I'm a parent and I know the pain of losing a child would be of an intensity perhaps imaginable only to a parent.
Past abominations like the Florida school shooting have prompted instantaneous calls for tighter gun control from leftist politicians who seek political gain but also from people of good will who yearn for an immediate counter to this appalling phenomenom.
To the Schumers, Hillarys, Cuomos and Pelosi types, my answer as a gun owner is NO! No, we gun owners and our organizations will not tolerate being blamed for outrages we did not cause and which we could have prevented. No, we will not stand still for you saying we do not care about this depraved threat to the most innocent in our society; it would make as much sense as to say that you welcome these attacks as a way to advance your crusade against the real America (you don't do you?) No, we will not refrain from defending our Constitutionally affirmed (not gifted, affirmed mind you) right to bear arms. No, we will not allow you to codify into law the presumption that unbridled access to guns is the reason for these crimes; the reason, we know, is the cancer of moral relativism which has plagued our society since the '60's and which inspires monsters to act out their hellish fantasies. Those most responsible for the undermining of our spiritual foundation and the fatal notion that actions proscribed by societal sanctions painfully developed over centuries, bearing the signature of an infinitely higher power, somehow now do not have the most serious consequences, are the very types who orchestrate the gun ban effort. This stuff didn't happen in the '50's, which were before the '60's and in which guns were far more readily available and were not disingenuously excoriated by radicals in government.
To those of good will who believe strongly increased gun control is the quickest way to effectively combat this onslaught, may I, with greatest respect, invite you to join with us in a solution which can be enacted over night and which WILL end this scourge. Put armed guards in every school, NOW! Every community has an armed police force; every state has an armed national guard. Every community in the real America enjoys the citizenship of numbers of mature law abiding gun owners sufficient to provide enough willing armed volunteers. I know I'd come forward. Defend at the very point of attack, not on some imaginary political periphery. We acknowledge the reality of crime and international threats don't we? Then lets be real about this one. The kids know all about it, we can't shield them from the dolorous truth. Its understandable to think people who find guns in schools repugnant would have concerns but give this idea a chance, yes? Actually, well behaved guardians in the schools, in addition to providing real defense against this insane threat, might well serve as very positive role models. Blaming gun availability hasn't worked and a moral revival in this wounded nation will take a long time. Do the right thing now America! Jack
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
Good idea, Jack, although simply allowing some teachers and staff to be armed would be another great deterrent to this sort of violence. You're right -- the guns aren't going anywhere, and unfortunately neither are the egomaniacal nutcases...
Dr. Waddy: I've heard the Israeli's, who have of absolute necessity to be realistic about deadly threats, have several teachers in each school carrying concealed, so that madmen cannot be sure who is armed. That might take time to institute in this country especially because there are many who simply cannot bear the thought. It would take some wrangling to gain widespread acquiescence to this sound idea. Meantime though, I think we can put armed guards in the schools, if necessary via limited, selective declarations of martial law, immediately. If a foreign armed force were killing Americans in America we would engage them so, with adequate force. School shootings are a manifestation of depravity which is nonetheless a real and present threat to those any sound society must protect. When the British sent their children to rural areas and even to Canada to escape Nazi bombs it was a terribly hard, hard thing to do, especially to counter a mortal threat which could, but for understandable hesitancy to take action in the '30's,have been stopped. They did what they had to do, finally, and so must we.
Post a Comment