The Arizona Slaughter and Politics

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LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

We here in the USA and around the world are all mourning the loss of innocent lives resulting from the useless Tucson, Arizona mass murders. However, it disturbs me that all of a sudden many of our lawmakers in Washington and elsewhere are screaming gun regulation. These representatives of government are sworn to uphold the Constitution and shouldn't be calling for more restrictions on Americans personal liberties.

Why doesn't the lawmakers actually read the Constitution? It appears that like many of the bills these lawmakers fail to read but yet pass in Washington also applies to our founding fathers written words.

The rhetoric by some lawmakers and the media talking heads frighten me more than a mental case that went bonkers with a weapon.

People, ever since early civilization, all around the world, assassinations have been occurring. Down through history the assassins were in all likelihood mentally unbalanced. The assassinations of such notables as Martin Luther King, President Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln and too many others from around the world were committed by persons who were, in lay terms, "crazies".

All the rants and ravings of both the political right and left media guru's and right and left leaning lawmakers are completely irrelevant in a mental deficient brain that has the person marching to his or her own drum along with the voices they hear in their own head.

Folks, a mentally unbalanced individual is "crazy". They either cannot help themselves or they convince themselves that their actions are the only solution to the problem which they formulated in their diabolical, deranged sick mind.

I suggest that these politicians and special interest groups who are looking for a scape goat and who enjoy grabbing all the media time they can get in front of cameras tone it down. Political posturing is one thing but it is because of political posturing and gridlock of a nonfunctional and dysfunctional Congress that assisted this nut job in forming a lopsided irrational opinion and an ill-contrived reason and justification for his slaughter rampage. One just needs to read the shooters ramblings on the Internet to understand that he was upset with the government and certain government policies along with his failure to speak his mind (what there was of it) to an elected official.

Where are the politicians of yesteryear when civility, courtesy, integrity and honesty was the norm? - And, that's my opinion. Make your own decisions. You decide.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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