Day: April 16, 2014

One Happy Kid

I know I write a lot about some many situations…..but from time to time I read something that makes me chuckle…….and this one got a chuckle and a whole new set of questions……

A frantic search for a missing toddler in Lincoln, Nebraska ended happily and hilariously. The 3-year-old boy, who had slipped out of his home while his mother was in the bathroom, was found happily playing with stuffed animals inside the claw machine of the bowling alley across the street. An astonished customer notified employees after spotting the boy in the machine. “I really don’t think he noticed any of us outside the machine because he was just picking up stuffed animals and putting them down where they come out of,” the establishment’s bartender tells KLKN.

The machine’s owner was called and he opened the machine so the uninjured boy could get out. He says the boy must have gotten in through the machine’s prize hole. “You have to weave your way in and out so he had to work pretty hard to get in there,” he explains. “I had heard about this happening in other parts of the country, it’s kind of a rarity.” The boy was returned home with a stuffed animal from the machine as a souvenir and police say his mother will not be charged because she was quick to report her son missing, reports the New York Daily News.

The boy was found uninjured inside the machine.

Like I said….so many questions…….

Can 2nd Be Fixed?

Shooting after shooting…..death after death….it seems to be a vicious cycle that we cannot get out of…..like it is stuck in some diabolical short story………yes, we have those that call for massive gun control, something I do not completely agree with…..and then there are those that think people need assault weapons to protect their home and family….another completely biased statement…….

Is it possible the 2nd amendment can be fixed?

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens argues in the Washington Post that the debate over the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms can be settled with the addition of five words. Here they are, inserted into the amendment in bold:

  • “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the Militia shall not be infringed.”

In his essay, which is an excerpt from his new book, Stevens writes that those words get back to what the original drafters had mind. It wasn’t about personal self-defense—”the notion that the states were concerned about possible infringement of that right by the federal government is really quite absurd.” Instead, the amendment was intended to protect “the citizen’s right (and duty) to keep and bear arms when serving in a state militia,” he writes. This stemmed from states’ concerns about a national standing army running roughshod over them, he explains. Recent court opinions have lost sight of this and curbed the government’s ability to “minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of weapons in private hands.” Click for his full column.

This could fix the “problem of guns”……but it could also open up a whole new bunch of “fixes’ to our beloved Constitution……and that would be something that is not gonna happen.

What do you, my readers, feel about this?