Gina Loudon
Townhall.com
12/20/2012
Anytime I hear leftists look for solutions I am skeptical. Speaking in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama stated with absolute resolution, “These tragedies must end, and to end them we must change.” We have heard that word “change” before. We must change. OK. How exactly? A madman goes on a rampage and the rest of us must change?…
…The Democrats have heightened their unceasing demand for gun control including demand for assault weapon bans. Even a Rahm Emmanuel/Saul Alinsky” never let a crisis go to waste” move, Democrats are floating the idea of easing restrictions on forced mental confinement. Is this the change that Obama envisions? Have we forgotten that we used to do that? Is “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” no longer required viewing? Again, the most hard left, radical President in American history, a Democrat, has warned us that we must change. What does he mean? What do any hard leftists mean when they demand that people change for the sake of their own good? Re-education camps are a central tenet of Marxism and coerced behavior is central to the Socialist ideology. Socialist ideology holds as a sacrosanct that the collective is more important than the individual. When connecting the proverbial dots, the connections become ominous.
No change should contradict the Constitution, but today’s socialistic Democrat party will never agree with that. It cannot agree. The Constitution holds the opposite core value to socialism. In America, the liberty of the individual is more important than the will of the collective. Most Republicans will zealously defend the Constitution and forcefully reject any solution that defies the Constitution and curtails individual liberty. No matter how statist Obama’s proposal in reaction to Newtown, here will be few, if any Democrats with the courage to break ranks and defend liberty. They will spin and offer Orwellian “new speak” terms to replace the now absurd vision of “gun free schools” with some huge intrusive new package of big government programs offered up “for our own good” because “we must change.” The new TSA-style government department can place unionized government gropers at every school entrance. You can bet that right now the union bosses are salivating at all the new potential government workers they could add to their rolls…
…The terrible tragedy of children murdered should be taken very seriously. Well-meaning Americans will now be left obliged to defend the Constitution in the face of a Democrat party dominated by a fifth column that sees the Constitution as the problem…
Read the complete article at Townhall.com
Also at the site, Reid on Guns: “People Who Criticize This Would Probably Criticize Baseball Or Football”
Gun Violence — Let’s Shift the Odds in Favor of the Good Guys! by Larry Elder.
…Americans, according to criminologist Gary Kleck, use guns 2.5 million times each year for self-defense, usually just brandishing the weapon. (The attacker is wounded in less than 8 percent of self-defense cases.) Of the 2.5 million, 400,000 claim that but for their gun they would have been dead. If we’re serious about “doing something,” we might consider shifting the odds in favor of the good guys.
A Real Public Opinion Poll: 8,000 People a Day Join NRA After Sandy Hook
Update: Congressman: Rick Perry Has ‘Blood On His Hands’ For Supporting Second Amendment
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) is understandably distraught, but the killings in Connecticut are the Texas governor’s fault? Really?
Update 2: In the wake of Sandy Hook, cooler heads must prevail
