insomnomaniac

Ouch, my arm!

...Twisted it patting myself on the back for leaving the shithole known to bright insightful folks like Bruce as mASSBACKWARDS.

First my Dad sends me surprising news an article about how shootings are up in Boston this year, then surprise surprise a quick perusal of Bruce's site turns up a much more funny and accurate rendition of the same.

As much as I wish this wasn't the case, this blog continues to write itself.

From the Boston Globe:

Shootings in Hub rise dramatically

The number of shootings in Boston has increased significantly over the last three years, jumping by 77 percent through last week, compared to the same period in 2002, and by 28 percent over the same period a year ago.

What say you, Mayor Menino?

Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday he believes that the city can do a better job of reducing gun violence in neighborhoods, which has emerged as a major issue in Tuesday's city election.

"Guns don't belong on the streets of our city or any city," he said. "Boston is one of the safest cities in the country, but we can make it safer."

OK, everyone. Repeat after me.

It's not the guns, asshole, it's the criminals!

This piece was followed up by reference to an op/ed piece that perfectly captures the essence of the liberal gun-control=safety fantasy mindset:

Blaming guns

November 3, 2005

EVEN TAKING into consideration that Tim Casey is beside himself with grief over the murder of his student Kevin Garces, his Oct. 27 letter in which he blames Garces' death and those of ''millions of other children" on the NRA is inexcusable in its ignorance and fear-mongering.

In the fantasy land of gun-phobic liberals, there are no good people and there are no evil people. That's because there is no such thing as moral agency. There are only impressionable lumps of clay in human form who, at the appearance of the ''evil" object known as a firearm, are instantly turned into maniacally cackling, bullet-spraying John Dillingers or Dylan Klebolds.

In such a fantasy land, the argument that guns should be banned because ''they have no purpose except to kill" makes sense.

The only one who has Garces' blood on his (or perhaps her) hands is the person who shot him. The same goes for anyone else who was murdered with a firearm.

ROBIN B. SHORE
Everett

God bless you Robin Shore. Too bad no one up there is listening.

I am so lucky I don't have to live there anymore. What a cesspool, and what a bunch of morons to keep electing Mumbles "Denial is my middle name" Menino!

Posted by insomnomaniac at November 3, 2005 9:26 PM