salt lake city

They are too idiotic to realize it, but it's the pro-gun idiots out there that are pushing our nation to tougher firearms control. Take this story out of Salt Lake City:

A 6th grade student brought an unloaded handgun to West Kearns Elementary School Monday.

The 11-year-old boy told other students his parents encouraged him to bring a gun to school for protection following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.

The boy reportedly pulled the gun, a .22-caliber pistol, out of his backpack during recess Monday morning.

“At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” said Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s fellow 6th grade students.

First off. These parents, who by the love of God should not be allowed to reproduce, much less own weapons, put their child in more harms way. Pulling an unloaded weapon is extremely dangerous in violent situations. It makes the perpetrator take instant notice at you, and the most you can maybe do is throw the weapon at them. Smooth move, idiots! Hopefully your child is taken away from you.

Second, this shows that not everyone should have the right to own a gun. These parents sure as hell shouldn't considering they have given a firearm to a child. The parents should also be facing charges for child endangerment, but there is no word on that either.

One can only suspect that the parents are big pro-gun nuts. These are the people that think the only solution to any problem is with a firearm. These people are the biggest threat to the 2nd amendment we have.

Since Sandy Hook last week, we are seeing a big shift in opinion, both from the public and politicians. One more Sandy Hook incident and we will see even a bigger shift. A couple more and there will be enough support in this nation to repeal the 2nd amendment. So what's that say to the gun nuts?

Here's a view of a Republican America:

From Think Progress:

Yesterday, Chevron discovered a leaking pipeline that was spewing 50 gallons of crude oil per minute into Red Butte Creek in Salt Lake City, UT. By the time crews capped the leak, more than 21,000 gallons — between 400-500 barrels — of oil had spilled out, “coating geese and ducks” and closing the city’s largest park.

This was just days after Utah's Republican Governor, Gary Herbert, called for more drilling. Yes - more drilling, more destroying of America's envrionment. That seems to be the wishes of the GOP and it's an assault on the place we all call home.

Rudy Giuliani is a problem for the GOP. The right-wing pundits try to dismiss this, but the Christian Right is making sure their concerns are known:

Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.

The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.”

I have always said this country needs more political parties. We have grown too diverse for all our political beliefs to be summed up into two parties. This could become the opening for such a division. Personally I would like to see both parties split into two. Our democracy really needs this.

During this past weekend, two different events occurred that makes our once
great nation appear more as a police state.

The first happened in Pittsburgh where a peaceful protest turned violent. The
turn of violence was not from the protestors, but from the police. They tased
two women, one of which was also bitten by a police dog.
Click
here to view a video of the tasing. I posted the

article regarding this incident yesterday

Incident two took place Saturday night in Utah where a rave was in progress.
The rave was broken up by local and state police, according to officials. Watch
this video
of the incident and see if that appears to be police. According to a post on
Daily Kos by someone in attendance, the rave was commercially organized and
promoted plus had all required permits.

The troopers (either local or military) stormed the rave in camouflage and
helicopters. They were carrying assault riffles and one report even says they
launched tear gas into the crowd.

 Crooks
and Liars is reporting that an official inside the Utah state government
stated the break up was due in part to the protest of George Bush that took
place in Salt Lake City today. They feared this rave would grow support for the
protest.