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It has unfortunately come to pass as I and many others
predicted: mass shootings in the first days of the Biden presidency.
Dear reader, we don't know what weapon Cain used to kill Abel,
and it doesn't matter. Cain didn't have a weapons problem, he had a heart
and mind problem. This is a microcosm of American society today. And as it
turns out, the Georgia killer most probably did indeed have a heart and mind problem and
had been in rehab for sexual
addiction. The Colorado shooter was "anti-social" and
apparently paranoid.
The focus of the hysteria has been almost solely on guns, with
what amounts to lip service to the social and cultural sources of violence
in our society.
Sen. Chris Murphy (Communist-Conn.) unintentionally reinforced
this truth about mass shootings. He told MSNBC that not passing gun control
legislation endorses mass shooters. That part is complete hokum. However,
he added that "these minds that are starting to become unhinged"
take the lack of more gun laws as evidence that it's ok to shoot people.
Senator Murphy is right, but not in the way he thinks he is.
It's not the laws. Or the guns.
If mentioned at all, mass shooters' time spent in therapy or
rehab, and almost inevitable pharmaceutical use resulting from mainstream
treatment for their "unhinged minds," is just a footnote in media
reports. But it is all-important.
The issue of mental health — which was at the root of the
parkland, Aurora, Sandy Hook and Columbine massacres and surely is at play
here — has been mentioned almost peripherally in the gun-central polemics.
Even when it is addressed, the undertone, as you can see by Sen. Murphy's
wrongheaded thinking, is that owning a gun is in itself somehow evidence of
mental disease.
Media language may refer to "gun violence" as a
mental health issue, but the context of the references tends to make a link
to "gun ownership."
This is part of the reason Republicans — supposedly defenders
of the 2nd Amendment — are beginning to line up to support bans on certain
weapons. And Democrats are strategizing with George Soros- and Michael
Bloomberg-backed gun-grabber organizations to push for a ban on so-called
"assault weapons" (code word alert — there's no such thing) and
other gun laws (none of which should exist at all).
Prominent Communist Senators like Diane Feinstein and now Vice
President Kop-mala Harris have advocated endlessly for a new "assault
weapons" ban:
Predictably, President Biden appeared out of the ether to say,
"We can ban assault weapons." The media will endlessly tell you
about the "AR-15 style assault weapon" used in Colorado, even
though the AR-15 isn't an "assault weapon," and not just because
there's no such thing. It's a semi-automatic rifle and specifically not the type of
"high powered military-type weapon" or "a rapid-fire
automatic weapon" that Americans already cannot legally purchase and
possess.
That has been the case since the passage of the National Firearms
Act of 1934 which imposed a tax on the making and transfer of
certain weapons and a special tax on persons and entities engaged in the
business of importing, manufacturing and dealing in certain firearms.
Firearms subject to the act included "shotguns and rifles having
barrels less than 18 inches in length, certain firearms described as 'any
other weapons,' machineguns (sic), and firearm mufflers and silencers." The act was amended by the Gun Control Act of 1968 to overcome a
constitutional flaw that was later discovered. In 1986, Congress passed the
Firearm Owner's Protection Act which amended the GCA to prohibit the
transfer or possession of machine guns. Exceptions were made for transfers
of machine guns to, or possession of machine guns by, government agencies,
and those lawfully possessed before the effective date of the prohibition,
May 19, 1986.
No laws need to be renewed or created. They are already
infringing on a right that "shall not be infringed."
Need and sense
You would never hear about "the issue of guns" if
not for the politicians and globalist interests who are trying to steal our
inalienable right from us.
And they are trying very hard indeed. In Caniglia v. Strom,
a case that could have sweeping consequences for policing, due process and
mental health, Biden and attorneys general from nine states are urging the
Supreme Corrupt to uphold warrantless gun confiscation.
People like this inevitably put forth the question, "Why
would anyone need a 'weapon of war'?" This is just another code phrase
designed to deceive, as there is no such thing.
People "need" firearms for reasons that are their
own. They are suitable for recreational purposes (hunting, target shooting,
etc.) and for defensive purposes. Just like there are many makes and models
of automobiles, airplanes, power tools, etc., there are many makes and
models of firearms. Each has its own use and benefit for the person
wielding it.
What "makes no sense" to you may make perfect
"sense" to someone else, so what "makes no sense" to
you is irrelevant. In a free society, no individual is granted the moral
authority to dictate his wishes on someone else.
Which raises the question, are people who own guns prone to
taking the law into their own hands? There is a popular saying in America
that when seconds count, police are only minutes away. Another is that I
carry a gun because a police officer is too heavy. Plus, the Supreme Court
has ruled that police have no obligation to protect anyone from a crime. So
people are obligated to protect themselves. But that does not mean anyone
advocates taking "law into their own hands."
Further, crime by gun is actually decreasing in the U.S. Here are some
numbers for you:
- At the 2018 homicide rate,
roughly one in every 254 Americans will be murdered in the course of
their lives. That's lower than in 2016.
- In 1964, roughly 16 percent
of recorded aggravated assaults with a firearm resulted in death. By
1999, this figure fell to about 5 percent.
[In 2021, crime has increased in every single Dem-run city in America; especially in areas dominated by 'defund police' movements].
Further, fee.org reports that "homicides with any sort of
rifle represent a mere 3.2 percent of all homicides on average over the
past decade. Given that the FBI statistics pertain
to all rifles,
the homicide frequency of so-called "assault-style" rifles like
the AR-15 is necessarily lesser still, as such firearms compose a fraction
of all the rifles used in crime."
The vast majority of homicides, particularly those caused by
people with guns, occur in a small handful of America's largest cities and,
by an overwhelming percentage, are a result of black-on-black crime using
handguns. This is not a weapons problem. It might behoove us to ask the
serious question, why are black people killing black people, and further,
why do the media and politicians ignore it? Of course, we know the answer
to the second half of that question: it doesn't fit their gun-grabbing
agenda.
Sorry, politicians, it's an inalienable right
The 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not grant the right
to keep and bear arms. That right of self-defense is inalienable. It is
possessed by everyone at birth. The 2nd Amendment — as does the rest of the
Constitution — (ostensibly) binds the government from infringing on that
right and codifies into law that inherent right. The 2nd Amendment (and the
other nine contained in the Bill of Rights) was added to the Constitution
at the behest of a group of the Founding Fathers in order to secure
ratification of the new Constitution. Without it, the new Constitution
would not have been ratified by the states.
But beyond the issue of personal self-defense, gun ownership
is necessary to prevent the U.S. from becoming a completely totalitarian
state and enslaving and/or murdering the populace as has occurred in
authoritarian regimes throughout history. The Founders recognized this:
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing
degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is
the difference between having our arms in possession and under our
direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense
be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted
with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?" --
Patrick Henry
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian;
while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and
the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.
The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms,
for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them
aside…Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the
use of them..." -- Thomas Paine
"The Constitution shall never be construed … to prevent
the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping
their own arms." -- Samuel Adams
"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed;
unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to
trust the people with arms." -- The Federalist, No. 46, James Madison
"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution
itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence
... From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events,
occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and
happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable ... the very
atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference — they
deserve a place of honor with all that is good" -- George Washington
"[W]hen the resolution of enslaving America was formed in
Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, –who
was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best
and most effectual way to enslave them..." -- George Mason, The
Virginia Ratifying Convention.
Underneath all of the emotional jibber-jabber about
"saving lives," the real goal of leftists is always to gain control
of all means of power. These politicians don't care about the Constitution
and don't fear the laws. Laws are for the little people. They do not want
you to learn to defend yourself and take personal responsibility for your
own safety because that would reduce the power of the state. Therefore,
purchase a gun if you can before it's too late.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The
Bob Livingston Letter®
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2 comments:
Biden & gang are doing their best to screw America; each day, some new BS is foisted on our nation. The day of reckoning is coming.
The way our country is being pushed into a socialist slag heap, the more we need our guns.
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