Dear America...

Here's Why Everyone Thinks You Have A Problem With Guns






On April 15, Boston was hit with a terrorist attack that killed three, injured, and in many cases permanently maimed, almost 200.  During the manhunt, a security guard was murdered and another law enforcement officer severely wounded.  One of the two attackers was killed by police, and the second brother was finally captured. 

The city of Boston is recovering, it'll take longer for the innocent people who are still in hospital and dealing with their life-altering injuries.

I've read on several conservative blogs, as well as heard the usual talking heads on teevee and hate radio, that we need to either deport all Muslims, shut down their mosques, or just round them up and put them in internment camps.  At the same time I read on a conservative blog that Mayor Bloomberg is the most dangerous man in America.

We've clearly lost our minds.

What our friends on the opposite side of the aisle seem blind to is the fact that guns kill 30,000+ Americans every year.  Those 30,000 deaths are mainly American-on-American deaths, and yet these same people who clamor for getting rid of mosques [where are their worries about the Constitution here?] or kicking Muslims out of the country [I haven't seen any distinctions between American Muslims, naturalized Muslims, visiting Muslims] these same people are, (if you'll excuse the snark because of recent comments from a troll here), wetting their pants over what to do about preventing Muslims from killing Americans.

Guess what?  The criminal Muslims who murdered Americans in this country are a tiny minority compared with how many Americans kill Americans.  Yet the people shouting the loudest about trampling on American Muslim's Constitutional rights are completely oblivious to this hypocrisy and, in my opinion, reacting in total madness to the recent attack.

The United States Senate, in a cowardly move, blocked passage of a bill for universal background checks; among those who voted against it were four Democrats.  The rest, it goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway, were Republicans, one of whom wrote to a constituent in his home state of Arizona (she lost a relative in the Arizona massacre) saying that he supported background checks.  And then he voted against it.  What a guy!  What a sniveling cowardly, little spineless excuse for a human being.

The police chiefs across America are on the side of the majority of Americans, Democrats, and others who see this legislation as sensible and the right thing to do.  Here is what they think of the lackeys of the N.R.A. who voted against it.  And of all those who continue to side with gun manufacturers and their profits over the safety of the American people:

U.S. police chiefs, including Salt Lake City’s, blast U.S. Senate gun vote Legislation »

Burbank calls U.S. Senate vote “a disgrace.”
By Kimball Bennion | The Salt Lake TribuneFirst Published Apr 23 2013 04:39 pm


"Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank, who is on the board of directors of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, joined in the group’s characterization of last week’s Senate vote as 'a disgrace.'

'Showing an unprecedented lack of courage, U.S. Senators defied the will of the American people and voted according to their instructions from the Washington gun lobby,' the association’s statement reads. 'Much was said about the rights of gun owners, but almost nothing was said about the equal rights of the public to be safe from gun violence.'


In an interview Tuesday, Burbank said the strong language of the letter was approved by the association’s five-member board of directors but that the association’s support of stronger gun laws — which include universal background checks, limits to high-capacity magazines and a ban on assault weapons — represents the unanimous opinion of the association’s members, who oversee police agencies in the 70 largest cities in the U.S. and Canada. 

Burbank has been the board’s vice president for three years. Burbank said that while mass shootings such as the ones in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., get the most attention, there are many other gun deaths in cities across the country that police deal with every day. Restricting criminals’ access to guns would make a difference, he said. "People who want to do society harm are getting access to firearms when they shouldn’t," Burbank said."

Salt Lake City and its police chief can hardly be characterized as knee-jerk liberals, and yet they are in agreement with an overwhelming majority of Democrats and the American people on this issue.  Where are those yahoos who claim they respect our law enforcement officials on this?

It appears that cowardly U.S. Senators don't respect the men and women in law enforcement who have to deal with the thousands of shootings every day by Americans on Americans.

What happened in Boston on April 15 was an horrendous tragedy perpetrated by terrorists.

What happens every year in America:  30,000+ deaths by Americans on Americans is an horrendous tragedy as well.

Where is the outrage by the people (who call for the deportation of Muslims) on this carnage year after year, month after month, day after day, by Americans on their own countrymen?

Where?  

Cowering under their beds afraid of Mooslems?

AUSTRALIA KNEW HOW TO DO IT:










THE SENATE DOESN'T REPRESENT AMERICA.