Bloomburg
and many other anti-gun enthusiasts are really out strutting their
stuff these days, like vultures in a grave yard. They're trying hard
to get sentiment on their side before the furor, or at least the
uncomfortable feelings we have die away.
But you have to ask yourself why? Why now? Why do they always do this after something horrible like this? Why aren't they including the Clackamas Mall shooting, too? By the way, at Clackamas, the shooter was thwarted, after shooting only one victim, by a legally armed US Citizen who took aim at him. When he saw this, the shooter killed himself rather than his next-intended victim.
The truth of it is just this. To take away all of the legal guns in America, to disarm the law-abiding, wouldn't have helped at all at Columbine, or the Virginia shootings, probably not Sandy-Hook either. Or almost all of the other mass-shootings we've had in the US. Why? Because our Government can't control the influx of illegal firearms. The same Government that can't control the influx of illegal aliens. The same government that can't keep track of the firearms it is supposed to be 'selling' in a sting-operation that they inadvertently let get into the hands of real, live terrorists. The same Government that gives a license to own fully automatic weapons to 'collectors' for a fee, without anything more than a cursory check, anyway.
Another truth is that there's the little matter of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. They have added and removed minor amendments before, but never removed one that's considered a cornerstone of American Citizen's Rights, put there by the very first Constitutionally seated Congress and approved by the President. Which President you ask? George Washington. He and they thought it was that important that the American people be so armed as to guarantee our liberty from Tyranny. Remember that just eight years earlier they had finished a messy, expensive war against a Tyrant.
Here are two versions of the Amendment, both valid, BTW:
As passed by the Congress:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.[8]"
The original hand-written copy of the Bill of Rights, approved by the House and Senate, was prepared by scribe William Lambert and resides in the National Archives.
Notice that the 'as ratified' version, the one seen as law in all 50 States, uses a lower-case 'S' for the word 'state' where the as adopted by Congress uses a capital 'S.' The one adopted by Congress is for a Militia being necessary to maintain the freedom of a State. (A corporal Entity. the US, or any and/or all of it's incorporated States) Whereas the 'adopted' version with the lower-case 's' is referring to a state-of-being. Not the Corporate State, but rather the state-of-freedom which is the Right of All Men as stated in the preamble of the Constitution itself.
Here is the pertinent sentence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Now my question is this: How can we guarantee our Rights without means to stand up to our very Government? We have the Right to dissolve our very Government and start it over if we so choose. How are we going to exercise that right if we give guns to the Government along with all of the authority to use them when, where, and how they please with absolutely no recourse? How will they actually be answerable to us? The American people are unique in the World in that we do have these particular rights and responsibilities to preserve our freedom.
Now a lot of Americans are more than willing to sell off their Rights in exchange for so-called 'Security.' But are you really secure? As long as you don't step out of line? As long as you don't get a cop's attention? As long as you don't have to face a Judge who lusts after your possessions?
As long as Congress and the President don't want everything you have?
We've already given up a whole lot of Rights in this Country, the Right to own property, the Right to travel freely, the Right to representation without undue taxation, the Right to vote in our very own President. The Rights to be allowed to live our lives and pursue happiness, justice and freedom?
Now if we do allow them to take away our firearms, to repeal the 2nd Amendment, what's to stop them from from repealing the first Amendment? The third or fourth? or all of them? What's to stop them from repealing the whole Constitution?
After all, it was written over two hundred years ago, right? It MUST be outmoded. Surely it doesn't, or shouldn't, have a place in our Post-Modern World?
Why don't you ask that when you go see a group of Foreign Nationals swearing their Oath as US Citizens? Why don't you go to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and ask all of the names etched there? How about a VA Hospital? How about going and asking any Marine or Soldier serving at the pointy end of our Diplomacy? Go over and ask the Bosnians what they think of us?
No, we should NEVER take ANY portion of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights away. Should never demean them.
If you want to do something about gun crime, then make Congress actually ENFORCE Laws they had passed before this feeding frenzy first started. Let's take out all of the obfuscation. Let's take it away from the Politicians and for once, make them follow our lead! That's what they're supposed to be doing anyway! It's time that the US got back to reality. It's time to realize we can't afford to be diverted by little internal arguments that were unnatural and promulgated by the Government in the first place to keep us from noticing their attempted grab at the power that belongs rightfully in the hands of American voters.
That's my take on it.
But you have to ask yourself why? Why now? Why do they always do this after something horrible like this? Why aren't they including the Clackamas Mall shooting, too? By the way, at Clackamas, the shooter was thwarted, after shooting only one victim, by a legally armed US Citizen who took aim at him. When he saw this, the shooter killed himself rather than his next-intended victim.
The truth of it is just this. To take away all of the legal guns in America, to disarm the law-abiding, wouldn't have helped at all at Columbine, or the Virginia shootings, probably not Sandy-Hook either. Or almost all of the other mass-shootings we've had in the US. Why? Because our Government can't control the influx of illegal firearms. The same Government that can't control the influx of illegal aliens. The same government that can't keep track of the firearms it is supposed to be 'selling' in a sting-operation that they inadvertently let get into the hands of real, live terrorists. The same Government that gives a license to own fully automatic weapons to 'collectors' for a fee, without anything more than a cursory check, anyway.
Another truth is that there's the little matter of the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. They have added and removed minor amendments before, but never removed one that's considered a cornerstone of American Citizen's Rights, put there by the very first Constitutionally seated Congress and approved by the President. Which President you ask? George Washington. He and they thought it was that important that the American people be so armed as to guarantee our liberty from Tyranny. Remember that just eight years earlier they had finished a messy, expensive war against a Tyrant.
Here are two versions of the Amendment, both valid, BTW:
As passed by the Congress:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State:
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.[8]"
The original hand-written copy of the Bill of Rights, approved by the House and Senate, was prepared by scribe William Lambert and resides in the National Archives.
Notice that the 'as ratified' version, the one seen as law in all 50 States, uses a lower-case 'S' for the word 'state' where the as adopted by Congress uses a capital 'S.' The one adopted by Congress is for a Militia being necessary to maintain the freedom of a State. (A corporal Entity. the US, or any and/or all of it's incorporated States) Whereas the 'adopted' version with the lower-case 's' is referring to a state-of-being. Not the Corporate State, but rather the state-of-freedom which is the Right of All Men as stated in the preamble of the Constitution itself.
Here is the pertinent sentence:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Now my question is this: How can we guarantee our Rights without means to stand up to our very Government? We have the Right to dissolve our very Government and start it over if we so choose. How are we going to exercise that right if we give guns to the Government along with all of the authority to use them when, where, and how they please with absolutely no recourse? How will they actually be answerable to us? The American people are unique in the World in that we do have these particular rights and responsibilities to preserve our freedom.
Now a lot of Americans are more than willing to sell off their Rights in exchange for so-called 'Security.' But are you really secure? As long as you don't step out of line? As long as you don't get a cop's attention? As long as you don't have to face a Judge who lusts after your possessions?
As long as Congress and the President don't want everything you have?
We've already given up a whole lot of Rights in this Country, the Right to own property, the Right to travel freely, the Right to representation without undue taxation, the Right to vote in our very own President. The Rights to be allowed to live our lives and pursue happiness, justice and freedom?
Now if we do allow them to take away our firearms, to repeal the 2nd Amendment, what's to stop them from from repealing the first Amendment? The third or fourth? or all of them? What's to stop them from repealing the whole Constitution?
After all, it was written over two hundred years ago, right? It MUST be outmoded. Surely it doesn't, or shouldn't, have a place in our Post-Modern World?
Why don't you ask that when you go see a group of Foreign Nationals swearing their Oath as US Citizens? Why don't you go to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and ask all of the names etched there? How about a VA Hospital? How about going and asking any Marine or Soldier serving at the pointy end of our Diplomacy? Go over and ask the Bosnians what they think of us?
No, we should NEVER take ANY portion of the Constitution or the Bill of Rights away. Should never demean them.
If you want to do something about gun crime, then make Congress actually ENFORCE Laws they had passed before this feeding frenzy first started. Let's take out all of the obfuscation. Let's take it away from the Politicians and for once, make them follow our lead! That's what they're supposed to be doing anyway! It's time that the US got back to reality. It's time to realize we can't afford to be diverted by little internal arguments that were unnatural and promulgated by the Government in the first place to keep us from noticing their attempted grab at the power that belongs rightfully in the hands of American voters.
That's my take on it.
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