If Only Everyone Had Squirrel Guns

Last week I wondered why the ceremony honoring “Justice Month” — which was March — was March 29. Surely it’s be better to hold it at the beginning of the month, no?

Well, perhaps we all now know why. In today’s Inquirer, Patrick Kerkstra gives us a little snippet of one of Justice Month’s leaders speech:

Somewhere in the middle of Judith Trustone’s lengthy lecture to City Council last week on the evils of the prison-industrial complex, she unleashed this remarkable sentence: “We’ve got to talk about our lust for punishment and our obsession with guns, human-killing guns, not squirrel guns, men’s Viagra [as opposed to women's?—dmac], in a toxic planet needing a new, healthier, pro-life form of masculinity.”

I know. Just think how many people Bob Dole and Rafael Palmeiro have lead to murder due to their sponsorship of that evil blue pill. And don’t get me started on Cialis!

I do think she has a good idea there, though. In the same vein as “guns for 76ers tickets,” it’s time for “human-killing guns for squirrel guns.”

Council confronts lengthy sentences [Inquirer, 4th item]
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