I’m an Independent, and I am actually proud of the House Democrats today. They made some history by staging a fearless sitdown in the House, in protest over the Republican refusal to even *look* at upcoming gun control laws. When Paul Ryan booted out CSPAN and turned off the microphones and cameras, he forgot about smart phones and the Capital internet.
That revolution was brought to you by Periscope and Twitter. Whether anything will come of it, who knows? I’m writing scathing letters to my senators and representatives.
One of the key problems is the NoFlyNoBuy bill, which reasonably suggests that if you are on a terror watch list, you probably shouldn’t be buying AR-15 guns and high capacity magazines. The ACLU has rightfully pointed out the No Fly list is riddled with mistakes and bad profiling.
Okay, sure it is…*I’m* on that watch list, for simply being a member of MoveOn.org for years. Let’s have that conversation when we bring up the bill. Others have suggested that the NoFly list’s profiling is not going to catch the ‘lone gunman’ usually crazy, religious, and white, who seems to cause lots of these domestic outrages. Well, duh, that’s why we need to have an adult discussion about gun control in America. Instead of the NRA members who have the luxury of a never-wavering ‘No’ vote every chance they can lobby.
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In happier (I think) news, I’m going to be participating in one last twitter pitch session this summer, tomorrow’s #SFFpit. I have ten distinct pitches ready and scheduled though the day from 8am to 6pm EST. I have no idea what is going to happen, and I’ll be busy enough during the day that I can only look in during the morning.
Ten pitches. My eyes are crossing.
If you follow me on Twitter (@MCHana2), please do not like or retweet my posts, since that muddies the water for agents and editors. I appreciate all such shows of support, but those are against the session guidelines.
Gotta be honest: I’m not expecting much. I grew tenfold as a writing during these pitch contests, as I shaped new tweets and discarded old ones. Very educational. If it doesn’t help me get agent notice (the odds are very long), the new tweets will certainly help me in marketing for self-publishing.