Obama has had to be mourner-in-chief fifteen times
during his presidency, and he’s faced the nation from his bully pulpit
with eloquence and deep sadness. I believe the sadness has become deeper with
each mass shooting, and his frustrated inability to get our Congress to pass
sane gun laws. Trump says that “Hillary will take away the Second Amendment”;
that line is simply for idiots whose ignorance is allows them to believe what
is not possible because no president can add or take away an amendment. The sad
truth is that our Know Nothing-Do Nothing Congress refuses to pass sensible guns
laws. They tell us that we need to be “protected,” and so children find these
unusual toys, shoot other children, their mother or themselves. The Principal
in Connecticut had a gun in her office; of course it was of no use to her. Don’t
you think that in a state like Arizona, when Gabby Gifford was speaking at a
popular mall, that some people in the audience had guns? These people
understood that they could not use their guns because they were more likely to
hurt innocent bystanders. In fact, most police officers could reliably shoot
one person in a crowd. Few are trained sharpshooter. A lady with a large
handbag, however, did manage to hit the shooter over the head while he was
reloading. Now if only that shooter could not have gotten weapons.
We need to ban the sale of assault weapons to
civilians; they are weapons of war, and war has been declared by these mad
shooters. No more assault weapons except for
soldiers in war. No cartridges
that can shoot many rounds without loading.
And most importantly, we can’t lose sight of
the fact that except for 9/11, every mass shooting (and of course 9/11 was not
a shooting) has been committed (with very few exceptions by an American
citizen. Most were not of the Muslim Faith. Our problem with this love of
weaponry and killing is not solved by banning Muslims (a crazy solution f ever
I heard one). We must have background checks with a national registry. People register
their cars, so what is the big fuss about registering guns? The national
registry is very important, and there must be a minimum waiting period. Sale of
guns, like automobiles must be registered if the transaction takes place at a
gun show, or if a private individual sells or resells a gun. Just like a car.
These are sensible laws.
Oh, yes, the discussion of gun control can never overlook the NRA, for the NRA doesn’t want any of
it. The only way around that, people, is to vote them out of the pockets of our Congressmen. The
NRA is not a sports club for hunters, it is not an advocate for gun owners, it
is the lobby for the gun manufacturers. The NRA would like to see every man,
woman, and child have at least one gun. Maybe ten. I don’t care if you’re sane,
and if you register every single one (and absolutely no assault weapons).
No other developed nation has the level of gun
violence that we have, and the shooters are for the most part unbalanced American citizens, very few Muslims. Don’t let the politicians distract you with
hateful rhetoric that doesn’t lead to a solution but becomes part of the
problem. The few Muslims involved in home grown terrorism have not made up the majority of the mass shootings, and with few exceptions, the Muslim shooter, such as the Orlando killer, was an American citizen.
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