Glyn,
I heard about that, and my thoughts and prayers have gone out to everyone affected by that tragedy. This kind of thing seems to be happening way too often these days and I’m concerned that it’s only going to get worse.
A couple thoughts about firearms…. I do agree with the banning of assault weapons, but they forgot one.: Obama’s assault weapon….. the pen he uses to sign his name.
With regard to Obama’s gun laws, I’ve never owned a gun. I grew up on a large farm in the mountains of Boone, N.C. My grandpaw, my uncles, and my dad used guns for hunting. My dad took me hunting a couple times, but I didn’t really have much interest in guns. Even though I’ve never owned a firearm, and I can count on one hand how many times I’ve actually fired one, I’m very concerned about our government imposing gun control on its citizens because over the years, the excuse given by authorities of other countries was that they need to take guns away from citizens in order to lower crime rates is not supported by facts....
In 1911 Turkey disarmed its citizens, and between 1915 and 1917 they murdered 1.5 million Armenians.
In 1929 Russia disarmed its citizens, and between 1929 and 1953 they murdered 20 million Russians.
In 1935 China disarmed its citizens, and between 1948 and 1952 they murdered at least 20 million Chinese (other figures go much higher)
In 1938 Germany disarmed its citizens, and between 1939 and 1945 they murdered 16 million people. You don’t need guns, they said. Board the train, they said.
In 1956 Cambodia disarmed its citizens, and between 1975 and 1977 they murdered 1 million people.
In 1964 Guatemala disarmed its citizens, and between1964 and 1981 they murdered 100,000 Mayan Indians.
In 1970 Uganda disarmed its citizens, and between 1971 and 1979 they murdered 300,000 Christians.
I pray that history doesn’t repeat itself, as the authority here has an agenda to disarm our citizens. Given past history on the subject, I’m concerned that the people calling for gun control today might turn out to be the same ones calling for the government to use guns on those who’ve been disarmed tomorrow. Free people own guns. Slaves don’t. If you don’t have to give up your car because others drive drunk with theirs, then why do you have to give up your gun because others commit crimes with theirs? If we’re not going to have the right to bear arms, we may as well post a sign in our yard…. “Gun Free Home” Notice to anyone entering: “There are no guns or trained shooters in this home at any time”. I guess if we hear a loud crash in our home at 3 am, we’d better grab the fly swatter and carefully assess the situation. With guns, we defend our president and his family, our congressmen, our governors, our celebrities, our sporting events, our jewelry stores, our banks, our office buildings, our factories, and our courts. We defend our children with a sign that reads: THIS IS A GUN FREE ZONE, and then we call someone with a gun if there’s an emergency, but wait a minute...... if it's a gun free zone, we can't enter it with guns. How do we get around that? The president’s kids are protected by guns. I guess his kids are more important than ours. Ronald Reagan once said “You won’t get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time… It’s a nasty truth, but those who seek to inflict harm are not fazed by gun controllers. I happen to know this from personal experience.”
Obama has said that “we cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded”. It needs to be pointed out that in any massacre, the law abiding citizens are violated twice…. (1) by the dead, by the psychos who kill them, and (2) by the living politicians who try to disarm them from the next psycho. Maybe we do need a centralized federal database of law abiding citizens, because after all, a centralized federal database of law abiding citizens is the hallmark of a free society. George Washington once said “When any nation mistrusts its citizens with guns it is sending a clear message. It no longer trusts its citizens because such a government has evil plans”. Thomas Jefferson said “The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton all supported our right to bear arms. Hitler, Castro, Stalin, Amin, Lenin, and Obama oppose that right. Who do you trust?
Good points. In many ways America seems to be making the same mistakes as Germany did prior to the outbreak of World War II. Since taking office in 2008, on the promise of hope and change, Beloved Leader has launched an aggressive assault on America's liberty. He has armed America's enemies, violating his oath of office, by sending money and weapons of war to insurgents in Syria led by Al-Qaeda terrorists. He has violated federal law by overseeing a cover up surrounding attorney general Eric Holder's operation "Fast and Furious", in the running of guns to Mexican drug cartels. He has lied to the American people by overseeing a cover-up of the September 11 Benghazi terror attack in Libya which led directly to the deaths of four American citizens. He has bypassed Congress using executive order prior to the attack on Libya, insisting that congressional approval was not necessary. He has signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act which includes provisions to permit the abduction and military detention without trial of all US citizens, violating "Habeas corpus" - the right to a fair trial. And on January 16th 2013, one year ago tomorrow, he surrounded himself with children as he signed twenty three different executive orders for broader gun control in the United States.
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VERY WELL SAID Scott + Kahunna!
again BRAVO!
by the way according to our vice president everyone just needs a shotgun.....the facts are the same evil or crazy it does not matter, the instrument will change with the times at hand it is that simple.
I would not let my wife get a conceal carry....why, cause she has the wrong temperament to have one.
Guns are just inanimate objects just like four wheelers, motorcycles, parachutes, lawnmowers, can openers, cars, trucks, gas pipe, oil tanks or anything else....people mixed with them make them become dangerous.
They got it all wrong just eliminate all the people and then everything will become safe as can be.
Just like good and evil.....there will be those who talk, and those who do.
Christians, and the rest of us who use our brains.
Can I get an AMEN TO THAT!!!
