Voodoo from the GOP

It's been a week since the gunfire shattered 32 lives and ended a shattered life at Virginia Tech. My favorite Catholic priest told me to never judge a person for taking their own life. "That is something between God and them." He was hinting at their being some meaning even in a life lost to suicide. But, he was a better man than me.

I've sick and tired of the endless number of right wing GOP backers crying because Virginia Tech didn't have just one more gun on the campus that day! God forbid the shooter had carried three guns instead of two.

One more gun ... would have changed nothing.

What would one less gun have changed? Two less guns?

Had we stopped the shooter from buying guns, how many people would be alive today that have instead been mourned and will be forever missed?

I've made the point that students don't need plastic money to buy guns while in college. No one needs to be buying guns on credit.

But, give me credit. I'm no Nancy Schaefer, Georgia Senator from the 50th District.

Nancy does not believe in mental illness. Therefore, everyone is entitled to listen to the voices in their heads and buy guns.

Like the Son of Sam serial killer. Herb Mullin, who killed 13 people to save California from earthquakes. Charles Albright, serial killer who removed the eyeballs of his female victims. Jeffery Dahmer. Eddie Gein, role model for Buffalo Bill in the movie, Silence of the Lambs. Genene Jones, pediatric nurse who killed little babies in Texas hospitals. And, like the shooter at Virginia Tech.

But, Nancy says, "There's no such thing as mental illness!" And, therefore, no reason to screen gun buyers for psychosis, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, paranoia, multiple personalities, obsessive-compulsive disorder ...

And, Nancy, the North Georgia Queen of Voodoo, says there's no reason for the public to pay for pills, diagnosis, or treatment in our schools and colleges.

A week ago, ten days ago, were we one pill away from saving 32 human beings and one already shattered life?

Not one more gun ... just more one caring doctor ... just one more caring nurse ... THAT could have saved so much heartbreak.

The all time Oscar for lying goes to the Voodoo Queen, Nancy Schaefer. "There is no such thing as mental illness."