And the danger they pose to society

There was a shooting today. A number of people were killed including the shooter. It doesn’t matter where it was. It doesn’t matter who was killed. It doesn’t even matter their ages. The bare facts are that someone was killed today by a gun.

This senseless act of violence against our citizenry will be portrayed by the liberal media using the broadest of brush strokes and those colors associated with violence. The liberal media will tell a story of how the problem is the gun and its use in these violent crimes. In their articles they will point out the statistics of gun violence in this country over decades. They will bring up the mass killings of children in order to tug at our heart strings. They demand, in their articles, the removal of first certain types of guns then eventually all guns from public use.

The politicians will promise to outlaw the use, sale, and possession of ‘assault weapons’ by the American public. They will promise to submit bills to Congress to that affect. It will become their biggest talking point on their campaign trails. They will further promise to uphold the laws currently in place and change them, if necessary, to achieve their goal of a society free from firearms.

But it is a smoke screen. Neither the media nor the politicians care about the safety of our people. Their real concern is their ratings and the support of the voters. The media will do anything to get people to read, watch or listen to their stories while the politicians will say or do anything to get our vote.

There is a myriad of laws on the books controlling the use of firearms by the general public. Why do we need more laws when those on the books are either not being enforced, ignored or proven ineffective?

There is one subject when it comes to guns laws that is not being addressed. Enforcement. I’m not talking about the police officer on the streets but those individuals in the court system who on a daily basis fail to enforce those laws to their fullest extent because of either a political or social agenda or out of fear of retaliation. District Attorneys who pick and choose what laws to enforce. Judges who legislate from the bench instead of doing their job of enforcing the laws. Lawyers and judges take an oath to uphold the laws of the United States. Yet every day they act as though they never heard of such an oath. They should not be making their decisions on a case based on what the outcome will or could be, who it could or would hurt but should be made based solely on the law on the books. These laws are not to be interpreted by the lawyers and judges but used as written, with the prescribed penalties for committing the crime. They should not have the ability to alter a penalty simply because they don’t like it or ‘they’ think its unfair. That is why laws get rewritten and until they are the parameters and penalties of the law stand.

Today the subject is gun violence and crime. What will it be next month? And why is it only brought up during an election year?

It is time for the American people to stand up for what they believe in, demand their Representatives and Senators do more than constantly run for re-election, demand the courts properly uphold the laws of the land and demand the protection that is afforded us by the Constitution of the United States.

When I was a young person my parents had limited information about their political candidates. They only knew what the newspapers reported and rarely got information about the politician’s antics away from the district or Washington D.C. They assumed their politicians were upstanding, moral individuals who were looking out for them. We now live in a world where even the tiniest slip by a politician becomes newsworthy and gets plastered all over the media for the country to see. We also have the ability to research for ourselves what our representatives in D.C. are truly doing for us. We can see what bills they support and voted on, what caucuses they belong to, what committees they are part of and even who they hang around with. We don’t have to take the word of the media.

Then we need to vote; not along party lines but according to our heart and personally researched information. We need to go to town hall meetings and ask those questions that make the politician warm under the collar. We need to be active in our communities, question local decisions on schools, county and town policies. We need to step forward for our fellow citizens when they need protection, help and support. We just need to be friends again.