George Rebane
Bumblebrain wins the prize, hands down, of being the most ignorant American president about guns – every facet of firearms and their uses is a mystery to him. We see this from just his last week’s bevy of encounters with a microphone. What puzzles me is why his handlers continue to let him make a fool of himself in public without providing him with even the basics of what guns are all about. It’s as if they really do want to portray him even to the Left as the double dummy the Right has known him to be even before he ran for president. What is in their interest to do that?
So now the hysteria to “do something about guns” has even infected Republican politicians. Notice that no one is saying or talking about ‘do something about protecting our children’. In the diatribes we hear, there is not even a connection made between the laundry list of new gun restrictions and how they would prevent school shootings. None will ask how the next ‘do something about guns’ will reduce the chances for another school massacre; that is the farthest from any politician’s mind. Now it’s all about the Left wanting to take the biggest possible step toward their perennial goal of eliminating private gun ownership, and the Right wanting to seem caring while minimizing damage to the 2nd Amendment and not pissing off their tried and true constituents. Both sides are calculating the impact of their respective kabuki dances on the November election, the children be damned. More national insanity on parade.
[5jun22 update] The 2nd Amendment is our Founders’ legacy to enable Americans to successfully revolt when their government goes rogue. This fundamental truth about the governance of our democratic republic was made clear this morning on FN’s Media Buzz by Mollie Hemingway, editor-in-chief of The Federalist. IMHO this seminal aspect about gun rights is constantly overlooked by our conservative media (and, of course, denied by the lamestream) when reporting on ‘doing something about gun violence’. And again, no one is talking about what any of these proposals will do or would have done to protect the children. For the Dems it's all about ratcheting toward the final removal of the 2A using every calamitous opportunity and with every useless (re school massacres) notch to constructively further limit the ownership and use of firearms by the law-abiding public. "A democracy, if you can keep it." – the real purpose of the 2A is keeping the basis of our constitutional republic; it should be part and parcel of every discussion and debate about reducing ‘gun violence’. Rogue governments have ALWAYS been by far the greatest killers of their own citizens.
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