Mild Rants

I can remember when Associated Press writers were level headed and rational, but after reading article Michael BALSAMO I realize the media has shifted to a  dangerously liberal mindset. Mike, hook, line and sinker, believes the words of a murderer “You’re killing an innocent man”  in Terre Haute.  The murderer killed an entire family in Arkansas and they just now got around to killing the scum wasting tax payer dollars keeping a homicidal heartless man alive for way too many years.  Mr Balsamo, Lee died a much more humane death than the tightly knit family he slaughtered in Razorback Land. You tell me why it is wrong to kill him!!?? I imagine the worse thing that has ever happened to you is maybe a girl you liked was unwilling to accept your invitation to high school prom!! , 

Despite all the mass shootings in public places by punk kids and adults with automatic and semiautomatic weapons, the redneck country bumpkins in Roswell,NM still don't want their second amendment rights encroached upon. Read the scan of the article in the RDR with the sign at the Western Frontier Gun and Craft Show. Yes, the sign reads If guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns . If the rednecks would only replace guns with automatic weapons, then the argument would be sound. We have relatives in Roswell and enjoy visiting for many reasons including the exceptionally friendly people and the beautiful sunsets, BUT Roswell has its roots as a cattle trail town with brothels and Saloons and gambling. All of this is, of course, accompanied by gun toting Cowboys who would shoot you if you messed with or stole their horse. There are very few shootings in Roswell that are of the crazy ilk notwithstanding the kid that had a screw loose at Berrendo Middle School. His par...

I don't know if it is really fair to characterize this as a rant. What follows is the exceptionally contentious issue of the right to bear arms. Does it mean that you carry weapons into WalMart or Target? Target, in Minneapolis, just made their position clear as Kavita Kuman describes in her well written article.  Target Corporation on Wednesday took a stand against customers who bring firearms into its stores. "This is a complicated issue, but it boils down to a simple belief: Bringing firearms to Target creates an environment that is at odds with the family-friendly shopping and work experience we strive to create," John Mulligan, the company's acting CEO, said in a statement. The gun carrying law in Texas states that permit holders can carry their weapon anywhere unless otherwise forbidden to do so by private entities. Apparently, this law does not hold in Minnesota. So a man from Texas, who believes it is his God given right to have a gun with him anyti...

I don't remember where I read or heard that the woman hating video produced by Elliot Rodger has been viewed by 86% of Americans and close to that percentage worldwide. For those of you who did not view video where Eliot decided he needed to kill some the women who would not give him any pussy, please watch it to understand the torment and misery of a 22 year old malcontent who could not get laid and reacted with a vengeance. My rant is with his father, an assistant director on the set of The Hunger Games, who is now trying to monetize the suicide of his son. You can read the details below, but I am guessing Peter Rodger has visions of big time cinematic payday based on the sexual tension induced shooting spree of his tightly wound, homicidal male progeny.  Father even volunteered to take his horny, virgin offspring to Sin City to pay for a much needed release, but Elliot preferred stewing, ruminating, and murder to a fling in Las Vegas. His Dad should not earn a single penny...

I want you to read a verbatim refutation of why trying to place more restrictions own gun ownership is egregiously unfair to all but a vanishing small percentage of the population. It comes to us from Larry Bell writing for Forbes . As much as gun control advocates might wish otherwise, their attacks are running out of ammo. With private firearm ownership at an all-time high and violent crime rates plunging, none of the scary scenarios they advanced have materialized. Abuse of responsibility by armed citizens is rare, while successful defensive interventions against assaults on their lives and property are relatively commonplace. Please allow me a more long winded paraphrasing of Mr. Bell's incisively penned paragraph: There is a very strong direct correlation between private firearm ownership and a reduction in criminal action or crime rates. Citizens who legally apply for gun ownership and are granted ownership rarely if ever show up at schools or theaters and start slaughter...

One has to love the perspective of this guy who posted pseudonymously as warofwords at the web site guardian.com. I think he is right on with his incisive observations as to why the United States has become a breeding ground for Elliot Rodger types who brag about their evolutionary fitness despite evidence to the contrary. The evidence being that women would not be caught dead with him. OH MY GOD!, that was a horribly inappropriate  unintended pun: ........these wacko mommy-hating dudes are out there en masse, not just on Reddit-inflected(infected sp?) sites and not just in prison for serial rape of women and little girls. Seems Rodger's otherwise useless life served a purpose after all: to show the world there are too many violent narcissist males who think they're "nice guys" and to make a lot more women consider the benefits of lesbianism. Women were opting for lesbianism long before it was so easy for psychos to carry out the countless mass murders we see i...

Some of the backlash from the mass murder in Isla Vista, California is certainly justified, but some of the commentary is irrational with no basis. Women attend frat parties in skin tight pants for a reason. They are trying to attract a mate or have sex. Still, if the guy makes unwanted advance, the girl always has the right to tell him to get lost. If he continues to be aggressive and won't back down, he should be disciplined or arrested. Please, let's not forget that what Elliot Rodger did is exceptionally rare. The city of Detroit has gone years without this type of horrific event ever happening! Sure Detroit has all kinds of violence, but nothing that matches the nature of what happened in the convenience store near the Santa Barbara university. I think the commentary of Maddie Clerides, while very understandable, is somewhat of an overreaction to an outlier event. Did she live in fear before gunman's rampage? She speaks of the "difficult part of our reality...