occasions that I go to a government building, they have no obligation to provide parking for my car, but they are under obligation to provide parking for some dickless guy's pistol! It's beyond ridiculous! Libraries are government buildings and, yes, libraries are covered by this law. How many times have you walked into a library and seen a gun cabinet by the door? So in the great state of Arizona, any Bozo can wear their semiautomatic pistol or carry their 50 cal. assault rifle into the library with them. And this is in a state where there's a proposition on the ballot to ban all smoking in public buildings in the name of protecting our children from second hand smoke.
Usually I'm able to see some humor in the capricious and under-the-table-bribe driven behavior of our state legislators, but I just can't see anything funny in a law like this. I consider myself a supporter of gun owner's rights, even though I don't see the need for any man, who's even half a man, to have to walk around wearing a gun. To me, it makes more sense for women to carry pistols, but if you're less than half a man, or if you're a woman, I certainly don't want to abridge your right to keep and bear arms. But government buildings belong to all of us and as long as I'm paying taxes to put up these rat holes and maintain them, I don't want just anybody running around in them with firearms.
The law that legalized this nonsense has been on the books since 2000, but it's only been enforced for a couple of years. State legislators do that a lot here, pass a law that will take effect in a few years. The special interests that they serve get what they want, and since the vote took place years in the past, the voters don't know who to blame.
I try to mind my own business. Except for the police--an appalling number of whom don't appear to have enough sense to carry a weapon either, judging by the high number of people they shoot in Tucson--the fire department; and a couple of others, I don't need all those "services" provided by my local and state governments and I don't hang out with the sort of people who do need them.
I'm normally apathetic about all things political. On Election Day, I vote for the lesser of whatever evils I have to choose from, and afterwards I hold my nose when I read the paper. But this is just too much. I am just a cat hair away from finding some way to get involved in the political process. How many other stupid-assed laws are there out there that some thief of a politician voted for just to collect a few bucks under the table?~~ back to TOC
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EPILOG
This is my first ebook and I must admit that I agonized over what to label the short articles that make up this book. The entries are a sampling of the entries in my online blogs, but most blogs, or weBlogs seem to be online diaries, while I do more of an rambling, eclectic commentary sort of thing.
I thought about calling each topic a Bessay for weB essay. Or how about Bwit for weB wit. Some might say that no wit is being displayed here, but since my first two initials are E and S, no one can argue with BES for weB ES. I also considered Bopinion for weB opinion and Bramble for weB ramble. Nothing was too far out: Buttering for weB utterings and Boffer. Much of what I write just comes out end over end, with no structure of any sort, but the name game got too ridiculous even for me when I found myself considering Bend over end!
Finally, I just decided to stick with good, old fashioned, all-inclusive post. And whether or not you bend over when you read, by the end of each post, I hope you’ll feel like you’ve been buttered and boffed by the bESt.
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