HOUSE SPEAKER THINKS “NO-FLY LIST” INDIVIDUALS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO OWN FIREARMS
…The New House Speaker
Apparently, the GOP wants all Americans
to carry firearms.
I don’t know
if you heard this, but the new House
Speaker, Paul Ryan ,doesn’t agree that suspected terrorists on the “no-fly list” should be kept from buying
a gun.
No, I’m not
kidding. His explanation is that “People can be wrongly added to the no-fly
list and to stop them from buying a firearm would be violating their 2nd
Amendment rights.”
Excuse
Me!!!!
How about,
instead of letting those people that are being investigated for possible
terrorist connections continue to buy firearms, why not just fix the damn
no-fly list?
Sheesh…..this
is just another example of “You send them
to school, buy them the books, and they eat the pages.” What the hell happened to good ole American
commonsense?
It’s bad
enough that because of the NRA and the far-right conservatives,
we have no common sense regulations for background checks for who can purchase
firearms and the materials for building pipe-bombs or IED’s.
As it is right now, especially since this latest massacre
in San Bernardino, all we can tell our children is “OK, if you are in your classroom, and a gunman
walks into your school, crouch down underneath your desk, cover your head, and
either pray that you won’t get killed or kiss your ass good-bye”.
Then there are
those idiots like Senators Lindsay Graham and Marco Rubio that say “Attacks like these have nothing to do with
gun regulations.” Actually, they are
probably correct, being that it’s too late for us here in America, That’s because of the NRA having full ownership of the US
Congress. Today, there is already at least one firearm for every man, woman and
child in America. And since only 37% of
Americans own at least one gun, that means that many of the 37% own a pot-load of guns.
One FBI
investigator stated this week that the guns that were used by the San
Bernardino couple were purchased legally. Plus, if they had the money and if
they wanted to, the same couple could have legally purchased 100 of those guns, and with thousands of rounds of ammo, all with no questions asked.
In addition, these were military grade
semi-automatic guns that are made specifically for quickly killing a large
number of people. They would have been
illegal to purchase in California if not for a small modification on the
magazines and ammo loading. The NRA
once again had helped the gun manufacturers get that sales approval so that the
guns could be sold in California.
As it is
today, from the way the gun rights laws are tilted to anyone wanting to own and
carry a firearm, the right to kill people is appearing to supersede the right
of any family to live and grow. In other words, a gun crazy’s 2nd
Amendment rights appear to supersede an American family’s rights to live
in peace.
I do believe
that if our founding fathers would have been able to see into the future, once
the United States had a full-time standing Army, the Second Amendment would
have been repealed. It was never
envisioned that the 2nd amendment was for allowing civilians to own
their own arsenal of assault weapons. Remember,
that when the 2nd amendment was written, all that was available were flint
lock long rifles and one shot muskets.
I wish I had
an answer for all this, but until the US Congress grows a new back-bone, we are
just going to have to continue hiding under our desks.
Copyright G.Ater 2015
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