The Democrats Debate
I didn't watch the democratic debate. Having been a democrat until about forty, I can easily enough predict the plan. Which plan? Whose plan? Does it matter. So, here's a list of what was likely said.
A. Abortion is the best thing for women...."ever!"
B. Paying higher taxes is the responsibility of all Americans, so
the government can give you things. (Instead of you paying for
those things yourself and getting rid of the middle man.)
C. When it comes to racial issues, it's still 1958 and the U.S. is
Alabama, Bull Connor is alive and well and America is
caught in a time warp of the democratic party's making.
D. Climate Change is the great eminent threat. The planet is
heating up, even if the actual global temperature hasn't risen
in almost twenty years. Yes, they lied about polar bears dying,
but it was for your own good. And, if almost all of their
predictions have failed, it's the Tea Party's fault.
E. ISIS...? What ISIS? Radical Islam? What radical Islam? Oh,
you mean right-wing Christians? Now you're talking.
F. And, finally, gun control. Pass some new gun law that will do what no existing gun law has previously done, but somehow, this time it will work. These are what I call "Somebody needs to do something laws." And generally are acts of desperation that tend to ignore the facts, but are enacted to create the impression of having done something. As long as legislators are going to ignore the relevant data, that being; that essentially 99% of all legal gun owners never commit gun-related crimes, proposed gun control measures will rightly be viewed as a joke, with the democrats acting as the comedians of the moment. Cop killer bullets, street-legal machine-guns and other mythical weapons of choice are already banned. In reality, it's gang violence that's the biggest problem, but don't tell anybody. It's just too damned hard to fix. It's simply easier to pretend the 2nd amendment doesn't exist and take everyone's guns, except the criminals, that is.
Mark Magula
A. Abortion is the best thing for women...."ever!"
B. Paying higher taxes is the responsibility of all Americans, so
the government can give you things. (Instead of you paying for
those things yourself and getting rid of the middle man.)
C. When it comes to racial issues, it's still 1958 and the U.S. is
Alabama, Bull Connor is alive and well and America is
caught in a time warp of the democratic party's making.
D. Climate Change is the great eminent threat. The planet is
heating up, even if the actual global temperature hasn't risen
in almost twenty years. Yes, they lied about polar bears dying,
but it was for your own good. And, if almost all of their
predictions have failed, it's the Tea Party's fault.
E. ISIS...? What ISIS? Radical Islam? What radical Islam? Oh,
you mean right-wing Christians? Now you're talking.
F. And, finally, gun control. Pass some new gun law that will do what no existing gun law has previously done, but somehow, this time it will work. These are what I call "Somebody needs to do something laws." And generally are acts of desperation that tend to ignore the facts, but are enacted to create the impression of having done something. As long as legislators are going to ignore the relevant data, that being; that essentially 99% of all legal gun owners never commit gun-related crimes, proposed gun control measures will rightly be viewed as a joke, with the democrats acting as the comedians of the moment. Cop killer bullets, street-legal machine-guns and other mythical weapons of choice are already banned. In reality, it's gang violence that's the biggest problem, but don't tell anybody. It's just too damned hard to fix. It's simply easier to pretend the 2nd amendment doesn't exist and take everyone's guns, except the criminals, that is.
Mark Magula