Right Not to Get Shot Faces Uphill Fight in Senate - Andy Borowitz has details

[Mira]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Senate Republicans today vowed to filibuster a controversial bill supporting the right not to get shot.
G.O.P. leaders lambasted the bill, arguing that the right to go to school, work, or one’s home without fear of being shot was not guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
“The Second Amendment makes it very clear,” said Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyoming). “The right to bear arms shall not be infringed by a tiny minority’s desire not to be shot.”
But according to the pollster Harland Dorrinson, of OpinionFact Polling, the right not to get shot, while controversial, is beginning to gain traction with the American electorate.
“Like gay marriage, not getting shot is an idea that has taken some getting used to, but people are starting to wrap their brains around it,” he said.
Poll numbers notwithstanding, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said today that he would join the effort to filibuster any not-getting-shot-related bill: “The only way we Republicans can protect our democracy is by preventing a vote.”


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[Bigmack]

1. Posted this one on FB and got this.....

"No one want to get shot, but the more people educated in using guns properly the less issues there are. The more we take guns out of the hands of good people, the only people using guns are those who are intended on doing evil and the chances of getting shot go up not down. Even my teens understand this concept. Without me ever telling them my opinion. If guns were illegal for people to own who would have them? Their answer, "Criminals". Taking guns away is not going to prevent mass murders from happening because there is no fear of the criminals of getting shot. So yes I do not want to get shot, but I have a greater fear of my own liberties being taken from me and my children and my grandchildren. Educate people for a better life, give more gun safety classes, teach people the value of life from the pre-born to the oldest person and be harder people when they do wrong. None of these slap on the wrist's sort of things. Even our children are not being disciplined for showing disrespect for authority. Why should we be surprised that we have the society we have now? Instead of taking away our Civil liberties, maybe we should be backing up parents, teachers, and other authority figures instead of saying that always challenging authority that is above you is good. Yes we should challenge things when something is not right, but why do we challenge for the sake of challenging? Why do we teach kids that it's ok to be rude, self-seeking and disrespectful of those in charge of their upbringing? Since when do some personal rights get more value then others? Sorry for the long rant but honestly I am tired of being told that it's ok to slam a Christian and a conservative point of view, but a liberal point of view is the only good and logical one. So yes I am a conservative, and mostly I am proud to be a follower of Christ. I am not perfect, I don't expect others to be. But my beliefs are just as valid!"

[Mira]

2. I'm sorry about that.

It reads like someone took all the talking points and then lined them up like dominos.

I know you could, and so could I, give him the honor of a response. But so much time would be wasted.
Unfortunately.

I'm going against my own belief which is that one can sow seeds under the snow and can have a good chance a few of them will sprout. But on the issue of guns, and re-reading this lineup of apologies about them, we don't have fertile soil.

Was it a 6 year old shooting a 4year old today. Or vice versa? I see something like that and first I cramp up and can't take in the details. I have to come back later when I've assimiliated the first punch, and often I don't and it just goes under in the dailies of gun violence USA.

I was on a treadmill at the phys therapy rehab today. On the TV was a notice: Breaking News, 12 students injured in campus knifing.
I asked my therapist to step up and high five me. It was not 12 students killed in campus shooting.

I think I'm tired and free associating. But it's better than answering your face book reply.