I live in a small American town
We are not safe
We live in a country where the Supreme Court does not believe our right to life as American citizens is as important as the right of young men to walk into a gun store and buy semi-automatic assault rifles, multiple high-capacity magazines, and all the ammunition they can carry. Here are some of the rights the six Republican members of the court don’t believe need protecting:
The right of churchgoers to attend a service without being gunned down in the pews.
The right of children to attend class without being shot and killed before they’re old enough to drive.
The right to buy groceries without bleeding out in the canned food aisle.
The right to walk down main street without being shot at with a high-powered rifle more than 70 times.
The right to fill up the tank without being killed in a drive-by shooting.
Our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness has been eclipsed by a Supreme Court that believes the Second Amendment trumps all other rights except those of unborn fetuses.
I live in a small American town. We are are not safe.
Honestly, I promise I am not glued to my computer. But when it comes to matters of life and death, I'm all ears. And the fact that my opinions still matters is not something I take lightly. Thanks for this forum - it's a stop-gap between my head and a brick wall.
It is probably a step to far to call SCOTUS guilty of unconscionable bias but one of our founders has these words inscribed on his monument in out capital. ""I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." (Hint, it's a relative of Lucian's)