Bodies Not Cold Yet -- Left Cries: "Take Their Guns!" ... J. D. Longstreet

Bodies Not Cold Yet -- Left Cries: "Take Their Guns!"

A Commentary by J. D. Longstreet
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 "One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms." -- Constitutional scholar and Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story, 1840
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Will it never end, indeed(?! ) ... I mean, the Left's relentless drive to violate the constitutional rights of the American citizen.

The bodies from the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard were not even cold yet, the smoke had not entirely cleared the air,  and there was Senator Diane Feinstein, a "progressive" (21st century code-word for Marxist)  from California, railing amid the metaphorical flow of verbal crocodile tears:  "When is enough, enough?" 

Oh woe, Oh woe, Senator.  When, indeed, is enough, enough?  Believe me when I proclaim to you, and your cohorts on the left, we have HAD far MORE than enough of your assault on our constitutional rights. 

On the other hand, it is close enough to the 2014 elections that it might serve a good purpose for you democrats to begin beating the drum AGAIN for gun control. 

Americans have had a belly-full of "you people" and we are currently on the cusp of driving you from power in Washington.  That little added "umph" of attempted gun control could do the trick for us and give us a real chance to fumigate the halls of Congress of the stench of Marxism without you leftists in it continually creating a veritable fog of noxious communist propaganda.

So, go ahead, Senator.  Give us more political ammo to use against you, and I assure you, madam,  WE SHALL! 

Why, oh why, after learning that the people committing these awful gun crimes are mentally ill, does the government insist on blaming perfectly sane law-abiding citizens for the erratic behavior of the mentally ill? 

You want to stop the gun massacres?  Get the mentally ill off the streets and into secure hospitals where they can be treated -- and the public can be safe from them.  It is that simple.

BUT --- The gun control advocates won't even discuss this simple solution. Very much like "profiling," somehow, the left sees treating the mentally ill as a violation of THEIR constitutional rights.  How convoluted is that?   
They're throwing around that phrase "common sense" again.  Have you noticed?  Commonsense gun control, restrictions/regulations, etc. 

Look, anytime the left tosses around the words "common sense" Americans had better grab their guns and trot quickly to the barricades.

Common sense?  Come on, folks!  At the same time that thirteen bleeding dead bodies are lying on the ground beneath a blue haze of gun smoke, our fearless(?)/feckless President goes on national TV to ... make another political speech ...  a POLITICAL SPEECH, while Americans lay dead and wounded just a mile and a half from the room in which he was speaking!  THAT'S common sense???

That's callousness. 

That's not caring. 

That's hard-hearted -- not to mention that it is politically DUMB!

"In the wake of the shooting at the Navy Yard, Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the president is implementing executive actions and reiterated his commitment to strengthening gun laws, including expanding background checks to sales online and at gun shows."

“The president supports, as do an overwhelming majority of Americans, common-sense measures to reduce gun violence,” Carney said.   SOURCE:  http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/09/17/carney-obama-implementing-executive-actions-following-navy-yard-shooting/

Two things I'd like you to notice from Mr. Carney's words above:  "Overwhelming Majority of Americans" and "Common-sense measures."   Now.  Ask yourself ... where is that overwhelming majority of Americans Carney speaks of -- and -- by whose definition are the intended gun control "measures" "common-sense?"
Think about this for a moment:  The Ship Yard Shooting took place in a city with arguably the strictest gun control laws of any city in the United States.  The Ship Yard, itself,  is another gun free zone within that city.  And yet, 13 people lie shot to death.  Remember, the shooting did not stop until GOOD MEN  WITH GUNS STOPPED IT!

The tsunami of calls for "common sense gun control measures" began, predictably, as if already planned and ready for dissemination. If one did not know better, one would think gun control advocates had really prepared, in advance,  this hyper reaction to the shooting at the Ship Yard.
 
It is all Bovine Scatology carefully designed to  make the weak-minded amongst us feel good about giving up their God-given rights to the government.

It is typical of the political left to play upon the emotions of the electorate.  Their entire platform depends upon manipulating the emotions of the people.   That's why, when the left is in power in America, the country is maintained on the very edge of one crisis, or another, every single day.  That continued assault on the human psyche weakens the ability to focus and think logically.  And, as we should all know by now, LOGICAL thinking will destroy the left's politics every time.

NOW you understand why America lurches from one near disaster to another during periods in which the Democratic Party is in control, marginally, or otherwise.  If those crises do not create themselves, well, the left is not above assisting in the creation of such situations.  A sort of "tail wagging the dog" kind of thing, don't you know.

Don B. Kates, writing on statistical patterns in gun crime said this:  "...Virtually never are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents."

So, for gun owners, it is back to the barricades once more.  It appears we are doomed to fighting the same battle over and over again.  We have no choice,  for the moment we let down our guard, we will no longer be citizens.  We will be unarmed subjects.

© J. D. Longstreet