I Need to Buy a Gun to Protect Myself From You?

Some things in life are really complicated. There are no absolutes, no black or whites, just myriad shades of gray. Fortunately there are many things that are either yes or no, black or white, ying or yang. The more of these types of things in your life, the less complicated your life is.
After the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre last week, the debate over guns moved from myriad shades of gray to black and white for me.

Adam Lanza

There are two types of people in America: those who own guns and those who don't. It's that simple.
The group known as the National Rifle Association claims to speak for all gun owners and I guess they can if they want to. You can tell they're a conservative group from the quote at the top of this page defining conservatives: "Distrust of the people tempered by fear".
Today the NRA has called for armed guards in every school in America. Why? So those of us non-gun owners can be protected..
Protected from whom? Gun owners.
So if I get this right, the only way for non-gun owners to be protected from gun owners is to join the gun owners clique? Are you sure that's the only possible solution?
Since Adam Lanza lived in a house with guns, whose mother was a gun "rights" advocate, you'd figure she was a gun owner protected from gun owners, but you'd be wrong. She was the first victim killed, ironically by her own gun.

James Holmes

So the NRA goes on the offensive again. They point out that people like Adam don't belong to their little club and they don't support people like Adam but of course they do. They protected Adam and his mother, James Holmes, the Aurora mass murderer (12 dead, 58 injured) and Jared Laughner the Arizona mass murderer (6 dead 12 injured). They represent those people because saying that none of thse people should have had a gun is a true statement that the NRA won't comment on. They want to debate whether or not they had the right to own a gun. But that's a different argument entirely.

Jared Laughner

None of those jerks should have had a gun. Period. But just the threat of trying to regulate who could be trusted to have firearms sets the NRA off in a paroxysm of rage. Individual rights appear to trump society's right to protect itself.
So like I said, there are two classes of people in America. Those who own guns (each with the unqualified support of the NRA) and those who don't own guns.
When gun owners say the only way to be protected from them is to join their club, that's bullshit, although it sounds like they're conceding that a lot of whack jobs own guns
Those children and teachers in Connecticut had every reason to believe they were safe. The fact that a gun owner chose to kill them doesn't mean more guns are needed for safety in our society.
If the argument is that the only way to protect yourself and your loved ones from gun owners is to become a gun owner, there must be a ton of paranoid, ignorant, unbalanced, hateful, psychotic people out there with guns since the NRA says every school in America to arm itself to be safe from unstable, undesirable, irresponsible gun owners.
And those gun owners are the problem.
Those children were not the problem. Those teachers were not the problem. Ms. Lanza was a problem. Adam Lanza was the problem.
Let's fix the problem.

MI Legislators Too Ignorant to Write Their Own Legislation

Non-ALEC Faithful

Just when you thought that the curtain had been pulled back and the extremely right-wing advisory group called ALEC had been revealed to be nothing but a front for anti-science, anti-environment, anti-worker billionaires (ie the Koch brothers) it turns out that the dumb-ass Republican legislators who submitted and passed Right to Work laws in Michigan didn't have enough intellectual fire power to even write the damn bills themselves.

Our Gov. - One Term Rick

These dimwits brought ALEC written cheat sheets into their chambers and copied from the word for word. I should be appalled but I consider the Livingston County gang in Lansing and figure they're doing all they can just signing their names to the bills without crayons.
And so Michigan's Race To the Bottom continues.
Look out Mississippi...here we come!