Tense Shouting Match Breaks Out When Dem Confronts House GOPers On Gun Control

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Let us hope that if nothing else, this indictment breaks the reluctance of grand Juries in Georgia and at DOJ to indict a criminal who happens to be a former President. The man has committed crimes and hid behind the unfortunate instance of being a sitting President. That is no longer true and it is past time that he answer for hid lifelong criminal activity.

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He and his wife are MIT grads.

When brainiacs go bad


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If someone wants to protect their family, they should get a dog and ensure that it is well trained. A dog is much better than a gun: if you become depressed you can’t turn the dog on yourself. If you have an argument with a family member you can’t turn the dog on them. Your angsty teen won’t take the dog to school and turn it in their classmates.

Dog >>>> gun !

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I think one important message from the list on the Giffords site is that familiarity breeds contempt for many people. Carrying a gun around all the time seems to help people become blasé about them. This is an instrument of DEATH. The whole point of a gun is to KILL PEOPLE. When you see people forgetting and leaving them in the bathroom, etc it shows you how far from their consciousness has receded the fact that it is a LETHAL weapon.

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I can say from personal experience that having academic chops does not mean that you have a lick of common sense. My Phd sister graduated Phi Beta Kappa from one of this country’s most prestigious Universities, but she could not find her way from point A to point B without getting hopelessly lost. She could not relate to people, and she expected life after college to be as easy as school had been. Big surprise! And she never actually succeeded in her career because she had never had to work for the praise and honors that she got.

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Sadly, the “mentally gifted” drop out of high school because they have never had to develop the capacity to handle frustration as they attempt new learning.

The Davidson Institute, a hotbed of research, advocacy, and education for profoundly-gifted children located in Reno, Nevada, notes that as many as 40 percent of all gifted students are underachievers and between 10 and 20 percent of all high school dropouts test in the gifted range.

(Ted Kaczynski struggled at Harvard because of this. I wonder how he would have done had it not been for the harsh psychological experimentation to which he was subjected while at Harvard and if autism spectrum disorders had been recognized and addressed at that time.)

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