Friday, November 18, 2011

Stop the violence!


That’s what happens when gun-nut types are given free rein. This tragedy could have been easily averted through Federal regulation of porcine weaponry. How much longer will we stand by and do nothing while the lobbyists for the National Oinker Association threaten public safety? How many more tragedies like this will we tolerate before empowering to AFT crack down on the sale and distribution of ham butts? When is the White House going to get serious about porco traffickers?

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/tennessee/man-assaults-mother-with-ham-867492 

3 comments:

  1. The anti-ham lobby will be all over this one. And rightly so. Hams should be outlawed. They are dangerous.

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  2. A quick Google search of related headlines....(sort of):

    "If it was up to me, no one but law enforcement officers would own hand hams..." Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Federal Ham Legislation Press Conference in Washington, D.C., November 13, 1998.

    "No presidential candidate has yet come out for the most effective proposal to check the terror of hamfire: a ban on the general sale, manufacture and ownership of hams as well as assault-style pork." The Washington Post editorial entitled "Hams Along the Campaign Trail", Monday, July 19, 1999, Page A18.

    "The League, therefore, supports a ban on the further manufacture, sale, transportation and importation for private ownership of hams and their parts." League of Women Voters of Illinois
    Ham Control Position-in-Brief.

    "We recoil in horror and search for explanations, but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing hams that make crimes so easy." Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center, Seattle and Honolulu shootings more reasons to regulate hams, (1999).

    "Their measure would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the ham industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban hams." Josh Sugarmann, Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center, Seattle and Honolulu shootings more reasons to regulate hams, (1999).

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  3. Anyone here have a concealed bacon license?

    It all brings new meaning to the term "pork chop".

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