My political safe place....hear me rant....: Why do I do this to myself?! Dang facebook freaks!

Friday, December 14, 2012

Why do I do this to myself?! Dang facebook freaks!

I don't know why I get onto facebook! I get upset every time I do bc I get so frustrated by the absolute ignorance of people! It astounds me! Baffles me! Makes me laughs and also makes me ill.
Today a horrific thing happened to babies...little ones ages 5-10 years old. I had not watched the news or gotten on the computer until the evening and when I saw what had happened I could not help but cry and pray and cry and pray for the people in Connecticut. Such a senseless and incomprehensible act.
Again my activism for stricter gun laws is renewed by yet another killing. But this time...babies. How many people have harped on me for supporting more choices with women's health care and more education on abortion...and yet when there is a young man who has access to semi-automatic weapons and kills babies with it...robs families of their beautiful spirits some people still cling to their "rights" and the 2nd Amendment and their precious hobby of killing things with guns! I will never understand this perspective. I will never agree that today is the same as it was when the 2nd Amendment was written. That our right to bare arms is just as important today as in those horrible living conditions and tumultuous times. I will never agree that those men who wrote the 2nd Amendment meant that people with our technology and our society would need such immense weaponry available to us...legally.
But I understand that not all guns, to my sadness, can be taken away or banished from all Americans. There must be compromise. And those shotgun toting, gun-clingers better count their blessings that I am not in any position to pass the gun control law. :) But I do think that change is necessary. I have written my local authorities as well as signed petitions and written the White House. I encourage all to do so. We need a change in gun laws. We have more guns in our country than any other country except Yemen! Not to mention we have more killings in any country by 1,000's a year! These numbers are 2011, I believe.
Great Britain: 8
Japan: 48
Israel: 58
West Germany: 42
USA: 10,728!!!!!

Really America?
We need to decide. What is more important? Our babies or our semi-automatics? What do we value more our freedoms to carry a weapon or our lives? What is more valuable...our hobbies or our loved ones?
This is yet another example of American society not being the light of the world...but the joke of the world. America not taking our liberties and opportunities with grace and eloquence...but using our freedoms or our rights as a threat to other Americans who value lives, children, our loved ones' safety more than something written 100's of years ago...long before the advances of technology the rapid growth of population and the deterioration of integrity, and honor. Today Americans act like spoiled little brats throwing a tantrum over a toy they want. Get over it and grow up America!
This is a literal conversation a friend of a friend on fb and I had over gun control.
I stated in a general way that we needed more mental health care available, and stricter gun laws, and that the security of the school is not the issue. To that, this person responded with the following...brace yourself:

Look at Chicago: Incredibly anti-gun policies, yet one of the highest crime rates and murder cities in the USA. Less regulation on guns is vital. You really think someone will rob a bank when everyone else in there has a gun? The kind of person who killed those children today can't be stopped. They have a death wish. I will not give up my rights because someone else abuses theirs'.

I respond:
"WHAT!? So your answer to this case Scott is to have the teacher packing heat?! Ridiculous!"

This person responds with the best yet: Why not?

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this person finds that the solution to the killings of our babies in a school which had apparently wonderful security...have the teachers carry firearms! That is it!!! Where has this person been hiding! He is BRILLIANT! I can't wait to send my child to the first school where all teachers carry a holster for their gun!
This man represents to me our society of blind men and women who just want to be right about their rights. They just want a gun...to feel like a man? To kill a deer? To protect themselves from the apocolypse in 7 days....whatever reason these gun-toting Americans have for defending their weapons---it is definitely not because they want safety! More guns does not create safety!!! More untrained, stupid Americans toting semi-automatics, shot guns...what have you!---is not a GOOD idea!
Mr. President I am counting on you! Make it happen....and then make sure to up security on you and your family and the White House...bc I fear these advocates for the 2nd Amendment are a little too passionate--and we all know they are armed.
I pray for safety, love, tolerance, compromise, change...but most of all I pray for peace and help for the victims' families tonight. I can't stop praying and crying about it...and I know I won't sleep. May God bless this country despite the evil, despite the ignorance and despite the pride of our people.

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Quote of the day:

BYU commencement in 1972, President Brown counseled graduating students to “Strive to develop a maturity of mind and emotion and a depth of spirit which enables you to differ with others on matters of politics without calling into question the integrity of those with whom you differ. Allow within the bounds of your definition of religious orthodoxy variation of political belief. Do not have the temerity to dogmatize on issues where the Lord has seen fit to be silent.” He also warned, “beware of those who feel obliged to prove their own patriotism by calling into question the loyalty of others. Be skeptical of those who attempt to demonstrate their love of country by demeaning its institutions.”

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
Oh, they can bend it all they want
John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change"

"Let us learn respect for others if we are to realize the abundant life. Man, by nature, is tempted to seek only his glory and not the glory of his neighbor or the glory of his God. None of us lives alone—in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor’s poverty."

-Thomas S Monson

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Scripture of the day:

Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.