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Still less than thrilled with my teeth. They still hurt. This is stupid. The mix of medications makes me kinda fuzzy-headed, and driving has been a little scary lately. Not okay. Too much to do to be feeling like crap all the freaking time.
But! I went to Caribou this afternoon and read more for my honors project! I have actually done some reading at this point! I now have lots of questions that can't really be answered! This is okay! Offhand, does anybody know if the Bush Administration has done anything with small arms control? Or the EU since 2000? Or Russia since 1995?
The NRA is creepy. I sort of want to read some of these books that they're promoting, like The Bias Against Guns. It's liberal-media-out-to-get-us-law-abiding-self-defenders drivel, I'm sure. And I don't really have time to read it. But I have to wonder if the NRA has given any consideration to its promotion of gun culture that allows small arms to continue to be produced at ridiculous levels that are then transferred internationally. Their website doesn't seem to address international small arms control at all. I wonder how they feel about it? I should email and ask! They are against regulation of the number of guns one can purchase at any given time. Do they realize people buy bunches of guns and then export them illegally? Does this just happen so infrequently, in their view, that it doesn't matter? It's not really that infrequent. You can buy all the parts to make a fully automatic M16 at most gun shows. A single individual with an M16 can do a lot of damage. So... there's no need to control this? I am puzzled by that attitude.
See? I did do my reading! Good for me.
Okay. I will go make shrimp scampi now, and then not be able to eat it, because my teeth are aching. Stupid teeth. Stupid, stupid teeth.
But! I went to Caribou this afternoon and read more for my honors project! I have actually done some reading at this point! I now have lots of questions that can't really be answered! This is okay! Offhand, does anybody know if the Bush Administration has done anything with small arms control? Or the EU since 2000? Or Russia since 1995?
The NRA is creepy. I sort of want to read some of these books that they're promoting, like The Bias Against Guns. It's liberal-media-out-to-get-us-law-abiding-self-defenders drivel, I'm sure. And I don't really have time to read it. But I have to wonder if the NRA has given any consideration to its promotion of gun culture that allows small arms to continue to be produced at ridiculous levels that are then transferred internationally. Their website doesn't seem to address international small arms control at all. I wonder how they feel about it? I should email and ask! They are against regulation of the number of guns one can purchase at any given time. Do they realize people buy bunches of guns and then export them illegally? Does this just happen so infrequently, in their view, that it doesn't matter? It's not really that infrequent. You can buy all the parts to make a fully automatic M16 at most gun shows. A single individual with an M16 can do a lot of damage. So... there's no need to control this? I am puzzled by that attitude.
See? I did do my reading! Good for me.
Okay. I will go make shrimp scampi now, and then not be able to eat it, because my teeth are aching. Stupid teeth. Stupid, stupid teeth.