Comments on: NRA: Enabler Of Death

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:33:32 +0000

Hello,
Unfortunately The only people that gun laws have an effect on are law abiding citizens. The crimminal or the person intent on going on some kind of spree dosen’t care about the law. Yes iys true that you can make it ‘harder’ for some person to get a hold of a large capacity magazine or an assault weapon, but you will not keep him or her from getting it eventually. So I guess by making it harder you ‘may’ get the chance to thwart the plan, but then again maybe not. Gun laws make lawfull people criminals by way of ignorance. Happened to my father. He had WWII trophies that he brought back years ago. Never thought twice about them. They were locked in a safe and sat there for 50 years. Our house was broken into and during the investigation the police asked to have access to the safe. Bingo! Was it a jailable offence? No, eventually it all got worked out, however it made my pop a crimminal, a person whom has never broken the law in his life. It isnt going to work. I am not an NRA supporter. I believe they are just a tool used by big corp and politians and do nothing about our rights in actuality. We have to figure out what makes people do what they do and the communities where these people live need to watch for signs and pay attention to things around them. This is not a fool proof way either obviously, but society is creating these folks and I for one see society becoming more and more selfcentered and apathetic..ignore it and maybe it will go away…mantra prevails. Just my two and a half.

By: MM-1

MM-1 — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:10:44 +0000

First of all, Bush bailed out those banks. The 100+ billion of Bush money Obama gave them he got back in full. And those banks were bailed out cuz they would’ve dragged down the whole country.

Who did you think was going to cover all of the people’s money in those banks? The FDIC was already busted. Not to mention all of the businesses that rely on these banks for payroll, loans, etc. That 400+ billion bailout was peanuts compared to what could’ve been. Nobody liked bailing them out, there was just no other way.

As far as heath care goes, there was no mistake in the law. If those people don’t get the HC coverage they need, it’s because the GOP refused to take the money and provide it. Why are you crying about people being covered anyway, the POS GOP will provide nothing to 10x the amount of people.

As far as the economy goes, where’s the Romney / GOP plan to fix it? Go look at the GOP’s job bills, bank deregulation, drill holes & spew toxic waste. That’ll create millions of jobs alright. Obama already has oil rigs at a 25 year high, where’s the lower unemployment from it?

Regardless of what you & the wing-nut GOP say, Obama has put over 3 million people back to work and kept many people from losing their homes. Romney wanted to throw them all out & let the market bottom. You shouldn’t criticize Obama when Romney & neo-cons offer zilch.

By: FA

FA — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:47:36 +0000

David Gergen, CNN Analyst, Reveals Extent Of Bain Capital Ties While ‘Reporting’ On Firm
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I always thought Gergen was an upright reporter and man..

but now he’s nothing more than a “Bain man” masquering as a journalist to make sure Bain, Romney & his cronies continue to bankrupt companies, pay people little to nothing, fire people and outsource their jobs outside the US and make huge amounts of money from the taxpayers and the other fools they sold the scraps of people lives to.

By: Zen Lill

Zen Lill — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:13:33 +0000

Perry, I’ll say ‘point taken’ although its exactly bc you and my dear departed daddy were in law enforcement I would only say, OK have it your way, though I know for a fact my father did not work in gang prevention, do you? I’m only asserting that perhaps you’re correct in that white killings like CO might not happen as readily but it perhaps leaves at risk peeps even further at risk, such as gang members – there’s a lot of gang members here in LA who most certainly could connect with illegal weapons, (and some of them are really trying to get out of the life). It is a good start to ban/make illegal, I agree, though I tend to think things through from a place of of ecology, how does this one thing effect everything within it’s realm (or out of its immediate realm for that matter).

I won’t assert anything else, you all know better than I, just giving my counterpoint here as usual bc life is messy and if things were so easy as to just ban or make something illegal and it all goes away – well, that, is living in utopia and I am IN.

Stone, thanks, and perhaps I heard Chris Rock’s joke and it stuck in my head to be called out yesterday, but I don’t recall hearing it. And like in so many other matters, CR calls it like he sees it, so do I, and yup – it’d get expensive to kill people charging by the bullet. Love the name.

Luv, Zen Lill

By: Stone

Stone — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 13:55:54 +0000

Zen Lill I like your idea of controlling the bullets. I remember a comic, I think it was Chris Rock that made a joke about if bullets were expensive people would not shoot other people so much.

It occurred to me then that it would be a good idea to control the bullets. Nice thinking lady.

Stone