In New York Eric Levitz reports on the latest step along the path of logical insanity:
… on Monday night, Freedom Caucus chair Mark Meadows floated a compromise:
[Tara Golshan] One idea
@RepMarkMeadows floats on gun control: tax credits for volunteers — like retired law enforcement — who want to offer security for schools.This proposal gives something to both sides: It leaves teachers unarmed, just as liberals requested, while also giving a targeted tax cut to any patriotic American with a gun, too much free time, and a longing to legally pump bullets into another human being — or, in conservative parlance, to “a well-regulated militia.”
Well, my goodness. You’d think they’d eventually make sense.
But no. I wonder if they’ve realized that these “patriotic Americans” don’t have to be patriotic. They could easily just be one – or even more – sickos desperate to shoot themselves some kids.
The fact that the perpetrator of the Parkland massacre was giving off signals that he was dangerous doesn’t mean everyone else will.
If this proposal somehow goes through, I foresee a lot more massacres in our future.
