Tuesday, April 02, 2013

The NRA recommendations are about zoning.

Zoning is not going to stop the deaths of Americans. Those are half measures. Zoning will turn the USA if elected as federal statues into Baghdad.

I don't want blast walls surrounding playgrounds. That might be prudent in some LOCAL jurisdictions, but, not in all jurisdictions across the country.

Asa Hutchinson may be looking for a new job if this is the best he can do for the NRA.

Typical of tactics from the Right Wing pundits is the demand to circumvent the authority that sees NRA values as frivolous.

..."In terms of volunteers, (click here) my impression of school superintendents is they would have great reluctance and so it's not the best solution," Hutchinson said. "That's why we have shifted to school staff, trained school staff, that's designated by the superintendent of the school board." He said that each armed staff member would need 40 to 60 hours of training that would cost $800 to $1,000 each....

They don't care about doing the best thing for any child in school, they are only interested in what is good for the gun manufacturers in the USA. These folks, including Asa Hutchinson, drank the Kool-Aid a long time ago. They believe their own rhetoric. They actually believe the USA government is their enemy.

If blast walls were shown statistically to be the sincere answer for protecting people from gunmen, President Obama would have demanded blast walls for play grounds. Walls and training and other half measures won't stop anyone determined to kill. If a stronger wall is built that means a stronger explosive has to be obtained or fashioned to realize the success of the goal. If staff trained with 40 to 60 to 80 hours are in place, the gunmen will be trained with 100 hours to accomplish the end result. 

These are half measures that are unrealistic and UNENFORCEABLE. What is enforceable are bans on dangerous weapons entering and being manufactured in our country. That is enforceable. While it is possible, at the federal level, to enforce local governments and states to COMPLY with hideous ideas, that won't stop the bad guys with a gun.

After September 11th and the anthrax attacks this country went through some of the strangest paradigms it has ever experienced including appropriating monies to places in the USA that would never be a target for al Qaeda. Everyone was buying Duct Tape for their windows to stop WMD. 

The country is no longer in Republican Dreamscapes that make excuses for the culture of fear. We want laws that work and have been proven to work. We want the volatility of guns on our streets gone. There is only one way to achieve that.