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chile quake and other weekend stuff…

wow…things have just been crazy in the last couple of weeks; both man made and natural occurrences.

early this morning there was an 8.8 earthquake in chile and a week or so ago a 6.9 quake off of japan.

we saw a professor in alabama shoot and kill 3 professors and wound 3 others and a man shoot and wound two middle school children in littleton, colorado .

natural disasters, while horrific, are just that – natural.  it is the way of the earth and you cannot stop them.  countries prepare as best as they can.  unlike haiti, apparently chile has rather strict building codes because they are in an earthquake zone.  they have already said that any building found not to be built to code would result in the owner or builder being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

the shootings on the other hand are horrific and entirely preventable.  i am constantly amazed at our lax gun laws within the united states.  i understand that our constitution rather ambiguously talks about gun ownership.  i have no doubt in my mind that if the founding fathers were alive today, they would not have intended for the the constitution to be interpreted in this way.

the nra would like for you to believe that more guns are a better thing.  if everyone is armed no one will hurt anyone else.  i think it’s bullshit.  absolute bullshit.  unless you are a hunter, law enforcement or military you have no need for a weapon.  me having a gun in my house would NOT make me safer.  as a matter of fact, i would be less safe.  there is the possibility that my child could be hurt by the gun or if there ever was an intruder, that they gun would be turned on me.

i heard the nra say repeatedly, after the virginia tech shooting rampage, that if the students and teachers had been allowed to carry weapons on campus that they would have been safer since they could have taken out the shooter.  that’s a huge maybe there.  who knows if they could have gotten to the shooter.  how would they have known who it was if everyone around them is armed…it could have been anyone.  and once you begin shooting…why should the guy next to you trust your word now?  it would be absolute chaos.

i think the whole gun thing has gotten out of hand.  and now that obama is in office, the crazies have come out of the wood work.  americans are flocking to buy guns and stock up on ammunition.  i say with a totally strait face…these people are crazy!  if these people honestly believe that obama is leading us to a fascist, socialist state they are cuckoo.  there are plenty of laws in place and certainly many people within the government that would stop that from happening.  though i guess it is questionable when you think about the fact that most of those people stood aside and let bush/cheney rape and pillage the laws of our land.

i won’t go on any longer…you get my point.  i’m a gun safety person rather than a gun rights person.  that’s it…it won’t change.

the day seems to have been wasted really.  my husband and i did our chiropractor this morning after breakfast at ihop.  he then had to go to work (he’s still there 7 hours later!) and i headed home.

a friend was supposed to come down from LA and deliver the girl scout cookies i ordered from his daughter.  i waited until around 11.30 to text and find out if he was still coming.  he said he was.  i waited until 12.50 and then headed over to the spectrum where would we be meeting.  i assumed that was enough time.  turns out he wasn’t even walking out the door until then.  bummer.  i had already told the boys we would do something this afternoon after i was done meeting him.  so, he turned around and went back home.  that’s why i like plans a bit more concrete….

that’s saturday so far.  we’ll see what happens this evening!