“…and he gets your gun…” – Obama’s Selective Outrage on Shooting Deaths
Sometimes the predictable becomes oh-so-predictable, especially with a president who all-too-selectively shows passion and outrage when the political winds just happen to blow in the right direction.
Never mind the fact that, on any given week, twenty-five or more people are killed by gunfire in Chicago, while hundreds of others are wounded. To date, President Obama has yet to mention these staggering statistics in a city with some of the most restrictive gun-control laws in the land. Same goes for Baltimore, New York and other cities that have done everything to restrict gun ownership, short of nullifying the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
A shooting in Charleston here, a shooting in Roanoke there and, most recently, a shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, and the selective politicizer-in-chief, Barack Obama, gets on his soapbox demanding more and more gun control legislation- that is to say legislation-as-a-concept, rather than legislation-as-a-specific- while the carnage continues unabated in the heavily gun-controlled urban meccas ruled by his Democrat allies, for decades. Even in New York City, where former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s “Stop-and-Frisk” policies had drastically reduced gun violence, this policy has been deemed “racist” by his race-baiting and opportunistic successor, Bill de Blasio, and by ending this “Stop-and-Frisk” policy, New Yorkers have now witnessed a spike in gun-related deaths. Such is the result of liberalism run amok.
In the most recent instance, it is tragically ironic that Umpqua Community College had been designated a “Gun-Free Zone”, which is what happens when liberal academia honestly believes that such platitudes and policies make their campus sanctuaries safe, when indeed, the opposite is true. The result? Nine Christians, faithful to the point of becoming martyrs, dead for owning up to their faith in Christianity at the point of a gun- a factor oddly (but then again, come to think of it, not-so-oddly) omitted by a president who still believes that Islam is a wholly-peaceful religion which remains, to this day, a victim of the 12th century Christian crusades. Remember Virginia Tech, anyone? Thirty-two deaths of defenseless victims occurred on a college campus which proscribes the possession of firearms.
That is the problem with gun-control laws. Law-abiding people have a tendency to abide by gun-control laws, leaving themselves defenseless victims to criminals who don’t give a rat’s ass about gun-control laws, in the first place. Listening to these liberal politicians, one would think that guns are so dangerous, that they kill without willing human accomplices pulling triggers- as if to say, homicide stops in the absence of firearms.
Those out there who would be so ready to ban guns, because of shooting deaths, should be asked as to whether or not they would be as ready to ban alcohol, and ban automobiles, because of all of the deaths related to DUI…
There is no difference between the two- except for liberal hypocrites who think otherwise. Death is death and, in both instances, these deaths are not the fault of the gun, not the fault of the bottle, not the fault of the automobile, but rather the fault of the operator.
While there is no constitutional right, per se, to own or operate an automobile, and, despite the end to prohibition by the twenty-first amendment which ended prohibition by the eighteenth amendment, while there is no constitutional right to imbibe, per se, there IS a constitutional right for an individual to keep and bear arms without infringement- like the infringement of gun-control laws in some of the most dangerous cities in America. Interestingly, it is the only stated constitutional right that is almost universally regulated by licensure, and in some cases, outright proscription. The second amendment was very distinctly added to the Bill of Rights to enable individual citizens the right to protect themselves and their property against aggression, perpetrated by other individuals and even by the government, itself. Remember that Adolf Hitler confiscated privately-owned firearms in Germany, so as to leave the populace defenseless against a coming Nazi onslaught and holocaust against the Jews in Germany and Eastern Europe.
Given the president’s opportunistic grand-standing, leave it to all his would-be Democrat successors to jump on the band-wagon of gun-control, with Hillary Clinton even stating, quite clearly, that she will do away with the second amendment, entirely by executive order- which represents an entirely new frontier in executive overreach- where even Barack Obama has yet to venture.
So much for a nation of laws…
-Drew Nickell, 7 October 2015
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