Guns, Guns, and more Guns

Unsecured firearms in a residence. What could possibly go wrong?

 Man accused of stealing gun from relatives home

and then there is this:

In the first tense exchange of the evening, Matthew Dallachie, a Marines Corps veteran, took issue with the gun control legislation passed by the legislature and signed by Malloy last year.

“Do you really think you’re keeping me safer?” Dallachie asked. “You entrusted me, as a veteran of the United States Marines, to do what I had to do with a weapon, and yet I come back and you don’t trust me with that same weapon?”

Why does this man equate weapons used in war with weapons at home? Who is the enemy?

#PeopleMakeMeSick

Women's Equality Day

Take Note:
Women are NOT equal in law or civil discourse. Women are barely-released indentured servants, slaves, war-brides, underpaid and disrespected teacher/nurse/mothers. Women are elder-care givers, perpetual clerks, mourners of the dead and givers of Life. Women are cultural memory. Women are NOT EQUAL. 
 

FROM: Teresa Younger
Executive Director, Permanent Commission on the Status of Women

DATE: Monday, Aug. 26, 2013 

RE: Women’s Equality Day

“Women’s Equality Day raises so many issues beyond the 19^th Amendment – beginning with pay inequity, which hurts women’s long-term economic security, retirement assets, and quality of life. We must also ask the critical question: If women are still battling for their full rights every day – even after 93 years of voting rights – how many more generations of capable women will be routinely eliminated from positions of power, elected office, and the “tables” at which real decisions are made? Why does 51 percent of the population hold just 18 percent of Congress and 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions? And why is women’s healthcare – most noticeably reproductive rights – continually under assault, after a century of earning – not “being given” as is often said – working for and earning the right to vote?”

Be Careful What You Wish For

Today I was asked if I wanted to be a Blogger on the New Haven Register. Of course, that seems like too much work. I already spend time on

• My company (50+ hours per week)
• Activist issues (10+ hours per week)
• Not For Profit Support functions (10+ hours per week)
• Facebook
  
• LinkedIn
• Philan..Philan..Philan--Good Deed Doing http://youtu.be/ky7DMCHQJZY (2:15 minutes in)
  

Nonetheless.
Writing for several years on a blog like MyLeftNutmeg taught me that there is always a little bit of time left over for blogging, and it sometimes is a public service. Blogging is a fast way to communicate information on upcoming events, or make a quick complaint about an injustice, or tell a personal story.


Fasten your seatbelts. It's gonna be a bumpy ride.