It’s not about Guns, it’s about Control!
The extreme left led by Congressmen Schumer, Reid and Pelosi and spearheaded by Obama are slathering at the mouth over the latest incident as they see it as their opening for real “gun control”. Do they want to save children’s lives, or is that is all a ruse to constrain our freedoms by a government out of control?
I and everyone I know find what took place by a crazy man in Newtown beyond appalling, but, in spite of what our government says, it’s not the worst mass murder of people or children in recent history. 27 children and 49 adults were killed by our own government in Waco, Texas, 1993. Was it necessary for the US Government to send tanks and helicopters to solve the problem? This is called “democide”: “the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder.” According to a study done by R.J. Rummel, titled “Death by Government”, over the last century there have been 180-262 million victims of democide. Wars over the last century have killed about 50 million.
The foresight of our forefathers gave us the God given, inalienable rights of which one is the 2nd Amendment: “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.” My interpretation of the 2nd is twofold: 1) A militia is necessary for a free state and the militia is made of a free people, I was a member of that militia. 2) The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. What is it about “shall not be infringed” that liberals do not understand? This unmistakably does not mean only a hunting rifle. The intent was that I could and should own a military or any rifle or pistol. In fact at one time not so long ago, you could keep the weapon you were issued while in the military and most did.
Obama says we need to study how we can prevent this senseless violence. There is no shortage of studies and having a new one done by a government agency is not likely to provide honest answers. Harvard, Obama’s alma mater, did an extensive study looking at US and European data. Published in the “Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Volume 30, Number 2” titled “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and Suicide?” The results stated there is no correlation between gun ownership and violent crime!
The CATO Institute study using data from the FBI also support the Harvard study. When guns were banned in the UK, and Australia armed robbery rates jumped 40% in both countries. The U.S. has the highest gun ownership in the world with 88 guns per 100 people, yet is 28th in the world when it comes to gun homicides of 2.97 per 100,000 people.
An additional common denominator in these horrific events…they all took place in ‘gun-free’ zones!
No matter how Obama, Diane Feinstein and their sycophants want to spin, guns are not the problem. Society has allowed school gun free zones to become magnets for people with severe mental issues. Diane Feinstein (Senate Bill 150, 2013) wants to address the problem by outlawing any gun with a pistol grip or detachable magazine etc., which according to Feinstein she came up with her list of 157 guns to be banned by looking at pictures! Cosmetics do not save lives. FBI Murder data for 2011 Homicides from rifles, 323; knives, 1659; hands, 728 and they want to ban rifles? The number 1 killer of children age 1-13 is auto accidents (Center for Disease Control) with over 2000 children being killed annually. Between 2006 and 2010 561 children under the age of 12 were killed by a gun…
No matter how one looks at this, we clearly have a government that has an agenda and it does not include saving our children’s or our lives, it’s about control, not gun control!
Bigger government is still bigger government.
