The sun hadn’t set December 14th, and the left was already screaming for gun control. It seems that every time a tragedy hits, the left’s knee-jerk reaction is more gun control. I often wonder how these people function in the world without having any common sense – they haven’t yet figured out you can’t legislate behavior.
The only way to describe the horrific events on that day perpetrated on the small community of Sandy Hook, Connecticut by Adam Lanza is “evil.” Period. And, if you don’t believe evil exists, sit down with me for a couple of hours and I’ll tell you about my 20+ years in dependency court dealing with parents who abuse and neglect their own children. The kind of behavior I’ve seen would give you nightmares. So, if you don’t think the killing of tiny children is evil, think again.
But getting back to the issue of gun control. I heard Sen. Dianne Feinstein intends to introduce new gun control legislation next year. She’s the last person I’d listen to when it comes to crime prevention. This is the same idiot who, when she was mayor of San Francisco, revealed vital information to the press about the Night Stalker, Richard Ramirez, angering her local and Los Angeles Police Departments. During one of her press conferences, she displayed the model of Avia shoes Ramirez had been wearing to each of his murder scenes. After he saw the press conference, it was reported he threw the shoes off the Golden Gate Bridge, went back to Los Angeles and killed again. And she went on to be Senator and re-elected over and over since 1992. I don’t get the people of California (for a number of reasons).
But, Sen. Feinstein’s pledge “to do something” is the same blah, blah, blah we heard from the left after Columbine, Virginia Tech, Tucson, and Aurora. What the Senator and many don’t get is that evil behavior started with a man named Cain and will continue no matter what laws are put in place. Anders Behring Breivik killed 69 people, mostly teens, in Norway in 2011. (He killed an additional 8 people with a bomb.) And yet, Norway has very strict gun control laws. In 1996, Martin Bryant, killed 35 people in Australia; that same year, Thomas Hamilton, killed 16 kindergarten children and their teacher in Scotland; in 2002, Robert Steinhaeuser killed 13 teachers and two former classmates in Germany; in 2008, Matt Saari, killed 10 people and burned their bodies in Finland. I’m sure these countries have far stricter gun control laws that we have in this country.
What the left doesn’t seem to get is that our Constitution gives us – the people – the right to defend ourselves. I don’t believe that chipping away at that right — by banning so-called assault weapons (which were banned in 1994, by the way) — will solve the problem. What you’ll have are law-abiding citizens without them and criminals with them. Because that’s what criminals do – they commit crimes and if having a weapon is a crime, they don’t care and would still have them.
Every time I hear the left screaming for gun control, I ask myself, where were they when O.J. Simpson knifed his ex-wife and Ron Goldman to death? (Yes, O.J. Simpson killed Nicole and Ron and when someone else is convicted of those crimes, I’ll be very happy to send a heart-felt “I’m sorry” card to O.J. in his Nevada prison cell.) I didn’t hear anyone screaming to ban knives. Or how about when we read about an entire family being wiped out because of a drunk driver? Does anyone advocate to stop manufacturing cars? (The unions would have a lot to say about that.) Does anyone yell to ban alcohol? (We tried it and it didn’t work, remember? The bad guys were still making the stuff.) And how about when someone is killed, like the pedestrian in Vancouver, WA, by a jerk under the influence of marijuana? No one is demanding the repeal of our recently-passed law legalizing this crap; instead the “Weed Blog” is actually blaming the pedestrian for not walking in a crosswalk and not carrying a flashlight. The writer would prefer to “chalk it up to natural selection.”
I think if more states allowed people concealed weapon permits, we’d have fewer incidents like the one in Sandy Hook, or, at least, fewer deaths. I’m not advocating that anyone, including teachers, be forced to carry weapons. I’m saying if there were more average, law-abiding citizens, with valid CWPs, present in schools, at theatres or walking down the street, I believe these massacres could’ve been mitigated.
And for those who don’t like the idea of having armed security guards in school, please think again. We’re past the age of innocence. When I was a kid, 7 or 8 years old, I’d go outside and play with my friends all day until my mother yelled out the window for me to come home for supper. I doubt this happens much anymore, especially in the cities. Why, because we living in a very different time. Now, parents arrange “play dates” for their children in a controlled environment. As a society, we have to re-think about a lot of things, especially the protection of our children, and make sure the “good guys” are in control of the school environment.
As far as I’m concerned, more gun control will only take weapons out of the hands of law-abiding citizens – it will not keep evil at bay.
I don’t get it, but if you do, God bless you.
