There should not be a Congressman living who would allow a presidential order to circumvent the second amendment. For those who fear we will be just like pre-war Germany, remember, they did not have a history of democracy and certainly no second amendment.
Most people are against citizens retaining the mutant military machine guns. Few would want to go to the next level. Their use should be the privilege of the military – issued to those trained in their use and well aware of their potential and purpose. Leave the military, and you lose your privilege to carry such a weapon. To argue you love to use it for target practice or hunting is to present a weak argument for civilian retention of these weapons. Either you have a limited view of what is fun or you can’t hit a deer worth beans.
Recently a young Georgia mother protected herself and her children from an intruder by utilizing her hand gun when he discovered her hiding place. Aside from the fact that she had been trained in its use (albeit that she could have had an accident with it or one of the children could have found it in the house and hurt himself/herself) it is a reasonable thing to retain such guns.
Regardless of their role in our lives, it is the greater part of valor to keep thinking of alternatives to the use of guns for protection. But that is a large order. We need to consider disarming the gangs in our cities; drug dealers and mentally unstable people. We need to think of devices such as burglar alarms, etc. These are the issues we should be discussing and on which we should focus. Guns will never go away, just some guns. But if someday we need those automatic weapons, we can dial up our rebel friends in Syria and ask them where they sourced theirs.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/01/06/georgia-mom-home-alone-with-kids-shoots-ex-con-intruder/
Knuckledraggingwino
January 16, 2013
People who really care about murdered children should be offended by the callous manner in which President Obama is exploiting the Newtown massacre to advance a preexisting, political agenda.
As the FBI-SHR, homicide data reveals,
Accessible using this on line app here: http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/asp/vic_selection.asp
From 1980 through 2010, over twenty-five thousand young children eleven and younger, were murdered. Only four thousand of these murdered children were murdered with guns. The vast majority of murdered children are brutally beaten, bludgeoned, burned, drowned, stabbed and poisoned. Even more startling is the data on who murders young children. Young children are seldom murdered by some anonymous psycho. The vast majority of young children are murdered by family members or acquaintances. Detailed studies by sociologists reveal that most child killers are mothers, putative fathers (paternal uncertainty is a major factor) stepfathers, stepmothers, and mothers’ boyfriends.
Guns Dont Murder Young Children. Disfunctional Families Murder Young Children.
While President Obama will be able to frighten many people with the spectre of “mutant machine-guns”, the simple fact of the matter is that only a tiny percentage of the guns used in homicides are rifles of any type, much less semiautomatic “assault rifles.”. The FBI homicide data reveals that gang members and drug dealers almost never use rifles to commit homicide. The proposed “Assault Weapon” ban will do nothing to protect young children or anyone else. However; disarming civilians at a time when Federal agencies, many with no legitimate law enforcement function, are stock piling Billions of rounds of hollow point ammunition for pistols and assault rifles, the parallels to Nazi Germany are terrafying.
BTW, I suggest reviewing the history of the Warsaw ghetto uprising before dismissing the idea that armed Jews could have defended themselves. The small number who armed themselves gave an impressive account of themselves. Contrast this heroic stand with the millions of Jews who allowed themselves to be herded into gas chambers because they were too ignorant of firearms to recognize that their guards’ guns had an empty chamber and couldn’t fire.
Knuckledraggingwino
January 17, 2013
The FBI-SHR data on murders of young children available here:
http://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezashr/asp/vic_selection.asp
This detailed data reveals that from 1980 through 2010, over twenty-five thousand young children younger than twelve were murdered. Only four thousand of these most innocent murder victims were killed with guns. Five out of six, young murder victims are brutally beaten, bludgeoned, burned, stabbed, and strangled.
The murders of these young children are the one murder demographic that police almost always solve. The vast majority of these murdered children are killed by family or acquaintances. More detailed sociological studies reveal that the vast majority of child killers are unmarried mothers, putative fathers, step fathers, step mothers, and mothers’ new boyfriends.
Guns Dont Kill Young Children. Disfunctional Families Kill Young Children.
The irrefutable fact that President Obama has callously exploited the Newtown massacre by literally surrounding himself with young children to proclaim his proposals to end gun violence against children rather than violence against children demonstrates that he really does not give a damn about the murders of young children unless their deaths can be exploited to advance his political agenda. By exploiting children, Obama can persuade people to ignore FBI data that rifles of any type much less “mutant machine-guns” are used in a tiny and continually decreasing percentage of the nation’s homicides. Drug dealers and gang members do commit enormous numbers of murders, but they seldom use rifles or mutant machine-guns.
President Obama and AG Holder are no doubt focusing public outrage on guns rather than murdered children because they wish to avoid discussions of who murders children. The FBI homicide data reveals that while the rate has decreased somewhat in recent years, Black people are far more likely to murder their children than everyone. Even more alarming and embarrassing for President Obama and AG Holder is the FBI data that reveals that so many Black children who survive abusive, Black families grow up to be the angry young thugs who commit a grossly disproportionate number of homicides. Blacks account for only one-eighth of the population, but they commit over half the homicides and two-thirds of the gun homicides.
If President Obama and AG Holder truly believe that the Constitutional rights of the innocent should be abridged to prevent homicides, perhaps he should sign an executive order making it illegal for Black people to purchase or possess firearms or ammunition?
samhenry
January 17, 2013
I agree with so much of what you have said here. Dysfunctional families are the source of most murderers. I don’t know about the stats re blacks but I don’t want to go racial on this. They are our fellow citizens.
Knuckledragingwino
January 19, 2013
Sam Henry:
Good to have you blogging again!!
We don’t want to “go racial” on the issue, but while the gross disparity in homicide rates might be politically inconvenient, they remain incontrovertible facts. They are as Al Gore would refer to them, “inconvenient truths.”. There is nothing racist about acknowledging these truths unless one asserts that the extremely high homicide rates are a result of a genetic propensity to violence rather than a host of social factors.
The online SHR access tool is useful, but more refined data on child homicides is available here:
http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/children.cfm
Even more detailed research by sociologists and criminologists reveals the fatal flaw in the FBI offender classification criteria that equates step parents with parents. The simple fact of the matter is that step parents are too often a lethal threat to children that they are not biologically related too. This threat is most pronounced in uncommitted relationships. Another lethal threat to children are uncommitted relationships “shacking up” as it was once referred to, and paternal uncertainty. The African American community has a much greater exposure to these risk factors because their historic position on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder have made them vulnerable to welfare programs that have had the effect if not the intent to undermine Black families. Notice how the child victimization rate for Blacks decreased dramaticly in response to welfare reform. Homicide rates for teens and adults, White as well as Blacks, also decreased in response to welfare reform.
Freedom, by the way
January 25, 2013
I didn’t know you were blogging again! I hope that means you are feeling better! No, I don’t believe the average Joe should be allowed go have a grenade launcher or fully automatic. But what no one is talking about is the true intent of the 2nd Ammendment. It is in place to keep tyranny at bay. No one likes to talk about that. The thought of the government turning on its own people is a horrendous thought. And so is another scenario, if Americans ever needed to defend ourselves against a foreign invasion. But it would be much more horrendous if our government had stripped us down to single-shot fire amrs. Forget it. No one would stand a chance.
I find it highly insulting and ridiculous when political leaders like Feinstein and Cuomo decree what type of firearms and how many rounds are required to defend against a home invasion or shoot a deer. What makes them qualified to make that decision? The aspect of hunting should have no place in this discussion anyway. The 2nd ammendment has nothing to do with hunting. There are many Americans, like my family, that have fireamrs and do not hunt. We enjoy target shooting but that is just a fun family activity and also keeps us in practice. Living in a rural area, it takes a LONG time for law enforcement to respond to a call. One two occassions we have had to pull out our firearms and have them at the ready waiting 20-30 minutes for the sheriff to arrive. (The last time was just last week when my neighbor called about a robbery that had just occurred at his house. He saw someone emerging from his basement door as he was pulling in the driveway from work. He had called the sherriff but wanted to warn us that he had seen the perpetrator running down the treeline towards our property. Thankfully, he did not try to break into our home but he was never caught. In the meantime, we hunkered down with a loaded gun. No. I will not be denied the right to bear arms and I will not allow the government to take away whatever guns they deem “unlawful” at the moment. .
Knuckledraggingwino
January 26, 2013
Amen!
Some say we are crazy to worry about government tyranny. These same people have no objection to having a military to deter or repel foreign invaders. They ignore the fact that the 20th century saw more people systematically exterminated by their own police forces and military than were killed by foreign invaders. I have met many law enforcement officers whose honor and integrity is beyond question. However; I have encountered many cops and security officers (especially the TSA) who would eagerly comply with orders to round up people that the government deemed undesireable and herd them into gas chambers. The people might note able to defeat the US military armed using semiautomatic weapons, but they could inflict enough casualties to force thevgovernment ton rethink it’s policies. Of course targeting the civilians who support a tyrannical government is an extremely effective tactic.
samhenry
February 1, 2013
gThank you for this free. Your remarks about hunting are noted and an important distinction.