DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIETY–DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT
J. Michael Springmann Jun 7
Modern Gun Control Movement. “The start of the modern gun control movement is largely attributed to Mark Borinsky, PhD, who founded the National Center to Control Handguns (NCCH) in 1974. After being the victim of an armed robbery [emphasis added]…In 2001, after a few name changes, the National Center to Control Handguns (NCCH) was renamed the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and its sister organization, the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, was renamed the Brady Center to Prevent Handgun Violence…The 2014 gun control lobby was composed of Everytown for Gun Safety [bankrolled by oligarch politician Michael Bloomberg, estimated net worth $82 billion], Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, Sandy Hook Promise, Americans for Responsible Solutions, and Violence Policy Center…” [Source: Britannica ProCon.Org]
The idea Borinsky, Bloomberg, Brady et al are promoting is that certain people, if not most people, shouldn’t have firearms. But the police and the armed forces should. (But they seem to miss the concept of Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.)
And yet…
Plus les choses changent, plus elles restent les mêmes.
In the Beginning. “Gun control laws are just as old or older than the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791) [empowering the people, not the government, to keep and bear arms]. Some examples of gun control throughout colonial America included criminalizing the transfer of guns to Catholics, slaves, indentured servants, and Native Americans…” [Source: Britannica ProCon.Org]
So there is discrimination. Still. Only it’s not the Catholics, slaves, or American Indians that are subject to it. It’s everyone who owns a firearm or would like to.
The Dysfunctional Mindset. Many politicians and celebrities decry the availability of weapons to the average citizen. Yet, they either arm themselves or surround themselves with bodyguards having firearms. Here are a select few:
Dianne Feinstein: She introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 in the Senate. She said:” I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. I walked to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon and I made the determination if somebody was going to try and take me out, I was going to take them with me.”
Mark Kelly, the husband of Former Anti-Gun Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-AZ): reportedly bought an AR-15 and a M1911-style semi-automatic pistol at a gun store in Tucson, Arizona. Kelly and Giffords founded their own advocacy group to restrict gun rights, Americans for Responsible Solutions.
Shania Twain: At her wedding in Puerto Rico, her security guards were armed. She supports the Brady Center.
Rosie O’Donnell: “On her television show, April 19, 1999,O’Donnell had this to say about gun owners: “…You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison.” Several months later, a bodyguard in her employ applied for a concealed gun permit from the Greenwich (Connecticut) Police Department.
Sarah Brady (now dead): “…bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas…and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements…”
Michael Moore: He’s a staunch advocate of gun control who has gone so far as to suggest that merely owning a gun is racism. His bodyguard had been once arrested at New Yok’s JFK airport for carrying an unlicensed weapon.
When the Fish Stinks, it Stinks From the Head. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., elected president of then United States under a cloud, is bound and determined to strip citizens of their civil rights. In several speeches, Biden has attacked the possession of 9mm pistols and “assault rifles”, whatever they are. He seems to acquaint such rifles as military-grade weapons of war. He and many others rage against the most popular rifle in America, the Armalite-developed AR-15. This rifle, while supremely ugly, is not now and has never been in the armory of any U.S. armed service. It is semi-automatic, (you must pull the trigger for each shot), not fully-automatic. While it fires the same cartridge (5.56mm NATO/.223 Remington or 7.62mm NATO/.308 Winchester) as the U.S. military, a far more powerful cartridge, the .30-06 Springfield, is readily available. This cartridge, adopted by the War Department in 1906, has been used in the Army’s 1903-model Springfield rife and the M-1 Garand, adopted in 1936 and discontinued in 1959. The cartridge is used today in many hunting rifles.
Joe Biden has firearms problems within his own family, i.e., Hunter Biden, of Ukraine infamy.
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