Gun Control Weeks Before an Election???

We conservatives would like to thank the American Left/Mainstream Media for bringing up gun control just 4 weeks, or so, out from the Mid-term election. If there is any single threat, which will draw conservatives out to the polls… it is the threat of gun control.

Look, the Left has blinded itself to the evil in man. In my personal case, I believe that man is basically evil and his entire life is spent overcoming that evil… if he lives a decent life, that is. Apparently, the Left believes just the opposite. So, we’re never going to agree on this.

Murder comes from the heart. A human being, bent on murder, will, without doubt, find the means to commit that murder.

But, moving on, to giving up one’s means of resistance to an over-reaching government…. Conservatives understand that as long as the government is afraid of its citizens… we will remain free

Back in January, of 2005, I wrote the following:

“A government cannot control its citizens without gun control in the extreme. I mean… taking away the guns of those citizens.

The founders of the US understood this and they thoughtfully granted the citizens of the US the right to bear arms. So long as the citizens exercise that right we will be free. Soon after giving it up, we will be a totalitarian nation. It is just that simple.

I have heard all the arguments for taking away our guns and they all ring hollow when presented side by side with the facts.

Look, if you want to reduce gun deaths in America, you have to change people’s conduct. The gun is just a cold piece of machinery. It does what it is commanded to do.

The silly argument, which says the founders intended only members of the Militia to possess arms, is ridiculous. OK, who is the militia? Huh? No, it is not the National Guard. No, it is not the Reserves, and no, it is not the organized Armed Forces of the United States. Let’s look at the Federal Law on the militia. Paraphrasing the US Code title 10, section 311: “all males born in the US are automatically members of the US Militia from age 17 through age 46”.

I’m not a member of the NRA. But, I wish them well.

Our freedom is far too precious to allow the anti gun lobby to take it away. The gun bought us our freedom and it keeps us free. Take away the gun and those with murder in their hearts... will still murder… by other means. Remember, Cain had not a single gun.

In the Nation’s capitol, where gun ownership is illegal, they have more murders than any other place in the country. How can that be? Murder comes from the heart, not from the gun.

A wise man once said: “Freedom stands on five boxes: The Soap Box, The Ballot Box, the Jury Box, the Witness Box, and… the Cartridge Box."

There can be no compromise with those who would disarm our populace. We must fight to keep our second amendment rights, for nothing less than our freedom is at stake.

One of our founding fathers had this to say on our right to bear arms:

[The Constitution preserves] the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation...(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. ---James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46.

Finally, no less a person than “founding father” Patrick Henry said the following:

“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined.”

Never give up your gun for it is your freedom.”

These days, of course, the Left uses the school shootings to tug at the heartstrings of Americans and, hopefully, get us to give up our guns… out of guilt.

Like any shooting the gun is not at fault. The person pulling the trigger is at fault.

But, I suppose we must learn to expect the gun control issue to come up every time a tragedy at a school happens. It is the way the Left makes use of a nation’s sorrow, and guilt, to further their agenda.

But, just weeks out, from an election… speaks of over confidence.

Longstreet