World Events and the BibleBy now everyone has heard about the horrific shooting that took place at the Washington D.C. Navy Yard where 13 were murdered. While this was no doubt a tragic event. Why does the media sensationalize these types of events? For ratings of course and to promote fear of firearms. We reported just days ago about the passage of anti-gun bills by the California Legislature. These bills now lay on the desk of the Governor. If signed, they will become “law” making criminals out of millions of Californians if they fail to register their now titled, “assault weapon” in addition to a slue of other “laws”.
I bring this up due to the timing of these gun bills and the shooting in D.C. California is by far the most populist state in the union with 38 million citizens. When California makes a political move, the rest of the nation is not that far behind. With the Navy Yard shooting taking place we already see California Senator Diane Fienstien using it as an opportunity to take guns from the people by her statement.
“When will enough be enough? Congress must stop shirking its responsibility and resume a thoughtful debate on gun violence in this country,” she said. “We must do more to stop this endless loss of life.”
Diane is not interested in any debates, she wants to ban your firearms, that is the only “thoughtful” debate she is interested in.
Nor is she concerned about life. I see nothing from her actions to stop the United States from funding foreign terrorists in sovereign lands, enter Syria. Nor do I see the United States stopping their murder campaign in other sovereign nations of the world. Where is the “concern for endless loss of life” there Diane? In addition to taking our firearms, she would also like to silence people like myself.
Diane would continue to try to demonize firearms in her statement by saying,
“There are reports the killer was armed with an AR-15, a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol when he stormed an American military installation in the nation’s capital and took at least 12 innocent lives,” Diane said.
An AR-15 uses a .223 round which is also used in some hunting rifles, shotguns are also used in hunting and a semi-automatic pistol is NOT an automatic pistol. It is capable of firing one round per pull of the trigger. If a person has evil intent on their mind they can use a plethora of items to kill; a car, sling-shot, hammer, etc. Should we ban these items now too? The whole gun debate has never been about keeping people safe. It has always been about taking away your right to protect you and your family from overreaching government. This is why we have the 2nd amendment.
“Among President Clinton’s first acts upon taking office in 1993 was to disarm U.S. soldiers on military bases. In March 1993, the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and making it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection. For the most part, only military police regularly carry firearms on base, and their presence is stretched thin by high demand for MPs in war zones. Because of Mr. Clinton, terrorists would face more return fire if they attacked a Texas Wal-Mart than the gunman faced at Fort Hood, home of the heavily armed and feared 1st Cavalry Division.”
Another oddity is the boogieman, better known as Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahria purportedly called for attacks on the United States last week. In one breath the United States explains how much Al Qaeda would like to cut our head off. In the next they send our tax dollars to them in order to carry out destabilization efforts against the sovereign nation of Syria. Shouldn’t we question that?
Changing gears, an article from Bloomberg points out,
In the 30 years through March, 78 public mass shootings occurred in the U.S. — incidents in which four or more people were killed at random by a gunman murdering indiscriminately, according to a report issued that month by the Congressional Research Service. These crimes don’t include gang-related killings or domestic disputes where a person slays relatives or other people linked to the murderer. The mass slaughters listed in the report caused the deaths of 547 people. Over the same three decades through 2012, that’s less than a tenth of 1 percent of the 559,347 people the Federal Bureau of Investigation estimates were murdered in America.
“It is a very, very small percentage,” said James Alan Fox, who teaches criminology at Boston’s Northeastern University and co-authored a book about mass shootings called “Extreme Killing,” published in 2011.
In the wake of shootings such as the one in Washington that claimed at least 13 lives, including the alleged shooter, “our tendancy is to go overboard and overreach in terms of trying to increase levels of security,” Fox said. “The fear is greater than the risk.”
The fact remains, these mass shootings are covered extensively to drive fear into the individual minds of the public. Keeping us in a constant state of fear and persuading us by the visual images from our TV to relinquish our right to bear arms.
I think Rahm Emanual said it best,
“You never a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that is its an opportunity to do things that you thought you could not do before.”
http://brandontward.blogspot.com/2013/09/navy-yard-shooting-another-attempt-on.html#.UjhUD8bbOSo
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