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Living on rabbits and Kool-Aid said,

October 14, 2008 at 7:35

You fucking Americans and your guns. People here in Canada don’t actually think all that much about guns, if you can believe that. I mean, people buy them to kill animals and then eat them (the animals, that is), and there are some obsessing gun-nuts and also of course criminals, at least the ones with guns, but basically we just don’t fucking think about guns all the time. Guns, guns, guns. Get a life, assholes.

And which of us has a queen on their money, Mr. Smarty Pants?

I also have a few of those bombs that look like bowling balls with a fuse sticking out of the top. If Yosemite Sam, or anyone who looks like him, tries to break into my house, I will be ready.

Shorter-barreled weapons are less likely to get tangled up in a lampshade or a curtain or your bathrobe. Precision of aim doesn’t do you a damned bit of good if your weapon is pointed at the wall because you blundered around the corner in the middle of the night and caught your Weatherby on the corner of the couch.

Bring back the more freewheeling gun shows and mandate free booze.

People abuse their rights in a free society. If you allow responsible people to do something, you also allow IRresponsible people to do it. That’s it. We have to live with that.

So the question should be, is there any way at all to reduce the number of people who subscribe to the nutjob ethos of gun ownership?

Oh yes, “Elections Have Consequences.”

I don’t think our yokel friends wanna dance to the scary black mooslim blackety black remix, but I hear all the kids are hip…

I guess we’ve witnessed a transformation of political discourse away from a ruinous Presidency and a clear-eyed opposition to “business as usual.”

‘Clear-eyed opposition’? Man, I’m probably gonna vote for Harry Reid and I don’t fucking buy that.

FWIW, the gun conversation is just one of those things that there actually is conversation to be had about. It’s one of the few issues in American politics that aren’t just a horrifying shell game. There’s no debate on the massive tax cuts during a period of prosperity – just the truth and liars trying to shout it down. Same goes for Iraq, same goes for abortion (at least the way it is now), same goes for pretty much everything you can get the opposition to agree about and everything McCain purports to stand for.

A little friendly argument is good for you, and a pretty major distinguisher between people who actually have opinions and people who (like S,N!’s resident negro-monitors Pravda and ACORN) are just bouncing from received hate to received hate.

GUNS? Gun ownership in our society is a moral dilemma that is dicey at best, where even the left is prone to generalizations and oversimplifications.

During the Bush years, the opposition to him and his evil ilk was based on things that we knew were venal, horrible, absolutely morally wrong, and worst of all, clearly inept: the handling of Hurricane Katrina, the giant clusterfuck that is Iraq, the politization of the Justice Department, and so forth.

Bush II’s policies were so insanely destructive and carried out with such arrogance that it’s hard to imagine ANYONE supporting them: the famous tax cuts, for instance, particularly at a lean time accompanied by high-spending.

The first sign that the pendulum had shifted was how often Israel was discussed in the Veep debate. Israel is another example that, like guns, neither side (left or right, Arabs or Israeli) is absolutely in the moral right.

And here we are talking about GUNS again.

I guess we’ve witnessed a transformation of political discourse away from a ruinous Presidency and a clear-eyed opposition to “business as usual.” And that depresses me immensely.