Posted on 02/27/2018 1:40:03 PM PST by all the best
To echo something President Reagan said — government is not the answer to the problem, government is the problem.
Contemporary leftists have a habit of mind that turns first to government to solve every issue. To them, if there is problem, then government must do something. But consider what government did in the recent Florida school shooting: local government visited the home of the shooter 39 times and did nothing to curb his deadly potential. Government failure. Local government then tipped off the FBI to the danger he posed. The FBI did nothing — another government failure. Once the shooting began, local police had an officer on site and rather than move toward the threat to neutralize it, as he was trained to do, he did nothing for the first 4 minutes of the 6-minute killing rampage. No one knows how many lives would have been saved if that government worker had done his work properly, but he did not — yet another government failure. The killer was tagged frequently as a danger. Broward County officials negatively assessed his mental health many times. But negative assessment not followed up effectively is wasted time and effort—yet another government failure. The failure here is not with the Second Amendment, but with government itself. Changing the Constitution and abridging our rights to self-defense will not fix what’s wrong. For politicians to act as if it will and t propose political action of this sort is another government failure, this time legislative. They are wrong because they think that legislating against inanimate objects will not solve the problem. It cannot. Such politicians do not understand then world in which they live. They do not understand that the human heart is at the heart of the human problem. Fixing human nature is beyond the reach...
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Must it be ever thus?
Nope, and it won’t either.
Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good!
”The system of the General Government is to seize all doubtful ground. We must join in the scramble, or get nothing. Where first occupancy is to give right, he who lies still loses all.” —Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1797.
With his last name of Cruz he certainly garnered the sanctuary protections of all his police and school interactions not get reported to affect his NICS application. Non Hispanic kid chews a pop tart and gets yanked out of class by police. Cruz gets caught with ammo in his backpack and the school yawns and said he can’t bring a backpack anymore. They didn’t say no more bullets just backpacks. screwy !
The Left implementing gun free zones only protects the shooter. Before government interference and regulation of our rights, school shootings were much more rare.
The responsible Deep Staters should be demoted or fired for their FUBAR.
bkmk
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