US Embassy in Jerusalem to open in May -- in time for Israel's 70th anniversary.And:
More take on Israel's Deep state and the threat to Bibi. (See 1 below.)
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Yesterday Rep. Buddy Carter tried to speak at a local church and was disrupted. Then he came to our home and had an opportunity to discuss, in a civil environment, a lot of issues and answered a lot of questions.
It was the way our nation should function but too many on the far left have no sense of balance, of decorum and are interested in engaging in fascistic methods. Sad indeed.
Their new excuse is the tragedy in Florida. More hypocrisy from the leftists..
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Netanyahu vs the Deep State
The deep state is waging war on Trump and Netanyahu.
In a year and a few months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will have spent more time at the helm of the Israeli government than any other man. The other man is David Ben-Gurion, the Socialist leader who repressed Zionist nationalist movements in Israel by fiat, by law and, as in the Altalena, by murder.
That factoid may not matter much to most people, even most Israelis, but it matters a great deal to the remnants of Ben-Gurion’s regime, the leftists who don’t win elections, but do control the government. Until ’77, Israel’s Prime Ministers came from the Labor Party. The last Labor Prime Minister left office in 2001. It’s not just that Netanyahu is eclipsing Ben-Gurion, but that Labor has become irrelevant.
But of course the Labor Party isn’t irrelevant. Its candidates may be a joke. Its base of support consists of Tel Aviv hipsters who never actually leave their leftist bubble except to visit Paris, New York or Berlin. Their burning social issue is how much more Daddy has to pay to get them a place in their trendy neighborhood. Not even Obama’s best people could help them get much mileage out of that one.
After the ’15 election, Haaretz, the paper of record for the Israeli anti-Israel left, had wailed, “Leftist, secular Tel Aviv went to sleep last night cautiously optimistic only to wake up this morning in a state of utter and absolute devastation.” Leftist secular Tel Aviv has been devastated for nearly two decades.
But Labor’s deep state still runs much of Israel the way it did when Ben-Gurion was still alive. It doesn’t just have the media and academia, the non-profits and the elites, the way most national ‘lefts’ do. It also controls the old machinery of government that it spent generations running and robbing.
Ben-Gurion’s tenancy may be a factoid to most, but it’s a sore insult to Labor. And its deep state is working overtime to force Netanyahu out of office using fake scandals, fake news and fake police.
This isn’t a new obsession. If you think CNN’s Trumpmania is bad, the Israeli police and media have spent the better part of a decade trying to invent ridiculous Netanyahu scandals. How ridiculous?
Netanyahu’s wife was accused of stealing bottle deposits. “Attorney general mulls probe into Sara Netanyahu’s bottle deposits” isn’t a gag, it’s an actual headline. The catering budget at the prime minister’s residence has been under investigation for years. But there was no investigation when Shimon Peres, the last rotten remnant of the Ben-Gurion regime, threw a lavish birthday party that cost millions and included Bill Clinton, Robert De Niro and Barbara Streisand. Clinton’s fee of $500K was paid by the JNF, which instead of planting trees, was paying one dirty leftist to lionize another.
Israel’s lefty fake news outfits cheered Peres, but took issue with Netanyahu’s ice cream budget.
Another Netanyahu investigation involved the nursing care provided to his father-in-law before his death, because the Israeli left has no more concept of decency than it does of national security.
None of these scandals ever actually go away. Much like the left’s perjury traps and obstruction of justice campaigns against Trump, discredited scandals are rolled into accusations of a cover-up.
And when that doesn’t work, then there are accusations of a media cover-up.
One of the investigations for which Israel’s lefty deep state cops want to charge Netanyahu involves an accusation that he had traded favors for positive coverage from Yedioth Ahronoth. But, as Caroline Glick points out, it never actually happened. Another accusation claims that Netanyahu provided favors in exchange for positive coverage from the Walla! news site. Both accusations testify to the left’s obsession with sowing fear into any media outlet providing positive media coverage of Netanyahu.
Israel Hayom, a free paper that covered Netanyahu positively, was targeted with a law banning the distribution of successful free papers. This attack on a literal free press was known as, “Law for the Advancement and Protection of Written Journalism in Israel”. Lefty journalism has plenty of ‘protektsia’ in Israel. But who will protect Israelis from the ‘journalists’ and their political bosses?
And who will protect actual journalists who report unfavorable information about the left’s deep state?
The message is that any paper that reports the truth might be accused of conspiring with Prime Minister Netanyahu by the police leadership who have their own incestuous relationship with media outlets.
Israel has a first-world military and a third-world police. Israel’s military is competitive, professional and heroic. Its police force is Middle Eastern. At its best, it’s useless and at its worst, it’s deeply corrupt and abusive. The same holds true for the entire justice system which remains a fossilized remnant of its socialist past that deserves to be classed with those of Russia or Uzbekistan.
The Netanyahu era has seen some limited reforms of the judiciary, but the police haven’t changed.
In the United States, the inciting incident of the Flynn investigation appears to have been his advocacy on behalf of FBI Supervisory Special Agent Robyn Gritz who had accused former boss Andrew McCabe and others of sexual discrimination. Police Commissioner Roni Alsheich used the campaign against the Prime Minister to accuse a female police officer who had complained about sexual harassment by a superior back in ’11 of secretly doing Netanyahu’s bidding.
The commander whom she had accused of sexual harassment was in the unit investigating Netanyahu.
Alsheich also suggested that private detectives were investigating his investigators. Both are a convenient way of shifting the blame for his own people’s misconduct to Netanyahu. Covering up sexual harassment and opening up the prime minister’s chair for Labor kills two birds with one stone.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has spent a good deal of his life trying to clean up the corrupt system that Ben-Gurion and his dirty socialists inflicted on Israel. It’s a system where the law is nothing and personal connections are everything. At its worst, party membership was required for government jobs. The machinery of government did the bidding of insiders and crushed the outsiders who got in their way.
Some things have changed.
Israel has a booming private sector. Its growing population of the descendants of Holocaust survivors, refugees from Muslim countries and the Soviet Union have little love for or allegiance to Labor. Its government bureaucracy is a widely loathed corrupt boil on an incredible nation. (As it always was.)
But Labor’s state within a state still wields a great deal of power. It is no coincidence that in recent years, it locked up a prime minister and president who originated from the conservative Likud while Labor’s corrupt politicians have gotten a pass. Isaac Herzog, Labor’s head of the opposition, served as the errand boy for international criminals like Marc Rich and Octav Botnar. But Arafat will rise from the grave to sign a peace deal before a Labor princeling sees the inside of a prison cell.
Money from the estate of Botnar, a Communist, was funneled through Herzog, his lawyer, to Labor for its anti-Netanyahu ads. Rich was a wanted fugitive who bought a pardon from Bill Clinton.
Herzog was Rich’s lawyer.
But the media would rather talk about Netanyahu’s ice cream budget, Sara Netanyahu’s bottle deposits and how much the electrician got paid. The left always accuses the right of its own sins and crimes.
Some may wonder how a country under threat of terrorism, invasion and nuclear annihilation is wasting time on this nonsense instead of dealing with the real threat. Easy. The leftist deep state isn’t interested in dealing with the real threat. It undermined Netanyahu’s efforts to take out Iran’s nuclear program.
Israel’s retired top security bosses routinely pal around with anti-Israel groups and spread anti-Israel propaganda. Ami Ayalon, Carmi Gillon and Yuval Diskin, the former bosses of Shabak, Israel’s version of the FBI, defended the anti-Israel activists of Breaking the Silence. Ayalon had also served Labor in the Knesset. Breaking the Silence has received money from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund which was among the most aggressive funders of the campaign for the Iran Deal to protect its nuclear terror program.
The deep state is rotten and disloyal. And it’s launching a coup to put its own Labor man in power.
It’s not just the Ben-Gurion date that symbolizes the transfer of power from the corrupt socialist state of Labor to a cleaner Israel that fulfills the aspirations of those who dreamed and fought to make it real.
President Trump’s victory offers Netanyahu the opportunity to redefine Israel’s relationship with the PLO that was imposed on it by the Clintons and their Labor allies. Instead of leftist apparatchiks like Dennis Ross and Aaron David Miller calling the shots, pro-Israel Trump associates like David Friedman and Jason Greenblatt are breaking with the old failed ideas and defining a new future for Israel.
That made it more urgent for Labor’s deep state to stop Netanyahu. That’s why the charges are in.
Labor failed to stop Netanyahu at the voting booth despite Obama’s experts working for them. And Obama isn’t around to restrain Netanyahu. A deep state coup against democracy is its last option.
The doomsday option isn’t just about stopping Netanyahu, it’s about stopping Israel.
The people won in America and Israel. But that just means that the deep state in both countries is becoming more ruthless in its efforts to defeat the voices, hopes and dreams of Americans and Israelis.
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2) I Thought America Hated Donald Trump
The Washington Post proclaims that "Trump is historically unpopular." Predicting big trouble ahead for Republicans, the Post tells readers, "There's never been a president who was as deeply unpopular for as long as he has been at this stage of his presidency."
Newsweek goes farther with its headline: "Trump's 2018 approval ratings show he's the most unpopular president in history and failing at his job."
The Washington Examiner, not a far-left publication but firmly in the NeverTrump camp, asks, "So why is Trump still the most unpopular first-term president?"
You get the point. These articles were all written last month, in the wake of a historic tax cut, with millions of Americans gaining bonuses and a fatter paycheck, plus a stock market hitting record highs despite a recent and necessary correction.
Across the pond, the Independent, three days before the election, gleefully pronounced, "Hillary Clinton has 'more than 99% chance' of winning election over Donald Trump." How did that turn out?
Why should we believe these polls now? Certainly not the wildly inaccurate ones.
Rasmussen claimed to be the most accurate pollster of the 2016 election, based on the Real Clear Politics poll tracking. What does Rasmussen say today?
The company has a Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, telling us how popular or unpopular the president is on a day-by-day basis, on a Wednesday as compared to a Tuesday or Friday.
On Wednesday February 21, days after the horrific school shooting in Florida, Rasmussen reported, "48% of Likely U.S. voters approve of President Trump's job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove."
That's upside-down by a few points, but focus on the 48 percent approval rating. How do those numbers compare to Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama?
Newsweek has a predictable answer: "Obama more popular than Trump after first year, no matter what President tweets." What does Rasmussen say?
Let's look at its Obama Approval Index History. If I found it, the investigative sleuths at Newsweek, who, unlike me, are professional journalists, could have found it. Each day during the Obama presidency, Rasmussen chronicled the Obama approval and disapproval numbers.
Let's look at February 21, 2010, the same point in time to the day for Obama as now is for Trump, 13 months into their respective presidencies. Hope and change was well underway. It was a year into the promised "fundamental transformation of America."
President Obama's "total approve" number was 45 percent – three percentage points lower than President Trump's number at the same point in their respective presidencies. Anyone hear that on the evening news? Crickets...
Remember CNN's Wolf Blitzer reporting President George W. Bush's falling approval numbers in his second term? Rush Limbaugh chronicled this in a audio montage, if you want a reminder: "Wolf Blitzer orgasmic over George W. Bush's sinking poll numbers."
Let's look at the Rasmussen numbers a different way: the approval index, or the difference between "strongly approve" and "strongly disapprove." This is a good barometer of the divide between love and hate, leaving out the wishy-washy middle, who base their opinion on what a neighbor or the mailman thinks of the president on any particularly day.
Trump's approval index on February 21 was minus 12, compared to Obama at minus 19 on the same day eight years ago. Seven percent more likely voters "strongly disapproved" of President Obama compared to President Trump.
Left-wing media won't let facts get in the way of their narrative, however. The Independent, which would be better renamed "the Liberal," just two days before the Rasmussen poll, told readers, "Donald Trump ranked worst president in U.S. history by nearly 200 political scientists."
I wonder if these are the same "scientists" who are part of the global warming "consensus." Or the ones who are quite certain, in their professional opinion, that Trump is demented, senile, and psychotic.
Too bad Wolf Blitzer and his gang of fellow Trump-haters at CNN can't honestly report the news, even if they personally don't like it. Everything for them is scripted, just as it was for the recent CNN town hall on guns.
The script is that Donald Trump is a pig. He wants school kids to be shot. He likes dirty air and water. He hates women. And so on.
The reality is that many Americans like President Trump and his presidency. CNN and other news outlets can bury their ostrich heads in the sand and pretend otherwise, but at their peril.
The 2018 midterms are rapidly approaching. Despite what the naysayers say, the advantage is with the GOP. Whether they take advantage and really want to retain control of Congress is another matter and a subject for a future article.
Ignoring reality, which is the modus operandi of big media, may again blow up in their faces.
Brian C Joondeph, M.D., MPS is a Denver-based physician and writer. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
2a) The Contemptible American Left
The American left, whose enthusiasts traffic constantly in victimhood and noble intentions, are once again exploiting and manipulating a tragedy. They are now shamelessly claiming not only that teenagers who have been victims of or witnesses to a shooting must be the recipients of the nation's sympathy, but that whatever they say – however inane or uninformed, as long as it conforms with the left's anti-gun orthodoxy – cannot be questioned. Their unfortunate experience gives rise to their newly minted status as unassailable spokespersons in any debate regarding gun control. Therefore, anyone who has the temerity to question or criticize these newly anointed voices of reason is an insensitive brute who favors continued and unabated gun violence.
I am a victim of gun violence, as I was shot as a young boy by a man whose unambiguous intention was to kill me. I own handguns today because of the experience of coming face to face with the evil that permeates some men's souls. However, what I, and others of similar backgrounds, have to say will be ignored by the left and the media, as their agenda is not to solve the underlying factors inherent in mass shootings or gun violence, but rather to gut the Second Amendment – to make it meaningless in the inexorable march toward their ultimate goal, controlling the federal government in perpetuity.
When I was shot and left for dead, there was no organized police presence, and all law-abiding citizens were disarmed. The death of another homeless, displaced, and orphaned boy, buried in an unmarked mass grave, would have been just another easily ignored casualty of postwar Europe. But I am supposed to accept the absurd notion that somehow it was the inanimate object the man was holding, and not he, that was responsible for the attempt on my life. And I am supposed to ignore the fact that his mindset was such that he would have used any weapon available, including his hands, to accomplish the same goal.
I have been unwavering in my determination to never again face a similar circumstance. I have had firearms in my possession for the past 60 years, as I am fortunate to live in the one nation on Earth that has embedded in its founding documents the right to bear arms.
Today, I am, along with a majority of my fellow citizens, being made a scapegoat for the failed policies of the so-called Progressives. Escaping blame from the Progressives is the ongoing and calamitous inability of society to deal with extreme psychopaths or the severely mentally deranged (because the leftists insist that they are entitled to the same rights as other citizens). So, too, the never-ending attempt to rehabilitate violent criminals incapable of rehabilitation is held blameless. And we are supposed to ignore their refusal to recognize the security threat of unconstrained illegal immigration
My life's experience has reinforced the concept that the right to bear arms is the foundational basis of preserving and protecting freedom of speech, religion, assembly, and private property. The socialist oligarchy the left is determined to establish in America requires that that fundamental right to be dramatically eroded and under the thumb of a central authority.
I immigrated to the United States from a continent that had nearly destroyed itself in World War II. The war was the end product of the ascension to power of various egomaniacs, steeped in socialist-Marxist ideology, determined to amass all political power within their countries. Once elected to office, these despots began to centralize their authority and eliminate all individual freedoms and democratic institutions. As they lived in nations that historically did not allow unfettered gun ownership, the people were incapable of stopping the inexorable seizure of power, and many paid the price as nearly 40 million were killed and untold millions displaced during the war.
Many on the left will say I am trafficking in hyperbole, that nothing similar could ever happen in the United States. Perhaps not a massive and physically destructive war, but the destruction of the nation as founded is well on its way.
Those who self-identify as Progressives, leftists, socialists, or Marxists have one overwhelming trait in common: they are narcissists who believe they are pre-ordained to rule the masses too ignorant to govern themselves. In order to achieve that end, no tactic is beneath consideration, and no crisis can be allowed to go to waste as they make certain that an ever-increasing percentage of the population becomes permanently indentured to the government they intend on controlling in perpetuity.
Over the 242-year history of the United States, this nation has encountered many crises as well as unethical and unscrupulous political factions. However, the left and the Democratic Party of today are the most dangerous, unprincipled, and deceitful cabal in this nation's history. They are capable of permanently tearing this nation asunder. They callously exploit the anger and emotion of the truly grieved, irresponsibly promise Nirvana, manipulate various ethnic blocs as sacrificial pawns, and consciously pit citizen against citizen. They deliberately undermine individual freedom in order to achieve their devious ends, and so they are essentially not at all different from those ultimately responsible for the carnage extant in the mid-20th century.
With this reality as a backdrop, I, along with the rest of the country, am expected to unquestionably trust and believe the American Left when they claim that they just want to pass “common sense gun laws” and not overturn the 2nd Amendment?
It is for that reason, as well as my life's experience, that those determined to take away or limit my right to own a firearm, as part of transforming the greatest nation in the history of mankind, will not succeed. I, and many millions throughout the length and breadth of America, will not be cowed into silence or acquiescence.
2b) Parkland Blood on Biden's Hands
Joe Biden is reportedly pondering a 2020 run against President Donald Trump, who has been accused of having blood on his hands regarding the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida by, among others, David Hogg, one of the surviving students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, who has become the media face of those pushing increased gun control after the tragedy:
The Republican Party currently controls the White House and both chambers of Congress, while the Supreme Court has a 5-4 conservative majority – something David Hogg, a student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, pointed out during an interview with his classmates on Sunday's "Meet the Press."
Responding to Trump's tweet, Hogg said: "How dare you. You are in that exact position right now, and you want to look back on our history and blame the Democrats? That's disgusting.
"You're the president," he continued. "You're supposed to bring this nation together, not divide us. How dare you. Children are dying, and their blood is on your hands because of that."
Parenthetically, young Mr. Hogg's mother, Rebecca Boldrick, is an ardent anti-Trumper with frequent Facebook posts sliming our 45th president, one of which has a picture of son David sitting at a CNN anchor desk during a studio tour. It might be assumed that her son started with a similar anti-Trump bias even before the shooting.
Young Mr. Hogg's emotional statement notwithstanding, if there is anyone who has blood on his hands because of the shooting at his high school, it is the former vice president, who was the sponsor of the legislation that made Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School a gun-free zone and David Hogg and his fellow students sitting ducks for an armed predator.
What's stopping teachers from bringing guns to work right now? The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. Sponsored by then-Sen. Joe Biden and signed into law by then-President George H.W. Bush the law makes it illegal for anyone "to knowingly possess a firearm" within 1,000 feet of a school zone...
Could the Supreme Court overturn the Gun-Free School Zones Act? Maybe. They did it before. Five years after passage, the court declared the law unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause. But Congress amended the bill and President Bill Clinton signed it back into law in 1996. The Supreme Court has not ruled on the issue ever since.
Perhaps they should. President Trump as a candidate opposed the idea of schools being gun-free zones:
Donald Trump likes the idea of teachers bearing arms in the K-12 classroom. "I will get rid of gun-free zones on schools – you have to," the Republican nominee told a crowd at a campaign rally in Burlington, Vt., in 2016. "My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day. There's no more gun-free zones."
His short-sighted optimism aside, that seems even less likely now amid an emotional tide that has cast reason, logic, facts, and common sense aside. Why should we learn what the Israelis already know: that the only way to protect our schoolchildren from a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? Instead, we irrationally put the onus on guns like the AR-15, which, contrary to media and political hype, is not an assault weapon. Assault is a behavior and not a weapon, and further restricting the access of law-abiding potential victims to defensive firearms is not the answer.
The fact is that there has been a sharp spike in school shootings since Joe Biden sponsored the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990.
Prior to Gun Free Zone Act:
•During the first decade of the 20th century there were 15 (1903 (2 shootings), 04 (3), 05 (2), 07 (2), 08 (2), 09 (4).
•During the 1910s there were 19 (1910 (3 shootings), 1911, 12 (2), 14, 15 (2), 16 (2), 17 (2), 18 (2), 19 (3).
•During the 1920s there were 10 (1920 (7 shootings), 22 (2), 26).
•During the 1930s there were 9 (1930, 31, 34, 35, 36 (2), 37 (2), 38).
•During the 1940s there were 8 (1940 (2 shootings), 42, 46, 47, 48, 49 (2)).
•During the 1950s there were 17 (1950, 51 (4), 52 (2), 53, 54 (2), 55, 56 (2), 57, 58 (2), 59).
•During the 1960s there were 18 (1960 (3 shootings), 61 (2), 66 (4), 67, 68 (4), 69 (4)).
•During the 1970s there were 30 (1970 (5 shootings), 71 (2), 73 (2), 74 (4), 75 (3), 76 (3), 77, 78 (7), 79 (3)).
•During the 1980s there were 39 (1980 (4 shootings), 81 (3), 82 (3), 83, 84 (4), 85 (5), 86 (5), 87 (5), 88 (6), 89 (3)).
After the Gun-Free Zone Act:
•During the 1990s there were 63 (1990 (2 shootings), 91 (6), 92 (7), 93 (10), 94 (10), 95 (4), 96 (7), 97 (6), 98 (7), 99 (6)).
•During the 1st decade there were 60 (2000 (5 shootings), 01 (5), 02 (7), 03 (4), 05 (5), 06 (11), 07 (5), 08 (11), 09 (7))
•During the 2010s (as of 14 February 2018) the total number is 146 shootings (2010 (11 shootings), 11 (7), 12 (11), 13 (26), 14 (36), 15 (21), 16 (15), 17 (9), 18 (10)).
School shootings are preventable. As much as Americans are reluctant to turn their schools into what critics might call armed camps, it would be a better situation than the free-fire zones that exist today. Would allowing guns in school be dangerous? We allow guns in schools right now by not having secure entrances; by not heeding warnings from those who did see something and did say something; and by not having adequate armed security on campus, including armed teachers. When citizens with guns were nearby, school shootings have been cut short:
Few Americans are aware that in an October 1997 shooting spree at a Pearl, Miss., high school that left two students dead, assistant principal Joel Myrick retrieved a gun from his car and immobilized the shooter until police arrived, preventing further killings.
Or, in another school shooting in January 2002 at the Appalachian School of Law in Virginia, a disgruntled former student killed Law Dean L. Anthony Sutin, associate professor Thomas Blackwell and a student. Two of the three Virginia law students who overpowered the gunman were armed, preventing further deaths.
Not only would armed security in the schools do more than kumbaya-singing wishful thinking, but the mere uncertainty of whether the shooter would face return fire might deter such crimes. Killers love gun-free zones, which is why the shooter at an Aurora, Colorado movie theater picked a particular one.
It is Joe Biden who is in a major way responsible for making our schools free-fire zones for armed predators. It is Joe Biden who has blood on his hands.
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor's Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
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2c)The intent of the Founding Father's is clear. Every legal citizen has the right to bear arms.
Welfare has destroyed the family. There is no way an economically challenged father can compete against the largess of Uncle Sam.
Our education system has been so watered down that it dispenses, what I call, mind mush
Those who worship are constantly mocked so the opportunity to build character. to learn right from wrong beginning with the family, buttressed by a rigorous meaningful education and reinforced from the pulpit is a lost art. In fact the legal rights of children challenge the rights of parents, in many cases , and win hands down. PC'ism, the '60's anti-authoritarianism have all served to weaken the underpinnings of our societal character and I have yet to mention the various forms of entertainment and exposure to vulgarity and violence that has become commonplace and acceptable. In fact, it is little wonder we don't have more random killings.
There are always answers to any problem but the ones the far left seek are far off base and the ones that might work mean a return to a different period I doubt we will ever recapture. What happened in Florida is sad/outrageous in a civil society but the rabble-rousers, their vitriol and extreme solutions are not the answer. I doubt a reasoned argument offering some solutions, which will not please everyone, will be considered acceptable. The far left have used murder by guns as a political and hypocritical way of garnering votes. Their arguments produce heat but shed little light.
Far too many arguments have become weaponized and the one pertaining to weapons is even more explosive. The far left does not seek solutions because the opportunity to address them and our other unresolved but pressing issues have been avoided for decades. The far left and the fascists among us seek power through government that they do not have as individuals in order to change the republic which has served us well for centuries. They want to shape it to their own narrow interests. They want it to reflect their philosophy.
They seek to replace capitalism with socialism, they want to quell voices and freedom of speech through intimidation ( as they did Friday at a church Rep. Buddy Carter spoke at.) A free people, capable of reasoning and able to make choices is anathema. What happened at Parkland is simply a convenient launching pad for revolution and change under the guise of caring for our youth.
If we really gave a damn about the youth of this nation we would restore the family, embrace the concept of children born into a two parent family that stuck it out through thick and thin, educate our youth so they can reason independently, give them a religious orientation that helps them distinguish between right and wrong and insist their free time be spent in activities that build character and responsibility,ie. join The Marines!
That is a model which is a far cry from the America I see emerging.
The Founders, of course, could not interpret how technology might alter weaponry from single to multiple shot
Secondly, the right to be bear arms was mainly for defensive reasons, to protect oneself, one's family and one's property both from enemies within and without.
The Second Amendment did not say anything about background checks or age qualifications.
Personally, I believe technology and recent events may allow for some modification of how to implement the Constitution so I see no reason allowing modification of weapons into automatic weapons unless one assumes they are so prevalent one needs them to protect one's property etc. In such a case, the person seeking an AR could be authorized to appeal to a special court.
Background checks are another matter because we learned how Obama manipulated the IRS to prevent conservative organizations from receiving equal treatment under the law. If I believed government bureaucrats were blind I would be in favor of more stringent background checks.
A solution might be if one is not approved within 30 days and if prevented for cause , which is later found to be wrongful, they have the right to sue the bureaucrat and agency in a court of law under RICCO on the assumption multiple such actions exist and/or have occurred multiple times.
Now as to the matter of mental restraints. The abuses people suffer in our country and throughout the world take many forms and there is no way an hour of psychoanalysis will solve manifest abuses. All a mental exam can do is determine if there is a likelihood a particular person is susceptible of causing harm. In cases that are patently obvious perhaps the best we could hope for is a trial at which the accused can defend himself before a court appointed judge. We cannot spend billions of dollars on psychiatric sessions which take multi-fold years of analysis etc. Just impractical, costly and no assurance certain patients are even curable. How can we monitor they even take prescribed medicines?
Statistically more people are killed by medical mal-practice and knives than guns but we are not banning doctors or knife makers.
Statistically more people are killed by medical mal-practice and knives than guns but we are not banning doctors or knife makers.
Lamentably, the real solution is an entire nation changing its now accepted way of life and character and that, too, is not likely to happen. We need to eradicate violence and violent behviour.
Our Republic rests on many foundations, human, economic, social, religious, military,legal etc.
Welfare has destroyed the family. There is no way an economically challenged father can compete against the largess of Uncle Sam.
Our education system has been so watered down that it dispenses, what I call, mind mush
Those who worship are constantly mocked so the opportunity to build character. to learn right from wrong beginning with the family, buttressed by a rigorous meaningful education and reinforced from the pulpit is a lost art. In fact the legal rights of children challenge the rights of parents, in many cases , and win hands down. PC'ism, the '60's anti-authoritarianism have all served to weaken the underpinnings of our societal character and I have yet to mention the various forms of entertainment and exposure to vulgarity and violence that has become commonplace and acceptable. In fact, it is little wonder we don't have more random killings.
There are always answers to any problem but the ones the far left seek are far off base and the ones that might work mean a return to a different period I doubt we will ever recapture. What happened in Florida is sad/outrageous in a civil society but the rabble-rousers, their vitriol and extreme solutions are not the answer. I doubt a reasoned argument offering some solutions, which will not please everyone, will be considered acceptable. The far left have used murder by guns as a political and hypocritical way of garnering votes. Their arguments produce heat but shed little light.
Far too many arguments have become weaponized and the one pertaining to weapons is even more explosive. The far left does not seek solutions because the opportunity to address them and our other unresolved but pressing issues have been avoided for decades. The far left and the fascists among us seek power through government that they do not have as individuals in order to change the republic which has served us well for centuries. They want to shape it to their own narrow interests. They want it to reflect their philosophy.
They seek to replace capitalism with socialism, they want to quell voices and freedom of speech through intimidation ( as they did Friday at a church Rep. Buddy Carter spoke at.) A free people, capable of reasoning and able to make choices is anathema. What happened at Parkland is simply a convenient launching pad for revolution and change under the guise of caring for our youth.
If we really gave a damn about the youth of this nation we would restore the family, embrace the concept of children born into a two parent family that stuck it out through thick and thin, educate our youth so they can reason independently, give them a religious orientation that helps them distinguish between right and wrong and insist their free time be spent in activities that build character and responsibility,ie. join The Marines!
That is a model which is a far cry from the America I see emerging.
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