The NRA Is Wrong Again

We have a habit of finding a scapegoat to blame our problems on. When the scapegoat du jour is an inanimate object, it's easy to say our troubles will all go away if we get rid of them. Take, for example, hammers. When confronted with the case of Maxwell and his Silver Hammer, one could say it never would have happened if we had only outlawed them. We don't stop to think about carpenters around the world who use them every day with positive results. But I digress...



Our real problem is multi-layered and has nothing to do weapons. It's "Us vs Them." We take our differences and turn them into battlegrounds. Dems vs Reps, Atheists vs Christians, Rich vs Poor, Science vs Religion, and any of a million other things. If there's a difference, we expand it. If there's a disparity, we blame someone else. We rarely, if ever, take responsibility for our own situation or our future.



So here we sit, feeling tense and miserable about (enter your problem here). Unsatisfied. Hopeless. Blaming someone or something. In that condition some muddle through, some fade away, some rise up and some strike out. McVeigh used fertilizer. If only we had outlawed that a little sooner, or passed laws preventing people from getting it.



Instead of blaming an object for our woes, let's each take responsibility for ourselves, stop vilifying each other, and work on making our communities better places to live.
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September 11 Anniversary Stained By Politics And Prejudice

More Muslims lost their lives in the twin towers than caused them to come down. More Christians lead quiet lives trying to live their faith than march as b! gots. Yet we all get so uptight about the few cr@ck pots we overgeneralize, lump them all into a category and blame the whole group for something they had nothing to do with.



Treating our own neighbors like enemies over a civic center that could benefit everyone in the community! Blaming all Christians for the actions of a few antisocial nuts! Blaming all Muslims for an act of terrorism not condoned by Islam and performed by a handful of radicals.



As long as we keep our us vs. them mindset over all our differences, we'll foster intolerance and fear, let chaos rule the cities, states and country, and inspire those who would commit acts of terrorism and treason, from outside our borders and within.
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Iraq Combat Continues: Despite Formal End, U.S. Joins Baghdad Battle

When this all started, there was talk about sending in a team of SEALs to target Hussein. Two Bushes and a Bill decided it's more "moral" to let the war machine and profiteers do their thing. Morality 101... One genocidal maniac.... hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars during a huge financial crisis. Hmmmm.....
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