Instead of preventing sane people from owning guns, why don’t we lock up violent, mentally ill people ? There was a deluded person in Texas, back in the sixties, who was prevented from continuing to add to the number of people he had already shot by the person who shot him.
Around last Christmas, an 18 or 19 year old widow, living alone with her infant son, stopped two intruders (one was armed) who were breaking into her home by shooting the one who was armed. (Oh, and by the way, yes this young woman did try to get police help first. She was not someone impulsively using lethal force.)
About the tragedy in Connecticut, I would like to know if this kid had a history of violent outbursts. While it seems unrelated to anything, I would like to know if he lived with his mother, and when his mother purchased these guns.
I don’t necessarily see in this tragedy an argument for greater gun control. I do see in this tragedy, and in other relatively small incidents in schools in Connecticut ( a drowning death in a school swimming pool, Internet films of students fighting in inadequately supervised hallways) an argument for parents, who know each other and each other’s children well, working together to home school their kids. Schools, as we know them now, might really be as outdated as stage coaches.

Blakep, Thank you. Your comment is outstanding.

Cogitator X,
Look up “Stand Up For Religious Freedom.” Go to their website and carefully read about the HHS mandate as it affects the Catholic and other churches. Then tell me if you’re still sure religious freedom in America is in no way threatened.
I’m not Catholic, by the way. I don’t necessarily object to abortifactants. But it’s scary our government can force a church to violate its own teachings by changing the definition of religious practice and forcing Catholics to do what, say, Congregationalists might choose to do. That’s not religious freedom.

O.k.,Thedanhare, I’ve got time to write on#1. And #1 is B.S. because— of two curse notions people entertained around 1830—the uniquely Mormon curse notion (some muddled nonsense in the incoherent book of Mormon) has nothing to do with Cain, Ham or Canaan, or with African Americans.
The truth is some Mormons picked up—and somewhat conflated with their own ideas—the rationalizations of Christians who either…
—owned slaves and needed to justify it
Or
—did not want the trouble of taking a stand against slavery, and needed to justify that.
Christians justified participating in slavery (or turning a blind eye to it) by shrugging and saying the Africans were cursed according to the bible. And Mormons—who wanted to survive among Christians—were willing to agree.
But now we’re going to make Mormons scapegoats for our shared history of moral failure? Lovely.

Nobody Likes Milhouse,
#1 is B.S., #2 is B.S., and numbers 3 and 4 are hysterical misrepresentations. The end of defeating Romney doesn’t justify the use of this kind of misinformation and bigotry as the means.

Romney’s soul is his problem. Obama’s assault on religious freedom is everybody’s problem. Stand Up For Religious Freedom regardless of your faith.

Southern Baptists and Evangelicals think it doesn’t matter what the president’s religion is as long as he can be trusted to respect and defend everyone’s right to freely exercise his(her) own.

I’m assuming you have proof the Romneys got “tens of thousands of dollars of gifts” from Mitt’s dad, and you’re just too busy working to supply it. Not—by the way—that I care what people do or don’t give their kids as long as I’m not paying for it.

I may complain about people whose lifestyle is costing me money through taxes, but I have no interest in condemning the way of life of couples WHO SUPPORT THEMSELVES. Ann Romney isn’t taking a paid job away from someone else by working. For that, we should all thank her. She also “got”—-sooner than the Obama administration—-that women are currently most concerned about the economy and jobs.

Due to the Obama administration, there are now so few jobs that any wealthy, well educated woman who isn’t taking one of them away from someone else should get “thank you” notes from American citizens.
Also, go to Wal-mart and you’ll see birth control is not expensive. No one wants to make it more expensive. But a lot of us don’t want to pay for other people’s abortifactants because we think ending unborn human life, at any stage, is murder. And we don’t want to be complicit in murder. We are in the same position Henry David Throeau was in when he didn’t want to pay a tax that was subsidizing slave catchers. Like Throeau, we want to have freedom of conscience.