It's a reminder of the gun community's specific tunnel vision, but it's
also a reminder of the overarching narcissism of the American right.
Within days of the Sandy Hook deaths, we were expected to put aside our
concerns for the victims (and future victims) and start worrying about
whether we'd bruised the tender feelings of right-wing gun owners by
daring to recommend a few speed bumps on their road to obtaining more
and more guns. By means of threats, recall elections, scored votes, and
the usual arsenal of hardball tactics, the gunners not only won the
political battle but made it clear that Sandy Hook was all about them. It was about their desire to acquire weapons, not everyone else's safety. It was about keeping them
safe from a strongly worded statement by Piers Morgan on CNN. All
that needed to be the nation's #1 priority, not working to prevent the
deaths of more schoolchildren.
And now we have a TV star who's equated
homosexuality and bestiality, asserted that black people got along fine
with whites in America before there was welfare, and blamed the
Japanese involvement in World War II on the fact that the Japanese
aren't Christian -- and who are the real victims? Right-wingers again.
http://nomoremister.blogspot.ca/2013/12/right-wingers-everything-is-all-about.html
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