Outrage

Day 123. Outrage.

Hope the current events stuff isn't too boring for you. I know the stuff from the heart is important, I think they actually go together well. If we stay ahead of world events, the effects they have on our day to day lives at least won't be surprises. A chance to prepare a response is key in any aspect of life.

Today's hot button..... the good old Second Amendment. News from the state of Texas has emerged of a Dallas WalMart SuperCenter that refused to print one a couple's engagement pictures because it had an OMGELEVENTY!!11!!! gun in the picture. It was all the news today on several websites, Glenn Beck's The Blaze among them. I'll keep my opinion on the highbrow wedding pics being developed by the couple themselves at WalMart to myself, as obviously there's a shortage of professional photographers in Dallas.

First read of the articles about it play like a Second Amendment supporter's nightmare: Company policy, no weapons pictures printed to discourage gang culture. Then the details start popping. As it turns out, it was one clerk. At one store. Not a policy, the clerk took it upon herself to not print the photo. WalMart not only retrained the clerk, they have since printed the photo and given the couple a gift card for the value of the entire print package. Within 24 hours, a wrong made right. But was this even a wrong? Compared to some of the gun-grabbing of the past few years, I can't find any outrage here.

I can muster outrage that the Attorney General of Alabama has to file an amicus brief to oppose more locked-gun storage legislation. I'll get bent over similar moves being made in Montana and South Dakota, "Flyover Country" is apparently being bombarded with political correctness. The manipulation of California gun rights laws via the Ninth Circuit by the AG there gets my blood pressure up.

I can also feel proud that the South Carolina legislature is reviewing a bill to require all high school students to take an NRA-approved gun rights course, along with designating December 15 as Statewide Second Amendment Awareness Day.. I am thrilled to read that former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords anti-Second Amendment group is running out of money and influence, although I doubt they had the latter to any great degree. I am glad to see comedian Bill Engvall clarify his remarks to the unfunny Bill Maher, renewing his support for gun rights.

Outrage, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. What tweaks you might not even get me to bat an eye. But be sure, outrage at things that are not real do absolutely nothing to advance any cause. Getting your panties in a twist over a story on the internet is entirely up to you, but when the dust settles and the truth is out there for all to see, your wrinkled undergarments only give courage to the opposition.

Lesson One Hundred Twenty Three: Old sayings are sometimes best. Look before you leap.

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