Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Guns - Penn State

Idiots on the left, as if there were any other kind of people on the left, are arguing for gun control by saying that the kind of guns the movie shooter used on his victims have no legitimate hunting or recreational use. OK fine. I agree. So show me where in the constitution our right to keep and bear arms is limited to hunting and recreational use.


A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Ha, I didn’t think so. Not one word about hunting, recreational use or even self defense. It does however mention “A well regulated militia” and what better way to “regulate” the militia than for the militia to know that their fellow citizens are well armed. I’d argue that the primary reason our founders wanted the American citizenry armed was to protect ourselves from an onerous and tyrannical government.

That’s the kind of government we have now - a government that will on the one hand ignore laws and statutes passed by the congress while at the same time issue new regulations by fiat from the oval office. If he thought for one second it’d help him, Little sail eared Barry would order the IRS to go house to house and round up all the 300,000,000 guns from the 80,000, 000 or so gun owners.

The fact is that Jug Ears own party, except for farthest left of the lefties Nanny Bloomberg, Chuckles Schumer, Diane Feinstein et al., want NOTHING to do with another fight over taking guns from Americans. But remember, if re-elected, Little Barry “will have a lot more flexibility.” Then no matter what and constitution be damned, he’ll have the flexibility to start issuing orders from the Oval Office that the guns have to go. And after the tortured Supreme Court ruling on Barrycare, who is to say John Roberts won’t get out of bed and decided once again that what was written and ratified in our constitution is subordinate to his own view of how things “should” be?

Penn State
Ouch! I agree with everything the NCAA did to Penn State with the following modifications. 60 Million is a good start. In addition to no bowl games for 4 years, I wouldn’t let them have a single home game. Even the inter squad spring game would have to be played out of state. Penn State wouldn’t make a nickel off of football for 4 years.

There has been a lot discussions about “taking away the wins” dating back to 98. I have no problem with that. Had the scandal broke and handled then, there no doubt would have been a recruiting problem for Penn State. Who knows who would want to play at university that hired a pedophile as its defensive coordinator? So fine, the wins go.

That said, it’s like the old Pharos of Egypt who would go about destroying the statues of their predecessors as if they never existed. Or the pictures in the Pentagon where some PC idiot had cigarettes airbrushed out of WWII photos that hang in one corridor. It’s a foolish exercise. Everyone will know who really won.

After some of the interviews though, Penn State, particularly the students, don’t get it. The UNIVERSITY and Paterno are guilty of covering up Sandusky’s despicable criminal behavior. That’s why in part the wins had to go. Many made the argument that players didn’t do anything wrong. That MAY be true, but teams being teams, I’ll bet AF Bros pay from his next “five year plan” that the rumors were flying around the locker room and if they didn’t “know” there was at least a healthy suspicion.

The next argument is that “they didn’t cheat” to win those games. Yes they did and much worse. They covered up criminal activity of the worst kind so as not hurt the recruiting possibilities of their beloved football program. It was an institutional problem within the university at the highest levels.  The punishment should reflect that.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Penn State buried the Sandusky problem. Now it is burying them. What is so hard about doing the right thing? Today I read this..."Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, on Monday said the White House appears to be responsible for leaking classified national security information." So what will happen? A big time Dem Senator says The White House is divulging national secrets to help win an election. Which is worse? Raping children and hiding it, or divulging national secrets to the world including those that would destroy us? And the purpose... winning an election. Both are so low and yet can truly be compared. Which is worse? This White House is truly not concerned with the safty and well being of the citizens. It is only concerned with politics. Sounds to me like a university protecting a known a child rapist to not embarrass their football program, and politicans committing treason to win elections, are on the same level. The Griffin.