THE NEW NORMAL

I once thought that this blog would be free of political content. A place to come to and find something other than the drama that plays out every day in our media. But there is one issue that needs to be addressed, it comes to innocent people being slaughtered needlessly by criminally insane individuals going in the guise of Congress.

The fact that assault guns are in the hands of people other than military, makes the statement that years of inactivity, unwillingness to address this issue on the floors of Congress, points out to the fact that the criminally insane are those politicians who support guns as a so-called 2nd Amendment right.

The 2nd Amendment was written so that the common folk could defend themselves against tyranny by the government or foreign power, which was an uncertain entity by those who governed. The states still had sway on the population and the Federal government was still growing in power. The idea was to form a militia of ordinary citizens to prevent over-powering by the Federal government and that needed be: the state militia could defend itself. This fact through the years has been construed as the right of individual citizens arming themselves and then it turning into people owning arsenals of weapons. This concept holds a present and immediate danger to all citizens of the US by enabling those who wish to create harm and havoc on society.

The biggest culprits are the Republican-controlled Congress. Whether you are a Republican or Democrat, you know what we have now is not working, it is now at the desperation point and we must act.

I have a granddaughter who I want to have her live her life in safety, not in the crosshairs of a gun. I want her and her classmates to go to school, learn and enjoy her future, not have to cower in fear.

Speaking of cowering in fear, it seems that the Republican party is doing just that, unwilling to address the real culprit of all this mayhem, the National Rifle Association. The NRA represents money-makers who are intended to allow the slaughter under the 2nd Amendment. What they really are doing is protecting a profit base and lobby that will sacrifice our children for the sake of a buck! Shame on them and us for allowing it.

Throw the NRA the hell out of the lobby business. Make it a law that accepting money by politicians from organizations like the NRA is punishable by jail and disbarment along with the impeachment and trial for accepting those supports.