, put food on the table, own a home, get paid an honest day's wage for a decent day's work, and you're headed toward rebellion. Most rebellions come up when people stop being able to feed their families. Have a father watch his child die due to a treatable condition that they cannot afford treatment for or health insurance, and you'll start seeing what happens.
Yesterday the first volley in the rebellion was fired. Do I condone it? No. Am I surprised by it? No. Will there be more problems like this? Most definitely yes, if the powers that be in Washington do not listen to their constituents. We are looking at the tip of the iceberg. It has nothing to do with protests. It has nothing to do with Bernie Sanders. It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the American Dream, and being able to work an honest day's work and go home to your own home in your own car and have food on the table and not have to worry about losing it all due to a visit to the doctor's office.
My stance on gun control has always been to treat them the same way we treat motor vehicles. Licensing and registration. No transfer of ownership without a background check, no matter who it is between. Prove you've taken a hunter safety/gun safety class before you can own them. People who are convicted of violent crimes, including domestic abuse, should be prevented from legally owning them. Will it stop them from getting one illegally? No. At least, in the long run, we can trace it back to who sold it to them illegally though. That won't happen overnight, but maybe by the time I leave this world it would be better.
James Hodgkinson, the shooter in Alexandria yesterday, had a domestic violence conviction. Under common-sense gun laws it would have been illegal for him to own a gun. The NRA has used its influence with Republican lawmakers to block any legislation like this. Can we prove he wouldn't have gotten his hands on a weapon if this legislation had been in place? No. And we can't prove that he would have, either.
Steve Scalise didn't deserve to get shot. That's about the nicest thing you can say about him. He's cultivated hate groups as part of his constituency. Funny how when spinning last night that the "rhetoric needs to be toned down" it wasn't about the racial hatred that's been spewed for the last 8+ years. That has been responsible for numerous incidents of violence and a number of deaths, including those on a train in Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago. On that, they are all silent. Scalise has no problem embracing this hatred. Does it mean he deserved to be shot? Absolutely not. All I am saying is that he is the victim of exactly what he and others have been encouraging all along and only are becoming "outraged" when it's coming home to roost. Do you think Faux News and other would be showing this sort of outrage if a Trumpanzee shot Kamala Harris? They'd be spinning it to how she deserved it because of her tough questioning of Jeff Sessions.
Be careful what you wish for, Trumpanzees. The Confederacy was eager for war in the Civil War because they thought they'd whip the Yankees and be home in a few months. They all thought they were better armed and more courageous and noble. Things didn't go that way. The fantasy narrative they created didn't pan out in the real world. The same is true now. Trumpanzees have no problem with this image of walking down the street, shooting unarmed "liberals" like they are target practice. Like Eric Trump said, they don't even consider us human.
I'd keep seeing this characterization of "liberals" as some type of coward who sat in a corner crunching on granola. Nothing could be further from the truth. Liberals are actually more courageous, preferring the randomness of "the undiscovered country" - the future - to the comfort of a false history. They tend to see the world as it really is, rather than some false Norman Rockwell-like painting.
I put up with threats and intimidation tactics from people who assumed liberals never touched a gun or knew anything about them. I thing this false image gave the taunters and abusers a level of comfort - they felt like they were intimidating people who would never fight back. They were acting like bullies, pure and simple. I've always been honest about my gun ownership and I know many others who feel the same way I do. Many people I know from the military, disgusted with how veterans have been treated, feel the same way as well. Would you say they didn't know how to handle a weapon?
Still, the bullies felt safe hurling their insults. Even this country's current resident of the White House felt comfortable hurling these types of insults and encouraging "the second amendment types" to "do something" about Hillary Clinton.
I began warning people - take away people's ability to get health care, put food on the table, own a home, get paid an honest day's wage for a decent day's work, and you're headed toward rebellion. Most rebellions come up when people stop being able to feed their families. Have a father watch his child die due to a treatable condition that they cannot afford treatment for or health insurance, and you'll start seeing what happens.
Yesterday the first volley in the rebellion was fired. Do I condone it? No. Am I surprised by it? No. Will there be more problems like this? Most definitely yes, if the powers that be in Washington do not listen to their constituents. We are looking at the tip of the iceberg. It has nothing to do with protests. It has nothing to do with Bernie Sanders. It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the American Dream, and being able to work an honest day's work and go home to your own home in your own car and have food on the table and not have to worry about losing it all due to a visit to the doctor's office.
My stance on gun control has always been to treat them the same way we treat motor vehicles. Licensing and registration. No transfer of ownership without a background check, no matter who it is between. Prove you've taken a hunter safety/gun safety class before you can own them. People who are convicted of violent crimes, including domestic abuse, should be prevented from legally owning them. Will it stop them from getting one illegally? No. At least, in the long run, we can trace it back to who sold it to them illegally though. That won't happen overnight, but maybe by the time I leave this world it would be better.
James Hodgkinson, the shooter in Alexandria yesterday, had a domestic violence conviction. Under common-sense gun laws it would have been illegal for him to own a gun. The NRA has used its influence with Republican lawmakers to block any legislation like this. Can we prove he wouldn't have gotten his hands on a weapon if this legislation had been in place? No. And we can't prove that he would have, either.
Steve Scalise didn't deserve to get shot. That's about the nicest thing you can say about him. He's cultivated hate groups as part of his constituency. Funny how when spinning last night that the "rhetoric needs to be toned down" it wasn't about the racial hatred that's been spewed for the last 8+ years. That has been responsible for numerous incidents of violence and a number of deaths, including those on a train in Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago. On that, they are all silent. Scalise has no problem embracing this hatred. Does it mean he deserved to be shot? Absolutely not. All I am saying is that he is the victim of exactly what he and others have been encouraging all along and only are becoming "outraged" when it's coming home to roost. Do you think Faux News and other would be showing this sort of outrage if a Trumpanzee shot Kamala Harris? They'd be spinning it to how she deserved it because of her tough questioning of Jeff Sessions.
Be careful what you wish for, Trumpanzees. The Confederacy was eager for war in the Civil War because they thought they'd whip the Yankees and be home in a few months. They all thought they were better armed and more courageous and noble. Things didn't go that way. The fantasy narrative they created didn't pan out in the real world. The same is true now. Trumpanzees have no problem with this image of walking down the street, shooting unarmed "liberals" like they are target practice. Like Eric Trump said, they don't even consider us human.
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