Jesse Jackson Jr. receives over $125,000.00 in tax payer money every year as he is “disabled”. I didn’t realize how hazardous the occupation of disgraced House representative actually is!  I’ll get to his disability in a bit.

Once again, I need some liberal ‘splaning, please. I looked up how much you can receive as the maximum permanent disability payment in Illinois. That number is $1,440.60 per week. That works out to $75,112.88 per year. Hmmm, not quite $125,000.00. Okay maybe Jesse also is receiving his longer term FEDERAL Social Security Disability at the same time. That would be $735 per month or $8,820.00 per year. Both combined would be $83,932.88 every year. Not too bad for sitting on one’s backside.  That still doesn’t total to over $125,000.00.

Somehow Jackyboy is getting much more than your average “high-earner” in disability payments.  Turns out that Junior receives money thanks to YOUR tax-payer generosity. It turns out the Jesse the younger, is making the bulk of the money from you the American Taxpayer because he claims the the “rigors of a Congressman” caused him to become “bipolar” and therefore completely disabled through a work related injury.  Interestingly he became “bipolar”, after 17 years in Congress, when he was accused and CONVICTED of misappropriating $750,000.00 in campaign funds for personal use.

To put all these numbers in perspective, Junior receives more in taxpayer funded bennies than he did “working” as a House representative. The most excellent part of the story is that Junior is “entitled” to the FEDERAL bennies, because the disability is a “work related” injury. Had he been diagnosed as bipolar before working as a congressman his benefits would only be a fraction of what he is “entitled” to receive.

One last tidbit of information.  All the money Jackyboy receives is TAX FREE.  Cha-ching!

I guess we need to take care of the poor and downtrodden from the ghetto who live in $2 million homes.  Leftists rejoice!  Wealth redistribution at its best.

After the Parkland School shooting, I have listened to the blather from the students on gun control. Many of the students are very articulate and have made eloquent and moving speeches. I believe that they have a right to express their views.

However, I don’t believe that they have any “special” insights into gun control. The media and most politicians are letting these kids dictate the debate on gun control. This is a MISTAKE. As I said, they should freely express their views but they shouldn’t be given any more accord than anyone else. Just because you were witness to a shooting or even though you may have been shot, does not qualify you as an expert on the subject.  Getting shot at is unfortunate but it does not ordain you as the soothsayer of truth.  A Hispanic man was shot to death no more than 20 feet from me, but that doesn’t qualify me as an expert on gang violence or drug related deaths in the Hispanic community.

Jump all over me if you want to.  In our world of victim mentality I keep hearing that victims’ statements and ideas should be accepted without question.  From the “pound Metoo” movement to these students on gun control, we are lectured by the media to accept anything said by a victims as truth.  Hogwash.  All ideas should be examined and questioned.  Blindly accepting any “victim’s” statement as absolute truth is foolish.

Here’s an analogy. A group of 16-18 year old kids are driving around in a car and they are involved in an accident where some of them are killed.  This tragedy does not qualify the surviving kids with any extraordinary insight into automotive structural design or highway road construction. In fact most rational people would listen to what the kids testify as to the incident, but they wouldn’t immediately change automotive safety standards based on what the kids say, one day after the accident. This is exactly what we are doing as far as gun ownership is concerned.

I’m all for making schools safer, but not at the expense of trampling our Constitutional rights.

UPDATED with a quote from Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel.

People are debating raising the age to purchase a long gun to 21 years of age  from the current age limit of 18.

The argument for raising the age requirement to 21 is that there is a belief, based on SCIENCE (something that the left points to quite often as unquestionable) that the brains of young people are not fully developed until they reach their mid-twenties. The argument is that the young brain’s ability for reason and self control has not fully matured at 18.

HERE’S THE UPDATED QUOTE by Sheriff Israel who was the responsible authority in the Florida school shooting,  This comes from the CNN fake news “discussion” where the sheriff was showboating rather than actually investigating the shooting.  The sheriff STATED and I quote, “But, lastly, we do need to have some gun control reform. Eighteen year olds should never have a rifle. An 18 year old kid should not have a rifle. Eighteen year old kid, they’re not adults yet. They’re in high school.”

I have not heard any outcry from the LIBERAL LEFT AGAINST this proposed age change. The young Bernie-ites should be screaming AGAINST this. Why?

The argument is that the young person’s brain is not mature enough to determine RIGHT from WRONG and CHOOSING NOT TO COMMIT MURDER. If the young brain CANNOT properly function to make the simple choice NOT TO COMMIT MURDER, why are we allowing that same brain to VOTE and make decisions for OUR COUNTRY? It’s not a far leap to conclude that the voting age should also be raised to 21 as the young person’s cognitive reasoning abilities are not sufficiently developed to allow them to make rational choices for The Republic.

If ANYONE wants to make an argument based on “SCIENCE” they must be willing to apply it consistently to other situations.

Along these lines of thinking,  the COMMUNIST LEFT wants “common sense gun control“.   How about some “common sense voter control“?

The LEFT wants a gun registration law, yet they are not willing to enforce voter registration laws.  States’ voter registrars resisted President Trump’s attempt to quantify voter fraud.  The People’s Republik of Kalifornia is about to open the flood gates to voter fraud with the changes to the “voter motor” law.

“Common sense” apparently only applies to getting rid of the Second Amendment and not how our country is run.