In no particular order:

1. 18 month presidential campaign is far far too long. 90 days to say what you have to say, show what you're about, and let's vote. 

2. Congress is the root of all evil in this country. 545 people in Washington D.C. run the country. Nine are on the SC, and one executive. That leaves 535 ineffectual partisan windbags to sit around and collect paychecks and benefits while the country goes to hell in a hand basket. Congress must want us involved in Middle East mess, they approved funding and troops. Congress must want illegal immigrants, they allowed the porous borders. Congress must want millions on a useless welfare system, they approved it. Congress wants Obamacare, they didn't bother to read it, but they approved it. Whatever problems exist are directly attributed to the Congress. They hold the purse strings and the approval authority. 

3. The U.S. Senate has been the most ineffective committee ever created in our country. They have done nothing of note in about 60 years. Just a white man's club with some seriously stupid rules. We the People take charge of their rules, and watch how fast things change in that less than august body.

4. We are a belligerent nation, have been since post WW-II, the last relevant war for us. We have incited more revolutions and assassinations and manipulations of more governments and their officials around the globe, than any other nation. Our economy is based upon the military-industrial complex, make no mistake about that. Our enemies are right about us. We attack other nations for no clear reason. We send "aid" everywhere to just about anyone who wants some. Back home our nation's people and infrastructure go wanting. Really stupid and short-sighted.

5. The Middle East is not fixable. Get out. Stay out. Stop supplying either side. Period.

6. The disappearance of balanced investigative journalism in the last 30 some years has been the biggest assist to social unrest and divisiveness. Replacing it, has been a select number of reduced publishing corporations interested in dollars and ratings only, content be damned. Daily news broadcasts are shows for talking heads.

6. Congress has been blatantly bought by the highest bidder, and there are so many slick ways to do that without being caught or being outside the law. Congress makes the rules, which is the problem to begin with.

7. Carson is not the answer. Another inexperienced president we do not need. Like to see him join the cabinet, however. At least one voice of reason and common sense is needed. Trump is offensive bluster. Sanders is just another socialist. Don't need that, either. Bilary couldn't satisfy her husband, and she won't satisfy the country, either. Disgusting candidate and person. Another Nixon, totally unable to recognize and tell the truth about anything. Anything.

8. Do what JFK wanted to do. Break up the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds. They should take the FBI with them, but they're too busy investigating recalcitrant high school girls with rug burns. NSA, listening in on Americans since 1952, also needs to leave.

Great country. Great people. Just need the right leadership. Re-elect no one. Representation was not ever supposed to be a career. Two terms, and go home. 

You're welcome.

Having lived (survived in the Phx area for 20 years, I recognize this activity for what it is. Normal, routine stupid behavior by Hispanics with guns and tempers. This has been going on there forever. 

It is no different than the Hispanics in Los Angeles, and the blacks in: Oakland, St. Louis, Chicago, Gary, IN; Newark, Patterson NJ, NY, Boston, Philly.  Got a problem? Someone take the last piece of bar-b-que? Stab 'em with a fork. Someone spilled beer on your shoe? Shoot 'em. Kids riding bikes in Philly? Easy targets, fire 17 shots at their defenseless behinds. Think a rival lives in that house in St. Louis? Fire into the bedroom window, kill a 14 year old.

This is normal and routine behavior for low lifes across the nation. Get rid of all the guns, and they would use an axe, a baseball bat, a hammer, a nail gun, their momma's cane, whatever. It is NOT the weapon used, it is the stupidity and the violence within, that must somehow be addressed.

I more and more really really like the three strikes and OUT concept. Anyone of any age that commits a crime using a weapon goes away for one year mandatory. In possession of an unlicensed and uregistered firearm? Go away for one year. Lose your job. Your apt. Your car, your bicycle, your dog. Anyone 16 and up who has three misdemeanors can go to jail for ten years. Anyone with a combination of misdemeanors and felonies totalling three, can go away for life. I am all in favor of building hundreds more prisons in small busted communities all over America. They will stimulate local economies, cure the unemployment rate, and give the rest of us worry-free movement about our own communities, knowing the knuckleheads won't ever walk free among us again.

I am past tired of soft judges, dealing prosecutors being nice to first time offenders, plea deals, and all the rest of the revolving door crap. Past time, to start locking up a large number of the offending populace, for life. Be done with their tired, repetitive act.

Guy (St. Louis metro punk with a record, arrested and charged with setting two of 7 recent church fires) is a walking advertisement for Three Strikes and You are Out. I really don't mind hundreds of more prisons. Any yahoo with three misdemeanors or felony convictions, should go away for life. No parole. One meal a day, based upon food they grow in the prison yard. No t.v. No library. No weight room. No basketball court. No handball court. No legal library. Just sit in there and vegetate and ponder a life wasted. 

Because I am really really tired of all the criminal nonsense that is, yes, allowed and encouraged through plea deals, soft prosecutors, first-time offenders, soft judges, and the like. Imagine how much safer any community would be, with all the three time losers gone. GONE. It simply is not that difficult to get up every day and lead your life in peace while making a simple living. 

Our entire mindset about crime and criminals needs to change. Now. What passes for criminal justice in America is merely revolving door repeat business for all involved who make a very good, secure living: bailiffs, court reporters, guards, public defenders, paid prosecutors, defense lawyers, alleged expert witnesses, judges, their staffs, bail bondsmen, etc., etc. Tired of it all. 

This guy had a long rap sheet. Put him away, permanently, at the third offense (if misdemeanor) or felony (totalled up with any misdemeanors) and he is nowhere near any of these churches. How many people are out on bail right now, walking around, with or without ankle monitoring bracelets, carrying guns, planning and doing all sorts of nonsense? More Vonderrit Myers Jr. punks we do not need. 

Not that hard to live on the right side of the law. Make a habit of not doing so, and you can leave. 

Permanently.