Saturday, January 9, 2016

Our Urban Frontier

         The single biggest issue in the debate on gun control should be the Constitution of the United States. It was vital to the founders of our nation that the freedoms won were never to be lost....either the freedom to live where one chooses, worship how one desires, and express the thoughts that one wants to express....or the freedom to own private property. The Constitution protected all of these and if the Constitution itself was to come under attack than all of the above were to be the means for protecting it.
         In the early days of our nation's history one was safer in the city than on the violent frontier. Firearms were not an issue in my youth but they are today as our society now has a violent urban frontier. We had no worries then in the United States about being ruled by a dictator.....we have those worries now. We have returned to our roots not only in the need for personal protection, but as England once experienced... tyranny has come from abroad, is dissolving the Parliament, taking over the church and threatening those who dissent.
         Our Founding Fathers knew that we would need protections in retaining our liberty and freedom so our Constitution was written and included in it was the right to bear arms. They also knew that we would have to be vigilant and informed but here all that they could do was to warn. We are thus today forced to discuss gun control with those who neither fully understand or particularly value freedom in the terms mentioned above.
         A president such as Barack Obama is what Thomas Jefferson worried about and it's no coincidence that recent attempts have been made to discredit the author of our Declaration of Independence. I listened to this current president say that no one wants to take away your guns and actually had to sit back for a moment in amazement that he uses the same phrases as in his previous lies, only changing the object of the sentence. The intellect of the American public has become like that of a young child who can easily pick up on how to use a smartphone but cannot discern predators on that smartphone.
       These are the primary issues on gun control but the Left wants to bypass them and play on the emotions of an uninformed public much of which sincerely thinks that gun sales are related to the violence, but Barack Obama's tears are fake These architects of a Godless society with a greatly diminishing self-control and a lawless White House, trained as they were by Saul Alinksy's Rules For Radicals, were far more influenced by the Communist Manifesto.