Good morning Boys and Girls.

A wild weekend of Wii bowling and nada accomplished; except, of course, talking on the phone with SweetLady and enjoying AC's company; eating good meals and birdwatching here at Wildlife Ridge.

SweetLady wrote about the massacre in New York a day or so ago, and I've watched quite a few news stories on it, all centering on the "why". We are becoming numb to these shootings, it seems. That was talked about a bit earlier on the CBS Sunday morning show.

To me, it's a no-brainer. People get pissed. People get sick in the head. People that seemed "just fine" a few days ago - "He was such a quiet guy..." - can wake up tomorrow and decide that, not only is life not worth living but, that, on the way out, maybe taking out as many people as possible might be a perfectly acceptable thing.

Of course, I have no objection to "idea" of people owning guns, it's just that, for instance, had this asshole been carrying a big ol' machete instead of a bang-bang, there's just no way 13 people would be dead. Maybe a couple? Sure. But, face it, a simple office chair, or a stool, or even a decently hurled stapler can be a good defense against a guy with a blade. They're not much against a properly motivated crazy person with a gun though.

I know, I know, what if everyone in there had been armed? Then wouldn't one or more of them taken him out the minute he started unloading on all those people trying to learn the language? Maybe. In theory, perhaps. But, unless they weren't surprised by the intrusion and already had their guns out, safeties off, he'd have just picked them off as they reached for their own weapons.

No. The problem isn't, no matter what the pro-gun folks would have you believe, too FEW guns. It that there are WAY too many, that almost all of them are far too easily accessed by anyone who wants one.

Yeah, yeah. I know, (hear the whining voice) "The second amendment says..."

Well, let me tell you this. I don't fear the government (and their black helicopters) as much as I fear thousands of idiots with chips on their shoulders who've already decided their own lives aren't worth doodly-squat, AND that no one else's is either.

It's not the guns that especially scare me, it's the people who are so crazy blocking logic from their lives, that they actually believe we're a safer society with anyone who wants to be armed being allowed to be so. I'm deathly scared of people who can believe such clap-trap - and I resent being forced to live in a society where they hold sway.

How about we adopt Chris Rocks Idea? Guns? Fine. Make 'em available to anyone and everyone. Bullets? $5000.00 each.

At least that way, says Chris, when some asshole wants to pop a cap in someone else's ass, they'll have to make sure they've thought about it, AND that they're shooting the right MOFO.

Or how about gun safes that read read your biorhythms? The little display next to the palm scanner reads, "I'm sorry sir. You're a little crazy today. The safe cannot open. Try again tomorrow."

Don't even get me started on this crazy notion that civilians need to be able to own and use automatic weapons. Un-f*cking believable.


Be good to everyone. -And please, if you really need to commit suicide, how about you do it BEFORE you leave the house, packing.