Today (02/08/2023), I was listening in to https://live.house.gov and two democratic members talked about school shootings and gun violence.
Every violent death is tragic, especially when it involves children. Unfortunately, democrats’ ONLY solution is the ban of a certain firearm, the AR-15 sporting rifle, and that’s it. They blame the tool that is being used in the commission of a crime, rather than the person who is actually committing the crime. Murder is already against the law, but since they are unwilling to hold those people accountable (more to that later), they just want to restrict other people from owning them.
The 2nd Amendment is pretty clear, but we still get more and more restrictions and rulings handed down by the wannabe rulers of the world. Ask yourself why.
Politicians have no interest in keeping you and your children safe. If they did, violent offenders wouldn’t get plea deals and (mass) murderers as well as rapist would get an automatic death penalty. Politicians are more worried about their own personal (financial) gain, and a gain in their power and influence.
Imagine this: The semi-automatic rifle, type AR-15 is banned from civilian use and existing ones are confiscated (a democrats wet dream), but then the next shooting happens. Then what?! We ban the other gun that the perpetrator(s) used? This is an endless game and far-left democrats will NEVER be satisfied, because criminals will use WHATEVER THEY CAN to overpower their potential victims.
They further keep misusing the English language, a skill they are very good at by the way and keep referring to it as gun violence. Yet, when a person gets stabbed to death it’s not knife violence. A driver of a vehicle hitting and killing someone is not vehicle violence, and so forth. Violence is just that, violence. It’s an act, perpetrated by a person.
Fact is that your safety is YOUR responsibility, and the laws need to lay the foundation for people to defend themselves, their loved ones and their property against all people who do wish us as well as our properties harm. Period!
The law needs to give qualifying people the foundation to carry their firearm everywhere they go. While civilians do not have a duty to respond to an emergency (like peace officers do), the law needs to give them the ability to do so without the fear of prosecution, if there was no wrongdoing in their response to an emergency (reasonable person standard)!
It is NOT meant for civilians to patrol the streets, we are talking about an emergency response, when seconds count and the police is only minutes.
If politicians would really care about your and your kids’ safety, they would cease gun free zones, and they would allow staff members to carry a firearm to school. Employers would allow employees to carry at work. People who purchase, possess and carry firearms have to be qualified (NICS, carry license, etc.) and there should only be a few exceptions as to where they cannot bring their firearm (federal building, bars, etc.).
If politicians would really care about your and your kids’ safety, they would not allow for violent offenders to enter ludicrous plea deals. I have seen offenders who work out a deal with a minimal time inside a prison and rather more time on paper (basically probation), so they can be on the outside asap again. I have seen sex offenders getting a plea deal where they walk out the jail the very same day. This is the real pandemic!
Murder 1 as well as Rape 1 both should be an automatic death penalty. Death by hanging should be brought back. It is less expensive and neither a cruel nor unusual punishment. If you think this is cruel then go back to the mid-ages, where they hung you upside-down, naked, and then cut you in half with a large handsaw from the groin area all the way to the head.
Repeat offenders need to serve their time day for day. These ridiculous calculations as to how much time you actually have to serve behind bars are NOT a deterrent. Only the federal system is almost day for day, where serving a 5yr sentence will leave you over 4.5yrs behind bars. On the state level this varies by a lot, and sometimes for a 5yr sentence they will only be 1.5yrs in lockup. The rest is probation.
And they wonder why we have so many repeat offenders. They either refuse to see the truth, live in denial or try to get a personal benefit from the tragedies. Do you think the Jews in Nazi Deutschland would have surrendered their firearms if they would have known what happened to them? Or the North Koreans? Or the Chinese?
It’s all about people control, they want a police state, and their endgame is absolute power. One thing I know for sure is that I would rather die than to live in a society where everything is taken away because a handful of people are scared, unwilling or unable to understand that life in itself is dangerous. The potential to die is great, every day, be it out and about or in your sleep. It’s there and that’s a fact no one can dispute.
People have to become responsible again and we need to hold criminals accountable for their actions, again. It doesn’t matter if they steal, sell illegal drugs and/or hurt anyone.
Politicians don’t care about this. They think this country is safer once firearms are banned (the AR-15 is just the beginning). What they fail to understand (or refuse to understand) is that it will NOT change the way criminals think or act. Well, not in the way they want them to think/act anyway. Disarming the population will leave the good people defenseless against bad people. That’s a fact.
We cannot allow this to happen and politicians who keep pushing for more and more control need to be voted out of office forever!
Instead of victim mentality we need to promote common sense and responsibility.
Again, the death of a child is never easy, and people who hurt other people need to be held accountable. But again, imagine how many school students could have been saved if there was an armed person on campus, ready to take action. Or in a movie theater, or the mall. All gun-free zones, all perfect places to find plenty of victims. Banning firearms will NOT reduce crime and/or death. It will increase it.
We don’t need more gun control; we need more gun rights!
Jorge Estrada
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