Posted on 12/31/2012 3:22:37 PM PST by ColdOne
I have permission from the copyright holder and that its not an online paper so there is no link.
Immediately after the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, the President and many other left wing politicians began clamoring for more laws to control the sale of military rifles and ammunition. Some went so far as to call for a complete ban on the rifles and large capacity ammunition clips.
President Obama, who favored a total ban on all firearms while in the Illinois Senate, reacted by giving a television address in which stricter gun control legislation appears to be the center of any action he may call for.
It troubles me that those we elect to represent us, cannot or will not admit that more gun control legislation will not stop mass killings in America. Guns are only a tool made of steel, wood and plastic. They have no soul, no brain, and no sense of right or wrong. It is the person holding the gun that is the problem, and that person is the product of American society. A country that repeatedly produces people who are capable of killing innocent men, women and children, is a country that has lost its moral compass.
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President Obama, who favored a total ban on all firearms while in the Illinois Senate, reacted by giving a television address in which stricter gun control legislation appears to be the center of any action he may call for.
It troubles me that those we elect to represent us, cannot or will not admit that more gun control legislation will not stop mass killings in America. Guns are only a tool made of steel, wood and plastic. They have no soul, no brain, and no sense of right or wrong. It is the person holding the gun that is the problem, and that person is the product of American society. A country that repeatedly produces people who are capable of killing innocent men, women and children, is a country that has lost its moral compass.
When I was a child I was allowed a 22 caliber rifle at the age of eight or ten, and I was taught gun safety and the dos and donts of using a firearm. Probably the most important thing I was taught was to respect other people, their possessions and their opinions, even if they differed from mine.
We carried our guns across town and took them to school in our cars. Every boy in school carried a knife and we played with them at recess. In todays world if a child was to begin walking across any town or city in the United States with a gun in hand, they would be immediately stopped and arrested, and a child taking a knife to school would be immediately expelled.
God was also part of our education from elementary school through high school. Each day started with a reading from the Bible, and the Pledge of Allegiance being recited. Teachers did not tolerate disrespect or contempt towards anyone. If a student chose to break the rules they were punished, both at school and at home; for the greatest sin of all was embarrassing your parents.
Today our society has tied the hands of our teachers and now we act surprised when our parks or our vehicles are vandalized. What did society expect from children who were never taught to respect anything or anyone, and sadly not even themselves?
Today, as I listen to my police scanner, it is not unusual to hear the dispatcher send an officer to a home where a teenager is out of control and the parent has called the police, in the hope that the officer can regain control.
What kind of a society would pass laws tying the disciplinary hands of parents and be shocked when the teenager goes postal and shoots up his school? What kind of a society will remove children from their homes and put them with strangers in foster-care because their parents were forced to use corporal punishment, and then act surprised when the child is arrested for theft or selling drugs?
What kind of a society would take the mentally ill out of institutions and turn them out onto the streets of every city and town in the country and reclassify them as homeless? This happened under the Reagan Administration in the 1980s and continues today. Today our society has the gall to complain about panhandlers, and be shocked when, on occasion, a mentally ill homeless person kills someone. Just what did the American people think was going to happen when these people were abandoned?
Whether its the Columbine High School shooting of 1999, or the December 14, 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, passing more anti-gun legislation will not solve the problem of school shootings or murder anywhere in the United States. This is a social problem and not a gun problem. It is our society that is producing these monsters. Monsters that, if they cannot secure a gun will use a bomb, a baseball bat, a sword or an ax to do their killing.
Quote for the Week:
Your laws ignore our deepest needs,
Your words are empty air.
Youve stripped away our heritage,
Youve outlawed simple prayer.
Now gunshots fill our classrooms,
And precious children die.
You seek answers everywhere,
And ask the question Why?
You regulate restrictive laws,
Through legislative creed.
And yet you fail to understand,
That God is what we need!-----
Darrell Scott (Darrells daughter, Rachel Scott, was killed at Columbine High School April 20, 1999.)
Yet we busily send ever more American jobs to China.
Think about that.
Our most gun-hugging workers are American factory workers. Yet we lay them off and send their jobs elsewhere, every single day.
Stop it. Bring back American jobs, and stop exporting American jobs.
Especially bring back American jobs from China.
Now.
a will you read ping?
Yes, obviously. They’ve been making slaves of a large portion of our US population while favoring foreign communist slaves, regulating against new, small manufacturing starts in rural areas, passing laws against our Second Amendment and judicially, incrementally violating our Fourth Amendment. They’re guilty, and they know it. They’re afraid.
Meanwhile, much of the remaining half of the middle class (and much of the upper) will lose its government-derived incomes before long (default process) and develop a new perspective. We’re moving into a paradigm where exclusive freedoms are bought or granted by those who sell them.
I read.
It was a heart felt and worthwhile read.
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