Protect Children Not Guns

 “If more guns made us safer, we’d be the safest country on earth” Pete Buttigieg.

 Look at all of the recent shootings this week alone: a teenage boy knocks on the wrong door, a woman turns her car around in the wrong driveway, too many mass shootings to list. 

Better background checks and longer waiting periods, enforced gun safety classes with updates required, like driving tests for people over a certain age, NO assault private ownership of assault style weapons. They aren’t needed to shoot deer. If you arm a teacher in a classroom, they can’t draw it faster than someone armed with an assault style weapon. 

If you live in a state where there ARE strict gun laws like NJ, your illegal guns and assault style weapons are from other states where gun laws are insignificant or almost non existent. 

NO ONE is trying to prevent you from owning a gun or driving a car. Pass the tests and the timeframes, or get a medical clearance if necessary and buy your gun. 

It’s the gun lobby donation millions to lawmakers, riling up fear and aggression in gun owners, and then arming them!  Prevent the gun manufacturers from selling military style arms to private citizens just so they can make more money. 

Moms for America???

 I received SC Congresswoman Nancy Mace's newsletter today. She reported on all of her meetings with different organizations.

Included was a note on her meeting with Moms for America. They honored her with an A rating and a spot on their Mom’s list.

As far as her A rating from Moms for America, well good for her for promoting White Nationalism, as the Moms "reclaim our culture" and stop "Critical Race Theory’s invasion in American classrooms." 

I'm sure she knows that the only thing teachers have tried to do is update history and remove the white male lens from what was taught in the past.

I wrote to her and said that it's important that children learn about all aspects of our history, not just the good things that we did. Bringing the impact of blacks into that discussion doesn't just include the fact that a black man invented the cotton gin, leaving out the contribution of a woman and slaves who provided input to Eli Whitney. They should include other contribution by African Americans as well as the crimes committed against them by racists, such as hangings by KKK and the Tulsa Race Massacre. 

If you read into the Mom's website it's a propaganda machine for Far Right Wing conspiracy theories, touting that the legal subpoena of Trump's residence to reclaim Government documents constitutes a war on all American Families, etc, etc!

I am a Mom and am a proud American. My father fought in 4 invasions in WWII and served 30+ years on the police force. I would never join a group with such a skewed view of the world! I ask Nancy Mace, "Where is your centrist view to appeal to the majority of your constituents?"

If she truly supports the sentiments of that organization then I give her a resounding F.

Letter to SC Congressman Joe Wilson

Representative Wilson:

I got your January 16, 2021 Newsletter. Your small gesture to help hand out bag lunches to those Capitol Police officers who risked their lives and safety to protect your very life was nice. 

Joe Wilson 2nd from Left

You should now spend your energy on finding out why those in charge didn’t listen to the warnings available and weren’t prepared for Jan 6th!

You state "President Donald Trump has agreed to a peaceful transition of power and impeaching a president so close to a new administration impedes that process and only serves to further divide our country."

By not standing with fellow Republicans who voted to impeach Trump, YOU are helping to divide this country. You should support a Senate Trial and prevent such a person from ever seeking public office again. Instead, you tell your followers it’s not warranted.

You yelled out at President Obama on live TV that he lied over a technicality about the Affordable Care Act. He said illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered by it, when there was an option for them to BUY and PAY for health care, as opposed to having free coverage. 

Where were the Republicans, and you specifically, yelling "You Lie!" to President Trump as he spread Conspiracy Theories, said media reporting facts was “fake news”, called Neo Nazis good people, and told his followers that he won the election in a landslide?

He said he’s leaving the Whitehouse a week before Biden becomes President. It prevents him from having to be dragged out kicking and screaming like the out of control, spoiled child he’s been for 4 years. 

He’s done everything to prevent a smooth transition of power. He won’t even do the civil and public transition of escorting Biden to the Inauguration and showing his public support for the new President. Obama did it for him.

His inflammatory rhetoric has been broadcast for over 4 years. He incited people to riot, breach the Capitol, beat and kill an Officer and others. 

Where were you during the riot? How safe were you feeling? Were you cowering in a corner wondering if you’d be captured and hung? Did you know your office wasn’t a target? 

Yet you continue to support and allow such actions by a President. 

Timothy McVeigh blowing up the Federal building didn’t scare you? The killing of people in their churches and synagogues by Domestic terrorists didn’t scare you? Attacks and the killing of public officials around the world by right-wing extremists didn’t scare you?

None of those things or the actions of Trump didn’t scare you into standing up for our Democracy? Yet a person living in the US, who is not a citizen, but is willing to pay for their healthcare scared you.

It’s obvious to me whose side you are on and what “type” of person you are against.

You’ll make a scene and call out a Black man on a technicality, but allow a rich White guy to foment hate, violence and continue to spread outrageous lies, even after he leaves office, just to preserve your way of life.

A peace offering of a bag lunch makes it all right if done in front of a camera. Right?

SC Representative Joe Wilson

Written by Linda Vola