Posted on 05/25/2022 6:11:01 AM PDT by shortstop
While a nation wept, a president raged.
“When, in God’s name,” he seethed, “are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”
In a moment of sorrow, it was an attack. On me, and on millions like me, across the country, who own firearms or believe in the right to do so.
It was a reminder that this is an election year, and politics never go away, and the agenda is always the agenda. And while a nation was dazed and broken, a senator dashed to the floor to make the speech he always makes and a president used the lines he always uses and we were reminded that there is never a reprieve.
So let me respond.
No matter the motivation or passion of the gun banners, their proposal is impossible. You cannot confiscate the millions of firearms in America. You cannot send the police to every closet to seize every grandfather’s shotgun, or to every purse to impound every mother’s handgun. It simply can’t be done. A coast-to-coast search, through every home and vehicle, would not get them all.
Certainly, you could ban their sale. Outlaw all the guns and ban all the bullets and intimidate the percentage of the population who obey the law into complying. But all you would have done is disarm the law abiding – which may be your objective.
Those who are willing to break the law – like every single person to commit a mass murder or violent assault – will not be disarmed. No matter what you do.
The predators will still be predators and the law will still be meaningless to them.
And criminal syndicates that are able to smuggle some three million pounds of cocaine into the United States each year – and larger amounts of both marijuana and fentanyl – will have no problem smuggling in enough black-market guns to arm the criminal takeover of American society.
You will disarm the good and empower the bad.
You already outlawed violence, and it is increasing dramatically. No honest person can believe that outlawing guns will lead to fewer guns or less bloodshed.
Outlawing guns will lead to more victims.
Because when the sheep can’t fight back, the wolves attack more ruthlessly.
And as a practical matter, in a decaying culture with ever more criminals and ever fewer values, the ability to fight back is not just a natural right, it is a moral responsibility. Mothers and fathers have an obligation and an instinct to protect their families – including against violence. And in the most dire of circumstances, the only effective tool against violence is violence.
The right to fight back cannot be abridged by the Democratic Party or the American government. No one can tell you that you can’t protect your family or yourself. And if the bad guy comes with a gun – as the evening news proves to you he might – you have the right to defend yourself with a gun, if you so choose.
That’s a freedom of choice the president and his party ignore – the choice to live, and the choice to fight to live. Every American has that right. And neither the president nor the senator nor their political party can take that away from you.
And the horror in Texas – like the horror in Buffalo and the horror in the subway and the horror on the streets of every American city – is not an argument against the right to keep and bear arms, it is a proof of the pressing need to keep and bear arms.
Because you never know when, where or how evil will attack.
But you need to be ready. Every day, in every way.
And that’s not paranoia, that’s reality. A reality spreading across the county in large part because of the policies and priorities of the president and his political party. If the law will not protect you, you must have the option of protecting yourself.
If the Democrats and the governments they control are going to side with the criminals, you are going to have to side with yourself.
And that includes having the right to arm yourself, if that is what you choose.
That makes you the gun lobby.
That makes you who the president was yelling at last night.
And that makes him wrong.
To Communist Biden, everything is political.
It will be much easier to herd us into the death camps once they have our guns.
The answer is not less guns, it’s more guns.
You think that idiot woulda went in that school if he knew there were 4 or 5 armed guards in there?
No gun zone = kill zone
Biden is wrong about everything
biden is wrong about everything
Banning guns is about as effective as cancelling arms deals with the Ukrainians to defeat the Russian invasion.
Biden’s remarks are the thoughts of his activist Leftist staff and writers and he delivered them to further divide rather than heal. He’s a pathetic man, demented, feeble and dangerous.
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You already outlawed violence, and it is increasing dramatically.
No honest person can believe that outlawing guns will lead to
fewer guns or less bloodshed.
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Regulations abound for the regulators to control the populace.
People need to confront mental illness in our country and stop pretending it doesn’t exist and simply continue to ignore it, case in point, we can start with Biden.
Taking that axiom to the extreme, "products that really don't work (like communism) must be forced on the potential buyer by coercion (i.e., government)."
liberals want to free everyone in jail, close all the mental institutions, disband the police, and disarm the law-abiding population and then want to blame US when everything turns to crap.
I am not putting up with it!
THIS IS THEIR FAULT!
I can guarantee you this wasn’t the first violent thing this guy (thing) did, but liberal let him off guaranteed!
The problem is that some mental illness hides behind political correctness (gender dysphoria and homosexuality for two).
I heard he decapitated a cat and his Mother helped bury the remains. In NYS, that would have gotten a jail sentence and mental counseling.
The reality is a cross-dressing mentally deranged hispanic eighteen year old pulled the trigger.
Race is only relevant because the left would damn sure make it relevant if it suited their agenda.
But Biden and his perverted political party want to make it your fault.
Pedojoe has never been right
Nobody said it would be easy.
Empty the prisons, unleash race riots, let antifa do whatever it pleases, open the borders, crash the economy so crime spikes, encourage and support mental illness and perversion.... and you want my guns? GFY
We were also told that tearing down Confederate statues, renaming Army bases and changing the name of pancake syrup and rice would go a long way to eliminating violence.
And some some fools bought into it.
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