You want some brie with that whine?
Gun control is knowing when to shoot, not disarming citizens. The 2nd Amendment is our insurance against a government grown tyrannical and those who would argue anything else have either evil intent or are little more than useful idiots.
A friend sent along this video. It’s not a new one, but it deserves to go viral again.
Thursday night a young man in Aurora, Colorado made manifest his insanity and when the smoke cleared inside the movie theater 12 eager Batman fans were dead and 58 others were on their way to the hospital.
The hysterical response by the media was immediate and, in stereotypical fashion, unerringly irresponsible. ABC’s Brian Ross pulled a connection between the shooter, James Holmes, and the Tea Party out of his ass and let it fly on the air. A short while later an apology was issued but that doesn’t help the innocent man named Jim Holmes who IS a relatively recent member of the Colorado Tea Party (and happens to be a former law enforcement officer who clearly understands the gravity of making false accusations).
The social media exploded in tweets and Facebook posts of real anguish and quickly descended into the inevitable arguments for and against the 2nd Amendment. The vultures of the left are still circling the bodies of the victims, seeing another opportunity to swoop in to push for anti-gun legislation; blind to their freshest hypocrisy of 300 dead Mexican citizens and Brian Terry as a result of the government’s nefarious back-door gun-control attempt of Fast & Furious. The armchair quarterbacks on the right tap out their claims that if more people were allowed to carry guns, someone could have stopped Holmes before so many died.
It’s all as insane as James Holmes.
The inconvenient truth remains that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will carry guns (example: Chicago). Not to mention that the Century 16 theater already has a “no weapons” policy that obviously meant squat to James Holmes – in the same way all “gun free zones” mean squat to any criminal looking for an easy target. By all accounts, Holmes is extremely intelligent and as such would have found a way to wreak deadly havoc no matter what anyone allowed him to purchase if wreaking deadly havoc on innocent others was his intention (examples: Bulgaria last week; 9/11).
Another inconvenient truth is that the 2nd Amendment is to protect the people from tyrannical overreach of the government. While it’s decidedly both good and appropriately responsible to be able to defend ourselves against home invaders and thugs on the street and to keep those we send to Washington respectful of the citizenry as a whole (ok, at least in some measure), not enough people carrying guns take the time for training that instills the appropriate reactive instincts required in a situation like the one in which those moviegoers found themselves. Indeed, unless you served as a military sniper, Navy SEAL or spent your days clearing away insurgents for military convoys your first reaction will be wet pants, not the fondly imagined efficient killing of a random madman who has unexpectedly flung chemicals in your direction and promptly started shooting at anything that moves.
The bottom line is that everyone needs to take a deep breath and simply shut up. This was horrible, this was a tragedy, and so many families will never be the same because of the actions of a single madman. Such madmen have always and will always walk amongst us; their insanity will forever be unfathomable, unexpected and there isn’t a damned thing we can do about it. At least there is nothing we can do without inflicting serious pain on everyone. As the old Star Trek movie once said, “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one”. In America that translates to one thing: trampling the Constitution is never the answer.
There are several online news articles today about how Democrats and liberals are starting to look like Bambi in the headlights as their pet projects, closing Gitmo and restricting citizen access to guns, go down in red, white, and blue Conservative flames. They can’t fathom why Pater Obama can’t find the right words from the God speaking through his teleprompter to coerce or condemn Congress into going along with these two most nefarious plans.
Let me put it into a nutshell for them: AMERICANS WANT TO BE SAFE. That means we don’t want even “suspected” terrorists on American soil. And that means we want our guns even more when our government is wack enough to consider setting even “suspected” terrorists loose in our streets, let alone to safeguard ourselves from the usual suspects.
Let me put it another way, at least about so-called “gun control”: PROHIBITION FAILED. The war on drugs has failed, too. Even the most fascist regime will concede the power of the black market. What Americans do NOT want is for criminals – and especially those inside the government – to have more access to guns than they do.
The Second Amendment is quite clear:
“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.”
In legal and all other lingo, “shall not” is an absolute. An absolute is a point upon which there can be no debate. This means that the intentions of the Founders are crystal clear and in perhaps their greatest moment of wisdom, of goodness, they deliberately left no wiggle room on this one. The 2nd Amendment is a right that SHALL NOT be infringed. Period. It has been well-argued elsewhere that this is one of the most basic, key, and fundamental rights upon which then hinges everything else in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. For it is he who controls the means of life or death of another that effectively controls all, and in order to prevent tyranny and its inherent abuses, at the birth of this nation this control was laid squarely – absolutely – in the hands of we, the people.
In even the blackest of the tiniest of progressive liberal hearts, the absolute of “SHALL NOT” is understood at an instinctive level, for it is the one thing that allows blithering idiocies about Gitmo and guns to be spoken aloud and argued. But when all the words have been spoken, it is those two little words that not only really and truly mean something, but, in fact, mean the most.
Call them the trump card, if you will. And so it is that the Democrats and liberals find themselves hoisted upon their own petard.
Bummer, Bambi.