So the war against the Westboro Baptist Church is raging on. The victims of the Sandy Hook shooting are trying to bury their loved ones but are being harassed by the church. Anonymous has been putting on the pressure as their Operation Westboro (#OpWestboro, #OpWBC) is in full swing.
The shootings occurred last Friday in Newtown Connecticut
when a crazed gun man named Adam Lanza forced his way into an elementary school
where he opened fire and killed twenty children and six adults. Lanza acquired
the guns through his mother, who was an avid gun enthusiast, by stealing them
from her and killing her with one.
This terrible tragedy has invoked the gun control debate by
politicians of course, and President Obama himself is demanding action on gun
control by creating a task force. Yes, a task force…but what does that mean
exactly?
From the Article:
"This time, the words need to lead to action,"
said Obama, who set a January deadline for the recommendations. He vowed to
push for their implementation without delay.
I’m not surprised by this at all. It was my first thought
when the shootings occurred that the politicians would be offering us empty
promises and sympathy with no solution other than to debate and enact new gun
laws. Being an avid proponent of firearms and the 2nd Amendment I am
against this.
Obama says that he is for the 2nd Amendment, but
he does believe that certain gun control laws/restrictions would decrease the
amount of shooting deaths in the United States. Even some congress
members who are pro gun rights are starting to consider legislation to control
firearms. But aren’t firearms already being controlled?
Obama plans to create new gun control policies such as
stricter background checks and limit high capacity ammunition clips, but also
says that he wants improved focus on mental health as well. Which will actually
happen, or come first? I’m sure it will be the stricter gun control laws. Obama’s
‘deadline’ for gun control proposals is January 2013.
The President says he encourages all people from all types
of political backgrounds to come together and have these discussions about what
type of control should be enacted.
From the Article:
"The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be
an excuse for doing nothing," Obama said. "The fact that we can't
prevent every act of violence doesn't mean we can't steadily reduce the
violence."
I have to say that I’m tired of politicians using every
chance they can at furthering their own agenda and not the American citizens
who voted them into office
Guns do not kill people, people kill people. And the very
fact that politicians are using this event to try to take or curb our usage of
firearms just goes to show how afraid they are of the American citizens being
armed.
The 2nd Amendment has some very specific wording:
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.
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. It’s the
Militia Vs. The People. It’s not saying “the right of the militia to keep and
bear arms shall not be infringed. It says THE PEOPLE. And why did the founding
fathers write this? Because THE PEOPLE just got done fighting a war, for two
years, against a tyrannical state MILITIA, who tried to take their rights and
disarm them.
If we are going to talk about things that people kill with
lets talk about knives and cars and doctors. I can kill someone just as easily
with a car. “But Reno,
the government regulates cars and doctors!” Pssh…what’s going to stop me? I don’t
have a license or a car, but what’s stopping me from stealing someone else’s
car and waiting for children to get out of school so I can run them down? Not
some law, that’s for sure.
The fact is that when we talk about these types of tragedies
we wonder about how we could have prevented it and the number one thing that
comes up all the time is more gun control. But the truth is that these shooters
break the laws anyway. In the case of Columbine the shooters, and the person
who sold them the guns and ammo, broke the laws already in place. Adam Lanza
also broke the law when he STOLE his mother’s guns. Guns which did not belong
to him in the first place, and of course maybe if Nancy Lanza kept her guns
locked up this would have never happened. But Nancy was an older woman who had an older son,
one that should have been able to tell right from wrong and know that it would
not be wise of him to touch his mother’s weapons.
Really though, this is just what politicians were waiting
for, a moment to bring up the gun control debate again so they can disarm the
American people and have nothing to fear anymore. In fact when you think about
it by limited guns of banning guns they are actually involving fear within the
people of the USA.
When ordinary law abiding citizens cannot obtain fire arms that doesn’t mean
criminals, people who break the laws, won’t be able to get their hands on them.
And when they do they can unleash terror upon ordinary people who will not be
packing because they are good citizens who obey the law. The fact is that you
can’t stop an insane person from doing insane things with insane laws…that’s
insane!
Many people from other countries scoff at us because we
Americans clutch our guns so tightly. They scratch their heads and wonder why
we cling to such destructive weapons. But they don’t understand simply because
they are not Americans. We Americans are rebellious spirits who want our
government to know they can’t fuck with us, and the way we do that is by arming
ourselves. We fought a war against the British (yeah so what it was over
two-hundred years ago) because they tried to force us to borrow money from the British
national banking establishment and when we revolted they tried to take our weapons
so that we could not put up a fight.
Now yes, that was a long time ago, but that spirit still
remains and the idea still remains. We may one day have to do our duty as
Americans and arm ourselves to stand up to our own government.
Thomas Jefferson once said that for there to be true freedom
an armed rebellion against the government should take place once every twenty
years. He also wrote, “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers
are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Let them take arms; let’s signify a few lives lost in a century or two. The
tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots
and tyrants; it is its natural manure.”
Guns don’t have a brain. They cannot pick themselves up and
pull the trigger. Humans do have a brain however, and it is our choices that
shape the world around us. Thankfully most of us are sane people and we know
right from wrong, but unfortunately some of us are not. It doesn’t take a gun
to hurt someone; it takes someone who wants to hurt someone, regardless of how
they do it.
A lot of us don’t have much experience with guns. A lot of
the exposure to guns we get comes from negative exposure from TV and movie. They
strike fear into us, make us think how scary shit is and that any moment now
some armed gun man can break into your home and kill you.
Fear is the politician’s companion, with enough fear
legislators can walk right into congress and pass all kinds of crazy laws with
the necessary steps. Politicians even create the hysteria themselves by passing
gun control laws, such as the Brady Bill, which has actually been rather
ineffective in keeping guns in the wrong hands.
One of these crazy laws is the creation of the gun free
zone. The gun free zone has to be the biggest pile of shit law I have heard of.
Basically if you get caught with a gun while in a gun free zone your fines and
punishments are increased. But we look at all of the shootings that have occurred
and they all happen in ‘gun free zones’. Sandy Hook Elementary is a gun free
zone, so how can this type of tragic event happen in a gun free zone?
If the number of guns in the hands of citizens truly is the
problem then why don’t we see this type of violence at NRA conventions or gun
shows? Surely, a place like that where tons of people are in possession of tons
of guns, there must be hundreds of tragedies at these events, right? Wrong. The
number of guns in the hands of the people doesn’t increase the number of
violent crimes. The number of guns in the wrong hands DOES increase crime.
So how do we keep the guns out of the wrong hands? Well with
all the gun laws on the books (which exceed over 20,000) you would think that
criminals wouldn’t be able to get there hands on firearms. But alas, just like
the war one drugs if there is a law against something there is a black market
for it.
None of these gun control laws on the books prevented
Columbine, and none of them prevented Sandy Hook,
and none of the existing laws or future laws will prevent terrible tragedies
like this from occurring.
Don’t let the government fool you into giving up your rights
because of some crazy kid who misused them. The government can only take away
from us what we allow them to.
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