The obvious solution
Published Wed, Jun 4 2008 9:46 PM
My dad is a wonderful man. He seems to know me pretty well too. Once again, he sent me some pearls of wisdom in email, forwarding on a message that he found humorous and particularly enjoyable. Once again, I share it here.
Barack Hussein Obama, the lead Presidential Democratic Party candidate, is for banning all guns in America. He is considered by those who have dealt with him, as a little more than self-righteous.
At a recent rural elementary school meeting in Texas, he asked the audience for total quiet. Then in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands once every few seconds, holding the audience in total silence. Then he said into the microphone, 'Every time I clap my hands a child in America dies from gun violence.'
Little Johnny with a proud Texas drawl, pierced the quiet. 'Well, stupid, stop clapping!'
It seems to me that Little Johnny has found the obvious solution.
Of course the problem of gun violence in America is a real one. But stating it that way masks the true nature of the problem. The real problem isn't "gun violence", it's just plain "violence". A gun is merely an effective tool for dealing death. There are other effective tools for the same purpose. Removing access to one of those tools won't prevent the others from being used, and it won't reduce violence in the end either.
I refuse to be taken in by the left's straw man. The second amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America says in part "… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." I'm tired of the left trying to infringe upon my Constitutionally protected rights.
There's a plain and simple fact that advocates of the infringement of the right of the people to keep and bear arms simply refuse to recognize. A person who is intent upon committing a criminal act will do so in spite of the fact that there exist laws prohibiting the act. Laws exist prohibiting murder, and yet, every day, people commit murder. Laws exist prohibiting a man from striking another man with his fists, and yet, every day, people strike each other with their fists to settle arguments. The mere establishment of laws prohibiting people to use guns to commit violent crimes does nothing to actually prevent people from using guns to commit violent crimes. On the other hand, decent law abiding citizens who are prohibited from owning a gun will not own a gun, while those with criminal intent will still be able to obtain guns and will continue to use them in support of their criminal activities.
This of course assumes that the constitutional prohibition on the infringement of the right to keep and bear arms doesn't get in the way of enacting a law prohibiting people from owning (read keeping) a gun. And of course, our Congress, which has seen fit for decade after decade after decade to ignore the Constitution, isn't going to be stopped by the second amendment anyway.
After all, they freely ignore the ninth (you know the one — I'm paraphrasing now, but it says that just because a particular right isn't mentioned in the constitution doesn't mean it doesn't exist) and tenth (you know the one — it says that if a power isn't EXPLICITELY granted to the federal government by the Constitution, and isn't EXPLICITELY denied to the states by the Constitution then that power is reserved for the states or the people) amendments with impunity, and Senator McCain, the Republican nominee for President, didn't see much of anything wrong with ignoring and in fact deliberately flouting the first amendment (you know the bit that says "Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech") with McCain-Feingold (you know — that little piece of congressional legislation that essentially outlaws express advocacy ads in the 60 calendar days before an election when the ad is produced by and paid for by certain organizations — in other words, the law envisioned by John McCain and Russell Feingold, passed by Congress, signed by George W. Bush and happily accepted by our Supreme Court in spite of the fact that it restricts the freedom of speech of those organizations).
No. I'm certain that a little thing like the Constitution will prove to be no impediment at all to the ambitions of a man like Barrack Hussein Obama, a woman like Hillary Rodham Clinton, or a man like John Sidney McCain III.
Little Johnny's right. STOP CLAPPING STUPID! And stay the Hell away from my guns!
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David responded with:
 | While it may be an exaggeration to say, "The Constitutiom died at Appomattox," it's fair to say it was dealt its first major bloody wound (the one that forever voided the Tenth Amendment and expanded--without amendment--the powers of the federal government far, far beyond the scope of the Constitution for the first time). |
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