Professor stupidmonkey wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
So, I figured it out. If the Republicans just replaced "gun" with "Mexican", we wouldn't be having these gun debates.
Jon Stewart made that joke last night on the Daily Show, too.
I didn't see it yet, I have it DVR'd.
gbaji wrote:
Professor stupidmonkey wrote:
Almalieque wrote:
So, I figured it out. If the Republicans just replaced "gun" with "Mexican", we wouldn't be having these gun debates.
Jon Stewart made that joke last night on the Daily Show, too.
It's kind of an off kilter joke though. We already document citizens, so it's not like it's a great affront to want to document non-citizens who come to the US, right (and I love how "illegal immigrant" gets changed to "immigrant" and then to "Mexican" btw)? Documenting the exercise of a constitutional right is an entirely different issue.
Edited, Apr 17th 2013 7:00pm by gbaji I was referring to the amount of "red tape" that republicans are requiring for an illegal immigrant to become a citizen. I don't favor illegal immigration, but it's hypocritical to want series of background checks, nation wide use of e-verify (national data base which isn't used by everyone) for people who want to work in the US, then complain about having the same, similar or less restrictions in regards to certain fire arms. So it's "ok' to have "show me your papers law", but don't ask Jimmy nothing about his gun. It's totally hypocrisy that shows that people in the government (regardless of political preference) are more about their personal gain than the nation.
Furthermore, these are the same people who made an outrage of Jay-Z and Beyonce going to Cuba. They weren't pulling a Dennis Rodman, just on vacation. However, the government is sooo bad, because it doesn't listen to and/or favor their people. Yet, here we are, denying a common sense law that the majority of the nation seems to want for own personal gain.
I realize that our governments are not the same, just pointing out that we aren't ones to judge.