Joe The Plumber: "Your dead kids don’t trump my constitutional right to own guns even though I'm not in a militia, regulated or otherwise."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 27, 2014
I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now. But: As harsh as this sounds - your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.
It’s not exactly breaking news that Compassionate Conservatism is neither. The words are the very definition of oxymoron. Whenever a mass shooting takes place, the NRA and its Republican lapdogs in Congress don’t exactly bust a nut when it comes to compassion. When your soul is black and your heart hardened, the suffering of others is really none of your concern.
Few have expressed this lack of compassion and empathy better than Conservative poster boy and world-class fraud Samuel Wurzelbacher (“Joe the Plumber”), who appears to care for no human life not directly related to him. Like most gun nuts, Wurzelbacher would rather see daily mass shootings than countenance a reduction of his gun rights. To him, the 2nd Amendment is sacrosanct, immutable, and inviolate. Human life? Not so much. Because
dead kids don’t matter and gun rights are unlimited and inviolable. To the NRA and their supporters no amount of dead kids— one school full, two schools full, or even hundreds of thousands of children— can limit gun rights.
Even as he’s laying out his inhuman argument he can’t pass up an opportunity to toss a few cheap insults at his adversaries, those Liberal gun-grabbers who’d pry his guns from his cold, dead fingers. Smug and arrogant to the end, eh? Even as he’s extending his faux sympathy to those who lost a loved one in Santa Barbara, he’s trying to score cheap political points. Class. Pure, unadulterated class.
How cold and inhuman does one have to be in order to seriously argue than guns are more important than human life? I don’t know…but Samuel Wurzelbacher certainly does. Despite my disdain for his world-class inhumanity, I hope he never experiences the agony of losing a child to gun violence. Would that he could extend the same consideration to those who have lost a loved one. When you’re a sorry excuse for a human being, you don’t have to worry about things like that, do you?
As long as it’s someone else’s kid….
