Taking offense, part 2

Unless there's 100% unanimous thinking from person to person, there won't ever be full agreement. As far as I can tell, only full agreement gives us the ability to always avoid offending someone.

But we should still do our best to not offend people.

Please look at Taking offense, part 1

Blame the psycho, not the...

Liberals blame guns and the person who shot the school. I blame the person.

As for the gun, how can you blame something that doesn't have a brain to know what to do, or fingers to pull it's own trigger? 

To pull it's own trigger requires more than what the gun has in it's machinery.  The same goes for aiming it at a target or even picking a target or adjusting the aim.

Guns simply don't have what it takes to do all that.

Again I blame the person, not the gun.

Gov't policies affect our lives & some of us do hardly a thing!

Policies in Washington DC, in our state level and at our town/city level affect how we live. They affect what we are allowed to do and not to do. In other words, they affect how we can pursue happiness and a life that we want to be well lived.

So how can we not be involved when it's our lives that are being governed here? What's the point of We The People if We don't become as active in holding our elected officials as accountable as they'd like to hold us in any given way?

Get involved, people! Please!

Needing power to have irrational hatred of others? Really?

You don't need to have more or less power than any one person or group of people to hate them for irrational reasons or to be bigoted towards them.

Irrational hatred of others is based on what one thinks and believes, not what level of power someone has attained. Even poor people, even people with little power, can have irrational hatred and have had it.

So when I see things like "non-whites can't be racist because they don't have power" I know that someone is messing around with the definitions of these terms to achieve something other than what is just.

You don't need power to be bigoted.

To have hatred in your heart requires nothing but you. Just you. Only you. Power & influence not necessary.