Rick Perry: let us take our guns to the movies

[Moral Compass]

40. He just won the stupid contest

My former governor, Rick Perry, just won the stupid contest between the candidates.

I've given up expecting there to be any impetus for change (we are the only developed country where mass murder is routine)--so I was not surprised when Bobby Jindhal declared that now is not the time to talk about solutions to this mass murder problem we have in our country. I'm resigned to the fact that there is no good time to discuss gun control in our country.

But I thought that maybe, just maybe--no one would try and contend that this would have all been avoided if the other movie patrons had been able to return fire.

I won't go into how quickly these incidents happen and how, especially in this case, there was no time to return fire. Or how it is really, really dark in a movie theater and how that might make it really, really hard to figure out the appropriate person to shoot. Or how many, many more might have died if everyone was armed and started shooting.

But, hell, this thinking thing is just hard and takes up too much time when you can be shooting off your mouth.

So, Rickie wins the contest. He's dumber than all the rest. Yay, Rickie P.!