Activism

I just called all three of my congresscritters. I have them on my cell phone speed-dial, now. And no, they don't know it. But the amount of time it took to call, gripe about the Patriot Act and inform my senators' staffs that they were not getting my vote next election and inform my rep's staff that he wouldn't if he supported the issue, it took me about 7 minutes. Now that's about two minutes and some odd seconds each call. Is that all that difficult? It's a little bit of time to tell some powerful people that I, along with the rest of the voters, own them. And I can sell them up the river and find someone new to own just as easy as can be. Hell, it's just checking the other box, right?

Now, if this is so easy, so quick, so NOT DIFFICULT, then why the hell doesn't everybody do it? Call 'em during your lunch break, call 'em from a payphone, call 'em at work during your downtime, or just call once ya get home. If calling isn't your cup of tea, it's an email, you don't have to be wordy, just say "You voted for/against X, you're fired/good job." Or "Y is coming up, vote for/against it" and fire it off to your rep. It's not that hard. It's just spending two minutes of your time per elected official. Who doesn't have two minutes?

That's just my two cents.

Ze Killer Toys! Ze Killer Toys! We must protect ze children from Ze Killer Toys!!!!!!!!!111!!!1!!!112213@#@&

Welcome to the frontlines of the "Kids with Guns" debate. Toy guns. Toy guns that have never been proven to cause violence, toy guns that I played with as a kid, toy guns that, according to liberals, should have made me into a sociopathic killer who puts my neighbor's heads on pikes in my front lawn and eats their children with pan gravy....or something fucked up like that. I dunno, they like to change every two or three years, how can I keep up with that?

Recently a kid was shot at a school in Longwood, Florida, when he pointed a toy gun at an officer. The gun had been painted all black instead of having its required orange tip proudly displayed. I have this to say: "Whoopty-fuckin'-doo."

This kid..this idiotic cretinous excuse for a homo-sapien! DARED to point a gun at another human being, doesn't matter if that gun wasn't real, for I'd have shot him myself so long as it looked like a real fuckin' gun to me....wow, maybe I am a heartless bastard who puts heads on pikes....nah, I'm a survivalist. I don't fuck around with my life. I point my gun away from me, and I don't tease bears....though that doesn't have any bearing (Haha, bear-ing) on the matter, but I'm rambling.

Kids and toys are a natural thing. Kids and toy guns are just as natural. Kids like to pretend they're Antonio Banderas or Pierce Brosnan. They learn good from evil and develop social skills. They learn to stop the robbers and not hurt the other cops. These guns are great props for learning such valuable social skills. Now I'm not saying they'd turn out worse without toy guns, but, you see, toy guns have never made kids into raving psychopathic lunatics. There's a whole three generations of living adults that could attest to that fact.

On a side note, if a kid has a toy gun that shoots bb's or flying disks, or something, you also have a prop to teach your kid about the dangers of real guns. "Bullet comes out this end, bullets hurt people. You don't want to hurt people." At this time if your kid thinks that hurting people isn't wrong, or shows any inclination, now would be a good time to instill fear of consequences into the child. Threatening to beat the tar out of them works, sending them to a mental institute for the criminal minded works, but these are a bit extreme. If in doubt about how extreme you need to be, please consult a child psychiatrist and ask him: "My child thinks it'd be cool to shoot someone, which institute do you recomend?" Because if your child thinks that it would be cool to shoot someone, they need serious help. Professional help. Not hugs and cuddles.

Now, if my ideas seem to lean towards the overtly radical end of the spectrum, then I say "Guilty as Charged", because you can take my ideas, tone them down to your level, and use them, or pass me off as a nut job, whatever floats your boat, but speaking as a 19 year old survivor of Cypress Fairbanks ISD's Sspecial Education program, I think I know what fucked up kids turn out like. It isn't pretty, nor is what happens to those who overtly challenge them, be it staff or student.
Children need to be taught to not attack their fellow man. This needs to be accomplished by whatever means necissary. My parents did it using the belt, the hand and the public dicipline....the latter was the worst. I didn't turn out perfect, but it kept me from turning into the creatures I went to school with on a regular basis from fifth grade foward. Those kids all were shuffled off into a government run correctional class because their parents couldn't raise them right. I was in there because my doctors decided to put me on drugs for a problem they couldn't diagnose. I no longer trust doctors as a result, but we're getting beside the point.

Child in Longwood, FL, shot by cop, whoopty-fuckin'-doo. The point is, the toy gun didn't cause this kid to end up like this, the toy gun is an inanimate soulless object, and the sooner we figure this out, the sooner we can look at this kid, say "Poor bugger. Oh, well." And motor on. I don't give a fuck if he's barely a few years younger than me. He's a fuckin' suicidal moron and beneath my sense of pity. Yes, you heard me right, fuckin' moron, beneath pity. Now beneath ground, but that's another matter altogether. I feel sorry for the parents, for the cop that shot him, for the kids that were traumatized by the event, but not for the dead bugger who got himself shot when he pointed an apparent deadly weapon at a person with a real deadly weapon. This is classified, in my book, as something between a furtive movement and brandishing a deadly weapon with intent to harm. Self defense. We got that people? It was self, fuckin' defense, and I sure hope we've already established that it doesn't matter if he was a "Kid" or not.

I know I may seem callous to you, I know you may be disgusted by me, but this is how I feel, and I'm obligated to my opinion in the same way as I'm obligated to have an asshole, though I'm not obligated to be one. I'm just sick and tired of "The poor children" being poluted by "The evil guns" I mean, geeze, what a load of shit. A gun is a tool that can be used for good, it can be used for evil, and the 2.5 million good uses it's put to each year drastically outweighs the 30 thousand "Evil uses" each year. Especially when you think: Over half of those are stupid people killing themselves. And then you think: Well, what about this dumb fuck (*Ahem* I mean "Kid") who got himself shot, how many of these are self defense shootings that actually fall under the 2.5 million legitimate uses of guns each year? Well, half are suicides, and many more fall under the 2.5 million legits. the 2.5 million includes incidences where shots aren't fired, where crime is deterred by a gun known to be present, and where a warning shot is fired on top of those self defense shootings. It's really amazing to think, 99% of the 2.5 million legitimate uses of guns didn't involve a single shot being fired from them. Yes, those dangerous, dangerous evil, evil guns.

I think I'm gonna go stick a head on a pike and go to bed. Y'all have fun.