Yesterday, I saw a post from a younger fellow performing musician, "Is it really worth putting your children and grandchildren at risk just to protect the Second Amendment?" All I could do was shake my head in bewilderment.
Does this person not recognize that many of us today as children and grandchildren, as well as our own children and grandchildren, are alive today, BECAUSE of the Second Amendment. Do they not recognize that the only reason we are a free nation today is BECAUSE of our Second Amendment. That the only reason we were even allowed to become a free nation independent of complete control and tyranny from our former masters, is BECAUSE of the concept of the Second Amendment? The fact that our forefathers owned guns?
We are the only nation on Earth who's Founding Father's recognized and understood the nature of the human race and the constant threat of any government taking away all of those citizens God given rights of individual Liberty and how they use that Liberty in their own pursuit of happiness and personal fulfillment... things not allowed to be dictated by government but dictated by individual's own heart.
We are the only nation on Earth that our Founding Fathers not only gave us our allowed Rights in a national founding document, The United States Constitution. BUT, incorporated within those rights our freedom to own and possess personal weapons to PROTECT our individual Liberty, Freedoms and Rights from other citizens and from our own government. National Rights and Liberties of a citizenry are meaningless without a mechanism to protect them from those who desire to take them from you.
Our Founding Fathers recognized the innate nature of Human Beings as a species, just like every other species. That will have members of that species which will always possess the desire to employ complete dominance over, control over and dictate what other members of that group of that species will be allowed to do, think, speak, etc.. All by specifications of that one dominating person consumed and obsessed by the seductive nature of governmental power over a people.
We have learned, that we have no power through laws, regulation or any other government imposed policies to actually control human behavior. That we have no power to stop things in human behaviors. We've learned that very clearly on the forty year war on drugs. All the law enforcement we possess and applied there, all of the money we've thrown at the problem, all of the laws, policies, regulations our government has applied to the stopping of the existence of illegal drugs in American society? Has not put a dent on the problem. Illegal drugs are more easy to acquire now, than they were the day before we started that governmental war on illegal drugs.
A war on drugs served by our government that has actually made society much more dangerous, because while not curbing the availability of illegal drugs on the streets of America? They have made the stakes much higher, pushing bad people who run that illegal industry to inflict much greater levels of violence upon our society. To protect their illegal industry. Any governmental effort in attempt to limit the access of guns will follow the exact same path. Ultimately, making society a more deadly and dangerous place. Exactly as what has occurred in the government's efforts to stamp out illegal drugs.
NONE of these mass shooting incidents are BECAUSE of our Second Amendment rights, but the exact opposite. The reality of truth in all of this is NOT politics, but simple common sense. ALL of these mass shooting targets are chosen where? GUN FREE ZONES! Locations where Americans are DENIED the right to exercise their Second Amendment Rights. Which rather than the short-sighted thought processes that apply this concept of GUN FREE ZONES think will make people safer? Actually, do the exact opposite, making those locations MORE DANGEROUS making them obvious targets to crazy people who want to kill a lot of people. Providing them, exactly the environment they seek in choosing their personally safest targets to wage mass carnage. Because, they KNOW there will be nobody at that location with the equal capability of stopping them.
Think about it, Sandy Hook... gun free zone; Fort Hood... gun free zone; Chattanooga Military recruiting offices... gun free zones; this Oregon Community College... gun free zone, Navy Yard Complex in Washington, DC... gun free zone, etc., etc., etc.. The Gun Free Zone policy does NOT protect people in those areas, but makes them TARGETS for the serving of mass murder, sitting ducks, the slaughtering of the lambs.
How many mass shootings have we heard of in NON-gun free zones? Like at a gun show, or police station, or gun club meeting, or rifle range, etc., etc., etc.?
This is all common-sense stuff. Does ANYONE truly believe we would have experienced these mass shootings in these schools? IF rather than having a Gun Free Zone sticker on the front door of the buildings? We had a sticker that said, "Every legal adult employed in this facility has been rigorously trained in the safe and proper use of a firearm, is licensed with that firearm and is carrying that firearm at all times on this premise. For the protection and safety of all other citizens within our facility, for whose safety we are responsible."? That we would have had these same mass shootings in our schools??!! I'll let your own common sense answer that one.
But, the reason these targets are chosen by crazy people who want to wage mass carnage on innocent people? IS BECAUSE, we make those locations the most vulnerable targets to serve mass murder on. BY RESTRICTING American's ability to freely exercise their Second Amendment Rights in those locations. Rights specifically granted to every single American citizen to have ability to PREVENT, PROTECT FROM or SEVERELY LIMIT such mass carnage ever being allowed in institutions of American society.
That factual reality in all of this could not be any more clear. This is not about politics, it's completely about common-sense and the lack of application of that thereof.
As far as the government trying to take an approach of denying mentally ill people their Constitutional Rights on a selective arbitrary basis? It might make sense. But, I truly do not believe laws created denying American citizens their Constitutional Rights granted to them upon birth as an American citizen, based on a personal handicap, will pass Constitutional scrutiny. Therefore, will be struck down.
The United States Constitution does not grant every American their Constitutional Rights based on an arbitrary basis as determined by the Federal Government. The Federal Government has no power to grant or deny ANY Constitutional Right. That's who those Rights were created to protect us from, the United States Federal Government. The Supreme Court tends to defend and protect the Constitutional Rights of the handicapped. For just because they are handicapped, does not mean they are are not entitled to and are restricted from possessing and exercising their Constitutional Rights, without a Constitutional Amendment passed and ratified by the required number of states, that clearly states otherwise.
The only way, to make society safer? Is NOT by diminishing and limiting individual American citizen's Constitutional Rights. But, by encouraging the responsible exercise of their Constitutional Rights.
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