The Associated Press obtained a letter from FEMA that declared the state’s appeal was “not of the severity and magnitude that warrants a major disaster declaration.”

Granted, the agency had already provided millions in aid to the town and its residents, but stopped short of the additional resources given to victims of tornados, hurricanes, or other natural disasters.

Public repairs, like those needed to fix roads, sewer lines, and a school leveled in the blast, will likely need to be raised by the town itself.

What does this say about the choices FEMA makes?

On one hand, the circumstances are unlike anything seen in quite sometime. Industrial accidents and mishaps can cause serious damage, in some cases more so than any weather-based emergency.

On the other hand, people’s lives were changed without notice, and much like a flood or tornado, the explosion caused many to pick up the pieces of their lives and try to recover the things they lost.

The explosion killed ten first responders, and left a huge 93-foot crater where the plant used to stand.

The impact registered a wave of energy comparable to an earthquake, and shattered windows miles away.

The most intriguing part of the story remains in the fact that the true cause of the fire that initiated the blast is yet unknown. Conspiracy theorists insist there’s more to it than an accidental fire, which may be part of the reason FEMA is backing away from further help.

The criminal investigation looking into the explosion is still open, left unsolved as of today.

Two more recent explosions occurred within a day of each other, in Donaldsonville and Geismar, Louisiana. Though not as catastrophic as the West explosion, people still lost their lives in each and the concern over safety and regulation grows.

As America gets assaulted with one scandal after another surrounding the Obama administration, there is speculation more is to come…

And that speculation adds fuel to a bonfire of suspicion that this administration would stop at nothing to win its re-election.

The 2012 presidential election was really not decided on a national level, it was always about who could take the edge in the deciding nine swing/battleground states.

According to polls leading up to the election, the race was razor thin between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama in many of those important states.

Hindsight is 20/20 and if the public knew in November 2012 what it knows today, would the election results have been different?

A characteristic lack of curiosity by the mainstream media into any malfeasance by the Obama administration helped the President.  This lack of curiosity helped quell outrage by the American public just prior to the election, as our Libyan Ambassador was killed.

The cover story and the cover up by the administration to hide the magnitude of failure in foreign policy should have been a major campaign issue. But this news was suppressed with the aid and abetting of the major media.

Perhaps there is an easy answer when you see the inbreeding between the White House and influential members of the mainstream media….The connections are astounding.

Suppose the latest scandal of the IRS targeting conservative organizations and individual donors had been exposed back in 2010-2011 and brought to a halt?  As more gets revealed on this scandal it seems this was a deliberate attempt to suppress a major segment of opposition to the Obama campaign.

How much of a difference did it make in organizing voter turn out and support for the Romney campaign?  Romney received 2-3 million votes less than McCain did in 2008.  Perhaps if the TEA Party and other conservative groups weren’t being bullied by the federal government, they could have at least boosted voter turnout and matched voter numbers of 2008.

Many states prior to the 2012 elections had been trying to clean up their voter rolls as well as help stop voter fraud by requiring a picture ID in order to vote.  This was in response to widespread suspicion and reports of tainted elections due to vote fraud.

But the Justice Department, under Eric Holder, fought these safeguards tooth and nail and filed suit to delay any changes.  Did not having strengthened voter ID laws and other safeguards have an effect on the election?  Did precincts in heavily Democrat areas reporting 140% voter turnout help sway the outcome?

The recent revelation of how the NSA has collected and stored email and phone communications of millions of Americans is disturbing. Especially when coupled with the knowledge of how this administration has used the IRS and other government agencies to target political foes.

Would it be too much of a stretch to think the administration wouldn’t tap into this massive database to help get itself elected?

From today’s World Net Daily: According to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., Barack Obama now holds a database “no one has ever seen before in life” that has “information about everything on every individual.”

It’s a fact that Obama’s election team had use of massive amounts of data that gave them an edge in the election.

It’s disturbing to know Waters made her statement back in February of 2012 long before the election and long before we were aware of this administration’s abuse of power.

Any of the above factors individually could have helped tip the election in Obama’s favor in just a few of the close battleground states.  But if you add them all together, it makes it an unbeatable combination.

Article originally published on IrishCentral.com.

Earlier this year the Posties criticized Republicans for using the convention method to choose their nominees — even though Lincoln was chosen by a convention and the Constitution was written at one.

The Post complained the 8,000 delegates that attended the Richmond convention were less than one percent of registered Republicans in the Commonwealth. And in fact, the editorial page was in such a snit over the Republican’s choice of a convention that they “did not make endorsements.” (Which explains all the black armbands on the convention floor being worn by former Bolling supporters.)

But an expensive Democrat primary where less than 3 percent of the voters bothered to make it to the polls is considered a triumph of participatory democracy on the Post editorial page.

So now Virginia voters face the daunting prospect of a campaign spent listening to a lily–white ticket, composed of three middle–aged males that are obsessed with women’s reproductive organs.

And that’s just the Democrats!

Republicans in their “closed convention” somehow managed to choose the only minority on either statewide ticket, while a majority of Democrat primary voters refused to select either the Indian running for lieutenant governor (the sub–continent kind, not the Lone Ranger kind) or the black running for attorney general.

And talk about your social issue fanatics! Ralph Northam, the Democrat pick for lieutenant governor, ran a commercial before the primary where all he talks about is abortion. Northam declares, “There is no reason that a group of legislators, mostly men, should be telling women what they should and shouldn’t be doing with their bodies.”

Well that’s pretty definitive. But I have to ask: Does Northam’s declaration cover prostitution? Underage sex? Incest? Female–teacher–on–underage–male sex abuse? Flashing? Where, exactly does Northam draw the line?

Northam supporters keep mentioning that “He is the only physician in the VA Senate,” as if that gives him special standing. But Northam is one of those doctors who have a loose interpretation of the Hippocratic Oath: First, do no harm. In Northam’s office you have to be large enough to hand over the co–pay before you are accorded the rights of a human being.

While Republicans Ken Cuccinelli and E. W. Jackson are talking about creating jobs and growing the economy, Northam advocates deregulating abortion clinics and fighting passage of a bill that would grant “personhood” status to an unborn baby.

Northam’s ‘an abortion in every pot’ platform is particularly relevant when one remembers that the Posties have declared war on Jackson — who happens to be of the black persuasion — for his accurate, completely true remark that Planned Parenthood has been “far more lethal to black lives” than the Ku Klux Klan.

The WaPost responds by analogizing that, “Abortion rates in the United States are higher for African Americans and Hispanics than for other groups. That reflects the fact that those groups tend to have higher rates of unwanted pregnancies. To blame the incidence of abortion on the clinics that provide abortion services is like blaming stores that sell cigarettes for the fact that too many Americans smoke.”

This analogy is only accurate if the government is buying smokes for the underage and poor, while simultaneously discouraging abstinence.

At the victory celebration, Northam came this close to talking about an issue that would attract independents and soft Republicans, before he lapsed into pube–speak, “This state, in order to have business, in order to welcome people, we need to be inclusive. That starts with stopping the attack on women, the assault on the (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) community.”

Northam’s obsession with divisive social issues, instead of pocketbook issues, means that if you’re looking for a job in an abortion mill, Northam’s your man. Otherwise, it’s time to start listening to the Republicans.

Mark my words, during this election the Republican ticket will be talking about jobs, taxes and transportation, while the Democrats travel the state brandishing the bloody coat hanger and accusing the GOP of concentrating on “divisive social issues.” Psychiatrists call it projection.

Meanwhile the WaPost will be doing it’s best to drive E.W. Jackson out of the race. Right now the focus is on financial problems. Jackson was behind on his taxes and has filed for bankruptcy in the past. He is now current on all his tax bills, which puts him ahead of the 1,289 Treasury Department employees who collectively owe $9.3 million in back taxes.

Jackson also regrets his bankruptcy: “It was painful. It was difficult. It was embarrassing. I don’t like the idea of not paying off debts.”

Compare Jackson’s situation to that of Democrat nominee for governor, Terry McAuliffe. He convinced the taxpayers of Mississippi to give his GreenTech company $7 million in “growth and prosperity” tax exemptions and another $8 million in grants, loans and land in return for building a factory, creating jobs and manufacturing “green” cars.

According to the Wall Street Journal, “…GreenTech looks to be a lemon…there is no evidence the company is manufacturing any cars…(it) has yet to begin building its flagship factory in Tunica. GreenTech is the latest proof…the political class is adept at hooking up cronies and investors with taxpayer dollars. But creating jobs? No can do.”

Rather than be tied down by bad publicity and previous commitments, McAuliffe resigned from GreenTech and walked away from all obligations, while Jackson stayed to face his.

But Jackson’s real sin, as far as the Posties are concerned, is that he’s a Tea Party conservative.

Jackson has escaped the Democrat Leftist plantation, once again pointing out the need for the Fugitive Minority Act (co–sponsored by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid) that would return ideological escapees to the Democrats for re–education and relieve the media of dealing with off–message minorities that do not support amnesty, abortion and alternate lifestyles.

The book was first published in 1946, and from my perspective it metaphorically tells the story of the Soviet’s October Revolution in 1917 and the development of the USSR.

However, I think that bits and pieces of the story can be picked and placed in nearly any government situation.

Take for example President Obama (would you expect me to link an allegorical satire about a totalitarian state to anyone else?).

As a Senator and later as a candidate, Barack Obama, as well as other Democrats, made it clear that the NSA spy program and more generally the Patriot Act were horrible violations against human privacy rights.

In 2005, Senator Obama co-sponsored a bill that would ban the collection of phone records just as has recently been done under his Presidency.

Furthermore, in 2007 Obama declared in a speech at the Woodrow Wilson International Center (funny how Wilson was a totalitarian racist, but that’s beside the point) that we will have “[n]o more national security letters to spy on citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. That is not who we are.”

He further said that “[w]e will again set an example for the world that the law is not subject to the whims of stubborn rulers, and that justice is not arbitrary.”

Now, in 2013, after reauthorizing the warrantless wiretap provision of the Patriot Act in 2011, Obama confidently states that this program is acceptable because it is not only overseen by Congress, but also by the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) Count.

Well, that puts me at ease, how about you?

I guess we are all supposed to forget that human beings are an imperfect race and while we live in a nation that has a long history of standing up for human rights, especially the right to privacy, at their core, those in power in Washington DC are no different than the Stasi leaders in power in East Germany who routinely listened in on every conversation of nearly every citizen.

To bring this back to Orwell’s story about pigs, we can directly relate Obama to the pigs at Animal Farm. Obama, like Snowball and Napoleon, easily took over the presidency in 2008 on a stance of Hope and Change. They made claims that they would throw away the shackles of the previous administration and will forever change the way government works by “fundamentally transforming” it.

But just as the pigs in Orwell’s tale found out, Obama learned that not all was bad from the previous occupiers, and the charge of the position comes not only with great responsibility but also with great frills.

In Orwell’s allegory the pigs get so caught up in overseeing the farm that they decide to take full power and full privilege of the position. They move into the farmhouse that was once banned from any animal living inside. They eat and drink more than the other animals, and they even take to standing on two legs. The pigs wear clothes like humans, and eventually, as the other animals look on through a window, they cannot be distinguished from the humans with which they collude.

So too is the Obama administration.

They have fully become the pigs who once refused to be like the humans, but who now see that it’s good to be the king.

Not only is it good to be the king, but it is even better to be the king without accountability.

The Obama Administration is loved by the media and is protected by them. His claims are reported as gospel, just as the pigs of the farm would read aloud the Seven Commandments of Animalism.

And no matter how many times the Commandments were changed or deleted, the only ones who could read (the pigs) made certain that the others followed and obeyed the commandments.

After years of misguided reporting of the Commandments, the pigs finally reduced them all to one command. This command stated that “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

The questions then we have to ask are these: Are all Americans equal, but some Americans more equal than others? Do the pigs currently occupying the seats of government get to play by a different set of rules than was established under the Constitution? Do they get to dictate to the rest of us one way of living all the while being above the law and Constitution?

It may seem that we are headed that way, just as the Politburo of the Soviet Union was allowed to live contrary to the commands of Marxism and Leninism perhaps Obama and officials in the government get to live different to our set of rules.

In a press release this afternoon, National Geographic announced that the final major actor has been signed to round out the cast of ‘Killing Kennedy.’

Actor Will Rothhaar will play the volatile former Marine and assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Rothhaar is the final of the four major players in the film to be announced.  He joins Rob Lowe (John F. Kennedy), Ginnifer Goodwin (Jacqueline Kennedy) and Michelle Trachtenberg (Marina Oswald).

The upcoming two-hour original factual drama, ‘Killing Kennedy’ by Scott Free Productions, will premiere on the National Geographic Channel later this year.  It is timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy; it will air in the United States and globally in 171 countries and 38 languages.

According to National Geographic: “Based on the best-selling book by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, ‘Killing Kennedy’ begins in 1959, at major turning points for both the future president and his assassin. John F. Kennedy is in Washington, D.C., announcing his presidential candidacy, while Lee Harvey Oswald finds himself in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, renouncing his U.S. citizenship. These two events start both men — one a member of one of the United States’ most wealthy and powerful families, the other a disillusioned former Marine and Marxist — on a cataclysmic track that would alter the course of history. Throughout we see their highs and lows, culminating in not one but two shocking deaths that stunned the nation.”

Bill O’Reilly’s mastery of storytelling artfully woven into his fact based books is proving to be a goldmine for the Fox News Anchor. His last book, ‘Killing Lincoln,’ was a blockbuster bestseller and made into a movie as well.

O’Reilly has already announced he is working on a third “killing book,” this one titled “Killing Jesus.”

National Geographic Channel has already confirmed it is set to adapt this third partnering with the author and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Productions on its network.

Production on ‘Killing Kennedy’ begins this week in Richmond, Va.

Article originally published on IrishCentral.com.

Edward Snowden may not have any medals of honor, and may not have fought on enemy lines.

Nonetheless, his actions need to be recognized and respected.

Our nation’s federal programs continue to get mixed up in controversial questions of ethics.

Moves like this will hopefully help remedy the situation.

Some may look at Snowden as a weasel, a whistleblower who sought little more than his 15 minutes of fame.

In reality, he should be viewed as a brave and trustworthy American, who cared enough about the wrongdoing he witnessed to stand up and do something about it.

For me, my mind instantly went to the book ‘Catch-22,’ which happens to be one of my favorites.

Though it happens before many of the events in the book, the death of the main character’s fellow serviceman Snowden serves as the climax of the story.

The death reveals a “secret” that gives the reader a sense of morbidity and gloom; once the spirit is gone, the body is reduced to nothing.

“Man was matter, that was Snowden’s secret… Bury him and he’ll rot, like other kinds of garbage… Ripeness was all.”

Asked by the Washington Post whether he believes that his disclosures will change anything, the real Snowden said: “I think they already have. Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”

When secrets are revealed, there are both positive and negative consequences.

Both will occur with this story, and it will only be the beginning of the truth.

But that seal — or logo, to use up–to–date terminology — just wasn’t happenin’ enough for the county staff.

They evidently felt a balance scale held over a bunch of tobacco leaves just screams 19^th Century.

Plus the tobacco is a big problem. Who wants a logo that can only be displayed 25 feet from a building entrance and never in a bus shelter?

So the staff hired a firm based in the People’s Republic of Maryland to design a modern logo for the county.

Something the economic development staff could use in their marketing efforts. A new design in keeping with the county’s prosperity, potential for job creation and spectacular rush hour gridlock.

There were probably a few simple guidelines for the designer on what not to include. No stars and bars allowed and no cotton.

If the design incorporates a Civil War reference, the symbol must be limited to either a nurse or a female impersonating a soldier, preferably unarmed, or maybe wounded and suffering from PTSD.

The staff certainly wouldn’t want the public to think they’re in favor of guns or violence.

Other than that, the county has a wide range of sites and events that have shaped its history. To name just a few: two major Civil War battles, Quantico Marine Base, the largest number of foreclosed homes in VA, the only Northern Virginia county to take up an anti–illegal ordinance (some overlap in the last two), a shooting site from the Beltway Sniper rampage, John Bobbitt’s bobbed penis, a George Mason University satellite campus, innumerable cul–de–sacs that make it impossible to get there from here and jam packed I–95 (more overlap).

So what did taxpayers get for their money?

A shiny dark blue square surrounded on three sides by a shiny lighter–blue square and even though the design just screams “Prince William County,” the designer still put ‘Prince William County, Virginia’ in all caps below the squares.

As you can see from the featured photo, it’s bland, boring and bureaucratic — all the modifiers a politician wants associated with his or her jurisdiction. What’s more, it has no relation to the county other than the fact that we paid for it.

On the other hand, my wife thought the shiny blue sheen on the logo was reminiscent of aluminum siding and harkened back to the county’s previous image of a region inhabited by trailer park rednecks.

In an online comment, a gentleman named Tom Fitzpatrick explained that while his first impression of the logo was negative, “Now that I’ve had a chance to settle down, I realize I’m not really being fair. I’ve just learned that the county’s first choice was a dead on representation – 8 clowns sitting around a table deciding how much to cut taxes by raising them a little less. However, there were copyright issues with Ringling Brothers, the catered lunch was already eaten, and it was time for another international trip by the members. So, this is what they came up with, within those constraints.”

County spokesman Jason Grant defended the “design” choice: “The brand is the connotation, it’s not a literal meaning. It is a new logo. The connotation isn’t there because it’s not affiliated with anything yet … Does it literally represent Prince William County? No. That’s not the type of logo we designed. It shows there’s a sense of place, there’s a cornerstone, it’s corporate, all these things that people will fill in.”

That droning you hear in the background while Grant speaks is not cicadas, it’s corporate buzzwords. Hint for government flacks: any time your explanation would not look out of place in a Dilbert speech bubble, you are losing the argument.

According to Tom Jackman in the Washington Post, Grant claimed the staff was borrowing a marketing strategy from Madison Avenue. Grant said Nike’s swoosh logo doesn’t look like a shoe or Lance Armstrong injecting dope, but over time it comes to be associated with the brand and all its products.

Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but it’s also one of the most consistent indications of incompetence. Besides borrowing strategy from Nike, the county is also going to have to borrow some money to make this logo penetrate the marketplace. Nike’s annual marketing budget of $2.7 billion is double PWC’s entire annual budget of $1.2 billion.

By my calculations, at that rate of spending, in 159 years the double boxes logo still won’t have the market identity of the current county seal.

The staff claims the logo only cost $750, while the website Sheriff of Nottingham in Prince William County asserts the logo design was part of a redesign contract that cost between $9,500 and $11,000.

Either way, taxpayers would have received more positive benefit if they’d just sent the money to the IRS and told them to have a party.

You could have gotten better design work and made at least one PWC family happy if the staff had solicited logos from high school or college art & design classes.

But now the bureaucracy has dug in it’s heels and it appears we may be stuck with this collection of right angles. So in the spirit of public service, I’ve come up with a few slogans to use with the logo at no cost to the county.

      Prince William County Where — Every Square Peg Has a Square Hole

      Prince William County — You’ll Love Having Your Company Absorbed by the Borg

      Prince William County — Land of Boxy Houses and Boxy People

      Prince William County — Home of the Square

      Prince William County — Where the Cube Farm Is Our Identity

      Prince William County — Embracing Boredom Since 2013

We’ve even had the NRA suggest having armed guards in every school.

Last year the Grand Island, Nebraska school district demanded that a preschooler, three year old Hunter Spanjer, change the way he signed his name.

Hunter is deaf and is smart enough at his age to actually sign his own name. He used a modified form of American Sign Language.

The trouble is this involves extending his index fingers.

The School district decided that Hunter’s hand sign looks too much like a GUN.

Hunter’s personalized name sign is a registered sign with SEE (Signing Exact English) and a proper and accepted form of communication and means the word “hunter.”

The school district said his gestures violate their “weapons policy” and has been asked to sign his name with letters instead of this modified sign.

His grandmother said, ”Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous. This is not threatening in any way.”

And it wasn’t.

Should our elected government officials, in this case a school board, control how a little boy signs his own name? How are given names, spoken out loud, like Hunter or Gunner a threat to society or schools? To try to control how this boy “says” his own name is probably a violation of his civil rights.

We’re sure the school board didn’t mean to intentionally discriminate against the disabled but lawyers for the National Association for the Deaf (NAD) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) started circling the carcasses of these elected officials like vultures and offered their legal support.

Later the school district released a statement saying they have not and will not attempt to change any student’s name or how it’s signed.

While they say it wasn’t about a policy on “guns in school”… it WAS.

The issue wasn’t really what Hunter was doing – the issue is that school district officials even considered this to be an actual problem in the first place.

The fact that it got as far as it did meant a group of people, with possibly positive IQs, sat in a room and actually discussed it.

In a statement to the press at the time, Jack Sheard, Grand Island Public Schools spokesperson, said “We are working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the child.”

He later back-pedaled even more and claimed the issue was a ”misunderstanding” which had nothing to do with weapons. It was ”not an appropriate thing to do in school.”

“We want to do what is best for every student in our district, and we care more about that than everything else,” he said. “We are working with the parents to find the best solution we can.”

Thanks to social media and a special Facebook page, the family and other supporters forced the issue to go viral. That generated lambasting comments like this: ”I never realized that there were people who could be so ignorant about sign language and to treat a young child like that is unspeakable.”

And This Wasn’t the First Time

Baltimore, Maryland

In January two 6-year-old Roscoe R. Nix Elementary School boys were suspended for using their fingers to make an imaginary gun while playing cops and robbers at recess.

Just an isolated incident, you say? NO, this was the second time in less than a month a Maryland child was kicked out of school for using his finger as a gun.

The first was 6-year-old Rodney Lynch. He was suspended from his Montgomery County school after pretending to fire an imaginary gun more than once. The school changed their mind (but not their policy) after the parents complained.

At Park Elementary School in Baltimore, Maryland, a student was suspended for two days because his teacher thought he shaped a strawberry, pre-baked toaster pastry into something resembling a gun.

Sumter, South Carolina

Also this past January, Naomi McKinney, a six-year-old girl, was expelled from her school for bringing a gun to school for show and tell.

Her parents were unaware until they received a phone call from the principal saying McKinney had “brought a gun to school.” They rushed to the school horrified. They only later learned it wasn’t a gun – it was, in fact, a plastic toy.

Palmer, Mass

A six-year-old boy was punished because he took a plastic Lego gun roughly the size of a quarter on a school bus headed to Old Mill Pond Elementary School.

West Virginia

An eighth-grader was suspended and arrested after he refused to remove a t-shirt supporting the National Rifle Association. After being allowed to return the 14-year-old returned to school wearing exactly the same shirt, which depicts a hunting rifle with the statement “protect your right.”

Michigan

Officials at an elementary school in small-town impounded a third-grade boy’s batch of 30 homemade birthday cupcakes because they were adorned with green plastic figurines representing World War Two soldiers. The school principal branded the military-themed cupcakes “insensitive” in light of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Illinois

At Genoa-Kingston Middle School in northeast Illinois, a teacher threatened an eighth-grader with suspension if he did not remove his t-shirt emblazoned with the interlocking rifles insignia of the United States Marines.

Arizona

At Poston Butte High School in Arizona, a high school freshman was suspended for setting a picture of a gun as the desktop background on his school-issued computer.

Philadelphia

At D. Newlin Fell School in Philadelphia, a school official yelled at a student and then searched her in front of her class after she was found with a paper gun her grandfather had made for her.

Pennsylvania

In rural Pennsylvania, a kindergarten girl was suspended after she told another girl that she planned to shoot her with a pink Hello Kitty toy gun that bombards targets with soapy bubbles.

So in every one of these incidents we learn that people use the “protect the children” rally cry to create a mass hysteria, knee-jerk reactions to gun violence.

Certainly the authority figures in all these cases have some intelligence and know the difference from a toy and a finger to an actual threat.

This is really a well-disguised “cover our ass” policy. They want to be able to stand up in a press conference and proudly announce to the world that they are “looking out for the children” and only want what’s best for them.

Truth is this is all to avoid ligation if something goes wrong later. Truth is nothing they are doing will prevent a “copycat shooter.”

The “promised” broad review of gun violence by Vice-President Biden did what it was expected to do – it delayed this conversation until it cooled down. No one remembers what ever came of that review… Do we?

Mission accomplished!

School officials should focus more on stopping killers from breaching security, rather than focusing their attention on such frivolous poppycock as toy guns, kids fingers and Pop Tarts that look like guns.

The harsh truth is – because we live in a FREE country – it will happen again. And short of restricting every school to ONE entrance, the use of metal detectors, ID background checks and pat downs for everyone who enters a school – there’s almost NOTHING any of these policy makers can do.

Something tells me all those brainless knuckle draggers who made these stupid decisions STILL think they did the right thing and were justified in their actions.

There’s the REAL problem with gun violence.

To me, that’s just selfish ignorance.