Archive for April, 2007

Despite the massacre of 33 lives on the Virginia Tech campus last week, the gun nuts went ahead with their "we love gun violence" rally on the steps of the state capitol on Tuesday and managed, somehow, to go beyond the usual standard of nutball embarrassment to the kind of wet, sticky embarrassment one can only find after attending a Neo-Nazi march or a "Mothers For Britney Spears" meeting.

A couple of brain surgeons held up a sign suggesting State Rep. Angel Cruz should be "lynched from the tree of liberty" for daring to introduce a gun registration bill.

My own take of the racial biases of the pro-gun types can be found here, but the short form is this: the people who support gun rights, particularly in Pennsylvania babble about freedom, but in fact support genocide. The fact is this: if you are black, you are more likely to be shot and killed in Pennsylvania than any other state. C’mon, folks, Mississippi is appalled about how racist we are here in the Keystone state.

But for the sake of this piece, on this site, let’s skip over the minor genocide thing.

Let’s talk about freedom, shall we?

The hypocrites in the state legislature who are pandering on this issue, Bill DeWeese, I am so looking at you, want to protect the freedom of gun owners by keeping them anonymous. However, they won’t protect the freedom of a 16-year-old girl, who was merely walking down the street last night when she was shot to death. They won’t protect the freedom of Philadelphia to pass its own gun laws. Someone else, odds are, will die today in Philadelphia, from a gun. Their right to life, it seems, is inferior to that of gun owners.

That’s some form of freedom we have here. I have the right to run down to my local merchant of death, Targetmasters, and buy a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol. A family in West Philadelphia gets the freedom to mourn the loss of an innocent teenage girl.

Some deal.

Nice to see the courage there in Harrisburg on the gun registration law.

But it’s all good…because you know, guns don’t kill people, people do, right?

I can’t wait for the dog and pony show next week…in Harrisburg next week, when fun people like Steve Barrar advocate gun violence. "cause at the end of the day, that’s what we’re talking about. And really, at the end of the day, who’s really more responsible for your spouse or kids being murdered, the Meth-addicted guy who shoots them, or the state legislator who made it easier for the meth-head to get the gun.

My money is on the latter, frankly.

http://www.ihateitall.com/bm/politics/guns-really-do-kill-people.shtml

And by the way, for those of you looking for definitive proof that Bill DeWeese is, in fact, Satan, read his quotes about Angel Cruz’ gutsy, but doomed bill.

Nothing like success to keep one from updating their blog. My new baseball site, FlushingUniversity.com cracked the Alexa.com top 50,000 and it’s been something of a runaway success.

In fact, now I’m looking at doing a similar Phillies’ site at some point down the road — so those of you wanting to talk about Chase Utley or Ryan Howard at length should speak up and let me know if you’d be interested.

Obviously, I continue to write — and today, just to be contrary, suggest the Rev. Al Sharpton is racist against African-Americans in his tirade against radio host Don Imus.