I think you probably mean “ordnance-obsessed,” not “ordinance-obsessed.”

This has been a spelling pedantry announcement. We return you to your regularly scheduled blog post.

Thanks, QitB, I was gonna point out the same thing but because I love and respect Mrs. P in way that is probably illegal in Utah and would make Mr. Polly all grenade-y and stuff, I refrained from doing so and now you must deal with your coal-black soul for calling out Mrs. P.

Thanks, QitB and HB. Correction made. And now, back to my Jane’s.

I watched the Wayne LaPierre Insanity Show in real time and am still a bit gobsmacked by it. I wasn’t foolish enough to hope for an admission of culpability or actual constructive input. But I was kind of surprised that he proposed an NRA-sponsored police state. Or at least, that’s the logical progression of what he proposed since mass shootings don’t always happen at schools. Also2, I was unclear on if this is supposed to be a paid or volunteer army of heat-packers.

Pity poor Wayne LaPierre

Here’s the thing: I don’t want the person who’s teaching my children to be able to shoot someone. I want my police officers and my soldiers to be able to do it, but I recognize that the type of training required to be able to shoot someone changes something in you.

And I don’t want teachers or principals or cafeteria workers to be that person.

Fuck LaPierre, and he can keep that bullshit smugness and sanctimonious attitude and shove it all right up his ass. This country is going to move ahead and find ways to get rid of the worst weapons and then we’re going to figure out how to help kids who are bullied and outsiders and make the angry young white man obsolete. We can do it, over the shriveling corpse of the NRA.

Sorry, but this just burns me up.

Well, if it was easy, we would have figured it out by now. I read comments in the local newspaper and shudder to think how many total loons are living next door, figuratively speaking. But if not now, then when? If we don’t tell LaPierre to shove it now, it will take another mass murder to remind everyone.

I think people don’t understand that we don’t have to win the entire war on guns, we just have to win a battle at a time. Assault weapons, ridiculously large magazines, identifying and helping angry young white males, licensing and background checks; trying to do it all is too much. But we can do it in bits, I really think we can. And if it takes time, at least you’re making progress instead of remaining idle.

Something’s got to give. And Wayne LaPierre can go fuck himself.

The “arm everybody” yahoos like LaPierre want us all to live our lives as though there were a gun-wielding maniac lurking around every corner.

They seem not to realize that if they got their way, there would be a gun-wielding maniac lurking around every corner.

Lead smelters and funeral directors have to eat too, you know.

They eat lobster and filets.  We eat lead.

Sorry, my snark is not as fluffy as usual.

@BBBB: Since this guy here didn’t have a gun, he must not have been such a good guy. /NRA logic

In the real world, it seems that the shooters are rarely stopped by “good guys with guns”, at least not civilian good guys.

I think Acorn and the New Black Panthers should be allowed to get in on the gravy train of gov funded security in schools. Or would that idea get shot down? (See what I did.?)

Also2, I was unclear on if this is supposed to be a paid or volunteer army of heat-packers.

XE Services aka Blackwater recently acquired a new alias—Academi.  Who’s ahead of the wave or what? 

Well, if it was easy, we would have figured it out by now. I read comments in the local newspaper and shudder to think how many total loons are living next door, figuratively speaking. But if not now, then when? If we don’t tell LaPierre to shove it now, it will take another mass murder to remind everyone.
I think people don’t understand that we don’t have to win the entire war on guns, we just have to win a battle at a time. Assault weapons, ridiculously large magazines, identifying and helping angry young white males, licensing and background checks; trying to do it all is too much. But we can do it in bits, I really think we can. And if it takes time, at least you’re making progress instead of remaining idle.

Something’s got to give. And Wayne LaPierre can go fuck himself.

Couldn’t have said it better myself…Kudos, donnah.  I agree 1000%