As we prepare to enter or affect yet another region in the middle east, it’s nice to know that after 150+ people died at the hands of an evil dictator the US will be there… Never mind that when thousands upon thousands were being killed by genocide in Darfur we didn’t go in or try to help them but whatever.<\/p>\n
I guess we never crossed some “red line” with the number of deaths via gun violence in this country to warrant something to actually be done.<\/p>\n
The right likes to use that argument for gun violence “guns don’t kill people, people kill people”. How about for chemical weapons… “chemical weapons don’t kill people, people kill people”?<\/p>\n
Maybe is it that chemical weapons don’t give us more freedom but guns do?<\/p>\n
Or how about “the only way to stop a bad guy with a chemical weapon is with a good guy with a chemical weapon”?<\/p>\n
I’m confounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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