Story by Emmjay
First published as a response to Gerard Oosterman
Trump said that “this is not the time to discuss gun control” – OK, no more ridiculous than all his other moronic rubbish, but that merely proves IMHO, the incredible power of the gun industry and the industrial military complex on the larger scale.
In the second amendment, granting permission to “bear Arms” – the key phrase is “well-regulated militia” – which it certainly isn’t. And to even think that a three hundred year old “get out” clause is still considered useful is stupid beyond belief – but apparently difficult to fix.
I don’t understand why enough Americans cannot challenge the amendment on the basis of the obvious failure of regulation of the militia and the right to bear arms through the US Supreme Court. The evidence against “well-regulated” lies in pools of blood all over the streets of America.
I have felt, since Bush got elected that we (i.e. the rest of the planet) are the unwilling witnesses to the decline of the American Empire – only temporarily slowed by the stymied Obama administration.
On one level, it’s good to see the downfall of such a profligate, massively ignorant and self-centred nation. But on another level one shudders to think what might replace it – a Putin dictatorship, or more likely a China first superpower – already building strategic military bases off shore and dragging its feet over effectively dealing with the other fuckwit de jour Kim Jun.
It’s small comfort to be so far away from the major players, but I do think that we should enjoy what’s left of Australia while we still can.
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Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Emmjay, I have sent you an email with a ‘now’ article I wrote this morning. Wondering if you can upload it. Please check your mail.
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I received a memo. 🙂 Tuesday is our ed-in-chief’s plan.
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I read this other day that entertained me greatly. Not bad I thought.
The United States could learn something from Australia about gun control. I wonder which of the many countries Australia might learn something from about concentration camps.
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Even after the latest, they still think guns are safe its the user that’s the problem. Over 200 mass shootings this year and over 11500 people killed and the right to open carry or gun ownership even at military grade. Its the person not the gun. I don’t understand the logic.
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Well that didn’t cheer me up.
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No, the gun stuff is not very cheerful. My new one is an article on the No voters argument. It’s not very cheerful, but you might get some chuckles.
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Trevor Noah has a video on the Occupy Democrats Facebook page featured now, but unsure how to put a link to it here that will work.
He is getting into the culture surrounding gun laws that means every time there is another shooting no-one wants to talk about guns. He said he wished he had thought of it when he was a kid, it’s like being grounded and his mum finds him stuck in the window trying to get back in and he says, ‘Mum, this isn’t the time to talk about my lack of discipline, we have to unite as a family and come together now’.
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I remember seeing Gore Vidal’s interview in Australia, some years back. He stated that we, Australians, were complete idiots for hitching ourselves to the US, why, it will be broke in a few decades from waging war on everyone and everything. To be honest, the gun problem has been growing as long as I have been alive, if not school shootings, it’s lone gunmen, or toddlers accidentally shooting each other with Dad’s gun, or domestic disputes, that in another country would have been a broken jaw, result in a family being shot.
What really gets me is the virtue signalling from both the gun lobby, who want more guns as well the anti-gun mob, who want gun control for everyone but me! the genie is well and truly out of the bottle, peeps.
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