RSSGuns Don’t Kill People–Liberals Do!
Gene Lalor | June 16, 2009
A little over ten years ago, two maniacal Columbine High School students 
perpetrated the worst high school massacre in America’s history, executing 13 innocent victims and wounding 24 more.
That horrendous event wasn’t even the worst school horror, just the worst high school massacre. In 1927, the “Bath School [Bombing] Disaster” claimed 45 lives and injured 58, the Virginia Tech shooter killed 32 and wounded dozens two years ago, and the 1966 University of Texas rampage took 14 lives and wounded thirty-two.
In each instance, the murderous mayhem was the result of a deeply disturbed individual wreaking havoc whether he used a pistol, a rifle, or bombs. It’s trite but still true to say that guns (or bombs) don’t kill people, people kill people.
Had guns not been available to Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Seung-Hui Cho, and Charles Whitman, their sick minds would have conjured up some other method of mass murder, as Andrew Kehoe did with his dynamite and pyrotol at the Bath, MI school.
We’re all aware that when butchers are sufficiently motivated, virtually nothing can stop them from their goals, even if they have to employ American airliners to serve as missiles to kill thousands on 9/11/2001.
Correction: Most thinking people are so aware, which excludes the liberal mentality and its hand-wringing adherents who prefer to find fault with the human psyche rather than with the human miscreants who commit such atrocities.
That said, I’m not a gun guy, a gun nut, or a member of the N.R.A. I don’t even own a gun. However, I revere the Constitution and its much-maligned Second Amendment which reads, “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.”
I choose to skip the controversy over that amendment and such absurdities as arguing over where the commas should go and what the Founding Fathers’ phraseology really means since the entire hullabaloo is a political concoction designed to strip American citizens of their right to defend themselves.
The case for the Second Amendment was closed with these words of a great American: ”What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” –Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. And these: It is “the right and duty [of citizens] to be at all times armed.”–Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.
So much for the intent of America’s Founders.
Undismayed by reality and committed to re-writing the Constitution to accomplish their own philosophical and political aims, various fatuous reasons are offered today by the Liberal Establishment, all centered on disarming Americans under the pretext of protecting us from ourselves, whereas the protection we need is from our government.
Those pretexts range from ”getting guns off the streets” to making America safer to preventing future Columbines, and all phony reasons in between.
None of those excuses make any sense since criminals will get guns whether they have to illegally import, steal or manufacture them, Americans are hardly safer when they can’t effectively deter their own and their family’s murders, and directions for building crude fertilizer explosives are readily available on the internet.
The Florida experiment of permitting a citizen’s “right to carry” a weapon is usually glossed over or the truth disputed but, as Sgt. Joe Friday used to say, “Facts are facts, ma’am.”
In the ten years after that permission was granted by law, as it is in 30 other states with almost half the country’s population, these changes occurred:
|
Florida |
United States |
|
|
homicide rate |
-36% |
-0.4% |
|
firearm homicide rate |
-37% |
+15% |
|
handgun homicide rate |
-41% |
+24% |
(http://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp)
That same website cites a quotation from one notable, ban all guns, liberal nitwit which reflects the level of thought common among her ilk: “At the time the law was passed, critics predicted increases in violence. The founder of the National Organization of Women, Betty Friedan stated, ‘Lethal violence, even in self-defense, only engenders more violence.’ “
Poor, Ugly Betty. 
She died in 2006 after a life filled with drudgery, pre-marital affairs, tranquilizers, and spousal abuse. Her feminine mystique was powerless to help her: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/05/national/05friedan.html?_r=1
It’s no wonder she wanted others to be put out of their misery by some armed intruder. That would surely engender less violence!
In 1995, almost 44,000 people were killed on our roadways, 1400 or 1.5% were killed by firearms. During those same years, 1,024 kids 14 and under drowned, 181 or 2.7% died from the misuse of firearms.
Couldn’t government better reflect its concern for our safety by banning cars, swimming, and boating? Of course, that would be ridiculous, as ridiculous as trying to keep legal weapons out of the hands of responsible Americans.
Will there be accidents? Yes, there will be, as relatively rare as they are even with conscientious gun owners. Will there be murders in our streets? Yes, there will be, especially in the Murder Capital of America, Chicago, and in New York, which has had the Sullivan Law, the most stringent gun control law in the nation, on its books since 1911.
(Incidentally, those American cities with the worst murderous mayhem are all cities long-controlled and “governed” by liberal politicians. Could there be a connection there?)
There are literally tens of thousands of gun restriction laws in our 50 states, restricting handgun possession by everyone, and effective only with law-abiding Americans. Criminals, by definition, don’t abide by laws.
If even 10% of existing gun laws were enforced, we wouldn’t need any more; reprobates would already be in prison or, if they had murdered with their illegal weapons in capital punishment states, would be enrolled in the pantheon of executed capital felons.
Our government is indefatigible in its quest to protect us in its self-righteous abhorrence of domestic violence, at the same time it protects itself. However, most abhorrent to our government is not the violence of our enemies, foreign and domestic criminal elements, but the potential violence of its honest citizenry.
This was seen when Secretary Napolitano issued her warning about those violent returning veterans and other decent people who should be watched, and watched closely: See “Wascally Wepublicans . . .” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=956.
Our government, and our president, always keeps its and his word, except when they don’t.
Currently, Obama and Company are engaged in an end run around the Second Amendment. Their most recent gambit is a strict adherence to protect Americans’ right to keep and bear arms but the Founders never mentioned shells, bullets, or ammunition.
Consider that a government, “Gotcha!”
The news has been filled with stories about fearful Americans buying and stocking arms since Election Day. The precise impetus for their fear is debatable. Personally, I believe it’s a gnawing fear of President Barack Hussein Obama and our new president’s designs on America.
I would trust it’s not any gun-buyer’s intent to end-run a duly-elected president’s right to govern, which would be a futile as well as a grossly-infantile method of redressing grievances. We can and will dump Obama, legally and constitutionally, in 2012 and his congress in 2010. ‘Til then, the best approach is massive resistance to his policies on ammunition.
I won’t vouch for this report on CNN.com–I won’t vouch for any report on CNN–but it’s worth a look. It’s titled, “Ammo Hard to Find as Gun-Owners Stock Up,” http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/04/ammo.shortage/index.html.
On the one hand, I hope it’s true and accurate. On another hand, it’s a sad commentary on the state of the nation if it’s all true.
Are liberals literally responsible for killing people with guns? Only if you ascribe to the belief that liberals won’t be armed and at the door when and if a gang of home invaders stage an intrusion into your home.
If you believe your lib neighbors will be too busy entertaining and partying and condoning criminality to bother looking out for you, buy a gun.
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