Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-expected-sign-new-executive-order-gun-control/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/politics/pete-buttigieg-ohio-train-derailment/index.html

These could really be three sperate posts, but the title was just too perfect to pass up.

Guns

President Biden is signing an executive order call for more stringent background check on all firearm sales in the monumental amount of mass shooting and gun related homicides. Already there are cries from the gun activists saying that in this day of unprecedented violence restricting the purchase of firearms is only going to embolden the criminals.

It’s my right to own a gun has been the NRAs rallying chant from years since they support the gun manufactures and seem to have zero interest in public safety, which is counterintuitive considering they were established in the 40s as a gun safety and training organization. The NRAs lobbying PACT spends millions influencing members of the government and in recent history has gotten their way.

I don’t think that the executive order goes far enough, call for restricting large capacity magazines, full ban bump-stocks, make 3D and ghost guns illegal, hell I would stop future sales of AR style assault weapons. We banned assault weapons before and mass shooting went down, but no one wants to acknowledge that miniscule fact.

So good for you Joe for doing your job and protecting the public. 

Trains

Secretary of Transportation Buttigieg has come out admitting that he did not visit the site of the Ohio train derailment soon enough and other law makers, republicans of course, are calling for resignation or termination. These same politicians neglect to inform their constituents at in 2018 alone, 1,376 derailments occurred under Trump and neither or his Transportation Secretary Eline Chow visited a single one or that it was (45)s deregulation of the railways that has was a contributing factor. Not to mention that for 4 years we were told it was Infrastructure Week that could have invested in improving the nations rail system but the master builder and deal maker never pulled that off.

So, Sec. Pete you are doing a phenomenal job with the shit show you were handed keep it up. And please continue to show up on Fox and make their mouth pieces look like idiots.

Abortion Pills

A Texas Judge (of course Texas) is hearing a case that could ban the use and sale of mifepristone an early abortifacient once again restricting a women right to control her own body.

Texas already has some the most restrictive abortion laws that they implemented after the overturning of Roe. One is the “heartbeat” law that bans abortion after 6 weeks. I don’t believe it is a coincidence the mifepristone is only effective if taken between the moment of conception and 6 weeks and just stops implantation of a fertilized egg into the uterine wall. Not a baby not even a fetus a fertilized egg. So, in affect Texas wants to control a women’s body from the moment she encounters an erect penis.

I have another issue with this Texas Judge trying a challenge the FDA on the drug that has been in use for more than 20 years with the objective of a nationwide ban of the medication. How is it the that one Trump appointed, Heritage Foundation Judge in Texas, believes that his narrow minded opinion has dominion over 167.5 million women’s bodies nationwide. Now that is arrogance of a colossal scale.

Here is a quote from Planes , Trains and Automobiles that seem to fit the republican party.

“YOU’RE GOING THE WRONG WAY… YOU ARE GOING TO KILL SOMEBODY!!!”