November 8, 2008

  • Bad Boys!  Bad Boys!  Whatcha Gonna Do?

    So, my parents call me the other day from California, and my mother asks me, “Have you heard?  Gun sales are going up since Obama was elected.”

    No, I haven’t heard, Mom.

    “I feel so unsafe!”

    Needless to say, I haven’t told my mother that *I* am a CCW holder.  Nor have I told her that we (*GASP*!) have guns as well.

    I find it funny that the left is so afraid of people owning guns.  Why?  What are they worried about?  That people will accidentally kill them with a gun?  I dunno.  I’ve driven in L.A., and I personally feel I’m more likely to get killed in a car accident in L.A., with thousands of people irresponsibly driving, than I would be in Texas with thousands of people who own guns.

    What else could worry lefty gun-control freaks?  Are they worried that people are so irrational that they’d just shoot someone who disagrees with their ideas?  Hm.  Paranoid, ever?

    No, my husband and I did not purchase guns after the election.  We purchased the rifle 3 years ago.  We also purchased handguns about 4 months ago.  I love that silly little lefties think people only purchase guns because one is a 2nd amendment right freak — “clinging to one’s guns and religion.”  The Supreme Court has already made it clear that individual gun ownership rights are not going to be taken away.  Or did people miss that bit of news in their rabid campaigning for Presidential candidates who are all the same?

    I’m guessing that people in New York are going to wish that they purchased guns as well.  Since, apparently, due to New York overextending its state budget, the mayor of NYC decided to lay off cops.

    What a strange world it is, when a city doesn’t not have enough money to pay police officers to protect the city’s people, but still has money to pay artists to make a bunch of useless, unpainted, tall metal structures — funded by the NEA* (our tax dollars hard at work).  Frankly, I don’t want my tax dollars going to support “art” that looks like someone just drilled a bunch of holes in metal and put Light-Bright lights behind them.  At least citizens of New York can hide behind these kinds of wonderful sculptures, if they get mugged.  Perhaps the lights will blind the muggers, and allow their victims to escape unarmed.

    *”James Yamada’s Our Starry Night is part of the Public Art Fund program In the Public Realm, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; and in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.”