NP - It's not the video games
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Fri Dec 21 11:53:06 CST 2012
In a tangentially related matter, one gop consultant, Craig Shirley, in
talking about their failure to come up with a responsible plan to negotiate
around the fiscal sludge, characterizes the Republican party as "simply a
collection of warring tribal factions"--a condition that does not bode well
for right wing pressure to institute any such radical policy as the NRA
suggests for schools. Granted, the Dems are not much better in terms of a
united vision for the future, but they do have the majority of educated
minds behind them when it comes to proposing functional ideas.Where it
stops nobody knows, but there are reasons to hope the dialog will not be
derailed by the spewing fanatics of the nra.
On the other hand, it was Obama, with Pelosi's help, who passed unwarranted
and unlimited powers of arrest and detention for enforcement agencies
working against American citizens, so....
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 9:16 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We'll have to see where it goes from here. At the very least, I think
> even the NRA won't be able to stop an assault weapons ban.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Prashant Kumar <
> siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The NRA press conference is, I think, the worst thing I've ever heard
>> this year....I feel sick, I just...am I alone, Americans? How did an
>> association of hunting enthusiasts who turned into a lobby group who
>> capitalised on a wedge issue - to such an extent that they changed the
>> interpretation of an Amendment -- gain so much political capital that they
>> can insist on what amounts to siege logic, under the guise of rightthinking
>> action? What happens when the cop with an itch meets the kid with a bulge
>> in his jacket acting out? Why do people who groan when they get out of
>> chairs think they have the requisite nerve and alacrity to reach the gun,
>> much less to kill a gunman?
>>
>> Where does your society go from here? Surely there are only so many
>> sharks to jump?
>>
>> P.
>>
>
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