Tragedy and Evil

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed ..."

We witnessed a terrible tragedy this week. An evil person took the lives of over twenty innocent children and their teachers. He happened to use guns to do it.

Now, we have the President of the United States shamelessly exploiting this tragedy and hinting that he will repeal part of the U.S. Constitution and disarm the population. An announcement may come later this morning.

This will not accomplish the stated goal. What it will do is disarm the peaceful, law abiding population and make them subject to the will of both an out of control government and the millions of less than law abiding of our nation who will ignore the law and keep their guns.

When that happens, tragedy will turn into genocide. Millions of Americans live in their homes with a reasonable degree of security (in neighborhoods that people like O and his minions do not even consider) because behind their locked door is a gun and a person ready to use it, not a hunting weapon but an effective killing machine that will dispense instant justice to any hoodlum who decides to come through the door by force. During the last century the state of the art Colt revolver was called "the Equalizer" for good reason.  It allowed normal people to walk the streets and live in their homes without fear that a stronger person or a mob for that matter would harm them.  Without that protection today, the thugs and mobs will rule and innocent people will die, not by the tens but by the tens of thousands. And under this justice department, the perpetrators will likely never be discouraged much less punished.  

The American people first became a nation of free men and forever cast off the burden of serfdom when they stood with privately owned military style weapons and said to their persecutors and the world that they would take no more. The current administration should be warned that using this tragedy to try to disarm the responsible population would be a step too far.

"That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."   George Orwell