kanesrealm

The human race as a species is capable of unspeakable violence. A brief reading of known history reveals this, let alone an extensive study which can send chills down your spine. This violence can be the result of nation versus nation or individual acts of criminality. Last week we once again witnessed a mass shooting in a movie theater in Louisiana. The perpetrator obtained his weapon legally from a pawn shop in Alabama. This in spite of his troubled history, his ex-wife had removed his weapons from him and at one point he was committed against his will. He was bi-polar and apparently routinely did not take his medications. He had a love of Nazism and was estranged from his whole family. All of these things are indicators of a possible meltdown. Could he have been prevented from legally buying a weapon? The answer is yes if all fifty states and territories were properly reporting all of the data they are supposed to and there were no loopholes in buying a gun. He still would have ach...

The human race as a species is capable of unspeakable violence. A brief reading of known history reveals this, let alone an extensive study which can send chills down your spine. This violence can be the result of nation versus nation or individual acts of criminality. Last week we once again witnessed a mass shooting in a movie theater in Louisiana. The perpetrator obtained his weapon legally from a pawn shop in Georgia. This in spite of his troubled history, his ex-wife had removed his weapons from him and at one point he was committed against his will. He was bi-polar and apparently routinely did not take his medications. He had a love of Nazism and was estranged from his whole family. All of these things are indicators of a possible meltdown. Could he have been prevented from legally buying a weapon? The answer is yes if all fifty states and territories were properly reporting all of the data they are supposed to and there were no loopholes in buying a gun. He still would have ach...

There are some folks that are plum riled up over most of the Supreme Court's rulings last week. I can't indict them all because the post would be too long. My readers want a tasty snack, not a heavy meal. Ted Cruz wants to change the Supremes into elected officials. Bobby Jindal wants to eliminate the court altogether and Mike Huckabee wants not just civil disobedience, but for government officials to violate the law and not grant marriage licenses to gay people. None of them liked the upholding of the Affordable Care Act but it's really the gay thing that has them breathing fire. It's amazing how much they admire the court when it rules their way and despise it's mean activist ways when it doesn't. Judicial activism is the most overworked phrase in politics. While the Supreme Court does decide what cases it will hear there has to be a case to begin with. Congress writes the laws but it generally makes them so complex there's room for interpretation. It do...