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That it Wasn't in Vain, Part II
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Ok, now where WERE we?..........oh yes, our judicial system as it pertains to guns.
First, let me say that we do not have a crime problem in America because of firearms availability. We have a crime problem because we have a judicial system that tolerates it.
There was a time in America when we hung horse thieves. Kids attended the public hangings, and unlike the video games, the "bad guy" DIDN'T come back to life in the next game, because there wasn't any next game. Most kids went back home, remembering what they just saw, and not wanting to dangle from a rope either, didn't steal horses when they grew up,(most of them anyway). By comparison, grand theft auto today is almost a misdemeanor.
Frontier justice was swift, and while it didn't totally eliminate crime (There will ALWAYS be a Jesse James out there), criminal activity was nowhere near the percentages per population it is now. A convicted killer didn't sit on Death Row through 20 years of appeals. Hanging for murdering someone wasn't considered "cruel and unusual", and nobody cared that an outlaw who shot up your neighbors and burned their ranch to the ground, might "feel a little pain and discomfort" during his execution.
Yes..........there WERE a few that were hanged by mistake, but justice back then was so firm, there weren't that many pushing the envelope out there to begin with.
Nearly EVERYONE packed a gun back then, too, I might add, and gangs didn't flourish as they do now. Trying to rob TWO banks, the Dalton gang was shot to pieces by not only the sheriff's boys, but a few armed citizens as well.
There were no psycho-analysts or "encounter groups" back then. You robbed a bank, stole a horse or killed somebody, you paid for it. We don't do that anymore, and thus, our prisons are overcrowded with felons who have long ago lost their fear of the law.
Today, we go after law abiding gun owners instead. Taking weapons from good people is somehow supposed to protect us from the bad ones our system won't prosecute............don't laugh....there are idiots out there who actually BELIEVE that!........and they vote........which is why it's important that WE do!
I want to talk to you liberals out there for a moment now: I want you folks to see it as WE see it for a minute, so put yourselves in our shoes for the next few moments:
YOU are the gun owner. You hunt, target shoot, keep guns around for home and national defense as the Minutemen did. You're a good citizen, respectful of others, and the laws of the land, which just happen to be our Constitution.
Now, in the midst of this, here comes this great media barrage. Oh, those dirty guns...we've got to ban everything that shoots. "Only police and military need guns" (see Hitler, 1934)....we've just GOT to get guns away from the people.
But there is a SECOND scenario going on at the same time............the courts are catering to the criminals. We see D.A.'s making deals with defense attorneys and prosecuters, we see some scumbag being parolled after 3 years, when he ought to be in for life, a mass murderer might not even have to go to trial, because of something in his childhood that "made him commit the crime 15 years later." Lawyers continue to find loopholes to get these guys off. YOU.......Mr. Gun owner, had NOTHING to do with ANY of this.
But rather than hang the BAD guys like they use to......the bureaucrats are coming after YOU. They think it is YOU who should have to pick up the tab, while they continue turning the hoods right back out the front door. It is YOUR gun that is the problem here, and if you'll only turn it in, crime will drop like a lead balloon.
Fact is, "Big Brother" will even "buy them back" (although they were never his to begin with). And because he thinks you really ARE dumb, he's going to offer you $50 for every gun you turn in. How's that!! Fifty bucks for a $600.00 Smith & Wesson............makes sense to ME!
.......OK...........how would that make YOU feel, Mr. Liberal?? They want YOUR gun, as some kind of crime prevention, but at the same time, they keep turning the criminals loose, or refuse to execute them because they "need help."..........hey, that Duncan character they've got locked up in Boise? Watch him slide through the system.
Gun owners don't see where they should have to pay for the acts of others. THAT'S why the resistence, Mr "Lefty."
Like facts? Sirhan Sirhan..........killed U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy in front of God and everybody.....1968.......FORTY years ago. He's still kicked back in California at taxpayer expense. His own brother Ted, DOESN'T support the death penalty. He DOES lead the attack on our gun rights however.......even though his car has killed more people than my Ruger has!.........and those idiots back there keep voting him back in.
Not enough? How about Patrick Purdy, the founder of the schoolyard killing movement, that began in Stockton, California? Prior to his little rampage, he'd been incarcerated 7 times in California from drugs to weapons charges. Their "system" had him locked up SEVEN times...........and SEVEN times he was turned right back out on the streets. Stockton City Council's solution? A ban on semi-automatics..............Purdy should NEVER have been out there!.............but, it's always easier to go after the gun owners.
If that doesn't pan out, we'll bring lawsuits against gun manufacturers. Sounds logical doesn't it? If some drunk with a DUI record a mile long runs over your child with a Chevrolet, by golly you ought to have every right to sue General Motors for building that Impala in the first place. Right?
"That's not the same thing."
"The heck it ain't....it's a double standard."
"C'mon Bradbury, you don't really hold a shooter and a drunk driver in the same light, do you?"
"No I don't. A shooter usually has an intended victim, and sometimes it's even justified to a point........drunk drivers have taken out BUSLOADS of kids."
What about Virginia Tech....huh?....huh?......huh? 32 shot! What about that?"
"Concealed Permit or not, no guns allowed on campus. The guy KNEW he'd be un-opposed. ONE student with a CCW might not have stopped it initially, but that nut's "15 minutes of fame" would have been a lot shorter."
"And that would have made the difference eh? I don't buy that, Bazookaman."
"Then pop into a restaurant some evening where my wife and I are dining and try your luck."
"WONDERFUL!! So we just arm ourselves and bring back the wild west again eh?"
"Think as you will, but nobody in El Paso walked into a town hall meeting with criminal intent, when he knew there were 3 dozen Colt 45's that would NOT remain holstered. That was the difference at Virginia Tech, and every other campus during this "fad", until students are allowed to defend themselves."
You know.............I personally hate to see it come to this, but there is simply no other way. The cops can't be everywhere and the courts turn 'em loose. When you look at the outrageous miscarriages of justice nowadays, it is no mystery why there are now metal detectors at virtually every courthouse in America. Guards don't escort prisoners back and forth to the courtrooms because they're afraid they'll escape.
The system is broken. I remember watching a re-run of Dragnet not too long ago, where early in the episode, a hood walked out on a technicality. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) asked his Captain, "Why does the law always work for the guilty?".....to which his boss replied, "Because the innocent don't need it."
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I think it was Confucious who said the journey of a thousand miles, begins with a single step, and that's what my entire blog is about, on a variety of subjects. SOMEBODY has to get the ball rolling..................and you know, if I touch only 2 or 3, that'll be 2 or 3 "Big Brother" won't touch. That alone is worth it.
bazookaman, you know my feelings. I don't have anything against gun ownership; but I feel a great need for something to be done to prevent gun abuse by ingoramuses. These are the folks who have no sense about protecting their right to gun ownership by keeping them properly closeted and away from children and thieves.
Whenever a tragedy occurs because of these no-brainers, ALL gunowners are pronounced guilty.
It would seem to me that those of us who care most about the right to gun ownership should be foremost in the fight to make sure, no matter what it takes, that all gunowners follow simple, no nonsense rules.
Does that take laws, licensing? Maybe, but whatever it takes, something has to be done before the right to own a gun is gone.
By the way, dear, I've been around a lot longer than you and have seen a lot; things are not quite as bad as they might seem. (Which is not to say things are rosy; of course they're not.)
You have mentioned David Rockefeller. I don't think I know him. Could you tell me about him? I have quite a low attention span these days, so just the bare facts will do. Thanks.
I think hunters safety courses should be sufficient academically, as it stresses proper gun handling. It still is ultimately up to the owner, just like driving a car. As for licensing, there is too much "record keeping" as it is.
When they do the background check, the only thing they should ever need to know, is that the prospective gun buyer doesn't have a record, or is wanted for anything. But the weapon is AUTOMATICALLY registered when you buy it, and records ARE kept.......permanently.
Ever seen the movie "Red Dawn?" Buy it or rent it, and watch what happens when the infiltrators take over the town......not just a movie, it has happened in a lot of countries already.
As for our losing our gun rights? Wait until after Inauguration Day next year. There are already a majority in Congress, and there will be no President in office next year who will veto the myriad of gun confiscation schemes the Democrats have kept on the back burners, just awaiting the opportunity. This will not affect those of us determined to keep them. Many of us have seen the handwriting on the wall for years, have stockpiles, cached and prepared.
What burns me is the targeting of the gun, which does nothing on its own. We don't try to ban cars to keep drunks away from them.
CIGARETTES.........what object kills more more every year, and addict our young folks more than tobacco??....But there aren't any drives to ban THOSE.
These next few years will be interesting, and I am totally ready.
I didn't mention DAVID Rockefeller pere se, although he IS the current one in power. His father John D. established that famiily's dynasty.
But I'll give you a few things on David, since you asked. He is one of the "mortgage holders" of our "National Debt", who is paid by the illegal IRS, who YOU pay when you shouldn't have to. Rockefeller praises the socialist systems and wants to pattern US after them. The worst thing about Rockefeller is that he is trying to have the United States come under the U.N. flag.....the "One World Order." He bought the land for the U.N building, and has reaped enormous benefits ever since.
Rockefeller is a KEY player in the proposed North American Union (NAU), which would end America as we know it.
Rockefeller.............one of the MANY reasons we must NEVER give up our guns.
Yes, we need to do something about gun accidents, but do you really want the government living in your home making rules?............I've said it before, and will continue to stress it..........it begins with Mom & Dad.
Bazookaman:
I agree with you that Mom & Dad need to teach their children about guns, I believe they should be the ones teaching their children all of the fundimentals of life.
But for arguement sake what if now and days Mom & Dad don't feel like they have the power to do that anymore? I'm a mother of 3 kids and I do a variety of punishments from discussion and restriction to spanking if necessary (I'll probably end up in jail now), but at any time if my child were to tell a teacher that I hurt him then all of a sudden I would have a group of police officers at my door ready to hall me away. Then have to go through a bunch of red tape to get all of my kids back because according to the law if she hurts one she's hurting them all. All to find out that my child may have misspoke or was unable to convey what he was actually feeling.
Is it possible that through all of the nosey people in the world, and the fact that lawyers are basic jerks. That laws to prosecute real child abusers have been distorted to affect parents just trying to do their job of raising their kids?
My opinion of Government in our home lives too much!!!! I for one wouldn't mind if they stuck to what they do best which is nothing.....
Oh and by the way I would like to figure out how to vote Term limits and salary caps on Congressional positions!!!!!
Well Missylynn, I knew a schoolbus driver once who spanked her grandson. He boldly threatened to have her arrested for "child abuse." She handed him the phone and told him that as soon as she made bail and got home, it WOULD be "child abuse." He put the phone down and straightened his act up.
If we don't stand our ground as parents/grandparents, WE will eventually end up being held responsible for the acts of these little delinquents that we weren't "allowed" to discipline in the first place.
Botton line here, is that they are OUR kids.........not the government's.
Spanking is NOT abuse. Most COPS were spanked as kids, and if they don't see bruises, black eyes, broken bones and head swellings (which IS abuse), I don't think they're going to arrest anyone. If I swatted the butt of one of my kids in a store while he was throwing a fit, and some "goody two shoes" interjected an opinion, I'd climb THEIR butt in front of God and everybody as well!.............these are MY kids pal...........mind your own stinkin' business before I swat tou too!
Term Limits????? You walk into a booth and vote 'em OUT!! WE are their "term limits." THEY aren't gonna pass any legislation to cut themselves off their gravy trains, mansions, island cruises and yachts. It's OUR job to do that.
This requires however, that we start voting as AMERICANS, instead of faithful blind little party members, who vote for anyone with a (D) or and (R) after their name. This blind allegiance is where the Kennedys, Feinsteins, McCains and Bush's come from. 30 and 40 year Congressional dynastys are built upon your continued support.
Ted Kennedy for example, doesn't "feel your pain" as he tells the voters of Massachusetts. The only thing HE feels is the champagne on his throat and the salt air breeze from his sailboat.
We need to vote as AMERICANS........not Democrats and Republicans. A background check of your candidate's voting record often finds his opponent's record closer to YOUR desires than your YOUR guy.
This business of just walking into a booth and returning the same idiots to office term after term is what is flushing America down the toilet today.
"Oh.......but at least they're EXPERIENCED."............yep. They are. And they have bank accounts to prove it, and no longer identify with you, because THEY haven't had to live on a budget like you do.
And remember Missylynn.......every election at every level.....from president to governor, from county sheriff to country propsecuter, WE are the BOSS. WE hire and fire. Remember that, when you get concerned about the cops hauling you off for spanking little "Johnny." We can change these yokels every time there's an election, and they need to know that NOBODY'S job is safe, if it isn't performed to the satisfaction of the people.
We have more power over our lives than we think we have.