Annie, Get Your Gun

[superbadgirl]

I find this both amusing and disturbing.

Seriously, I'll bet my father is losing sleep over this. Aside from his and my mom's frenzied need to save all unborn babies, gun control is number two on dear old dad's issues on which to vote. It doesn't matter that, in their class and demographic, the GOP has never, ever done much at all for them in practical terms as long as abortion be made illegal again and people are allowed to have their semi-automatic weapons.

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[superbadgirl]

Who the heck knows? Back when that amendment was written, I think the idea was a tad different than what we've got. Guns were used for hunting - food staple, yo. They'd just come out of a war - protection. All those red-skinned savages ::rollseyes:: running around - more protection.

Now, see, I don't think much of that is valid. Guns = more senseless death.

I remember my father getting very upset at me because I wore a Pearl Jam T-shirt around the house one day - on the back it said something like "ten out of ten children prefer crayons to guns." That offended him. His offense confused the bejeebers out of me. It still does.