I believe I know the answer to the question, How Should We Define What a WHORE Really Is?
On Sunday night Aug. 6, 2017 I watched the CBS broadcast of 60 Minutes. This episode featured a piece entitled “Return to Newtown, 4 years later”. It reminded me that on December 6, 2012 twenty (20) little children and six (6) adult educators were murdered by a man using an assault weapon. I hadn’t forgotten about what happened that day at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, but rather just put it out of my mind. I was brought to tears that night just as I was almost 5 years ago when it first happened. But last night was different, I explained to my wife exactly what I was thinking about that made me so emotional. Certainly feeling the pain and sorrow expressed by the parents of some of the victims who were interviewed during the piece was absolutely heart wrenching. However, there was more. Intense anger and frustration directed towards the enablers of gun violence emerged.
I told my wife who I thought was responsible for providing the means and the opportunity for atrocities such as Sandy Hook and so many others incidents, both before and after the 12/14/2012 tragedy, to occur again and again. These enablers never pull the triggers and are first in line to express regrets, extend condolences and spout a never ending stream of empty and meaningless words and prayers.
The vast majority of Americans are in favor of sensible gun control legislation that applies to all of the states.
Here are the major problems and their solutions:
- One of the most serious problems we have as a nation is the inconsistency in gun laws among the various states. The rules governing major issues must be universally applied in every state.
- Background checks are inconsistent with too many loopholes. Expanded background checks must be applied to every sale of a new gun or resale of a used one.
- People on Federal watch-lists can legally buy guns. This must stop immediately, nationwide.
- Not every jurisdiction effectively bans convicted felons, people with mental illness and people involved in domestic violence disputes with court orders from buying/owning guns. All of these controls need to be introduced and equally enforced in all the states.
- Sales of all semi-automatic assault weapons, and the huge magazines that hold 30 -90 rounds for these weapons are out of control. Sales of semi-automatic assault weapons everywhere must be stopped and a buyback program must be introduced by the Federal government to get these killing machines off the streets.
After each mass shooting occurs there is renewed interest in passing sensible gun control legislation, but the gun lobby made up of the NRA (National Rifle Association), the even more extreme GOA (Gun Owners of America), the gun manufacturers and the major gun dealers all go into high gear to resist by any means possible the passage of sensible laws. Their lobbyists go to the elected officials, the vast majority of whom are republicans in the legislatures of the states and federal government to get what they have paid for in advance, opposition to any change in current gun laws.
The politicians who took this money now have to deliver on the immoral requests of their masters. This makes them no better than a street walker willing to have sex with anyone for a price. We routinely refer to the street walker as a whore and no one objects. I see almost no difference between a run of the mill hooker and a republican legislator. Both are paid for services rendered and that is what makes them both WHORES. There is however one subtle difference between them. At least one delivers something of value for the money, while the other trades in death and destruction of individual lives and families in return for regular monetary contributions. It is quite clear that the real WHORES are the republican politicians (and even a few democrats) who kneel at the feet of the NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre to kiss his ring. It is my hope that there is a very special place in Hell reserved for these men and women who are the real WHORES – the ones with an NRA grade of “A”.