THE WAY I SEE IT
by Don Polson Red
Bluff Daily News 12/18/2012
Outrage, anger only useful if on target
First, Sheriff Dave Hencratt is timely scheduled at
the Tehama Tea Party Patriots meeting tonight, 6 PM at the Westside Grange. Anyone
have any questions related to, I’m guessing, the availability of, and
requirements for, concealed carry permits? Are you going to leave your and your
family’s safety dependant on everyone else’s respect for the law? Recent events
suggest that is a declining social quality.
Glitches at Polecat News and Views
(DonPolson.blogspot.com) have remedied themselves, apparently. I still have no
idea why the sidebar links and labels to posts going back to 2009 disappeared,
let alone restored. Only the first pages of posts back to December 4 show but
the entire archive of articles can be searched via labels, month and year links
on the side.
For instance, someone might’ve read what I’ve posted
under “socialism” or “socialism/fascism” before casting cheap shots and insults
over my column from last week. I had the temerity to point out the fact that
the lavish entitlements outside of Social Security and Medicare are encouraging
dependency by many upon government-provided (that’s us taxpayers) food stamps,
housing support, Medicaid, tax credits etc. “The Senate Budget Committee
reports that total spending on means-tested federal programs, if divided by the
number of households living below the official poverty line, works out to $168
per day … (while the) average American lives on $137 per day … If converted to
cash payments, the hourly rate exceeds median income by 20 percent.”
(Powerlineblog.com).
Social Security has been “pay-as-you-go,” not a
retirement savings system, and is currently about $150 billion short between
income and payments. Medicare spending per retiree will dwarf the payroll
“contributions” by each said retiree and has exceeded the spending projected by
its creators by a factor of about ten. And someone thinks I don’t get anything
right? Really? At least my favorite U.S. Senator isn’t a socialist.
And now, while some self-styled intellectual giant may
engage in picayune analysis of my sentence diagrams or parse my words and
phrases (cue liberals unloading invective and ridicule), I have some thoughts
on that horrible, reprehensible act of evil in Connecticut. After shaking my
head and feeling my heart grieve, I moved on to some deep, righteous anger at
that cold-blooded murderer, as well as other deserving targets.
Here, in no particular order, are some observations:
In at least 2 of the recent shootings, the killer stole the gun or guns. Guns
should be secured and kept away from the unbalanced among us, period. We,
meaning myself, Cal Hunter and Earl Wintle, barely go a day on the Morning Show
on KBLF, without noting some loser criminal on parole or probation, who is
charged with being “a felon in possession of a concealed weapon” that they, of
course, were legally prohibited from having, let alone carrying. These people
will not pay heed to any law that the anti-gun politicians can formulate. The
only people that will comply are already law-abiding.
Congressman Louie Gohmert was spot-on to say he wished
the principal had an M-4 locked up and available to use against the killer.
Heck, that school probably had a number of people on staff that would be
willing to be trained and armed anonymously so that there would be something
more lethal than their own bodies to throw at a homicidal shooter.
As they often do, he killed himself at the first sign
of armed law enforcement. The killer at the Clackamas County, Oregon, mall
killed himself upon seeing a young man bringing his own gun to bear. One of my
favorite photos on the subject of school safety is a class of children gathered
outside a building in Israel with their teacher. She had a purse hanging from
one hand and a semi-automatic rifle slung over her shoulder. I guarantee you
those Israeli children had no fear of their teacher’s gun; however, that
nation’s response to ever-present threats is not likely to be America’s. I
haven’t heard of any school shootings in Israel except where terrorists figure
out how to avoid armed Israelis.
We routinely see these killers go places where they
can expect to kill unopposed until police arrive – it takes seconds to kill but
minutes for help to arrive. They don’t go shooting up, for instance, biker
bars, or bars full of current, retired, or off-duty law enforcement, or
pawnshops, gun shops or sporting goods stores. Do you recall the female
volunteer church security guard at that Colorado church who shot an armed man
that had been reportedly seen at another church? The only casualty was the bad
guy.
Deranged murderers have killed and injured children
with knives, dynamite (1920s in Michigan, with 45 dead, over 30 of them children)
bombs (Russia) and a buried school bus (that was a foiled attempt).
Self-defense is the only paramount guideline.
Media are not blameless when these mass-killers
clearly are driven by a desire for notoriety that outlives them. No faces or
names should be shown that might inspire the next killer.
I condemn President Obama for never shedding a tear
over dead Mexicans that foreseeably resulted from his Fast and Furious
gunrunning scheme. I condemn him for opposing, as an Illinois state senator, a
law to codify the right of anyone to use a gun to defend themselves in their
own home. He and Democrats have zero credibility on this entire subject. Buy
your guns; get your permits; protect you and yours.
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