NO GUN LEFT BEHIND

  There has been an increase in gun sales since November 2008. This is in response to the election of our first mixed race President. He happens to be a Democrat and as the right-wing likes to lie, “The Dems want to take away our guns.”

  Teabaggers like Sarah Palin saying “Don't retreat, reload.”, and Sharon Angle saying if the elections don't go the way she'd like a “second amendment solution” may be necessary are inflamatory.

Ginning up the base is what pols are supposed to do, but encouraging violence from the nut-jobs is dangerous to all of us. Nut-jobs don't discriminate.

  Despite the fact that President Obama has signed more pro-gun laws in his first two years than G.W. did in eight, the lies persist. The only bright spot here is there is a shortage of ammunition. The bullet makers can't keep up with the demand.

  The nut-job who killed three police officers in Pittsburgh, PA was convinced Obama was coming to take his guns. Well, the President didn't show up to take his guns. The Pittsburgh Police Department did. And now, because he couldn't think in a straight line, he has lost his guns.

Most domestic violence where a wife and children are killed is committed by a gun owner. For example:

JACKSON, Ky. – For months, Stanley Neace had shown increasing hostility to his neighbors in rural eastern Kentucky, to the point his landlord started eviction proceedings. On Saturday, Neace snapped over how his wife cooked his eggs, and killed her and four others with a shotgun before shooting himself. September 11, 2010

Metro Police say a domestic disturbance apparently led a man to shoot a woman and a preteen child before killing himself Tuesday night.
The man and woman were killed. The child was taken to a nearby hospital in extremely critical condition, police said. September 8, 2010

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A gunman opened fire at an Albuquerque fiber optics manufacturer on Monday, killing two people and wounding four others before turning the gun on himself in what police said was a domestic violence dispute. July 12, 2010

  The list goes on and on. The only justice anyone can find in these sad events is the shooter killed himself as well. I say, if you want to kill yourself, do so, but don't take other people with you, they don't want to go.

  The NRA will tell you they represent lawful gun owners and promote shooting safety. And, for the most part, they do. But their emphasis on the second part of the Second Amendment, and their insistence that Thomas Jefferson and several other framers of the Constitution supported gun ownership, is disingenuous.

  The Second Amendment states, “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state....They conveniently forget about the well regulated militia part. Today, that would be the State National Guard. And the Founders had just fought a revolution against England, which was determined to keep it's colonies in North America. So much so that they had to do it all over again in 1812 to 1814. So, of course the men who lead the United States at that time wanted an armed citizenry to fight off invaders.

  We are no longer in danger of being invaded. Yes, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and terrorists crashed planes into the Twin Towers, but these were not invasions. I have no doubt that if we were facing invasion from a hostile nation, we would have the power to repel them and eliminate the threat. But “gunner Joe” won't be on the front lines.

  Although I am a Liberal, I am not anti-gun. I have owned guns, I probably will again. But, I don't want your guns. No one wants to take them away. No one is going to protest in front of a gun shop, or go nuts if you have 12 rifles, two shotguns and a Glock or two. Why you think you need an arsenal may be a question for your therapist, but if you got them legally, no problem.

  What I am against is gun violence. I don't think a gun is the answer to anything except self-defense. No one is worth killing over. No one. No job, no woman, no man, no child, no money, is ever worth it.

  Rage, passion, hatred, and depression are powerful emotions and can lead to violence. Maybe if you are subject to any of these, you should not have an easily accessed firearm. If you have to work at getting a hold of it, you'll have time to think and maybe calm down before you act. The waiting period in some states is aimed directly at this.

  The rest of the Second Amendment says “...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” I'm only worried about people on the fringe bearing arms.