"Gun Control"

Since the American left has, true to form, hastened to attempt to take political advantage of the Las Vegas tragedy, it is right for those of us in the common sense majority in the real America to respond.

Those who advocate "gun control" belong to two major groups:  The first is of people of good will, often but not always people who don't know much about guns, who sincerely believe that stricter control of the manufacture,distribution and use of firearms in America will result in far fewer mass shootings.  I believe them mistaken but do not think they reflect the utter contempt for gun owners displayed by the second group.
                                                                                                      
The second group is concentrated in the coastal la-la lands and is exemplified by  Barack Obama, the Mayor of Chicago, Charles Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Rosie O'Donnell (only as a rep for the mostly degenerate entertainment industry) and attended upon by most of those who share their disdain  both for rural people and  for those who support the traditional values which are pillars of positive American living.  The second group does not care whether "gun control" dissuades monsters. Rather, they know that gun owners and their associations, including of course the NRA, are among the mainstays of the conservative movement because they support candidates and office holders who are conservative on a wide range of issues. The left has been done catastrophic damage by gun owners (eg. 1994, 2000 and 2016)  and dreams of discrediting gun rights advocates by relentlessly threatening them and passing ever more onerous restrictions.  They hope this will wear out gun people and alienate them from what they might perceive as an increasingly ineffective NRA, thereby fatally weakening the entire conservative movement - the hated enemy of radicals. Ain' happened yet! NRA thrives every time it is attacked.

A San Francisco area Congressional rep has accordingly urged passage of  a law mandating background checks any time guns change hands.  But the Las Vegas subhuman had passed such checks.  Perhaps  she seeks to distract the attention of common sense Americans from those who are truly culpable -her leftist comrades.  Guns were far more easily available in the '50's.  I know country people who carried them to school to harvest table meat on the way home.  The insanity of mass gun murder was almost unknown.  That is because the '50's came before the '60's, when the spiritual and moral foundations of our culture came under the unrelenting assault from the left they endure to this day.  In a country where ideas such as "if its my thing, its my thing and I'm gonna do it", "I've been wronged by society as a whole and society is going to pay" and "now lets not be judgemental like we used to be" have wide acceptance,  chaos is inevitable.  As a prison chaplain once told me"The fear of God must be reestablished because the lack of it is obvious everywhere".

We could  consider supporting universal background checks if we were assured that the records thereby generated would not be used to create the lists of gunowners and possessions necessary for  eventual confiscation. But we know from experience that such assurance is not possible because we've seen how eager leftist administrators already are to abuse existing gun laws in their unending  crusade to disarm law abiding Americans. Misuse of the existing Federal NICS background check system is extensively documented.  We must be ever mindful of the possibility of another far left led Federal executive branch determined to advance its comprehensive totalitarian purpose.  Their reflexive response to the Las Vegas abomination while in their present exile  says it all.  Jack