I hate the government, Part 4.

Hey, I think we might all be able to agree on this one! Justin sums it up pretty well.

I first got irritated when after taking a moment of silence, which is appropriate and nice, they decided to take a couple days off! Now these weren't just random, get no work done work days that Congress usually takes, they were conducting important hearings about how much the Justice Department sucks. Aww, how nice. The busy Congressmen taking time from their hectic schedules to mourn for a nation... and take a trip home to talk about their gun-control stance.

So suckage #4: Politicians capitalizing on/twisting a tragic event into something for their gain. Its not like Virginia Tech is the first example of this. Rudy Gulianni, who's running for president by the way, has been telling people lately that obviously voting for a Democrat means that the terrorists win and we're all going to die 5 minutes after a Democratic president takes the oath of office. Uh huh. Way to exploit 9/11 there, Rudy.

So back to Virginia Tech. Taking time off and issuing their respective statements of sadness or whatever sure made all those lawmakers look good. Fine, be sad, that's very considerate of you, but do not use the death of 32 people as a vote-getting scheme. Its heartless and certainly ineffective. We sure like to talk about changing gun control laws but does that ever happen? Hardly. In fact, since Columbine, the assault weapons ban expired. Thank you, Congress, for proecting me.