God, guns and guts; going, going…gone?

Saw a thought-provoking bumper sticker on my morning commute. From the back of the vehicle ahead of me, It proclaimed “God, guns and guts - have kept America free for over 200 years!”

Things that make ya say “Hmm....”

It occurs to me that over the past several decades God has been pretty thoroughly pushed out - out of schools, the workplace, government and the courts and the media....

And, we’ve so watered down our stamina through handout programs and societal concepts that we can’t risk offending anybody at all over anything and “everyone get’s a trophy” that we as a people don’t really have the “guts” we were once so famous for having - no where close to it.

So...here we sit on the precipice of the great abyss... the week before a planned nationwide school student walkout for safer schools in the wake of the latest mass murder in a “gun free zone” (as all public schools are). Now, they’re not walking out demanding armed police be stationed INside their schools to protect them. They’re not demanding a few armed and trained teachers to be able to respond far quicker from INside the school than law enforcement OUTside and from farther away could do.

They’re not even demanding stricter laws governing what people with documented mental illness and criminal records can walk among us and purchase firearms.

Oh, no; they’re demanding we take punitive action against the gun! Like take it away kind of actions, banning certain kinds of semi-automatic firearms and magazines greater than a handful of rounds and so on.

So, God’s pretty well gone from our everyday culture. The people with “guts” are more and more dissipating from our world. When guns are gone, how long will America – as we ever knew it – last?

Why should firearms be different than high-speed sports cars, alcohol or tobacco?

As these psychotics continue to shoot up public places - schools, churches, restaurants, and shopping malls - continuing to add to the tragic body count, the "usual suspects" (liberals, the media, etc) start up the predictable harping their usual cries for gun control. And as they do, they continue to display inconsistent logic, hypocritical standards and their whole lack of respect for and knowledge of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

They employ tactics like asking gun owners "Why do you need a fill the blank with the appropriate firearm or associated accessory?"

I would counter their question with a question: Do we question why someone buys a car capable going twice as fast as any speed limit anywhere? No, we are satisfied that because they want it, that’s good enough with the common sense to say if they misuse it and kill somebody (or several somebodies, they're going to jail). So, why should a semi-automatic weapon be any different?

Why do we allow someone to buy unlimited amounts of alcohol - on the face of it, way beyond the amount that one human could safely consume - and yet content ourselves with the common sense that if they overdrink and hurt somebody or somebodies they go to jail? Why would a semiautomatic firearm be any different?

And, it should be pointed out; there is no Constitutional right to purchase or own alcohol like the Second Amendment provides for firearms.

Why do we allow the sale of tobacco - a known carcinogen and literally a killer of millions - that has no positive benefit other than to quench someone else’s desire for it. Yet, we let people buy it without questioning why they do it. And they're allowed to buy it with no special permits, waiting periods or background checks. And when people misuse tobacco, nobody throws a hissy and calls for its ban. So why should a firearm be treated differently than tobacco.

And, remember; there is no Constitutional right to purchase or own alcohol like the Second Amendment provides for firearms.

Its called freedom and individual liberties and, oh yes, in the case of firearms it's the legal premise that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed” just like the Second Amendment in the Bill of RIGHTS to the US Constitution says.

Yet, one has to ask, why is it that liberals are oh-so-eager to deny those Constitutionally-protected rights of gun owners and/or to legislate them to death to the point they practially don’t exist? And why do they throw a hissy whenever anyone suggests a law requiring a valid ID to vote? Why should firearms be treated differently than the right to vote? "An elected legislature can trample a man's rights as easily as a king can."* (The Patriot)

Because, as these gun-grabbing liberals demonstrate more and more every day with their inconsistencies and lack of sound logic, to them “gun control” is only about getting more and more control over everyone else and has little or nothing at all to do with guns.

The only legitimate version of gun control is the one that allows you to hit what you’re aiming at.

*Emmerich, Roland, director. The patriot. Columbia Pictures, 2000.

Wake up, America. The usurpers and subversives haven’t gone away - far from it. PART TWO

And look at what’s happened to free speech all this time! No longer “may sticks and stones break our bones but names will never hurt us.” Oh, no; now we have govt watchdogs and HR depts prosecuting people for “hate” speech (which seems more and more to be interpreted to be anything that liberals don’t like or disagree with).

And have you noticed what’s been happening to the concept in American juris prudence of “fair and equal justice?” What the hell IS a hate crime anyway? Apparently, a beating or a murder is not as bad when committed against individuals not meeting some “pet” demographic that liberals care about. A black perpetrator kills a white family in cold blood and, well, that’s just a simple murder. Or some psychotic Muslim US army psychiatrist shoots up a stateside army medical clinic, well, that’s not a hate crime or even terrorism, but simple “workplace violence.” But, let a couple white kids kill a black kid or a white cop shoot a black perpetrator during the commission of a crime and, well, we need a federal civil rights investigation because those kinds of situations might just damn well be a hate crime - as if a victim is any less beat up or less dead in one kind of homicide versus a “hate crime.”

Seems to me that murder (of anyone) is - on its face - a hate crime. But apparently not to liberals. It’s only a hate crime when racially motivated against blacks, illegal aliens, Muslims or homosexuals. How blatantly lopsided and biased can the law be made? The statues of a blindfolded Goddess Justice that adorns so many courthouses is being made schizophrenic with bias like that so prevalent in the Law.

Further, what’s happening to your right of Assembly? When Tea Party rallies started getting popular for a few years during the Obama regime, suddenly certain Tea Party leaders found themselves being audited by the IRS.

Now...being a patriotic American is - more and more - being blasphemed as "extremist," "right wing" and no longer "upstanding." Believing in the Constitution and it's Bill of Rights as written is sneered at as being a "literalist" and "outdated..." 

Continue on to Part Three...

Wake up, America. The usurpers and subversives haven’t gone away - far from it. PART THREE

Have you noticed how the past 10 years or so, the Second Amendment continues to get assailed. Most recently because of the outbreak of mass shootings from just plain mentally ill people or “home grown terrorism.”

One must pay very close attention to where the commas fall in the wording of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution – the second most-important part of your unalienable rights as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights:

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."

Notice that it’s all one phrase between the commas guaranteeing “…, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms.” That’s you and me as in “We the people” as established in the Constitution’s Preamble.as the authors, benefactors and recipients of the rights laid out therein.

And, have you noticed? - slowly but surely and steadily they’re being hemmed in and taken away from us. An over-arching and overly-strong federal government restricting and taking away those very same rights were what the Declaration of Independence and America’s subsequent War For Independence and the later entire body of the Constitution document was all about – nay, is still all about.

And it was to absolutely guarantee those inalienable rights that the whole Bill of Rights to that Constitution was ratified and attached to it was all about – and is still all about.

But, our government has been willing to throw away our individual liberties more and more as liberalism/progressivism – nay, Communism by another name! – has more and more infected this once-great nation. And many of her citizens have been clamoring for this in hopes (or guise) of obtaining more security – in our schools, our shopping malls, our nightclubs and churches thereby embodying Benjamin Franklin’s famous words that “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

And this very same government actively pursuing as well as being pressured to enact stricter and stricter gun laws (like don’t we already have   laws against murdering people?) is the same federal govt that has blown it on entering the necessary information from some of their own investigations of these later-to-be-murderers that would’ve kept them from being able to legally purchase a firearm in the first place. And, oh yes; they want to watch law-abiding legal citizens of this country like you and me far more closely and deny us more and more right to self-protection.

Wake up, America - while there's still time!

Those who call good evil and evil good....

Tricia Bishop, deputy editorial page editor for the Baltimore Sun, stated in her column last Thursday that “I'm less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore, I declared as we discussed the issue, than I am by those permitted gun owners.” *

Really? Seriously?

Has the liberal propaganda machine so accomplished its objective of vilifying the law-abiding and productive of our society and praising, protecting and prospering the criminal and unproductive and destructive of our society that a member of the fourth estate really and truly feels more comfortable 

in the presence of armed criminals than of law-abiding gun owners? Apparently, she does.

Why? Because she “knows how to stay out of the line of Baltimore's illegal gunfire….” Apparently Ms. Bishop is so clairvoyant she also knows how to stay out of traffic accidents, tripping over curbs and catching the common cold as well. Because…she has “the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by ‘the game…’” [whatever the hell that is] and admits that “only exposure to guns has been to legal ones.”

She goes on to praise the soft tyrant Barry Hussein Obama and his crackdown on the Second Amendment and says that “Guns in the home are far more likely to be used accidentally, in suicides or family disputes than in self defense, according to studies based on anecdotal evidence.”  Lest you be too persuaded by her “evidence” let me point out that dictionary.com defines “anecdotal evidence” as “non-scientific observations or studies, which do not provide proof but may assist research efforts.”

I’ll bet. When it’s not based on anything scientific or quantitative, one could make it assist the hell out of their “research” efforts by claiming it to say anything they want it to – just like Ms. Bishop does in her column.

Ms. Bishop and her kind are all very reminiscent of the prophesy in Isaiah 5:20: re "... those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"

And of Thomas Jefferson who said “"When government fears the people, there is liberty.”** And “"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."***

But, instead, Ms. Bishop and her kind fear a law-abiding gun owner than a tyrannical government or even a criminal intent on doing harm to others – illegally. I wonder if she would be as equally incensed if the government she so admires and trusts were to suddenly demand a want of registry list of all columnists who legally write such columns as hers???

Sources: 

*Bishop, T. (7 Jan. 2016) Do you know the gun owners in your circle?, The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 10 Jan. 2016 from http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-bishop-0108-20160107-story.html.

** One source attributes this quotation to Jefferson in The Federalist.4 The Federalist, however, was the work of Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, not Thomas Jefferson; nor does The Federalist contain the text of this quotation. This quotation is vaguely similar to Jefferson's comment in an 1825 letter to William Short: "Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent."5 To date, however, the most likely source of this quotation appears to be a series of debates on socialism published in 1914, in which John Basil Barnhill said, "Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty." Retrieved 10 January, 2016 from https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/when-government-fears-people-there-libertyquotation

*** Charley Reese, "Founding Fathers Gave Individuals the Right to Bear Arms," Orlando Sentinel, June 22, 1989.  This quotation appeared in a number of publications in quick succession in the mid-1990s, including in The Militia Movement in the United States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session ... June 15, 1995 (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1997), 120. As quoted on The Jefferson Monticello website. Retrieved 10 January, 2016 from https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/strongest-reason-people-retain-right-keep-and-bear-arms-spurious-quotation