Step back from Outrage Ledge a moment, because I know you want to jump again, but listen. Yes, I know you want me to be all Ramboesque in my classroom with my AR hanging off my back and Glock on my hip on trend with your Tea Party fashion sense, but we need to talk.
See, I'm ready to call you on the hypocrisy because I'm tired of your bullshit. I have laughed you off as trivial and ignored your stupid because, well, I am a liberal and I have compassion for all. But this shit has to stop.
You scream about shutting down the government because of a bogus smear on Planned Parenthood. You are willing to make life miserable for millions as you hold your breath and turn blue over a legal procedure that the vast majority of Americans hope never to need and don't endorse as a first choice solution. You galvanize millions and raise God knows how much money in your "cut off the nose to spite the face" approach to unplanned pregnancy. You are SO motivated by an issue (that is proven untrue, and even if true, isn't funded by the government) that you think we need to just shut down everything to make a point.
And then you lose your shit over the president lamenting our gun situation in the US. You go nutsocraycray over the idea someone wants to take your Glock after 9 more people died because, hey, what's 40,000 in 2015 so long as you got your gun?
In all your chest-beating, name-calling, nanny-stating tirades, did you ever stop to think about this? No one is saying we should shut down the government. Over 40,000 people dead due to gun incidents this year and no political figures are going nuts to make a futile, detrimental point through politics.
Almost half a million people have died due to gun violence since 2001 per CNN, but you haven't made one argument on the floor of the House or Senate to shut things down until action is taken. All I keep reading and hearing about is how Obama and those damn liberals want to take my gun away and how schools are sissy because they are gun-free.
Republicans use the shutdown as a political tool with blatant disregard for the lives of the employees and citizens they affect. It has become a weapon for them to lord over the opposition when an issue is heated.
Meanwhile, Democrats in DC keep on doing their job. They don't rise up in fury and threaten to hold the entire country hostage over a VERY REAL issue because that's not what serious adults do. I don't always agree with them--and God knows, since I live in Tennessee, I don't even get to vote for them--but they don't reduce serious issues to toddler-level bargaining. They look for answers.
All the while, your clown car full of POTUS wannabes is sure to vomit up all kinds of retorts to the president about knives, rocks, and good guys with guns (and never bother to count the number of good guys with guns that #gunfail).
When are they going to call for a shutdown? When are they going to put this level of death and tragedy to the same level they do a hacked up hit job video? When are they going to DEMAND action that could stop the deaths of 400,000 actual living, breathing humans who contributed to our society and stop trying to legislate a procedure that NO ONE thinks is a great first choice?
I don't expect an intelligent response because you act upon fear, ignorance and panic fueled by the NRA's master class on how to indoctrinate the masses. I can only hope that the Democrats can get their freaking shit together and unite behind an electable candidate that will keep your crazy asses out of the White House and in charge of the SCOTUS because a right wing court scares me way more than another guy with a gun at this point.