By Catherine Haig.
PEOPLE THREATEN TO START CIVIL WARS ALL THE TIME IN AMERICA.
But no one actually does it.
What really happens is people rant and rave at a dinner party and then come together over dessert and solve the nations problems.
Unless it is a family party in which case no one talks to the other until the next holiday party where they re open old wounds and pick at the sores.
The problem is not that our Congress and President cannot coexist and work together in compromise; the problem is that our congress is fractured.
People in states no one but an illiterate degenerate would live in are allowed to vote. These people vote for the Tea Party members that are holding America hostage.
These folks are just like the Islamic Extremist who would kill you for a look. Mostly Southern states who used to have slaves and fought to keep them in our first Civil War. Yes, these are the people who are pounding the bible, are members of the NRA (National Rifles Association), who listen to false prophets like the Catalog preachers heard on every Fox News and Radio Show. Make believe are the two words that the Tea Party thrives upon. Other than their fake agenda the rest of America has come to the realization that we are paying these jokers a salary, fantastic benefits and a pension while the US taxpayer is homeless, living in shelters or in their cars and hoping they can find work to get out of their terrible situations. Some are laying low in their homes, not paying mortgage and living off their dwindling savings.
THIS IS NOT THE AMERICA I KNOW AND GREW UP IN.
Having said that 33 days ago, one week before Christmas 20 American children between the ages of 6 and 7 years old and their six teachers and administrators were brutally gunned down in a school in Newtown, Connecticut. A paranoid mother who was depressed herself had bought several assault weapons and was prepping for the end of times which was said to be on Dec 21, 2012. That day came and went without a hitch except for one exception. This mother, NANCY LANZA had been shot dead in her own bed by the son she should have institutionalized when he was a kid. If she had done that her husband would still be living with her and not divorced and remarried and her older son would still be talking to her. ADAM LANZA was the catalyst in breaking up Nancy’s marriage and having her older son, RYAN shun her and Adam. Adam found out she was plotting to put him away so he took her guns and used them against her. What a coward to shoot his own mother in her sleep. She never knew what hit her.
Adam then took her car, drove to SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL where his mother volunteer to help with the first and second grade classes and he shot up both of those classes and teachers because he felt his mother loved those kids more than him. He was about to take out the rest of the school who was hiding from him in other barricaded rooms when the first responders entered the school. Adam Lanza committed suicide by shooting himself in the head but his spirit and evil doing still resounds loudly in that school.
The problem is not that Adam Lanza did not realize what he was doing because he had mental issues; the problem is he knew exactly what he was doing. He was furious, paranoid, uncontrollably angry. He purposely went into his computers hard drives and smashed them to bits so that police could not hunt down a trail of what he was doing prior to his massacre. That takes smarts. Adam knew exactly what he was doing when he viciously and evilly took the lives of 20 children shooting them up to 11 times with an assault rifle. So Adam may have had mental problems but he also knew what he was doing. So did James HOLMES who shot 70 people in a Colorado movie theater in the summer of 2012. He had mental issues too but he knew what he was doing and he had premeditated the act that killed so many innocent people.
The answer is simply OBVIOUS. Guns kill people. But the guns cannot kill people on their own. People who buy guns kill people. Why would you need an assault weapon to go hunting sport? Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of the hunt? I don’t shoot animals and I hate the hunters who do. I understand that if we didn’t allow hunters to do their thing nature would rule the world and people and we’d be overrun by them. I understand that butchers and hunters exist so I don’t have to go out and kill my meals but that is exactly what we used to do before we became “civilized”. I write that tongue in cheek believe me; this society we are living in is less than civilized. The more technology we have the less civil humankind becomes. It’s really quite sad.
The United States Congress has an agenda. It has the agenda that the people of this country set for them. Somehow in the translation of everyday life in Congress, the message that the people sent with these representatives gets lost. How does this happen? The answer is simply – LOBBYISTS. Lobbyists are mainly OIL COMPANIES, PHARMACEUTICAL WEAPON MANUFACTURERS (NRA) and ANTI-TAX LOBBYISTS who are the strongest. Besides the Anti-tax lobbyists like GROVER NORQUIST who are only lobbyists because it has made him a multimillionaire with a lot to lose financially if taxes go up on the rich. Besides him the other companies are from industries that perpetuate and encourage the ruination of our planet earth. Oil companies like BP who was responsible for the oil spill that basically killed off all sea life and wild life in our southern states many Bush years ago and which still has not been resolved. People lost their livelihoods because of that oil spill which completely ruined their lives. Sadly our then President George W Bush didn’t care and couldn’t handle the fallout from this disaster. The taxpayer took it out on the BP gas stations around the world and still, to this day, these stations suffer from lack of clientele.
Back when JFK was assassinated the question of enforcing gun laws was the story of the day yet congress then did nothing to ban guns or at least resolve to ban assault weapons and arrest or imprison the people who bought or sold them. In short, nothing was done and the world continued, more shootings occurred but it wasn’t until Columbine shooting that the world sat up and took notice. That was a decade ago. Here’s a little statistic that will blow your mind. In the last 33 days since SANDY HOOK SHOOTINGS over 900 other shootings have occurred. Can you imagine how many more people have passed away as the result of guns since JFK? Since Columbine? The reality is staggering YET the NRA refuses to put their guns away. CEOs of gun companies are releasing videos onto YOU TUBE telling people how angry they are that President Obama is taking away their 2nd Amendment rights and if that happens these CEOs plan to start killing people.
This is tyranny at it’s worst. Ordinary people feeling threatened that their guns are being taken from them. Seriously these people need mental health assistance pronto. Nothing was done after the Kennedy’s were shot, after teenagers were shot but the nation and the world have drawn that invisible line in the sand to conservatives…TOUCH OUR CHILDREN AND YOU WILL NEVER FORGET OUR WRATH.
The other reason POTUS Obama had trouble with the 112th Congress and looks like he may still have problems with the House Republican leadership in the 113th Congress is largely because these are the same people that vowed to rid the White House of this Black Demon. It has everything to do with Obama’s race. He is black. Our House Republican leaders are mostly from Southern States who were forced to give up their black slaves to unify America back in the post civil war days. This has got to be the biggest disgrace of America and of Americans ever! It is something to be collectively ashamed of.
POTUS Obama has come up with a plan to ban assault weapons and limit the sale and resale of illegal guns and legal guns in America. He faces strong opposition by some gun toting maniacs who call themselves PATRIOTS; more importantly he faces opposition in the HOUSE. But CONGRESS must be made aware of this one fact. On November 6, 2012, the people of the United States spoke by their vote. They re elected President Obama and we stand firmly in support of this man and his plans and we strongly urge the Congress, who are our elected officials, to do the same.
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Obama gun control plan faces hurdles in Congress
David Jackson, USA TODAY8:35a.m. EST January 17, 2013
President Obama is pitching the most ambitious gun control program in decades — but whether it becomes law or not remains to be seen.
While Obama said any action that can save one child’s life is worth it, he and aides indicated that proposals to ban assault weapons, expand background checks, and restrict the capacity of gun magazines face big hurdles on Capitol Hill.
“This will be difficult,” Obama said Wednesday at the White House. “There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical, all-out assault on liberty — not because that’s true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves.”
Vice President Biden, who helped push through background checks and an assault weapons as a Delaware senator in 1993 and 1994, said he has “no illusions about what we’re up against or how hard the task is in front of us.”
The main reason: The Republicans control one branch of Congress, the U.S. House, and many of their members have sworn strong fidelity to Second Amendment gun rights.
Gun rights supporters sharply criticized the president’s proposals as ineffective, unconstitutional, and politically motivated. Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus said the plan amounts to “an executive power grab that may please his political base but will not solve the problems at hand.”
The National Rifle Association, which has major influence on congressional Republicans, has declared all-out opposition to the president’s gun proposals, saying that “attacking firearms and ignoring children is not a solution to the crisis we face as a nation.” The NRA has stressed mental health issues, and called for more armed guards in schools.
A new assault weapons ban may be the toughest to achieve. After all, Congress refused to renew the old one when it expired in 2004.
Larry Pratt, executive director of the group Gun Owners of America, said “assault weapons” is the wrong term to use, and that these are “defensive weapons” that people are entitled to have to “defend themselves and their property.” People are also entitled to have high capacity magazines, Pratt said.
At the White House, Obama said the combination of semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines have enabled shooters to kill more people quicker, at venues ranging from the elementary school in Connecticut to a movie theater in Colorado.
“Weapons designed for the theater of war have no place in a movie theater,” Obama said. “A majority of Americans agree with us on this.”
Gun rights groups have also criticized proposals for “universal background checks” as a back door way of a national gun registration system that could lead to confiscation.
“You don’t trust governments,” Pratt said. “And it doesn’t solve crimes.”
Pratt said he would prefer to see Congress repeal laws creating gun-free school zones. As for Obama’s plans, he said “we have a good chance” of beating them back.
Gun control advocates are more optimistic, but say there is a long way to go.
Kristen Rand, legislative director with the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C., said public opinion has been shifting in favor of gun control since the 2011 mass shooting at in Tucson and the July killings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Then came the Dec. 14 attack that killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
“I’ve never seen this sort of sustained response,” Rand said. “It’s definitely changing the atmosphere.”
People are concerned not only about mass shootings, but the “day-to-day gun violence in America,” Rand said. Gun control supporters must also talk to people — and their members of Congress — about the extent to which assault weapons have virtually taken over the gun industry.
The fact that Obama has proposed a big package should help in Congress, Rand said, though she declined to give odds on specific items.
“It’s a process,” she said. “We’re not going to predict right now where the votes might shake out.”
Obama, Biden and their aides said they believe the political dynamic has changed on guns — especially after Newtown.
Citing opinion polls showing more sympathy to gun control proposals, Obama called on voters to pressure members of Congress, including those whose districts have a strong tradition of gun ownership.
“This will not happen unless the American people demand it,” Obama said.
