Hello again!

Sorry to all that my blog has been pretty dull of late. I just haven’t been up to much doing the daily grind. Still running my Acer Aspire One with Arch Linux and it’s been a great little companion. My family and I have taken a few trips out of state and we use the Acer as a video player to keep the kids quiet in the back seat :). We bought a car power adapter so we could keep it plugged in (since I do not yet have the 6-9 cell batteries). With an FM transmitter it’s actually not that bad of a setup.

On the news side, there was recently a lady that decided it was a sunny, nice day out for killing her son. You can read it here. This was the latest in a string of idiots killing people in the past month or so. It also has a video, which isn’t too extremely graphic if you’re worried about that kind of thing, but for the extremely weak stomached you may not want to play it. Nobody for a few days could tell why she did it, but then an audio surfaced; sort of like a suicide letter to her husband: here.

In it she explains she’s the Anti-Christ, needs to kill herself so that there can be 1000 years peace on earth, and killed her son to save him from getting his penis chopped off. Because, hey, that’s what mothers do – right?

Now, I’m pretty sure we all agree on one thing here – She’s bloody nuts! This is where I have trouble comprehending the logic of people… on every news post I can find about this that allows comments – people attack…….. GUNS?!? What the hell? Two idiots don’t make a right, here. Listening to that Audio, do you REALLY think stopping that woman from going to a shooting range would have prevented anything at all?

I don’t understand why it is that when a completely psychotic basket case decides to latch onto Guns, Games, TV, or Movies – we have all these people up in arms with pitchforks and poster boards trying to ban, outlaw, and remove liberties of sane people to stop the crazy people from being crazy… so where are all the riots, protesters, and lynch mobs out to ban religion?? This whack-job locked onto religion, not guns, the gun was merely the object she used to express her insanity. A knife would have worked just as well here people. So this nut job latches onto religion and yet nobody applies the same failed, knee-jerk, asinine logic that they apply to Movies, Games, or Tools. This is certainly not the first, nor will it be the last time a crazy goes around screaming “God made me do it!”.

So what gives people? Are we really so hypocritical and selfish as a race that we fully support the banning of anything that doesn’t effect *us* directly, but that millions of our fellow Americans enjoy and love daily, merely because a politician is screaming at the top of his lungs “Yes We Can?” Have we really become so unamerican that we actually choose to sacrifice personal freedoms and liberties to purchase a temporary peace of mind – with no actual evidence that life will really be any safer without Violent TV, or Guns? For every study done that shows a crime decrease with more gun laws, one can point out areas and countries that crime either stayed the same, or INCREASED, after such laws. None of these studies take into any other factor – like, for example, social climate. Look at D.C., until recently (or maybe still?) one of the crime capitals of the country; and also the most restrictive on firearms! In fact, so restrictive, the Supreme Court had to stand up and say “Um… No.”

So, without concrete proof that any of these laws, rules, regulations, or bans will actually make the world any safer a place to live – do you truly believe sacrificing the rights or privileges of millions of Americans that don’t shoot up restaurants, schools, and malls is the correct answer? Are we that daft?