The recent nightmare in Newtown Connecticut illustrates another sad chapter in the going struggle between perceived freedom and a realistic life with armaments.
I say armaments because today guns and rifles are extraordinary powers of destruction.
Could this be a 911 moment when everything changed? Probably not.
Let’s face it, Money swears and shoots.
Follow the money it all leads to bedlam in the end.
Until every Politian, CEO, Board member of a major Corporation’s children is shot to pieces; a valid and committed change will not take place.
Sounds harsh? Sounds unrealistic? Correct. How much more dramatic does it have to be? These are children we talking about.
With the Mental Health issue aside, each day we are reminded through all outlets of the media how incompetent and gridlocked the government is. With this in mind, how could a tyrannical government be a threat to its citizens?
And yet gun advocates use this old and tired argument time and time again.
Hey guys what’s the worry if Government is disorganized and inept?
The majority of Politian’s are cowards, most follow than lead. And all follow the money.
Lawmakers and leaders (so called leaders) need money in order to get into power. We have just had a horrendous election where over a billion dollars was spent.
President Obama’s graceful articulation to the Nation is welcome but meaningless if not backed up with courageous acts to ban entirely or at least partially the right for armaments.
His record on gun control in the first four years of office wasn’t particularly robust, maybe in the next four years without the worry being re elected he can make a difference.
However I do understand people wanting to go to a shooting range and shoot targets and I do understand people fears for home intrusion, not because the gun is always the best choice but law enforcement might be not ready available and the trust factor between the citizen and law enforcement has broken down. But an arsenal of weapons and type of weapons makes it all too easy for mayhem.
The ‘World’ you want is dictated by the ‘Money’ you spend.
In the case of the NRA its powerful lobby maintained that Politian’s remain in fear, not for being shot, but of being out of office.
President Reagan was shot and yet he still supported the right to bears arms. If he had died (then) his tombstone would of read, Long Live the NRA.
It is not just lawmakers that are responsible, but the public also. Even if laws were passed to ban armaments entirely there would be not enough police to enforce the law.
A re - calibration of thinking on armaments has to begin. If the slaughter of twenty children isn’t enough to provoke a mature response, then we are all dismal failures.
