I, and many others that have chosen to be informed on this,
have noted that once again the act of vile, disgusting, twisted animals bent on
committing acts of violence is once again being blamed on the gun and the
“evil” NRA instead of where it should be in this case-with the FBI, Broward
County Police and the Department of Education and Justice Department. No one in
their anti-gun fervor wants to discuss the “Promise Program”. This program was
implemented by the Obama justice department and Dept of (no) Education and
continues today. It was a misguided attempt at covering up crime statistics by
financially incentivizing high teen crime counties around the
country-especially those with minority populations- to look the other way in to
many cases in order to show lower incarceration
rates. The more they got those numbers down, the more federal dollars
they received. This is why the BCPD never prosecuted Nicholas Cruz after he
committed MANY lesser violent acts which were a clear warning sign, threatened
the schools and others on more than one occasion, and posted dangerous comments
on social media. The FBI has admitted they were tipped off about him on
multiple occasions but again, did nothing to stop him. Had he been prosecuted
and removed from the schools (as he was over 18 for much of this time) he would
have had a record and likely would not have passed a back ground check to
obtain his gun legally.
Now on to the issue of the guns themselves. There was a
writer in the March 16 Villager that made some points that have also been made
by other writers recently that need to be challenged and corrected. First,
while I appreciate and honor the writer’s military service, that in NO way
gives the writer absolute moral authority or the final word on guns or my rights.
Because this is simply his opinion and there are millions of other vets, law
enforcement, and legal gun owners that would disagree with his position. If you choose to not own one of these weapons
(or any other) that is your right as well. But there are millions who
peacefully and safely own AR-15s and other weapons that will NEVER commit a crime with
it. So making new, feel good laws that
will do nothing except disarm and criminalize law abiding gun owners that will
never commit a heinous crime is pure folly. Need proof? One example is the city
of Chicago. Some of the strictest gun laws in the country but has some of the
highest gun murder rates as well. Why? Because criminals and evil people do not
obey laws. Only the lawful do, and they are the ones who will suffer. Life and living –especially in an open free
Republic like ours is not without danger
and risk. You cannot legislate a risk free society no matter how hard you
try and the government apparatus that would be needed to attempt it would be
beyond frightening anyways. Another example? Did Timothy McVeigh fire one shot
to commit his horrible act of evil in Oklahoma City in 1995 killing 168? No he
did not. Did terrorists on 9/11/2001 fire
one shot to kill thousands in NY, PA, and DC? No they did not. It is
just easy and convenient to blame guns because gun grabbing fulfills a
political end. And let us also note that not one of these mass shooters were
NRA members, not one. And there is also the argument about “if we could save
just one life, wouldn't it be worth it?” Ok, so by that logic then, shouldn't we outlaw abortion? Wouldn't it be
worth it “if we could save just one life”?
The reader also claims to have the only correct
interpretation of the Second amendment to the Constitution and claim that
others with different opinions either haven’t read it or “really don’t
understand it”. That is laughable and insulting. It says what it says and any
reading of the papers that are Founders wrote in defense of the Constitution
and the Second Amendment specifically are plain to read and understand. The Founders’ intentions were clear why the
Second Amendment was added and is second only to the freedom of speech and the
press. And speaking of that, the writer also makes another specious argument
that the Founders could “had no way of knowing what lay ahead 200 plus years…”.
Using that logic, should we also outlaw broadcast media, blogs, internet,
podcasts, satellite radio and the myriad of other ways other than printing
press newspapers that we get our information from because clearly there is no
way the Founders could have known about the technology that would be created to
these ends? Though I dare say there are
many on the fringe left that actually would ban these channels if they could
and it served their controlling ends—much the way disarming the population
would also serve their ends.
Finally, it should be noted that banning a gun like the AR
is just the opening act for the anti gun crowd. There is already a bill in the
Congress that would ban EVERY semi auto gun in existence—even hand guns. While
fortunately that bill is going nowhere, it is instructional to see the plans of
the gun grabbers and what they ultimately seek. They will not ever stop and it
will never be enough for them until there are no legal guns at all. If that is
what they want, they should proudly say so, so that we can all see what their
intentions are and choose sides on that that basis. Then instead of finding
activist judges and unconstitutionally driven politicians to do their bidding,
try to do it the right way: seek a Constitutional amendment to abolish the
Second Amendment and see how that goes. I’m sure the gun grabbers know exactly
what the amendment process is and can recite it easily as again they are the
absolute moral authorities on natural rights, are they not? No, actually they do not know the process in
most cases and if they do, they know it would never have a chance to become reality so they resort
to the aforementioned politicians and judges to do their bidding.
The gun grabbers say we have to be “like the rest of the
world” when it comes to guns. And in truth, they want to subvert all of our
liberties to their global ideology. But we are Americans, we are not like the
rest of the world by design and should never give up the unique God given
rights and freedoms that we have which have been so brilliantly captured in our
Founding. I say to those people that wish to subvert our rights, if you want to
live in a society like that, then please leave and go find one you prefer, but
leave the rest of us who want to preserve the greatest country on Earth the
hell alone.
