Guns strike again, this time in Greenwood. Guns are not devices for liberty, but establish a tyranny of fear. Gun nuts demean measures to control gun violence. After all, with so many guns out there, what’s the point of simple gun “control.” They get their jollies, too. 1/5

Don’s Guns owner would chuckle in his commercials, “I just love to sell guns.” DOJ ranked his store as #4 in the U.S. for selling guns to criminals. Ads for a gun show made fun of the Brady bill, named after an…

From: Mark Small

Date: July 16, 2022

Dear Representative DeLaney,

Thank you for the mailing in which you invited constituents in IN86 to share our thoughts on issues upon which we have big decisions to make. I shall address each as follows:

-How extreme will the restrictions on abortion be?

It seems that few people understand either that the opinion issued by the United States Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade was written by a Republican nominee to the Court,…

No one in the bar had seen the 3 before they parked their cycles (2 Harleys & an Indian nice & shiny like off a showroom floor) at the curb. None of the 3 wore “colors” or other finery of a motorcycle club. They went to back to play pool. 2 of the 3 had handguns on their belts. 1/6

It’s reasonable to presume that a minimum of 25% of the habitues of any bar in IN are packing. People just don’t make a show of it. These guys walked out of the bar and dawdled. The shortest of the…

More on IN AG Todd Rokita & a 10-yr-old Ohio rape victim, who came to IN for an abortion. Rokita swore to fight to the end & implied he’d yank the license of the IN Dr who performed the procedure for failure to report. But: rape was reported in OH; a man was charged. 1/5

That I.C. 33-35-1, et seq, was met, probably makes no difference to Rokita, in the Top 5 of U.S. Most Insufferable Pricks & always after higher office. Pregnancy from rape is traumatic, then Rokita crawls…

Todd Rokita, Indiana’s AG, has weighed in on the case of the 10-year-old Ohio rape victim, who had to travel to Indiana to obtain an abortion. Rokita said “we’re going to fight this to the end, including looking at [the doctor’s] her licensure if she failed to report.” 1/5

That’s bad enough, but then he added: “This is a child, and there’s a strong public interest in understanding if someone under the age of 16 or under the age of 18 or really any woman is having abortion in our…

Amer Psych Assoc, 2013: In ‘93, New England J of Med (NEJM) published “Gun ownership as a risk factor for homicide in the home,” by Kellerman, et al, w/results of research funded by the CDC. The study found keeping a gun in the home strongly & independently associated 1/5

w/increased risk of homicide. The article concluded that rather than confer protection, guns kept in the home are associated with an increase in the risk of homicide by family member or intimate acquaintance.…

Nobody had seen them in the establishment before. They wanted to impress the rest of us. Two wore holsters in plain view. They stood for a few minutes beside motorcycles that had the looks of being recently wheeled off a showroom floor. One tossed a cigar wrapper on the sidewalk. 1/5

One guy stood next to his bike, hand on his semi-automatic pistol. He pulled it out, not quite all the way, then eased it back. We were less safe from these morons strutting in with their weapons on their…

No one said 15% controls the USA. In 1776 the Virginia Declaration of Rights sd majority rule is “an indubitable, unalienable and indefeasible right.” Even those who beat a deceased canine & say trump won in 2020 say he got more votes. Then I heard G. Edward Griffin. 1/5

Griffin started Red Pill Expo, described by a human rights advocate as a vehicle for alt-right recruitment. The Expo visits Indy July 9 & 10. Griffin was a guest on John Schmitz’s podcast “Mouthwash,” on July…

wrote to colleges & universities listed in a thick guide. Schools would mail their latest bulletin and other items relevant to application. By start of my senior year of high school, I had a couple of shelves of bulletins. I wanted to go to college. College represented freedom.

On a beautiful spring afternoon in 1975, most of DePauw was shut down when many of us believed the American Association of University Professors was correct when it determined DePauw, in denying tenure to a…

July 4 parades in the Chicago area were canceled after a mass shooting in Highland Park. Gun nuts point to places like Chicago & say gun control doesn’t work. But that’s because Hoosier gun merchants are a short drive away. And how “free” are we because of this traffic? 1/4

I’ll state the obvious, but unthinkable (to some) answer to gun violence. We have to follow the example of Australia and get rid of the guns. Let me state it differently: if I am elected my goal will be to go…

July 4 as a national holiday is fitting. The Declaration of Independence was signed July 2, 1776. A printer changed the date. The white, male landowners who signed the document represented a minority even amongst white, male landowners. (Oh, and no Jews or Muslims signed.) 1/6

There were no statistically valid polls, but a common estimate is one-third wanted to separate from England, another 1/3 wanted to keep the ties and 1/3 didn’t care. This is of white male landowners (no Jews or…

Live in Indiana? Without currency, i.e., money, you can’t drink orange juice often. You’d have to go to FL & barter for it. Currency is interchangeable & represents values of labor & goods. What backs paper money, gold? (1) We haven’t used gold in decades. (2) Gold has 1/6

no magical or intrinsic quality. A person starving on a desert island cannot eat gold. (3) Ppl who can will buy the teeth out of your mouth. Alexander Hamilton, 1st Sec’y of the Treasury helped create…

History: what this GOP & it shameful progeny SCOTUS try to void. Before too many books are burned, read The Anti-Federalist Papers. Amongst opponents of The Constitution, Patrick Henry on 6/5/1788 he spoke to VA’s ratification convention & complained: We the People instead 1/5

of We the States. He worried liberty would be lost. First: Henry favored States’ “rights” & The Constitution, he argued, denied that concept. So if someone tries to tell you States have rights &…

The question is simple: what will it take for a person to accept that trump criminal acts as he tried to hold onto the presidency? It’s an important question because it shapes what people believe as they vote in the November mid-term elections. Nixon still had 27% approval Aug 1, 1974. 1/5

Categories & if talking w/them is time wasted. 1) “Nothing will convince me.” They are the same ones of whom trump said he could shoot somebody in the middle of 5th Avenue & not lose votes.…

Watergate wasn’t this blatant. Nixon still is the only POTUS to resign. trump had been “warned” that members of the mob that eventually stormed the Capitol were heavily armed. He knew the plans. He said weapons were okay because the mob wasn’t going to harm him. 1/5

The 2nd Amendment wasn’t meant to arm coups. The Jan 6 mob, Nazis amongst them, carried confederate flags. Many people died to end slavery and to secure rights for former slaves & their descendants. Many died fighting…

The surprise witness at tomorrow’s hearing before the January 6 Committee, per two sources, is retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. SCOTUS has been jacked by theocrats and the decisions of the past couple of weeks on school vouchers and prayer after football games should be in Latin. 1/5

A 2/4/20 article in The Guardian, on “Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction,” by NYT finance editor David Enrich describes Kennedy retired in June ‘18 & gave trump…

Person w/Facebook home page photo of confederate stars on bars superimposed on a U.S. flag, said “I have no problem with blacks or mexicans.” I said: “If you have the Confederate ‘X’ of stars across an American flag logo, then you have a problem with Blacks.” He replied: 1/4

“yeah keep thinking that boy now go play with your barbies.” Me: “you rack up points for stupidity. The Confederacy fought to keep slavery. That's about as racist as things get. And what"s this with ‘barbies’? Of…

A majority of people in the USA opposed overturning Roe v Wade. CNN’s polling, since 1989, never has shown more than 36% favoring overturning Roe. Gerrymandering, packing the Court and less-than-candid testimony by GOP nominees to the Court ended with Roe’s reversal. 1/5

People who do not face crises of unwanted pregnancies can be self-righteous. But 1 in 4 women have an abortion at some point. I’ve met none who either were glib about the experience or who regretted it. Their reasons…

If Roe v Wade had not been handed down, violent crime would not have dropped in 1991. Males around 18 yo commit a significant percentage of violent crime, some of which are murder of real human beings, not fetuses. Donohue & Levitt’s conclusions are confirmed by other studies. 1/4

One in four women have abortions. This country has lousy health care, no day care, and squeezes people who want a higher education. If a woman survives pregnancy and gives birth, and if she is alone…