Everytime one of these senseless and horrific mass shootings
occurs – Columbine, Sandy Hook the Denver movie theater and now - with Islamic
terrorism happening on American soil –
San Bernadino, Barack Hussein Obama and his ilk on the left immediately start
chattering hysterically about needing more and more and more gun control.
Well, I have news for you, Obama et al; the answer to
Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Teach and other similar active shooter situations
is not more gun control.
Rather, as far as solutions go, the solution to deranged, unstable non-Muslims
going off their nut and blasting away at a room full of unarmed innocents is…wait
for it…more and more and more SELF control.
Liberals and other gun control fans love to analogize a more
heavily armed society with the Wild West and start talking about shootouts and
blahblahblahblahblah. Well, the facts are that the amount of gunfights – be they
two people standing in the middle of a deserted dusty street challenging each
other to “draw, partner!” or teams of 3 or 4 each spread out across the rocks
blasting away at each other – were factually few and far between. So much so
that “Wild West” museums struggle with the problem of depicting Early American
West history as historically factual (i.e., no gun fights) or to fudge a little
on the period-correctness and have a larger percentage of gunfights than was
ever really a part of the era, just to attract attendance and live up to the visitors’
paradigm of “The Old West.”
Let put that a different way. The historical record shows
that even in a society as the “Old/Wild West” was with next to zero gun laws
and a prolifically-armed populace where everyone was openly packing a “shootin’
iron” on their hip and every horse’s saddle incorporated a lever action
repeating carbine there weren’t enough real shootings or shoot outs
No, Barry et al; the answer is NOT yanking guns away from
private, law-abiding citizenry. It’s about getting back to teaching a
consistent moral code to people from birth to death and enforcing that. Remember this nation really was founded on Judeo-Christian values
that teach “Thou Shall Not Murder”*
And – central to this – they punished murderers in the “Old
West” – swiftly, promptly and fatally. They “hung ‘em high” and were damned
quick about it. No sitting in jail for 30 years while a dozen appeals were
filed, activist judges ruled capital punishment “unconstitutional” or waiting
on repeals from the governor.
No, the answer is not more
gun control. Look at Washington, DC. In the 1980s and ‘90s it was known as the “murder
capital” of the USA yet had the strictest gun control laws in the country.**
California has the strictest gun control laws in existence in America today***
And in France there is no right to bear arms and one has to submit to a
psychological evaluation and repeatedly renew a license to even own a gun over
there.****
So, bottom line; for non-Islamic terrorism mass shootings,
an additional solution is to cease “mainstreaming” the more unstable. Remember
the Sandy Hook shooter and Columbine shooters and the Denver theater shooter
all had serious obvious and demonstrated mental
health issues. I’m sorry but we need to sequester those folks away from society (like we used to do). Don’t just medicate ‘em and
send ‘em on their way. Nothing’s going
to guarantee they’re going to stay on
those meds and not hurt anybody.
The answer is not “safe zones” on college campuses, “gun
free” public buildings or any of that feels good but proven ineffective as hell
stupidness. The answer is let law-abiding Americans arm themselves so they at
least have a fightin’ chance at surviving should someone try this violence in their
presence.
As for the Islamic terrorism thing; again Obama et al, the
answer is not restricting gun rights.
And it sure as hell isn’t shove more undocumented, unknown “refugees” from
those countries down our throats (maybe I should say at our throats) and into our cities and neighborhoods. No, we need
more self control and common sense from Obama et al on immigration –
particularly from Muslim countries.
And in an active terrorist shooting event, a
prolifically-armed society of law-abiding citizens has a far better chance of incident
survival than does a heavily-armed police force that can’t be everywhere. Take
yesterday for example. The area of the San Bernadino shooting, the area in and
around the Inland Center, was literally swarming
with law enforcement. And they brought in some big military-style equipment.
Fat lotta good. All that didn’t do one thing for the 14
killed and 17 wounded and who knows how many traumatized by the event. The cops
– I don’t care how armed they are – can’t be everywhere at once.
