Kodo’s Blog

Ongoing blog author Tom Bray was going through his daily RSS news aggregator and found two MSNBC articles next to each other.

Item: “The Senate voted for the second time this month against providing more money to help low-income families heat their homes.� Item: “Congress on Thursday passed a bill protecting the firearms industry from massive lawsuits brought by crime victims, and President Bush was expected to sign it into law.�

It is so interesting to see where government policies lay at the moment. Help people survive by providing heating to the poor who can’t afford heating in rundown apartments blocks usually owned by slumlords who most likely would rather tear down buildings and sell to corporations and investorsfor a huge profit than to refurbish the existing property or protect the people who make firearms from what they consider frivilous lawsuits against them.

I know that people kill people, not guns but the way some guns are made nowadays some of them are easy to modify to become semi-automatic or even fully automatic which just turns them into tools for killing. This isn’t about the right to bear arms but the right for people to sue firearms companies from making their guns so easy to modify. I am sure there is more to it than that also but why should these people be protected when they makes something whose only use is to injure and kill. There are more illegal weapons on the streets than legal at the moment and that isn’t right.

I am including Australia in this rant also not just the USA whose gunlaws seem to revolve around a constitution 200 yrs old written in a time of war.