Better than Viagra: Vice President Dick Cheney, shown above with two other scared, stupid white males, admires the tool with which scared, stupid, straight white males have maintained their power throughout the history of the United States. Dick's shiny new rifle was a gift from National Rifle Association President Kayne Robinson, right, and NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre, left (Kayne and Wayne -- ain't that cute?). Dick gave the keynote address (top) at the annual NRA convention today in Pittsburgh. Now that he has a new toy, maybe Dick can go hunt down Osama bin Laden with U.S. Supreme Court "Justice" Antonin Scalia. Naw -- he'll leave that to some young man who joined the military because he couldn't afford to go to college. (Associated Press photos)
What a Dick!
You don't need a Ph.D. to figure out to which target audience the Bush-Cheney ticket is trying to appeal.
Clearly, their message is carefully crafted for scared, stupid, straight white males, whose numbers in the United States are dwindling (at least in proportion to the numbers of non-white males and females).
As Michael Moore examined in his Oscar-winning documentary "Bowling for Columbine," the scared, stupid, straight white males apparently are afraid that all of the minority groups that they've kept down ever since the founding of the nation are going to violently rise up against them. Thus, the scared, stupid, straight white males must have their guns. (If you haven't seen the cartoon short in "Bowling for Columbine" titled "A Brief History of America," you must. Click here.)
You aren't a gun nut unless you are afraid. People who are secure don't need guns. Of course, the scared, stupid, straight white males would deny that they're the cowering cowards that they are, because to admit fear, in their sick and twisted world, is considered weak.
So it looks like we have to put up with the scared, stupid, straight white males while their power continues to erode, and, of course, a corollary of Murphy's Law states all of the stupid, fearful people have to be armed with deadly weapons.
It doesn't look like the scared, stupid, straight white males are going to go their political extinction without a fight, and the the closer to political extinction they become, the more terrified -- and thus the more violent -- they're going to become. What else has the Bush regime been all about but the pathetic death throes of scared, stupid, (presumedly) straight white males in power? (Colin and Condi, you say? Puhhhlease. They're bigger white males than I will ever be.) The good ol' boys are robbing, pillaging and plundering all they can now, while they still can.
The National Rifle Association remains one of the scared, stupid, straight white males' last bastions, along with NASCAR and golf.
This excerpt from the Associated Press' story on the NRA's annual convention today sums up the mentality of NRA members:
Tom Mauser, whose son, Daniel, was killed with an assault weapon in the Columbine High School killings five years ago, tried to enter the convention hall where the NRA was meeting, seeking to urge Cheney to support extending the assault weapons ban.
Mauser was turned away by a security guard as several conventioneers applauded. A couple of conventioneers yelled "Get a life" and "Vote for Bush."
Speaking of "President" Bush, at the NRA convention today Cheney painted our next president, John Kerry, as a threat to the Second Amendment, which, of course, is bullshit. Kerry, who is a hunter, supports Second-Amendment rights but opposes carte blanche gun ownership, such as the sale of assault weapons. From Kerry's Web site:
John Kerry stood up to the gun lobby to pass the assault weapons ban and the Brady Bill. This assault weapons law is soon set to expire under George W. Bush. We need a president who will fight to keep assault weapons off our streets and out of our communities.
John Kerry has the courage to stand up to the NRA, one of the most powerful special interests in the country, which is fighting tooth and nail against reasonable gun-safety protections and against renewal of the assault weapons ban.
One in five law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty were killed with assault weapons. John Kerry stands with law enforcement officers, who put their lives on the line every day, in making sure they are not outgunned by criminals armed with these weapons of war.
Kerry believes that we can support the right to own guns and support common-sense gun safety protections. He believes that the NRA leadership is out of step with most law-abiding gun owners who support reasonable measures to keep guns out of the wrong hands and weapons of war off our streets.
(For more on Kerry's stances on gun ownership, click here.)
The AP notes of today's NRA convention:
Cheney did not address the federal assault weapons ban, which expires in September, and which the NRA maintains has been ineffective.
Kerry, in a statement issued before Cheney's address, said "most voters don't know that [Bush and Cheney] are standing against major police organizations and breaking their promise to renew the assault weapons ban -- which helps keep military-style assault weapons out of the hands of criminals and terrorists."
Personally, I'm not thrilled that Kerry is a hunter; I could not shoot an animal myself. (I have been known even to rescue an earthworm by throwing it back into the wet grass when it has wandered onto the sidewalk and faces certain desiccation without my intervention.)
I have a visceral aversion to guns and I can't see myself ever owning one. However, like Kerry, I support the Second Amendment, with common-sense limitations. No one needs an assault weapon unless he or she is in the military. (On page 210 of his book Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore quotes Gen. Wesley Clark as saying, "I like to hunt. I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons -- they should join the United States Army; we have them.")
And, of course, I don't want to paint myself into a corner; someday I might need to buy a gun -- to protect myself from the gun nuts.
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