RE: Congress bans the CDC from doing study on gun violence
October 7, 2015 at 10:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2015 at 10:45 am by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(October 7, 2015 at 9:28 am)Evie Wrote: Wow Australia's gun policy sounds awesome. I know what to suggest in the 'gun debates' in future.
I agree! More interesting to me is that the Australian politician who was behind the idea was a conservative who had simply had enough, and he knew that the average Australian in his party would be furious at him for enacting the program. He described it as "political suicide", and he was right. But in an amazing interview that John Oliver did with Rob Borbidge, for The Daily Show, he acknowledged that he felt his own political career was a small price to pay for doing the right thing.
It's a degree of honor and decency that has long been missing from American politics, unfortunately.
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
