Democrats Don't Get It

Hey, did you hear the one about the crazy 26-year-old former Air Force pilot who walked into a rural church on a Sunday morning and opened fire, killing 26 innocent people and wounding at least 20 more? Here's the punchline: Democrats think guns are the problem!

I guess they've forgotten about the jet planes piloted by crazy people in 2001 that crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon (3,000 dead), or the several vans driven by crazy people that plowed into crowds of unsuspecting people (8 dead in London in June, 13 dead in Barcelona in August, 8 dead last month in NYC), or the bombs exploded by crazy people at the 2013 Boston Marathon (3 dead, hundreds injured).

They must also have forgotten about all the historical murders committed by all the crazy people without guns, including Timothy McVeigh (168 dead), Jeffrey Dahmer (17 dead), Richard Speck (8 dead), Son of Sam (6 dead), Charles Manson (7 dead), Ted Bundy (30 plus dead), and Jim Jones (900 dead). Sadly that's just the tip of the iceberg: Besides Jack the Ripper stalking the streets of London in the 1880s (murdering at least 11 women with his bare hands and "a blunt object"), there have simply been too many others to mention here.

I can't help thinking guns are not the problem. Instead, might the constant consumption of poisonous foods, rampant drug use, declining health, obsession with violent and moronic entertainment, shameless sexualization of children, faulty religious beliefs, polarization of the races, lack of respect for our elders, overwhelming abuse of nature, emphasis on financial success, worship of false idols and inability to adequately treat the mentally ill have something to do with it?