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Things That Piss Me Off Tuesday - the I can do this twice because it's my blog edition

Posted by Unknown Selasa, 05 Februari 2013 0 komentar

Turns out that being prematurely pissy hasn't improved my outlook on Tuesday. So, in an unprecedented move, I'll be pissed off twice this week. How do you like them apples?

Dead Snipers and Murdering Kidnappers

Two major news stories this week have involved horrible stories of gun violence. Chris Kyle, a former SEAL and sniper, was shot and killed at a firing range by another veteran suffering from PTSD, Eddie Ray Routh. Another former SEAL, Brandon Webb was shot and killed too. All three of these men served their country, all three of these men were trained to kill others. Kyle has worked to rehabilitate vets suffering from PTSD, and died at the hands of one of those very men he was trying to help. A few things here need to be addressed.

Should veterans suffering from PTSD have access to weapons? Even in the somewhat safer and more supervised setting of a firing range, two highly trained men were killed. Routh had been under treatment at the VA for mental health problems for over two years. Why was he out there? Why was he allowed out there? I don't presume to have answers here, but I think it's glaringly obvious that we, as a nation, need to do a better job dealing with acclimating veterans back to civilian life, treating their PTSD and other mental disorders, treating the effects of traumatic brain injures and helping them sufficiently so things like this don't keep happening.

The other leading story in the news involved a man with a violent past, who still was able to own guns, who took the life of a bus driver and kidnapped a child, hiding him underground in a bunker for six days. Jimmy Lee Dykes was known to be violent, was known to be a menacing figure, and people who lived around him were terrified. He beat a dog to death for stepping foot on his property and fired his gun at a woman and her grandchildren. He was due in court this week for those charges. Why was he still allowed to possess weapons?

When are we going to wake up? When? When are we going to realize that allowing weapons to be in the hands of violent, unstable people results in the deaths of innocents? When? When are we going to actually start doing something to treat mental illness in this country? When?

The Violence Against Women Act

8 Senators voted against it. Here they are.

Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Tim Scott (R-SC), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mike Johanns (R-NE), Rand Paul (R-KY), Pat Roberts (R-KS), and James Risch (R-ID).

The law, which will pass both the House and Senate with sweeping bipartisan support, extends additional protections to illegal immigrants, partners in same sex domestic violence situations and women living on American Indian Reservations. Apparently, those women aren't deserving of the protection of the law in the eyes of eight Senators.

You should be angry. I hope you are.

Homophobia & our right as a society to demand better

Yeah, this is about the Boy Scouts. Again. They have opened up for public comment on whether they should reverse their policy excluding LGBT members and leaders. Any change they may make to the national policy on this will still allow church sponsored packs and troops to exclude gays at their discretion.

Want to hate on the gays, fine....just find a troop that agrees with you. It's not hard. Most of them are sponsored by churches that agree on that point. Give the rest of us a chance to include everyone though.

I hope they reverse the policy. In reality, very little about the operation of the Troop my son is in will change because we chose a troop affiliated with an inclusionary church intentionally. I feel like less of a hypocrite because of that, and also because we've talked about this issue at length with our son. Our son, who happens to have friends with two moms and sees absolutely nothing wrong with it, by the way.

Scouting is important, and teaching a child to make a fire, paddle a canoe or shoot an arrow has nothing to do with sexual preference.

In an ideal world, they would drop the ban on atheists too. Someday. Baby steps, right?

The Dark Side of the Super Bowl

Are you ready to be vastly disgusted by the things that happen in the world? If not, brace yourselves.

About 10,000 prostitutes, many of them underage, are brought to the city hosting the Super Bowl every year. Some are ordered to perform with 25-50 men a day.

I can't really say anything to sugarcoat that or make it better.

Thanks for humoring me, and letting me be pissed off two days in a row.

Smooches.

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