I am so not inspired to post today at all, but I will since I only have 2 more days after today before I can take a blog break and I don’t know watch some completely mind-numbing tv.  I would like that. 

I was watching the ABC evening news yesterday–at least I think it was yesterday.  All the days blur together during this time of the school year.  Okay, back on track here.  There was a story about semi-automatic assault rifles and the need for police departments to start having their officers carry them as there has been a huge rise in the use of semi-automatic assault rifles among the criminal element in our society.  In 1994 Pres Clinton passed a bill that banned the sale of these weapons (Ak-47, etc) and really who needs an assault rifle?  I would hate to see the deer that met a hunter who had one–there certainly wouldn’t be any meat to eat.  Quietly in 2004, congress and good ole’ Pres Bush let the ban pass.  There was an increase in assault rifle crimes.  Congress then made it ILLEGAL.  YES.  ILLEGAL to track assault rifle crimes.   All gun crimes were required to be tracked together.  Wonder whose pockets got lined in that deal and by whom?

I really am tired of all this NRA “they’re gonna talk all our guns” propaganda.  I am not a fan of guns, but hey you want to kill some deer or quail or duck, then you should be able too.  I don’t think that we should rid the world of all guns (wouldn’t the world be a safer place though).  I seriously don’t think anyone needs to have a handgun or an assault rifle.  It just seems absurd–you can protect your home with a two shot deer rifle or bird gun–don’t tell me you cannot and that it would take too long to load as you aren’t suppose to make it easy to load you gun because, well that is how little kids shoot each other.  Don’t we want our police officers safe–if we only made available 2 shot hunting rifles and 6 shot revolvers than what are the odds that some drugged up criminal is going to be able to hit me?  But if we sell them semi-automatic handguns and/or rifles with the capability of firing 20+ shots in a matter of minutes or in some cases seconds the odds increase greatly in favor of someone landing a shot. 

It is impossible in our world to stop the sale of something that is available.   Wouldn’t it be a clearer message if we banned the manufacture of such weapons.  If the criminals didn’t have them then the cops wouldn’t need them.  I know this is a simplistic view, but I am in a simplistic mood.  If we don’t want people shooting each other stop making guns that make it so frickin’ easy.