My daughter Cassandra, recently informed me that since the tragedy in Newtown Connecticut, her school now conducts lock down drills. As I understand it, the children practice where they are to go to hide in the event that some deranged individual somehow gets into the school with a gun.The School, is in the process of installing security camera's everywhere. There are new parent policies as well if a parent arrives on the school grounds during a time of day when they aren't expected to be there they must wait for security to let them in and they must prove who they are with proper identification and if they are unable to produce proper identification they are not admitted. As a parent, I under stand these new polices and procedures but I confess I never thought the day would ever come in America, when children would have to practice lock down drills and memorize special places to hide in there own school in case they ever had to hide from an armed mad mad in an attempt to save their lives.This is certainly not the America, I grew up in.
President Obama, now takes his argument for stricter gun control directly to the people and he began this campaign of sorts today, in Minneapolis Minnesota. The president will try to convince the American, people in certain states to put pressure on their senators and congressmen to vote for tighter gun control legislation. The President, has made no secret of his desire to ban military style assault weapons.even though Vice President Biden, said recently that banning such weapons, will do little to prevent tragedies like the one at Newtown.I do believe in gun control but that control should remain in the hands of the American people not in the hands of the government. What's really going on here is quite simple the government , in the name of gun control, is not trying to control guns at all but the government, is trying to control the American people who own them and the government's ultimate goal is to regulate every facet of American, life for by doing this they in affect own the American people so much for personal freedom. The seeds of tyranny, are often planted in the soil of government control in the name security peace and safety.
There is a familiar saying that says, forewarned, is forearmed. Remember, government can only take the individual freedoms that we as the American people are willing to surrender to them.The second Amendment grantees every law abiding American, the right to bear arms. and that is a right that no free American, should be willing to lay down their arms and surrender. As always, my friends, these words remain, just, some words, to think on.
When we were in school it was hide under the desk because we are about to get nuked drills. So as to it's not the America we grew up in, in many ways thank goodness for that.
ReplyDeleteIn so many comments about gun control I hear so much fear. Mostly fear of government, which I always find honestly so odd. As it's the very people who most wear their patriotism most proudly are the very ones certain the Government is coming for their guns.
Now I've had people with guns try very hard to use them to pointed effect on me. And I have served in the Army, have owned guns, shot guns, never had to use one on a person. My biggest fear isn't being done bad by some gun welding thug, it's getting shot by one of my idjit neighbors dropping their gun in some vain attempt to look cool.
Any way rambling I know. My point I guess is 1. Guns cause more problems then they solve. 2. collecting guns cause big bag government is a coming for ya, tanks beat guns, rockets beat automatic weapons. we have the biggest most well funded Military in the world and they are danged good at what they do. Hug your guns all you like, if the Government goes that bad, your guns wont help. It's in the freedom of thought and freedom of expression that all our freedoms depend. And finally 3. Trying to control guns in America just makes people go all wiggy nuts paranoid so it's best to just let it be. Seriously, personally I think it would be nice if buying a gun were at least as well regulated as say driving a car. But if walking down the street packing heat like Matt Dillion will make people happy and calm down their fear of all things, well fine fine. Lets go ahead and see if that calms people down any. Just please, don't drop the dang thing, I would far rather be shot and hear some one say 'Got Ya' then "oops"
Well remember you said guns cause more problems than they solve when someone breaks into your home with a gun and you don't have one because the government said you couldn't have one because guns cause more problems than they solve.
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