This is probably my last post as we have decided the internet / TV is a luxury we can’t afford right now so figured I would go out with a bang and probably offend a lot of people but I’m tired of being PC.
The last 8 years we saw an explosion in right wing militias and how many times have you got into an argument with a gun nut and had him tell you that owning a gun is his right to protect him from the government. We saw protesters show up at President Obama events with guns and often saw signs that read “we came unarmed this time”. They’ve become so delusional they think that the 2nd amendment was written so they can take up arms against a government they feel is out of control when in reality it was created so states could run their own militias.
Donald Trump himself said that if Hillary won that maybe the only way to stop her would be the 2nd amendment and we saw several republican politicians talk about using their 2nd amendment rights to take back Washington. Yesterday all that talk came to life when a nut job picked up his rifle and used those right they threatened to for 8 years.
After the shots were fired republicans ran to the cameras almost as fast as they ran from the wounded and started blaming democrats (and of course racist Steve King is the 1st to blame Obama). They ignored all the violence promoted by the man they put in the white house and all his division, they ignored that violence has exploded since Donald Trump announced he is running for office. More Americans have died in domestic terrorist acts in the time that Donald Trump has ran and been president than died in every year after 9/11 combined.
Republicans called Obama a dictator for signing executive orders when Donald Trump has signed more in his first 6 months than some have signed in 8 years yet they were shocked when someone decided to take up arms at what he thought was a government that no longer represented the people but the rich and why would he think that since all they have done these last 6 months is
1. Voted to take healthcare from 24,000,000 Americans so the top 10% can get billions in tax cuts
2. Voted to gut Dodd Frank so there are no more protections for people against banks and Wall Street
3. Voted to allow financial managers to do what they wanted, under Obama a law was passed that they must do what’s in the best interest of the person investing with them but now they can do what’s in their own best interest even if you lose everything.
4. Pushing the largest corporate and tax cut for the wealthy in American history that will be paid for on the backs of the working and middle class.
For 6 months everything republicans have been doing have been to make the rich richer at the expense of the middle class and poor. In their eyes the family that owns Wal Mart have a rougher life than the employees they hire who need Medicaid and food stamps just to feed and insure their kids even after working 30+ hours a week.
I consider myself pro life (not pro fetus) so every living person is a gift so I do not condone shooting or violence against anyone no matter how vile they are. I don’t own any guns because I don’t live life in fear, to me if you can’t leave the house feeling safe without a gun that says a lot about you and republicans rely on that irrational fear and even win elections on it.
That said you can not claim that you love guns because they protect you from government and vote to make it easier for mentally ill people to own guns and fight against suspected terrorists buying guns (both things republicans have done) and be shocked when guns are used.
This guy was a nut job, he was the liberal version of the Bundy family with only difference being he pulled the trigger. You can’t claim the Bundy family are heroes for standing up to the government than attack this guy for doing the same thing.
Finally the coverage kind of made me sick, it was at least the 150th shooting this year but the 1st to get 24 hour coverage because it was a politician. 2 soldiers die in Afghanistan it gets a mention, 4 children all under 16 were the victims of a mass shooting and it doesn’t even get a crawl across the bottom of the screen. The UPS shooter got 10 minutes just because it was the 2nd shooting of the day otherwise it wouldn’t have got any mention. I feel for the Scalise family just like I do for all those who are victims of senseless gun violence.
It’s simple don’t shoot anyone, respect life as much as you do a fetus but don’t threaten to use your 2nd amendment rights and then act shocked and upset when someone does.