I’ve been thinking about all the gun grabber antics and such as of late.  Currently there is a very critical debate going on in the Supreme Court McDonald v. Chicago which essentially is going to determine if the Heller v. D.C. decision making the second amendment apply to the federal government via the fourteenth amendment, apply to states and cities.

I was reading the news today and there are two stories related to “guns”.  I use the parenthesis because one is a total crock of crap.

• The first story is about a 17 year old that was screwing around twirling a gun on his finger like Wyatt Earp.  Well the moron ended up shooting his friend.  The key thing is he violated his probation because he was previously convicted of a non-mentioned crime.

  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,588246,00.html?test=latestnews

The key thing about the above story is that the person using the firearm was using it inappropriately.  All people who receive any firearms training within the first HOUR learn to treat all firearms as if they are loaded, and keep them oriented in a safe direction.

Additionally this person wasn’t supposed to be in possession of a firearm in the first place.  Obviously the gun laws in Florida are failing at keeping firearms out of convicts reach.  Therefore more laws would be asinine because they can’t even enforce the ones already on the books.

• The second story is about a school in Michigan which suspended a 6 year old student for making a “gun shape” with his hands.  The alleged it was disturbing the other students and being disruptive.  Evidently he was playing cops and robbers with his friends at recess.

  http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/03/ionia_kindergartener_suspended.html

This is completely ridiculous!  We can’t even let kids play anymore because people seem to think that his hand will magically transform into a real gun loaded with “cop killer” bullets and he’ll start spraying away at his 6 year old friends.  Or how about not.  It’s called being a child.  Why don’t we tell him Santa Clause isn’t real, the easter bunny is a crock, and the tooth fairy is really mom?

I don’t know why everyone is so paranoid about firearms.  I have spent every day of the last 8 months with one either on my person or right next to me.  The rifle has never gone off unless i pulled the trigger, never killed anyone by accident, and never “agitated any kids”.

Sorry everyone, i was on leave for the middle two weeks of february, and then it took me a week to get back to Iraq.  So the hiatus is over.  I figured i’d start with this first post asking the question:  Why aren’t we really a post racial society?

With the election of Obama as president, being the first “African American” president; people like chris matthews were all exclaiming how America is finally a post racial society (that was if he got elected, chris also said if he didn’t get elected, it was because Americans were too racist), are we really a post racial society?

For example, today just for fun i did a google search for “Why are black people so loud?”.  A majority of the results on the first page were links to forum posts.  Again almost every one of those posts at some point in it “…i’m not trying to be racist, i just wanna know.”

One was a youtube post by a kid asking “how come black people are loud in movie theatres?  I’m not trying to be a racist but um, i just wanna know.”

How come everyone thinks is racist to ask a question about an observation?  If anything it’s a reason for African Americans to explain, refute or otherwise address things like that.  Does anyone say “Hey, i just wanna know, how come white people sunburn so much?  i dont want to be a racist but, i just wanna know.”

I’m sure the issue of race is rather complex.  However there are some things i feel that help to keep the rift open between the races.  For example even having the ” (insert continent here) American”.  How about this, unless you were born in Europe, Africa, Asia etc, you are an AMERICAN not a hyphen American.

I also feel that Affirmative Action is an incorrect policy.  Having racial quotas for several things only goes to to perpetuate racism.  Think about it, it’s the federal government  saying that YOU as a non-white person need a handicap in order to be on par with white people when it comes to applying for med school or a job, or whatever.  It’s ridiculous!

Until people decide to let go of the things that really keep us apart as one united nation, we aren’t going to truly experience a post racial society.  Ignorant white people need to realize that minorities don’t need a handicap and help empower that.  Minorities also have the responsibility of not taking those handouts.

I’m not being a racist, i’m just calling it how it is.