June 16, 2022
“I come from a hunting state.
Nobody needs an AK-47 to shoot a deer and it’s time we stop pretending that’s a
sign of masculinity. It’s a sign of mental disturbance.”
Former
Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT), June 8, 2022
So the Senate finally deigned to make the most minor concessions, lest they tread on the sacred last 14 words of the Second Amendment, by tentatively agreeing to itty bitty changes to gun regulations. And for once these changes are actually meant to impose some restrictions rather than removing them. We’ll see how long that lasts. Assuming they actually pass something.
Full disclosure, I am no fan of firearms but I am familiar with the Second Amendment. All of it. Not just that last bit that so many people obsess over. I don't claim to even understand the allure of guns, but if you need an AR-15 to take out "prairie dogs and other types varmints" (which was the stunningly pitiful excuse offered up by extra-large varmint Sen. John Thune (R-SD*) for why people need military-style assault weapons) you should not be allowed to have any guns. Native Americans (remember them?) used to bring down bison (remember them?) with fucking bows and arrows. Many people are saying that bison are larger than prairie dogs.
We
outlawed advertising tobacco products to children, but we still allow marketing
assault weapons to children. It is scientifically proven that the brains of
young people are not fully developed in many important ways. Unfortunately, it
also seems to be the case that the brains of far too many adults are either
similarly undeveloped or are simply lacking certain abilities like processing reality or possessing empathy.
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*South
Dakota? Sudden Death? Shit-eating Dog?
** I may have mixed up the last two
I. Mangrey reporting. Bang.
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