Welcome to 2013!  It seems like everything’s getting back to normal after the holidays.  In the past, I’ve tried to use pictures that go with whatever season it is when I post them here.  But in cleaning out my computer, getting rid of pictures I don’t need anymore, this picture came up, and it was just so - I can only say cute, I just wanted to share it with everybody.  I guess you can call this your Happy New Year’s Baby. 

So let me get my soapbox out again.  Like many people, we went to a bunch of holiday parties and get-togethers over the last month.  As most of you know, I’m from Connecticut.  At these gatherings, there were always a few people who also knew I was from Connecticut who came up and asked me about the tragedy that recently happened up in Newtown.  The next minute, the topic of conversation naturally switched to guns.  So here is my opinion about guns.

If you do not actually have Godzilla stomping through your neighborhood, or The Wolf Man snatching family members out of your house every full moon, I do not think there’s a reason you need a weapon that holds a hundred bullets.  And don’t you need a silver bullet to kill a werewolf anyway?  That would become pretty expensive. 

There are several parts to this situation people are talking about where there’s no compromise from either side, and I feel that people really do need to compromise. If someone took an Escalade and ran over a hundred people, nobody would be complaining about it to Cadillac.  We simply have to have stronger rules about guns. 

The NRA does not want to have anything change.  The NRA says that the best thing to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.  This statement scares me. 

Have you seen how people park?  How people drive around while talking on their cell phones?  And you want everyone to have access to unlimited guns and bullets, and fewer background checks?  My question then is, are we upset about how people are being killed, or that people are being killed? 

The speedometer on my car goes to 170 miles per hour.  If I go that fast down Rt. 1, they will arrest me.  You can have a good person, clean record, never got so much as a traffic ticket, who one day just snaps and grabs the nearest gun or weapon, and hurts and kills a bunch of people.  When I watch the news, I’m always amazed at how people forget about history.  Remember the Oklahoma bomber?  It took out half of a building and did massive damage to everything and everyone in a 16-block radius.  That was done with a pick-up truck and manure.

They’re also arguing about violence in the media.  They’ve been discussing this since way back when comic books first became popular.  I grew up watching Bugs Bunny and James Bond.  I have never wanted to drop an anvil on anyone’s head, and I have never poisoned anybody.  We are never, ever going to stop people from killing each other.  We have been doing that since we figured out how our thumbs work.  But I think we can slow down the mass killings. 

In closing, I think it’s great to keep tabs on our political climate again now that President Obama has been re-elected.  I would, just once, like to turn on FOX News or MSNBC and have them report that there’s nothing horrible to talk about because everyone is getting together to talk things out, taking responsibility for themselves and their problems, and getting along.

- Kevin S. Nash

Photo details: Baby actress headshot, Main Line Models, Media, PA.