I've generally been a proponent of the 2nd amendment. But at some point, you have to wonder why our country sees this happen every month or so, and other countries with stricter gun laws don't. I know guns don't kill people, people kill people, yada yada. But some of these other countries don't have people killing other people at nearly the rate that we do.
I'm not decided on anything... but it's time to have a serious discussion in my opinion.
Can't have any serious discussion with nutters though, is the problem.
So I'm saying to Rezident Obama:
When your private wet dreams of mass shootings again come true, you can always be relied upon to demagogue it, pander and call for yet more gun restrictions and decry our 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. All of this in kneejerk fashion, without knowing that:
- The guns used were purchased LEGALLY - gee, Oregon and the Federal Government's restrictive gun laws didn't work.
- Shooting once again took place in a "gun-free zone" where even the security guard wasn't armed, much less any of the victims or intended victims.
- Shooter wasn't some 'right-wing nutjob' in fact, he was much more of your own stripe.
So without knowing any of the facts you act all upset and angry, feigning moral outrage and call for still more of what didn't work! Chided us all and in fact blamed us, because as I paraphrase your comments from yesterday, we've "collectively made a political decision to allow these shootings every few months."
Your comments actually
angered me, which is pretty hard to do. You seriously fucking think that nutters and criminals would take heed or pay any attention at all, to gun laws? THIS shooter ignored the fact that his target college was a "gun-free zone." Seems like that didn't work either, right?
Well of course you don't believe more gun laws would work, in fact you don't care about that at all.
The problem is YOU lack the courage and the political will to propose what you really want - which is confiscation of all firearms and the banning nationally, of same. YOU are willing instead, to accept, expect and even WISH for, more mass shootings so you and your cronies on the far left can accomplish your actual goal, covertly and in increments and over generations. Because you're too cowardly to come out and just say what the goal is, what you really believe will fix this issue.
And in fact, you already know this won't fix it either. Because somehow we still have shootings in Australia, where firearm ownership IS banned, and everywhere else you use as a political model for the entire gun issue.
So, no surprise Obama - you are a fucking liar as well as a coward.
I could now trot out all the sayings and slogans, such as 'guns don't kill people, people kill people' but of course anything containing any common sense at all falls on deaf ears. What we're left with is, you and your ilk calling for yet more strict gun laws than already exist and don't work, while you well know because you're not this stupid, that nutters and criminals will IGNORE these and all these more restrictive laws and regulations do is
infringe on law abiding citizens. You know, the people you said "bitterly cling to their guns and bibles?" Yeah, those people.
Total and mass infringement of our 2nd Amendment rights is after all, what you really wish you could do. But you're too much of a coward, to actually propose anything overt in that area.
It is YOU puke, and those of your ilk on the anti-gun far left, who have "collectively made a political decision to allow these shootings every few months." Because you vociferously resist any and all common sense attempts to address this problem, and embrace and promote idiocy such as "gun-free zones." And continue to call for, more of the things that clearly, demonstrably do not work.
It is YOU puke, and those of your ilk on the anti-gun far left, who have "become numb to this" as you said, because there's never been a proposal not even one, to address gun violence in the inner cities and urban areas which collectively claim 100 times more victims in a month - in a
month - than all of the well publicized mass shootings in the last 10 years combined, have.
YOU have "made a political decision" not to politicize
that, not to demagogue
that, for reasons only you and your cabal know.
Let me tell you a proposal you can make that I would get behind and support, Mr. Rezident:
Institute a national "buy-back" program not a lot unlike your "cash for clunkers" program which removed any chance for struggling young people to be able to purchase used cars for any reasonable sum. Here's your model, Mr. Rezident.
Get millions of illicit guns off the streets and out of the hands pf perpetrators and would-be perpetrators, illicit sellers and would-be buyers, by offering money for turning guns in - and with a no identification, no questions asked policy. Pay cash or money order on the spot for firearms turned in, working or not. Set prices for them - start at something like $500 for small arms like the "Saturday night special" and go up from there.
The ATF could set this up relatively easily in every major city in the US. Get this funded with 5 billion dollars to start. Every city should have "gun disposal centers" where people can voluntarily and without legal consequence, drop off firearms for cash.
This policy can be reviewed and re-instituted every two years, with audits used to gauge effectiveness and fight any fraud or waste in the program.
My friends on the right are no doubt saying, "yeah right, just throw money at the problem" and I'm saying, "yeah you're right - use the funding power of Congress to artificially inflate the cost of street firearms, just like we did on used cars with cash for clunkers."
Get the guns off the streets and make them difficult to obtain illegally or illicitly. Make them expensive and much more valuable monetarily, than they currently are. Put the restrictions and the difficulty on the
criminals, not the law abiding citizens.
That's not just "throwing money at the problem" that's common sense. I know, anathema to you and your ilk, Obama.