Wow the Ravens made to the AFC championship again. Well Tom will be there waiting for them. Please don't beat yourselves this year. I have to say the game last week was epic. I don't really know what to say about how the offense and defense stepped up. Once we got the ball at the end of regulation I don't know why but I knew we would win. everything went right. Will I say Joe is amazing? No, but he has a hell of a arm and has been good if not great the last two games. if we could beat Denver, who i would say was the best team in football, why not win it all? I don't know how I will feel Sunday but all I remember is how I felt last year after the kick missed. It hurt a lot.
On a more serious note. NY just passed a ban on assault weapons and made large clips illegal. I was surprised this wasn't just the Brady AW ban redone but actually went a bit further. This is the knee jerk reaction that I think isn't really going to prevent anything from happening. it is a feel good move that sates the public outcry for something to be done about the massacres. Unless the US pulls an Australia type ban on private weapons these gestures aren't going to help. The fact is the US isn't going to go that far and in fact these state by state bans don't go far enough to be effective. You think Texas is going to have a state law restricting firearms? Not a chance. The federal bans didn't curb violence. Brady didn't work. By the way who shot Brady? Oh it was a mentally ill person who I believe is still committed. Unless you ban private firearms ownership the people committing these crimes have to be stopped before they find a tool to carry out their plans. This goes back to my previous post regarding mental health facilities and changing the way the violently mentally ill are allowed to live free. Again I hope this isn't due to the cost. I think it is easier to say ban guns versus the uncomfortable difficult problem of protecting society from and treating properly those who are a threat to the public. Most would say lock them up in jail as many are today, but are you going to lock up a young man who comes from a family of means? No because his parents would never let them go to jail. Adam Lanza's mother didn't work so she could home school him due to his difficulties. Do you think she would have let him be put away in jail if say he made threats of violence and committed a minor crime? No she would have the best lawyers money could buy fight to keep him free. What if there was a place where he could be treated safely that wasn't jail? That brings up images of a sunny bright hospital with smiling patients in robes doing art therapy. Thats probably nothing like the truth of what a sanitarium would look like, so maybe that isn't a reasonable outcome either. All I know is these killers had access to weapons and were in a mental state to use them on innocents and no law passed or even being purposed addresses either side of that situation.
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