Some states like Texas allow anyone to buy and carry a gun on their hip or sling an assault weapon over their shoulder. They say it is their Constitutional right but if it is a right that can’t be abridged, how can the Supreme Court prohibit guns in schools, courtroom, and their assembly meetings?

            Some states violate that right be prohibiting who can have a gun. Felons and kids are prohibited in some states but not all. Some require some kind of license to carry or even buy a gun so someone from Texas can be arrested for having a weapon in those states. We have a total confusion with gun laws.

            Our voting laws are just as confusing. The U.S. Government mandated a voting age of eighteen. Then it is a hodgepodge of laws as to how to vote, when voting can start, and how long polls can be open among other rules. Some felons can vote while some can’t. Some mail ballots to all registered voters, some may mail some, and others don’t mail any. A few have open primaries.

            Congress needs to finally set rules for all Federal Elections which will drag all the states along for their local and state election.

            Some states like Texas allow anyone to buy and carry a gun on their hip or sling an assault weapon over their shoulder. They say it is their Constitutional right but if it is a right that can’t be abridged, how can the Supreme Court prohibit guns in schools, courtroom, and their assembly meetings?

            Some states violate that right be prohibiting who can have a gun. Felons and kids are prohibited in some states but not all. Some require some kind of license to carry or even buy a gun so someone from Texas can be arrested for having a weapon in those states. We have a total confusion with gun laws.

            Our voting laws are just as confusing. The U.S. Government mandated a voting age of eighteen. Then it is a hodgepodge of laws as to how to vote, when voting can start, and how long polls can be open among other rules. Some felons can vote while some can’t. Some mail ballots to all registered voters, some may mail some, and others don’t mail any. A few have open primaries.

            Congress needs to finally set rules for all Federal Elections which will drag all the states along for their local and state election.

I think the verdict in the Trayvon Martin case was probably correct.  Why?  It is obvious to most that Zimmerman was responsible from the time he started following the kid, through the time he got out of his vehicle, to killing him.  The jury had no choice but to follow the misguided, wrong-thinking law.

Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law basically says you don’t need to defuse a situation, just pull out your gun and start shooting.  This old Wild West law was pushed through by the right-wingers who were influenced by the gun lobby and racial fears. (Oddly the racial aspect is brown, not black in Florida.) Florida isn’t the only state with this type of law and they should all be repealed.

Here is why they are wrong.  Put yourself into this scenario.  You are driving down a street and some idiot turns out of a parallel parking spot without looking and you hit him.  You get out complaining about their stupidity and are killed by the other driver.  Why?  The other person saw you as a threat.  Extreme? No.

As long as any fool wants to get the feeling of being John Wayne or Clint Eastwood with a gun, these events will happen.

Estimates are that a quarter to a third of the cost of every handgun legally sold by a retailer is for lobbying and advertising.  Any idea where much of the payoffs goes?  It goes to pay for those votes that caused the Concealed Carry and Stand Your Ground laws to be passed.

Money buys lobbyists who buy public opinion and votes.  As long as it is allowed to be so and we elect people who are so easily swayed, we will not be in control.  We are perceived by them to be lemmings.  Thanks to the gun lobby and the right-wingers we are scared lemmings.