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.
Democrats: “A crazy person did something insane so we need to punish a bunch of blameless people!!!!!11!!1~!”
Wasn’t there cops already engaged with him?
Did they see him enter the school? This is missing info.
Biden would actually have been much more successfully focused on a real solution, if he asked for strict monitoring (and institutionalizing) of people who tortured and killed animals for pleasure.
Liberals want to disarm everyone, leaving only the police and the military with arms, oh, and the criminals. The liberals are busy defunding the police and the military, leaving criminals as the only armed segment of the population.
When the liberals are done, that hundred dollar bill might buy you a bag of potato chips.
Animal abuse is illegal in NY, if it is true about this perp and the cat, I don’t know why he wasn’t punished. We have the laws, we do not have prosecutions and strict enforcement and punishment nowadays. https://nysba.org/NYSBA/Publications/LegalEASE%20Pamphlet%20Series/PUB_LegalEase_Animal%20Law_2018.pdf
Exactly.
Guns are not the problem.
Our culture is the problem. And it gets worse and worse with Democrats destroying children, dividing races and promoting hatred.
And the slimy scumbags know what they’re doing.
The proof of disarmament is here.
Ukraine got attacked because it gave up it’s nukes for an empty promise.
Gun free zones are an empty promise.
Your government will protect you is an empty promise, a la the riots of 2020.
Keep your empty promises, we’ll keep our 2nd amendment.
Senator Biden sponsored, and pushed for the “gun free school zones”. After passage, the number of school shootings has TRIPPLED. It has been an absolute FAILURE.
Time to repeal it, arm and teach teachers how to actually defend students.
I guess that's because the left doesn't have an interest in taking away the rights of doctors, who just happen to be Democrat donors.
The Dems want and need Gun Control to control the population. They have nothing going for themselves as the election of Clinton, Obozo and Biden demonstrate, total loss of control of the people. The Dem AGs across the country don’t even prosecute criminals anymore and have emptied the prisons.
I don’t wonder about it anymore at all. It seems that “after the fact” it is always a leftist/socialist/disgruntled/immature snowflake who takes the bait offered by someone on the left to perform a heinous act while the rumors begin by the press that another “right-wing” nutcase has gone off the meds.
How many times do they get a pass on this? Isn’t it about time to DEMAND the press keep their opinions and talking points quiet until an investigation be done? At least started...
I would agree with that. It is easy to identify and groom them. Just say when.
Pig Face has been wrong about everything.....its whole life.
It’s a godless, evil creature...
“..Democrats: “A crazy person did something insane so we need to punish a bunch of blameless people!!!!!11!!1~!”....”
That’d be them!!
Live and in person.
And low-IQ people still vote for em in droves.
Check
More significant than that perhaps is that we are just days away from a Supreme Court decision in a gun case which many hope will clarify the criteria for assessing the Constitutionality of gun laws.
They have the time to just let the drugs, the delusion, and the notoriety happen. The media provides the incentives, the drugs the inhibition and the delusion, the motives.
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