Feeling Safe Around Guns, and Unsafe Around Earth Day Celebrations

SOME SQUEAKY VOICED TWENTY SOMETHING LITTLE GAL on ultra conservative hate talk radio, which is the only kind of talk radio available anywhere, has taken right wing insanity to a new level, if that's even possible, which, regrettably, it appears to be. She's a conceal and carry gal, but only because she lives in California, and those damned California liberals won't let her pack her smokewagon openly. She would, if only she could, she says, and you'd better believe her. In fact, she wishes everyone, all the good people, would do likewise; pack and conceal, or preferrably pack and display. She says that when she sees some stranger in a convenience store with a hip hugging piece, she feels better already, because she knows that somebody has her back, somebody is on her team. How she knows this is a matter of pure conjecture, or perhaps "wishful thinking" would be a better term. It doesn't matter who the stranger is; anyone with enough sense to carry a firearm in plain sight has just got to be a "good" person, with impeccable judgment. The bad guys all go with hidden guns in their jackboots, or switchblades, like in "West Side Story". All good people should be openly armed, and all openly people are good people. Makes perfect sense, if you happen to be a right wing member of America's lunatic fringe. But instead of wisely stopping there, stopping the madness, and changing the subject, she goes on. The real threat to American public safety, she contends, is not millions of well armed good people, but rather, animal rights advocates and April 22 - April 22 being Earth Day. Treating animals with compassion, and trying to save the environment, those are the real threats to our way of life. Thus babbles the squeaky voiced cute little thing with a heater bigger than she, and thus babbles her right wing ilk, all too often. Five'll get you ten the lady drives an oversized SUV, aggressively tailgaiting the unwary, and is divorced at least once. Beware, and run for your life! Those who would encourage us to protect the planet and treat animals humanely never hesitate to show their weapons. Those handmade protest signs proclaiming "Earth first" and "End Cruelty to Animals" hurt when they slap you in the face outside vivisection laboratories.