President Obama on Gun Control

I applaud and support President Obama's stance and objectives and speech on gun control. No machine should ever be put above Human life nor give anybody a superior feeling of power. I say this as an FOID card holder and gun owner in IL.


I like Obama's quote on what former and late President Reagan said about gun control.


There are apx 88 guns for every 100 Americans in this country, we are well armed as it is. Too many needless deaths though, our gun culture is inferior compared to Japans, Canada's, Sweden, Israel and Switzerland.


An exception is that citizens in major city's that have gang activity and are not affiliated with any gangs and are in good standing, etc should be required to concealed carry guns at all times.

Doyle vs Gonzalez Road Rage Incident

As an American Catholic of German Irish descent, Gun owner, FOID card holder and dormer armed security guard I condone Doyle's actions and intimidation and cold blooded murder that reminds me of Hitler's Germany, where many minorities and others were killed. I pray for Gonzalez's family and children. What Doyle did was rebuke Jesus and Moses moral teachings, commuting insane evil for the devil himself.

2nd Amendment and Gun Control

“The grassroots adherents of Second Amendment fundamentalism may not work in law enforcement, but they do forcefully shape the political culture that indirectly keeps this country’s uniquely harsh criminal justice policies in place. The same politics of fear that has incubated our punitive hyperincarceration state also directly feeds these citizen-protectors’ positive, if delusional, self-image as brave and useful men. This passionate, self-interested attachment to a vision of the United States as violent and chaotic—even in the face of historically low crime rates—continually blocks the drastic reform that our criminal justice system badly needs. Our robust, everyday gun culture is part of the reason why punishment and protection are not just simply the goals of law-enforcement agencies but have come to be the guiding paradigms for government policy in general. (Sociologist Jonathan Simon calls this “governing through crime”; Carlson refers to the “seepage” of the state’s policing duties into a generalized civic duty.)" Have Guns, Will Liberate via azspot.net

In Appreciation Of Police

"From somebody who appreciates what the police do for us. Yes, there are bad ones. But many more good ones. I wouldn't want to live in a world without them. They have walked into my house, took a love one from my arms and that hurt like hell. But they were doing their job. I didn't cuss them. Hate them. I thanked them for being so kind to me, a mother with a broken heart. So pooh-pooh me all you want to. My heart goes out to the families. God bless the cops who lost their life.
" Friend and author Joy Redmond via Facebook

sandy Hook Mom's Letter to "The Mom I Used To Be"

"You view life through the prism of “before” and “after.” Jake’s fifth grade photos came recently. They are still sitting on a table because you haven’t put them in the frame that sits next to Dylan’s last school photo. It’s too hard for you — too soon. Jake is getting older. But Dylan is frozen in time forever. Even after two years, there’s this denial that is still very present inside you. You have Dylan’s baby teeth and a lock of his hair on your bedside cabinet, beside the urn holding his ashes. That’s all you have of your little boy now. It hurts. It just hurts. You suppress your feelings as much as you can because you fear if you really let it out, you would never recover. If you started truly crying, you would never be able to stop. It would destroy you. And here’s the thing — you didn’t have to be that Mom. For all the Moms and Dads reading this now — this doesn’t have to be you. Because every gun-related death is a preventable death." Mom's Letter via azspotnet