Liberals, Democrats, dictators of all extremes all over the world, and environmental extremists have been working day, night and overtime for many years to try to get guns away from almost all people,criminals and non-criminals alike,hunters, too, sometimes including the police. With the tragic assasssinations of the Kennedys and Dr. King in the 60s, the anti-gun forces kicked into high gear, resulting in the Gun Control Act of 1968. They must have thought that making it difficult for people to legally acquire guns would make gun violence go WAY down. If that was their thinking, it was a dreadfully mistaken notion, and the GCA was an obvious, massive failure. While the Act was being debated, bumper stickers appeared across the land,”if GUNS are OUTLAWED, only OUTLAWS will have GUNS” (emphasis on the original bumper stickers). The bumper sticker was prophetic. Nowadays, we have outlaw criminal GANGS running around in all major cities in America, much like the bloodiest of Wild West movies, only THESE gangs can outgun the sheriff, the police, EVERYBODY. Ordinary citizens lock themselves in and stay off the streets,while the gangs run around freely, rather a backwards situation! Even the Brady gun bill, which was even STRICTER than the GCA, didn’t stop THEM.
The Obama regime’s recent proposal to disarm all people over 60 years old on the grounds that they “are too senile” to safely handle a gun is totally OUTRAGEOUS. (If Obama is so SMART, then what happened to HIM, and who is THIS guy???) For one thing, “senility” as in Alzheimer’s ISN’T a problem for MOST seniors. For another, this is discrimination on the basis of AGE, which several federal laws prohibit. So…did Obama get a death threat from the Gray Panthers, or does he want to save on Social Security costs by making the old people easy victims of violent crime? What a nincompoop LAW, someone must have been snorting SOMETHING.
A brief history of the gun control Gestapo may be appropriate here.
Ahead of the first Earth Day arose a segment of American society that called themselves “environmentalists”. They quickly grew in numbers, power and money, and were soon able, with an army of slick lawyers, to initiate lawsuits against EVERYONE they disapproved of, private companies and corporations alike, AND state and federal lawmakers, too. They convinced the schools, sometimes with threatened lawsuits, always with “free educational materials”,to allow environmentalism to be taught as SCIENCE. Environmentalism is not science, not as the term is commonly defined. Environmentalism is a worldview that, at the most extreme, says that ALL animals are equally as important as ANY people,that EVERYTHING comes second to the complete preservation in its pristine state of the ENVIRONMENT. Jobs may be lost, whole REGIONS may be depopulated of PEOPLE, huge CORPORATIONS may topple, the economy may COLLAPSE under the weight of excessive taxes and environmental regulations that micromanage , and require that certain things MUST be done without regard to cost or even to being POSSIBLE. The environmentalsts seemingly think themselves ABOVE mere practical considerations, that if THEY can believe it, others MUST achieve it. They are convinced, like any COMMUNIST group, that “the end justifies the means”, that therefore ALL that they say and do is RIGHT, for they are MORALLY SUPERIOR to NON-environmentalists. In their zeal to advance “animal rights” (which seemingly grew out of environmentalism), they put into their “free instructional materials” that ALL hunting is BAD, is CRUEL, that HUNTERS are STUPID and CRUEL and ENJOY causing pain to the animals they hunt. They knew that this would lead the children to HATE the IDEA of hunting, and would decrease the number of hunters over time. Also, it would help to discourage the OLDER hunters from going out hunting, if their children loudly disapprove. Moreover, the environmentalists themselves went into the woods to harass and even assault hunters, destroy their personal property, and scare off the animals so the hunters couldn’t find any. More recently, they have used the courts to actually STOP hunting at times and in places and after kinds of animals that have been legal for a LONG TIME. There is NO rational reason for ending a legal hunt these days, but that doesn’t matter to THEM.So,the number of hunters in the last 3 decades HAS declined, and the number of wild animals has risen rapidly in many places. What is worse, predators like coyotes, cougars and bears who USED to be hunted a lot have had several generations grow up without ever HEARING a gun go off, and so they have lost their fear of people. That fear USED to PROTECT people who went into wild places. The cougars or coyotes would hear people in the DISTANCE and would run away to protect themselves. Now, they have no such instinct to hide from people, and with their growing numbers, they are beginning to encroach, not only on new developments that “expand into the animals’ territory” and “damage the ecosystem”, but into towns and cities that have been there for a century or more, where the animals didn’t USED to go. Their WILD environment may be “shrinking”, but the animal population is GROWING, and so is their “territory”. INTO the territory of PEOPLE. The environmentalists insist that it is “environmental destruction” ALONE that is causing the sudden rise in wild animal attacks on people and domestic pets and livestock. That is partly true, but the REST of the problem has its roots in the decline and persecution of legal hunting and hunters. The predators have NO “natural enemies” other THAN man. By the time the predators’ numbers have risen enough that they can start to REALLY control the HUGE overpopulation of deer and other nuisance prey-type wildlife, which hunters USED to do, the predators will themselves become a HUGE problem to US. Can you imagine trying to dodge a running deer with your car, only to find a pack of WOLVES is right behind it?
And the most fascistic environmentalist groups all support the Democratic party,and the Democratic party politicians generally vote in their favor. Hunters are,by and large, conservative types who have historically voted Republican. Unlike the holier-than-thou environmentalists, hunters’ organizations have actually spent much of their money on PRESERVING HABITAT for the animals they hunt, and on programs for helping to ensure the perpetuation of native wildlife, and their lobby is not a well-known or powerful one (which is why they keep getting outlawed and ruled against in court). The environmentalist extremists, meanwhile, spend much of THEIR money on advertising, lawsuits and political contributions.
To Democrats.
Some environmentalists say that “if you leave the animals alone, they will leave you alone”. This fails to explain why it is that so many wild animals attack from the REAR, attack people that don’t even know the animals are AROUND, so presumably CANNOT be “bothering” them. Evidently, for some wild beasts, if you come within 500 yards of them, THAT is “bothering” them.
Tangentially,the idea that an “environment” CAN be “preserved” in its “pristine state” is LUDICROUS. An ecosystem is not a ripe apricot,you can’t stick it in hot sugar syrup in a jar, seat the lid, and process it in a boiling water bath so it will keep nicely in that state for YEARS. An ecosystem will change, ALL BY ITSELF, even with NO “environmental degradation” going on. I learned about “climax forests” in high school. That is what “wetlands” (SWAMPS!) eventually become,over centuries or even thousands of years, passing through a number of changes along the way.Then the climax forest slowly becomes a swamp again, and the cycle begins again. Wildfires, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, mudslides, avalanches, volcanoes, wreck houses AND dens. Animal populations fluctuate, species come and go, climate itself changes over time, and ALWAYS HAS. You can no more maintain an area in its ”pristine state” (whatever state you found it in) than you can keep a banana left outside from spoiling. The environment is too complex TO “preserve in its current state”, we know so little about it, really.
The registration of guns, dictated by the GCA, was SUPPOSED to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. That is the reason given by the Democrats who advocated it. As we know, THAT sure didn’t work. It DID have a dampening effect on DECENT people getting one. Also, there has never EVER been a government in the WORLD that registered gun ownership and then LEFT the guns WITH the owners. Hitler and Stalin and probably all OTHER ruthless dictators forced gun owners to register their firearms,then used the registration records to go around and DISARM THE CITIZENRY, making armed resistance impossible. Why does THAT matter? you ask. Because, in a dictatorship,the army and police are NEVER disarmed. Without their own guns to protect their lives and rights, the citizenry are easily forced by GOVERNMENT arms to do whatever the Boss Man (or Woman) WANTS. THAT is tyranny!
The Democratic Party has fought hard for 4 decades to increase governmental control over EVERYTHING to do with guns and gun ownership, some Democrats (in line with the ACLU) even insist that the Second Amendment does NOT permit INDIVIDUAL gun ownership, only “militias” are to be armed, they say.
The ACLU is ANOTHER supporter of the Democratic Party.
Over in England, they have the very strictest gun laws in the whole WORLD. When they were enacted (and I understand they are strictly enforced) the hoped-for decline in murders didn’t happen. Murderers who had no gun accomplished the killing instead with a baseball bat, a knife, poison, a length of rope…It gave weight to the oft-repeated idea that “Guns don’t kill people, PEOPLE do.”
On the other hand,in Israel, every adult MUST own a gun, and every citizen over 18 must go thru military training, including how to use a gun. There, they have the lowest murder rate in the WORLD.
So, I have a proposal. Let the federal government enforce the spirit AND letter of the Second Amendment. Let the Supreme court ban ALL laws in ALL states that seek to regulate, tax or limit gun ownership, and allow ALL citizens the right to own firearms. Encourage the various gun manufacturers to hold classes on safe gun use and target shooting,and to establish hunting clubs to encourage hunting and teach gun choice, use and maintenance, hunting ethics and safety. Ban imports of poor-quality guns made by enemy states, like China. Make regulated hunting in each state a Constitutional right so that the environmentalists can be jailed for interfering with it, and their lawsuits can be thrown out. I think that if we had an ARMED citizenry, gun violence by criminals and gangs would be drastically curtailed, campus shooting sprees would be cut VERY short, crimes against property would steeply decline,dangerous, landscape-destroying animals would stop being a problem, more poor people would be eating better by getting their own fresh meat during hunting season (and maybe more from relatives and friends who hunt), and gun-toting border crossers would go back home QUICK. There might be a brief “adjustment period” at first, where gun deaths would go UP very briefly, but once the “bad guys” figure out that they are surrounded by LEGAL gun-toters, THEY will go hide at home behind locked doors, and our streets will be safe, 24/7, like they USED to be.
