THANK YOU NRA

in today's Anderson Herald Bulletin newspaper, i was greeted with the banner headline 'gunman kills 32, then self'. this was followed by three pages of news and pictures of terrified students and parents, reports of kids fleeing classrooms by breaking out windows and jumping from a second story classroom, while a gunman was trying to break down the door- guarded by a teacher trying to give his students as much time as possible for as many of them to escape as possible. the student talking to a reporter said he didn't remember seeing this teacher later.

all this mayhem just so your members can hunt, collect guns, play war with paintball rifles...whatever it is big time shooters do with whatever weapon they want to use.

it is long past time for guns to be regulated in this country. far more people die from gun related incidents than from tobacco. yet, we are facing more and more restrictions and taxes on tobacco products, that are faced by gun owners in this country.

this has got to STOP.

what do we have to do to get legislators off their greedy butts and pass legislation to prevent the unconditional purchase and use of all these killing machines.

if car owners killed and maimed people with this kind of disregard, there would be fewer drivers on the roads...and this is with licensing and testing at intervals to renew and regulate drivers.

i know that there are people behind the wheel of autos who are driving without a licence. but when they are caught, they pay a fine and or go to jail. repeat offenders can go to jail for quite along time.

they don't have the NRA there to fight for their rights to kill with cars.

perhaps the NRA could take a big chunk of the money they now use to buy legislation and give it to the families to pay for the funerals of their lost loved ones...more money to pay for the medical bills incurred by those the killer only wounded, or were hurt trying to evade flying bullets. the rest of the money they can make available to the survivors to pay for the counseling they will need in order to gain control of their lives after this tragedy.

then, they can get the hell out of dodge...make that Washington, DC, and all the state legislators across the country who benefit from this blood money.

who can afford health care these days.

I have a friend who has three sons. Two of these intelligent young men are currently liveing is Spain because the style of living is better over there than here in America.

One of the things they enjoy is health care.It's universal. They don't have to decide whether or not to go to the doctor, or pay their rent that month. The young men can even get prescriptions filled and still be able to buy food.

this country is fantastic in many ways. but our healthcare system sucks. Part of the problem is the cost of medications...because the manufacturers help fund future drugs on the sale of present ones.

I kinda wonder where all the money raised in the last fifty years to find the cure for cancer. treatments have improved, for sure...if you can afford them. But not cure.

And the inventor of the mammogram must have been a man who graduated from the marque de sade school of medicine.

I have worked out a personal solution for the high cost of health care. I simply wait until something really drastic happens, go the the emergency room, get cured, then ignore the hospital bills. It's not a great solution, but until this country can solve the problem for everyone, it'll have to do.

Hey, I don't claim to have the answers for everything, but I know that things must change, and in ways the people who uses these programs can understand without taking out a college degree before going to the doctor.