Posted by
Steve on Thursday, April 09, 2009 1:12:27 PM
With all the high profile shootings lately, there is one thing that is certain: Liberals will call for more gun control. In the liberal mind, people don’t kill people, guns kill people. In each one of these cases the person that did the killings was described by people as someone who was likely to commit an act like this. All of them would have to be considered somewhat off their rocker or crazy. Ann Coulter wrote about this in her article this week. I cannot write as well as she does, nor do I have her sense of humor. I do appreciate both and recommend her article highly.
Barack Obama is a liberal, as if that is any surprise. When the North Korean dictator shot of the missile this past week, he made the typical liberal response; he called for controls on missiles and nuclear weapons. What he should have done is stop the missile from being fired in the first place. If the missile had been fired and we had been unable to stop it, which I doubt, we should have shot it out of the air. It does not matter that the missile was a failure and fell into the ocean. That it was fired and we did nothing says that we are weak and cannot stop crackpots from shooting missiles and nuclear weapons at us. Do not think that Russia, China, Iran and the terrorists were not watching and learning from this little episode.
Back to gun control, liberals are calling for more gun control because some nut cases, that should not have had guns, killed people. Liberals believe that if all law abiding citizens give up owning guns, then the outlaws will give up their guns as well. That will end gun ownership and we can all live happy lives together. As is shown in every case where guns are taken from citizens, crime goes up. Every time gun ownership is encouraged, crime goes down. In every one of the mass murders of civilians, if even one person had a concealed handgun there would have been less loss of life. That was shown recently at a Burger King where a gunman came in to kill people. A person had a concealed handgun. He pulled out his gun and the only two people injured were the concealed handgun person who was wounded and the gunman who was killed. The other patrons of the store were unharmed, though I am sure that they were scared. I would rather be scared and alive than scared and dead any day.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution was put there for a number of reasons. The main reason was so the individual American could defend himself and his country. The other reason was so the individual American could defend himself against an intrusive government. The Founding Fathers did not trust government. They believed that government had a tendency to become totalitarian over time. The Second Amendment was written to keep the American government honest. If the American people were armed, it would be difficult for the government to become totalitarian, even if it wanted to. With the current occupant of the White House, I can see how the Founding Fathers knew what they were talking about. I never believed that we would ever need to defend ourselves from our government, now I am not so sure.
I am not endorsing the killing of anyone. I do not believe in killing. But, I do believe that a person should have a right to defend himself/herself against a person who wants to do them harm. If that defense requires that one of us dies, then it will be the other person. When I became a Deputy Sheriff I was asked if I could ever kill another person. I said that I did not know, but if it was a choice between him and me, it would be him. The committee liked that answer because I was honest.
We need to have the right to bear arms in the United States as much to protect ourselves and our property as against the government. That right was written as the second Amendment. That means the Founding Fathers believed it second in importance to freedom of speech. We should not give this right up just because a few lunatics obtained guns illegally and used them. The old saying still goes: If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.