Second Amendment Gone Wild!

Our nation of reactionary sheep has had a lot of talk about guns since that December massacre. Most people have learned who Wayne LaPierre and the NRA are, and a Marist poll has shown that more than 95% of our country has opinions on new gun control legislation. In fact, a Marist poll reports that 60% of those polled favor stricter laws in general (including 43% of gun owners); 59% are in favor of banning assault weapons; an overwhelming eighty-seven percent support universal background checks before gun sales, while only 12% oppose. It is amazing that in a democracy, the people's opinion has so little to do with legislation. What really matters is the wants of special interest groups, and what scares me is that an NRA spokesman said this week that the group advocates having more guns in schools. Historically speaking, that hasn't worked out to well. Thankfully, Connecticut's senate passed new laws yesterday banning high capacity magazines and 100   weapons that had previously been legal.

It's not all doom and gloom, though. I was struck when finding two similarly crazy stories two days in a row. 

In Texas, the Armed Citizens Project has been raising money in order to give people free guns. Once people pass a background check and a safety course, the Project is just giving out guns. Here you go! 

A town north of Atlanta is upping the Texans in this Second Amendment game of chicken. Nelson, Georgia's city council voted to mandate gun ownership. To be fair, the ordinance is not quite as crazy as it sounds at first. It excludes felons, and people known to be mentally ill, but applies to everyone else. That is, unless any citizen objects to gun ownership. That has to be the most useless law I've ever heard of. All citizens are required to own guns, unless they don't want to. 

It'd be fun to watch if the game of chicken continued. Imagine if some state, like Kentucky for instance, set up stands on the street where people could check out guns for an hour or two. Then, maybe in Mississippi, all cars will be fitted with Gatling guns othe roof, while over in Alabama, all citizens' houses will have rocket launchers attached to them. Roll tide!

I just had to post this guy. He was protesting the gun laws in Connecticut. His sign on the right side of the picture is hilarious. First he says, "ConnecTicuT!!!" with spastic capitalization and three exclamation points. Then below a version of the USSR flag, he says, "The unconstitional STaTe!!!" First of all, he has more of his capitalized T's and three exclamation marks, but what really makes the picture what it is is the fact that he misspells "unconstitutional". How educated we Americans are!