Lord Dunderheid

As we approach the end of 2022 I thought an update about what’s being happening in the USA was in order. US gun laws (or the lack of them). Firstly, throughout the past year there has been a continuation of gun massacres - some in shopping malls and churches and others, once again, in schools. In the aftermath of those crimes we continue to have some in the NRA, while also (usually) preaching Christian values, spout disgusting and evil lies in order that their fun continues to come before the lives of innocent children. Some of those evil people continue to claim that restricting access to guns is not the answer. They claim that guns don’t kill but it’s people who do. They even claim that the answer is even more guns and that teachers should be armed to protect their students. The evil insanity of those claims are so obvious it is difficult to understand why those mouthpieces of the NRA are not locked up. If more guns was the answer then why are there so few gun massacres in countries ...

Following the Supreme Court judgment (that the Scottish government could not run it’s own independence referendum) there have been wild celebrations from unionists - as if they had defeated the struggle for Scottish independence in a single blow. I think they are badly mistaken in that. I mean, what do they expect independence supporters to do? Simply say “well, that’s it then - we may as well forget about this”. I very much doubt it - and this Supreme Court judgment might well have increased support for Scotland breaking away from the UK as it becomes clearer that our union of equals, with any country free to leave if it wants to, is nothing but a huge lie. It has also exposed the democratic deficit that the SNP has long complained about. In addition to that I suspect that Nicola Sturgeon might be quite happy about the judgment. I suspect that even she doubted if October 2023 was the right time to go for it - what with COVID still with us (to some extent), the war in Ukraine and infla...