Joe Biden took to the podium to demand a litany of new gun restrictions. Biden called for the banning of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines through reinstating the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban.
Biden also called on Congress to construct new federal background checks, which sounded a lot like a federal registration of gun ownership.
From Las Vegas, KTNV reported, “A video from a recent CCSD board meeting is now going viral on social media and making national headlines.
“Kandra Evans addressed the school board saying her 15-year-old daughter was given a pornographic assignment.
“Evans says her daughter was required to memorize the pornographic content and then recite it in front of her entire class.
“CCSD board members then stopped the public comment over the explicit language.”
A school board member said, “This is a public meeting. I ask for decorum.”
Evans replied, “If you don’t want me to read it to you, what was it like for my 15-year-old daughter to have to memorize pornographic material?”
They cut off her microphone.
So much for public comment on what goes on in the classroom. Is it time to end the public school system in this country?
We are hearing from all sides about solutions to the massacre in Uvalde, Texas. Don Surber has some thoughts:
How about we have Congress do nothing?
How about we have the president do nothing?
How about we have the entire nation just take a chill pill?
Pray for the victims. Pray for the families of the victims. Pray for the town of Uvalde.
But remember, we did not create a federal government to protect us from every imaginable evil and every tragedy in life. We already have paid too much for believing we should have an omnipotent government that protects us 24/7.
You know who gets 24/7 protection, free health care and free food?
Prisoners.
He has a point.
Trump held a rally in Wyoming that ostensibly, according to leftist news outlets, was because Cheney voted to impeach Trump. The news media characterized the rally was a grudge rally against Liz Cheney. They published stories touting a most empty arena and published pictures to back this story up. Trump once again is finished.
Whenever a mass shooting takes place, the Left is quick to come out and accuse Republicans of not caring about people’s lives because they refuse to enact “common sense” gun reform legislation. Of course, such legislation always involves taking guns away from law-abiding citizens. Democrats will lie and say that background checks would have stopped the current tragedy. The only problem is always that such background checks already exist.
Right now the whole country is focused on the unimaginable horror that hit a small town In Texas. Some years back when my wife and I were touring the country, we passed through Uvalde. We had lunch there. It was a nice small town and the people were delightful to talk to. This tragedy is going to dominate the news cycle for a while and do-something-itis will be in the conversation of many politicians.
This tragedy is unfathomable. Who imagines that when they send their nine or ten year old to school, that they will be coming home in a body bag?
This tragedy shows that evil exists even if the Left wants to provide some excuse for people to act like this. Once the post mortems are done, attention can be brought back to the other items that are making this country very ill.
Australia has an eSafety Commissioner named Julie Inman-Grant. Yes, that is a real title. At the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland, Inman-Grant outlined a new on-line era where free speech would need to be “recalibrated,” and the ability to be free from something called “on-line violence.”
Babylon Bee reports that Pfizer just finished clinical trials for a monkey pox vaccine. This was fortunate since a “new strain” of the virus was detected piggybacking on gay males and traveling around the world.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to strike down the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling which was an egregiously wrong-headed decision. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg had indicated such and expected it to be overturned. If that happens, it will clear the way for the banning or restricting of abortions in 26 states. While it is not yet official (the ruling is expected within a couple of weeks), a leaked copy of a draft Supreme Court opinion indicated the direction the court is heading.
Canadian director David Cronenburg, who was in Cannes presenting his latest film, called the potential overturn “completely insane.” Cronenburg noted:
“In Canada … we think everybody in the U.S. is completely insane…We think the U.S. has gone completely bananas and cannot believe that elected officials are saying the things that they’re saying there.”
Cronenburg must be talking about those Canadians who exist within the elite progressive wokeness that he inhabits. That would include people like Justin “Rainbow Socks” Trudeau who believes that Fidel Castro and Xi Jinping are great leaders. It certainly does not include most Canadians, a majority of whom believe that bans on abortion at different stages of pregnancy are necessary.
Abortion is the ending of a human life. Allowing abortion devalues all human life. Given the genre of films that Cronenburg is known for, it is not surprising that he has become inured to and approves of killing the most defenseless among us. That is true insanity.
Does insanity exist in America? Absolutely. Perhaps there is no more telling example than what happened in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday. An 18-year-old resident of Uvalde shot his grandmother and then killed 18 2nd through 4th graders and three teachers at a local school. Does Cronenburg, who believes in killing defenseless unborn children, believe that this is okay?