Ariz Shootings

What a terrible tragedy, in more ways than one! A nine-year old girl shot and killed? How utterly senseless. Esp with my own 9-year old, my heart breaks. Others, there just to express opinions, voice protests or support, or even just to shop for groceries.... No mercy, none, should be shown this shooter.

Of course, the foolish, ridiculous comments came out almost faster than I expected. The shootings, according to these fools, can be laid at the feet of Palin, the Tea Partiers, and their ilk. C'mon, how stupid! So, then, I suppose, the murders committed by Al Capone and the Purple Gang can be blamed on the Prohibitionists? Let's also blame Charlie Manson on the Beatles?

At Cooper Union, Lincoln opined, "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver or I shall kill you and then you will be a murderer!'" No!

Lost in much of this isn't this nut's derangement, but the real anger Americans have for their elected officials (and their appointees). People are sick and tired of the kind of government we've been getting for the past decades, the growth, the intrusions on our lives, the wastefulness, the arrogance of the self-anointed elites, etc. Again, this in no way, none, gives any slack to the shooter (yes, I believe in the death penalty, esp when the victims include a 9-year old!). But those who have no reverence or even respect for the Constitution need to reconsider all of the harm they have done, through selfishness and/or arrogance, desire for power, or even misguided intents. Stop. Stop right now and start doing the right things. (There, I've said it, "...the right things!" Yes, that's a value judgment, but I don't accept that junk from the relativists, the diversity folks, etc. I believe there is a right and a wrong, OK with maybe some over which we can legitimately, but respectfully and peacefully disagree. But there are "right things.")

OK, out to make chocolate chunk cookies with Ashley.