Just a Rant

Now, I’ll be upfront, this isn’t some politically correct write-up. If you have a problem with people voicing their opinions on touchy subjects then you might want to go to a different web page right now. I’m not writing this to make any friends. I’m writing it to get it off my chest. You’re welcome to read it, but remember, it’s my opinion and my opinion alone. If you agree, great. If not, great also. It’s a free country.
It’s one of those times that, whenever I look at the news, I get mad. You read what’s going on and you wonder how we’ve been able to make it as far as we have considering how many STUPID people there are out there. Looking at today’s headlines… Now granted, I’m picking out the stories of stupid people and not the “feel good” stories, but I’m trying to prove a point here.
The biggest headline right now is the idiot that shot 8 people in the mall in Nebraska. Some of his last words were, “I’ve been shit all my life, now I’m going to be famous.” Umm. No, you’re an idiot. Now, not only are you an idiot, you’re a dead idiot. No one will even remember idiot’s name in 2 weeks. They’ll just remember that some idiot killed 8 innocent people in Nebraska a few weeks before Christmas. That’s not famous, that stupidity.
I won’t go into the stories of people accused of killing their children. That just makes me furious. I’ll just say if the State doesn’t want to foot the bill for the electricity to fry them or the drugs to inject them, hand them to me. I’ve got some left over ammo from the gun range I’ll be happy to donate. I’ll even pull the trigger and not charge the government for my services. Those people do not deserve to live and I don’t deserve to have to pay for their food and lodging in jail. Guilty = BAM!!! Easy enough.
Then you have the case of the “Teddy Bear Teacher.” A British teacher who was teaching in the Sudan allowed her kids to name a teddy bear they were to take home, care for and write a journal about, whatever they wanted. The kids named the bear “Muhammad.” Big deal. When I was over in Saudi, I met about 30 guys with that name. It’s a popular name and used all over the place. Well, true to idiotic extreme Islamic stupidity, the rag heads arrested her. She could have gotten 40 lashes with a whip, 6 months in jail and a fine. Some of them were even calling for her execution. For letting kids name a freaking TEDDY BEAR??????!!!! Her actual sentence was 15 days in jail and deportation back to Britain. Sounds to me like they did her a favor. I’m beginning to wonder why we even bother trying to deal with those people. I say let them blow themselves up. Honestly, if Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Saudi, etc, etc, etc were to go away, would you miss them? I highly doubt it. Would you feel safer in your country knowing they were all gone? Probably so. I say we all go out and buy a pot bellied pig as a pet and name them all Muhammad. It’s a free country and we can do and say what we want. Of course, that would probably get your house car bombed by some jackass that is living illegally here in the States. Just another reason to let them all blow themselves up. If nothing else, get all of the illegal aliens (not just Islamic, but Mexican, Puerto Rican, and any other ILLEGAL alien) out of here. Deport them all!!!! If you don’t pay taxes, go back home. Of course, this is where our own government fails us by doing nothing about this problem. I went on a bit of a tangent there, but 9-11 wouldn’t have happened if those people weren’t in this country.
Now this isn’t anything from the news, but a “discussion” my wife and I had the other night. She was telling me about a co-worker who has had her house broken into twice and attempted break-ins two other times. She said she is worried her husband or 15 year old boy is going to be home at the wrong time and do something they would come to regret. I asked what they could do that they would regret. She said “kill whoever breaks into the house.” My question to that was, “Why would they regret it?” That’s when the “discussion” started. I do not understand how someone could feel guilty about injuring, maiming or killing someone who has broken into your house with the intentions of committing a crime. And, she does not understand how I could not understand. Now, I am military and I’ve been in situations where it almost came to the point where it was going to be “them or me.” I made up my mind a long time ago that, if it came to that point, it was going to be them without a doubt. And that was on military deployments. If you think that mindset is going to be any different when I’m in my own house, you are gravely mistaken. If nothing else, I am even more adamant about it. If someone breaks into my house at 2:00 am, they aren’t there to bake me a cake. They are there for no good reasons. So, as far as I’m concerned, if you break into my house in the middle of the night, I promise you that you will be carried out in a bag. You won’t have a chance to sue me for hurting you because you’ll be dead. How will I feel about it the next morning? When I see my wife and baby sitting there all safe and sound, I’ll be just fine about it. If it takes more than one shot, I may go to the range to work on my aim a bit, but I will have no regrets.
Well, I don’t know about you, but I sure do feel better. Feel free to comment if you want. Please remember, just as these are my opinions and my opinions alone, this is also my space in the web, so I also choose what comments get posted. So if you disagree, feel free to comment, but death threats won’t get posted. : )