Showing posts with label Military Industrial Complex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Military Industrial Complex. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
“Shoot’em Up!”
How does a gun make anyone feel safer? Please – I dare anyone out there to explain it to me. What is it in the make up of the United States that we have to have guns? Better yet – why do we think guns solve the problems here and in the world? Of course, we use much bigger guns in other parts of the world. Yeah – yeah – I know all about the second amendment. You have to provide a better reason than that one.
The shootings at Virginia Tech University were a tragic incident. An incident – an occurrence - an episode. It will probably never happen there again. These occurrences happen all over and not very frequent considering the gun craziness of most of the United States of America.
If being armed makes a person feel protected, we should arm everyone because who knows when you might be involved in a shoot out. Personally I have never been in a shoot out. Heck – I’ve never seen a handgun, except on the hip of the police, which makes me feel safe enough. I live in a high crime area of my city too, so it’s not because I’m a satellite dish suburbanite.
Texas Governor, Rick Perry, thinks that students should carry guns on campus. “It makes sense for Texans to be able to protect themselves from deranged individuals.”
I’ve been to Texas – he’s right! The place is full of deranged nuts. My only concern is for the lower grades – the innocent children. It seems most of school shootings happen in grade school or high school situations. Some congress person in Wisconsin a few months ago came up with a brilliant idea – arm the teachers! Yeah – and I bet teachers could get a kid’s attention a lot easier with a gun. Think of what it could do for the educational system. Heck – no need for parent/teacher conferences anymore. You are in my classroom now and what I say is the law around here.
“Where’s your homework, punk?”
“Don’t give me that old story about your dog!” Click!
I know the University of Utah allows students to carry handguns, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a gun battle on their campus. Though I don’t think they are a good testing ground. I’d assume the lack of shoot ups there is because of the highly religious morals of the students. Mormons are a heck’uva lot less violent nowadays than in the past.
So the best that I can come up with is that unless everyone is armed in the USA we can never reach the level of security that we all want.
- Jake Drew
Come JOIN US at http://www.LivinginLethargy.com
The shootings at Virginia Tech University were a tragic incident. An incident – an occurrence - an episode. It will probably never happen there again. These occurrences happen all over and not very frequent considering the gun craziness of most of the United States of America.
If being armed makes a person feel protected, we should arm everyone because who knows when you might be involved in a shoot out. Personally I have never been in a shoot out. Heck – I’ve never seen a handgun, except on the hip of the police, which makes me feel safe enough. I live in a high crime area of my city too, so it’s not because I’m a satellite dish suburbanite.
Texas Governor, Rick Perry, thinks that students should carry guns on campus. “It makes sense for Texans to be able to protect themselves from deranged individuals.”
I’ve been to Texas – he’s right! The place is full of deranged nuts. My only concern is for the lower grades – the innocent children. It seems most of school shootings happen in grade school or high school situations. Some congress person in Wisconsin a few months ago came up with a brilliant idea – arm the teachers! Yeah – and I bet teachers could get a kid’s attention a lot easier with a gun. Think of what it could do for the educational system. Heck – no need for parent/teacher conferences anymore. You are in my classroom now and what I say is the law around here.
“Where’s your homework, punk?”
“Don’t give me that old story about your dog!” Click!
I know the University of Utah allows students to carry handguns, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a gun battle on their campus. Though I don’t think they are a good testing ground. I’d assume the lack of shoot ups there is because of the highly religious morals of the students. Mormons are a heck’uva lot less violent nowadays than in the past.
So the best that I can come up with is that unless everyone is armed in the USA we can never reach the level of security that we all want.
- Jake Drew
Come JOIN US at http://www.LivinginLethargy.com
Monday, April 9, 2007
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Saturday, March 17, 2007
Heck, Fight’em Over Here!
I’m a big fan of westerns, and it seems that this administration is too. They talk in cowboy lingo and their idol, Ronnie Reagan, starred in a number of them before becoming president. I’ll admit I’m not a Reagan fan – I like Randolph Scott better as a western star. The United States government should screen a few western movies to help with that “War on Terror”.
Now I admit I have trouble with what “the terror” is or who the terrorists are that are trying to get us and what they want to get us for. Plus Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to one heck’uva a wagon train of terrorism recently. Considering all the things he confessed to being involved with I’d take the plural out of terrorists.
The “fight’em over there” concept escapes me too. We can’t really pin down who the terrorists are. The United States might know who a few of these terrorists are and has the names of organizations that are a threat to us, but we don’t know where they are. If we are sending out our troops to wipe out terrorists, I think it might be better to wait for them to come here.
Now I might seem politically incorrect in this next part, but I’m only referencing what I’ve seen in Hollywood westerns. If a fort was under attack by “the Indians”, “the cowboys” never ever throw open the gates and run out to the enemy. They waited for the fort to be attacked and fought off the enemy from high up on the inside of the fort’s walls.
I know Hollywood and reality are two separate things, but what about the wall we want to build along the Mexican border? This is really no different than a movie set. The fence doesn’t solve the problem – it only creates an image. So wouldn’t it make more sense economically to bring the troops home and post them all over the country? You could have troops on city buses, walking the streets, the borders, using electronic surveillance. Heck – I’d love to see one of those big old army tanks coming down my street.
Considering there is no thought to when this “war on terror” will end or where the terrorists are or who they are. It just makes sense financially and for the well being of the military to bring them home and let them patrol the streets. If we have 130,000 troops in Iraq, that would be 2,600 troops stationed in each one of the fifty states. While the military is in our cities they could take care of the gang members or any illegal activities too. There’s enough of this type of terrorism to make the country look like Tombstone or Dodge City of the late 1800s.
Shoot a letter to your congress people and let them know how you feel.
- Jake Drew
Come VIST US at http://www.LivinginLethargy.com
Now I admit I have trouble with what “the terror” is or who the terrorists are that are trying to get us and what they want to get us for. Plus Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to one heck’uva a wagon train of terrorism recently. Considering all the things he confessed to being involved with I’d take the plural out of terrorists.
The “fight’em over there” concept escapes me too. We can’t really pin down who the terrorists are. The United States might know who a few of these terrorists are and has the names of organizations that are a threat to us, but we don’t know where they are. If we are sending out our troops to wipe out terrorists, I think it might be better to wait for them to come here.
Now I might seem politically incorrect in this next part, but I’m only referencing what I’ve seen in Hollywood westerns. If a fort was under attack by “the Indians”, “the cowboys” never ever throw open the gates and run out to the enemy. They waited for the fort to be attacked and fought off the enemy from high up on the inside of the fort’s walls.
I know Hollywood and reality are two separate things, but what about the wall we want to build along the Mexican border? This is really no different than a movie set. The fence doesn’t solve the problem – it only creates an image. So wouldn’t it make more sense economically to bring the troops home and post them all over the country? You could have troops on city buses, walking the streets, the borders, using electronic surveillance. Heck – I’d love to see one of those big old army tanks coming down my street.
Considering there is no thought to when this “war on terror” will end or where the terrorists are or who they are. It just makes sense financially and for the well being of the military to bring them home and let them patrol the streets. If we have 130,000 troops in Iraq, that would be 2,600 troops stationed in each one of the fifty states. While the military is in our cities they could take care of the gang members or any illegal activities too. There’s enough of this type of terrorism to make the country look like Tombstone or Dodge City of the late 1800s.
Shoot a letter to your congress people and let them know how you feel.
- Jake Drew
Come VIST US at http://www.LivinginLethargy.com
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