Arizona: Bang, bang. You’re dead.
Through the years…Arizona leadership has often been marked by Wild West stupidity, intrigue, arrogance and pork barrel politics.
In fact, prior to becoming a state in 1912…Arizona governors were appointed by the president of the United States…oink, oink. Since then…at all levels of government and representation…this southwest desert state has consistently produced for it’s denizens a virtual grab bag of incompetents, wackos and felons.
Must be something in the water…little that there is...which makes these people nuts.
‘08 GOP presidential candidate and hypocrite Senator John McCain…suffering now with delusion and amnesia in his bitter re-election campaign against windbag former congressman J.D. Hayworth…might actually someday be recalled with fondness when compared to other Arizona high office holders.
Such as some of the recent stooge governors who’ve “run” the state…including Republican Evan Mecham…who while in office during the 1980’s, once described an Afro-American child as a “pickaninny”…and was impeached for obstruction of justice and misuse of government funds. Fife Symington…another Republican…resigned the governor’s office after being slammed with charges of extortion and making false financial statements which led to his conviction of bank fraud in 1997.
However, current Republican governor Jan Brewer might actually trump those losers with some of her recent looney actions.
Brewer officially joined the “Wing Nut Hall of Fame” April 16th, by signing into law a bill that…beginning this summer….will allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons without a permit. This new law sits side-by-side with one Brewer signed last year allowing loaded guns in bars and restaurants…as long as the gun carrier is not “drinking in the bar”.
Huh? “Not drinking in a bar?” While carrying a loaded gun? Tucked inside your leather belt?
Governor Brewer, we need another shot of Jack after attempting to make sense of that one.
Then, going even further off the deep end…Brewer also signed a separate law that exempts guns made and kept in Arizona from federal regulation, including background checks.
Murderer? Bank robber? Burglar? Child molester? Want a gun? It’s OK, buddy…if the gun’s been made in Arizona.
The folly in Brewer’s decisions is mind boggling.
Yet somehow her new laws make complete sense given the history of Arizona. Brewer is simply upholding the century old tradition of Wild West crazies “leading” the place.
Arizona. It’s probably not a destination you’ll want to visit soon. Too bad for the state…as…”hello!!!”… it’s leading industry is…tourism.
Afterall…why would anyone from out-of-state risk being shot by some guy innocently nudged past at the local Applebee’ s bar…all because a date wanted a fresh cosmo?
Except every eager outlaw who’ll soon be storming the state to load up on weapons and ammo.
Bang. Bang.
Arizona’s dead.