Friday Shakedown

This week has seen a lot of scandal and general craziness but the problem of guns has not gone away.  People need to not forget that this is still very important and this is why.

In Florida, a 4-year old and a 2-year-old were playing with a gun they found.  11-year-old Jarvan Jackson tried to take it away from them and in the brief struggle with the 4-year-old, Jarvan was fatally shot in the neck.  The 4-year-old also received an injury during the struggle but it was not life threatening.

Police have ruled the shooting as an accident but are investigating how the 4-year-old had access to the weapon.

Babies with guns, Rep. Stockman...

In Tullahoma, Tennessee, Kevin Sayre, 26, was "field stripping" two handguns attempting to show how the parts were interchangeable between the two.  He failed to unload the weapons first, however, and shot his 1-year-old daughter in the chest.

Police have said that Sayre acted recklessly and have charged him with aggravated assault.  The child was last listed in critical condition.

Some people just don't seem to get it and unfortunately, too many of them are in Congress.  Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) believes that abortion is to blame for school shootings in recent years, as if that makes any sense at all.

Forty years ago, the United States Supreme Court sanctioned abortion on demand. And we wonder why our culture sees school shootings so often.

 Yes, that's the reason.  Let's ignore how conservatives make it easier to buy a gun than to get a job.  A lot of jobs require a background check of some sort but you don't need that to buy a gun because FREEDOM!  Idiocy at it's finest.

Saturday Shakedown

I missed posting yesterday so here is a rare Saturday Shakedown!

North Carolina will not be establishing a religion thanks to the Speaker of the NC State Legislature, Thom Tillis (R).  He has announced that the measure will not be brought up for a vote.  This is a relief because we shouldn't be having a discussion like that in this day and age.  This is a settled issue with hundreds of years of precedent.

However, this discussion in North Carolina has prompted some polls to be taken with some frightening results.  

The new survey finds that 34 percent of adults would favor establishing Christianity as the official state religion in their own state, while 47 percent would oppose doing so. Thirty-two percent said that they would favor a constitutional amendment making Christianity the official religion of the United States, with 52 percent saying they were opposed.

 Tennessee is proposing a bill that would withhold welfare assistance to families whose children are not doing well in school.  There is already a revolving door when it comes to poverty and poor education, why make it worse with something like this?  Education is important and there are a lot of factors that contribute to poverty.  We cannot hurt kids by withholding food because they get a bad grade.  That is cruel and unusual.