Students are on the march. They have taken aim, so to speak, with a blunt political weapon, egged on by liberal, which is to say, leftist educators and a leftist press. Interestingly, these kids’ targets are placed before them specifically for them to “shoot” (their protests) at: the National Rifle Association, conservatives, Republicans, right-leaning news outlets, writers and columnists, anyone who defends the Constitution and, of course, Donald Trump. Left out of the group of targets are incompetent law-enforcement officers, organizations and bureaucrats who prefer to not enforce laws that already restrict guns and owners. Left out are liberal policies of “mainstreaming” the mentally ill and the lawyers and psychiatrists who will bring Hell-fire upon anyone who presumes to restrict any psychopath who has demonstrated the will to kill or injure and who has stated a desire to do so, even when the intended target so referenced is a school.
And so they march. Their weapons are their youth (so excessively revered in modern society), crafty signs and posters, memorable slogans and non-stop publicity through like-minded broadcasters and publishers. What do these school-age pawns believe will be accomplished?
Well, they want “more gun control laws.” After all, if (name the psychopath) could not have obtained his (99% ‘his’) “assault rifle,” those dead students would not be dead today. It’s as plain as the noses on our faces. There is a raw, unattainable truth to their simple demand. Unfortunately, that truth cannot be realized without rewriting the Constitution (of which most people under, say, 40, know very little), and the institution of police tactics intended to confiscate virtually every gun held by legal and, one would then hope, illegal gun-possessors in the country. There would then need to be imposed truly draconian restrictions upon every port of entry and airport to prevent the entry of firearms into the country. Maybe we could start with the illegal gun possessors without shredding the Constitution.
Ain’t gonna happen.
For those on the leftist spectrum, the dis-arming of the civilian population is an essential step toward creation of a more perfect nation. For Mussolini, Hitler, Lenin and Stalin, and every current far-leftist, disarmament appears vital to their ability to maintain control of the lesser civilians who are harnessed to support their governments. Now, being harnessed to support a domineering government is something Americans understand more than our founding fathers ever could have feared, but no dictator has ever encouraged private gun ownership. This might be instructive, were we possessed of eyes to see, ears to hear and sufficient historical knowledge to appreciate.
Our agitated students have not been so blessed, and happily accept some hours out of school and bright publicity on weekends as they perform the blathering their leftist mentors could never do.
Let’s suppose, children, that AR-15’s and other scary-looking rifles were banned tomorrow and quickly confiscated by the New American Gestapo. How much “safer” would you be, in your gun-free zones? Suppose some pathological idiot wanted to solve some twisted problem he feels the victim of, by shooting some kids at his school. He would be reduced to bringing 2 or 3 semi-automatic handguns and some extra clips – relatively easy to hide – and secreting them in strategic places where he could get to them on the fateful day.
The dark day comes, on his sick calendar, and he grabs a handgun and starts shooting. Does the fact that he’s not employing a rifle make a damned bit of difference? Wouldn’t you be praying for someone to shoot him? Would you be comforted by the confiscation of millions of citizens’ lawful firearms, some of whom would have resisted, being killed or criminalized and incarcerated on your behalf? After a few minutes of open season on students will you feel better when the police finally kill or arrest the wielder of a handgun rather than the wielder of a scary-looking “assault” rifle?
If the rifles were painted red and the handguns painted blue, would the absence of red guns make the recipients of blue guns’ bullets less dead?
To you the obvious response is to ban those kinds of guns, too. You are being raised as fools. Your excited demonstrations make clear your incomprehension of the exceptional origins of this nation and of the freedoms you enjoy. I hope you become more broadly educated after the public schools are done with you.
