if your hobby is hunting find a new hobby
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THIS JUST IN: gun control laws are apparently NOT going to help prevent shootings, but abortion laws apparently ARE going to prevent abortions! Life is crazy.
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello everyone. I’ve been trying to find a way to be able to make this week’s newsletter funny, but it feels almost too impossible after the Robb Elementary shooting. There is genuinely no good excuse as to why this keeps happening. The media and the people who continue to try to only blame one person, rather than the 50 Senators, 210 House members, and the NRA are some reasons why things don’t get better. And they don’t stay the same, either; they get worse.
I keep reading and hearing people say that we just need to arm the teachers, rather than establish strict gun laws and ban semi-automatic weapons. These teachers get paid, like, $30 thousand dollars a year, and you want them to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Isn’t that literally what the police signed up for? Or is their job just to wait outside of a school getting shot up or to stand at a Subway turnstile and wait for someone to not want to pay $2.75? Because there was another shooting on a train in New York this week, and I saw six cops hanging out at the Bedford L turnstiles doing absolutely nothing.
The Second Amendment is a bullshit excuse to have military-grade guns in areas where there are schools and supermarkets and churches for absolutely no reason at all. Apparently, all of these people who keep fighting for that right to bear arms really just love hunting or something, but guess what? I don’t care! Find literally any other hobby. There are so many to choose from! You like shooting? Buy a camera. Feel the need to constantly bear arms? Join a gym. Love to collect? Find a comic book store. Oh, you think that’s nerdy? Well, you’re already a friggin nerd if you’re making your entire personality about owning a bunch of guns. White people know that they don’t need their guns; they just don’t like being told what to do. Wow, so weird!! I wonder if anyone else feels like they’re constantly being told what to do.
I won’t make all of today’s newsletter about how laws and decisions in this country are only created when they have white people’s best interests at heart. Everyone likes to say that things aren’t as bad as they once were and that things have changed for the better, so I’m gonna end this section with a James Baldwin quote from over 40 years ago:
The horror is that America … changes all the time, without ever changing at all.
I will end this one with several photos that will hopefully cheer everyone up for one minute because they cheered me up:
Have a good, spicy week, everybody. It’s gonna be 93 here on Tuesday, which is NOTHING, except that it is also definitely something for a dehydrated, Irish gorl like myself.