THE WAY I SEE IT
by Don Polson Red
Bluff Daily News 2/26/2013
They want to intimidate and disarm us
The Tea Party Patriots in both Red Bluff and Corning
will have programs worth your attendance: Tonight, at the Westside Grange, 6
PM, member Robert Pinyon will play a DVD on FEMA camps. Reasonable preparation
for victims of natural disasters (as in “Emergency Management”) or something
less altruistic. Hard, sourced and corroborated information or Internet myths.
Come, watch and judge for yourself.
Then, at the Corning Senior Center, 1015 Fourth St at
6 PM on Thursday, hear someone that I know to be a powerful and persuasive
speaker on gun rights and the gun-controllers in Sacramento, Sam Paredes of Gun
Owners of California. Their attentiveness and efforts have weighed in
tirelessly to stop bad laws. A Feb. 8 article in the Daily News, “Calif. seeks
to adopt nation’s toughest gun laws,” proved that, when it comes to “doing
something” (mindlessly, unconstitutionally passing anti-Second Amendment
legislation), Democrats in Sacramento are challenged only by the prospect of
topping New York’s “toughest gun laws” – our rights and self-protection be
damned.
Folks, this is why liberal politicians, building
hurdles and barriers to law-abiding citizens’ self-defense, recreational
hunting and shooting, inspire me to write on the subject. This battle contains
every element of what I despise about the political, cultural and media left in
America. They, Democrats in Sacramento, want to “outlaw the future sale of
semi-automatic rifles with detachable magazines. The restriction would prevent
quick reloading by requiring bullets to be loaded one at a time.”
What pointless, feel-good, impractical nonsense! Those
weapons are used nationally in maybe 200 murders, a fraction of the people
killed by knives, blunt objects, or by someone’s bare fists. Many criminally
insane, that mental health professionals and those around them know pose
threats to others, are not reported to authorities to prevent purchase of guns.
They will get around the law, steal or otherwise acquire the multiple weapons
they desire to indulge homicidal, or suicidal, deranged fantasies. Police will
always respond, people will die in the mean time, police will take reports, but
armed citizens can stop them. That is unless, as the Aurora, CO, theater
shooter proved, such killers drive by theaters allowing the concealed carrying
of weapons, to get to a “gun free” theater.
Also: a President who opposed the right of a homeowner
to defend his “castle” as an Illinois state senator; that same President
disingenuously demanding his proposed laws be passed “right now,” using phony,
manipulated data to make his case for “executive (despotic?)” action to do what
Congress won’t; news media putting their collective finger on the scale of
public opinion via selective and incomplete coverage of the pro-gun side; even
local writers that mock and berate gun defenders.
On the war for public opinion, I asked the Tea Party
Patriots to hold hands up if they thought the gun rights/defenders were winning
(not many hands) or the gun control/confiscation side was winning (many more
hands went up). Hence, I was happy to share a Forbes article, “NRA Winning the
Influence Battle Over Gun Control,” (search by title, 2/01/2013). Without
taking a position on the merits, “Forbes Insights” engaged Appinions to measure
“who is leading or gaining ground through the lens of influence … We found that
the NRA and the pro-gun rights voices are winning the influence battle and will
continue to be strong and more influential (against fragmented gun control
voices) … (The NRA) has the stamina (and) are persistent, un-yielding and
gaining influence.” While “Republican politicians are missing from the debate …
Wayne LaPierre’s NRA” have held Obama, Biden and the Democrats” to a near tie
in shaping debate, to the benefit of gun rights advocates.
It is, therefore, not surprising to find Obama with
higher disapproval than approval on “Gun policy” and other domestic issues
according to Gallup (Look up “Gallup Poll: Majority of Americans disapprove of
Obama’s gun policies,” Feb. 7-10). From “Immigration” to “Energy policy,”
“Taxes,” “The economy,” “The federal budget deficit,” Americans give him
negative “Job approval ratings” by 54 to 42 percent (Gun policy), to double
digits on others and even 65 to 31 disapproval on the deficit. Only on
“National defense” does he have a 53 to 44 approval.
It was curious to read the bar graph, “Party ID and
gun proposals” (in Jan. 17 DN, adults polled by Pew, Jan. 9-13). Not unlike the
measures passed in New York, proposed in Sacramento, desired by Democrats in
Washington, and outlined in Obama’s 23 executive actions, none of them would
have prevented the Newtown or almost any other gun massacre, with the exception
of armed guards (currently at over 25 percent of schools) and armed school
personnel. What jumped off the page is that Democrats want policies and laws
that won’t prevent more killings, but will interfere with the rights and
“pursuit of happiness” of others.
Look up “Defensive gun use” and you’ll find that from
1 million to 3 million incidents of self-defense happen every year. I posted a
“reddit.com/r/dgu” article with details of many incidents. Finally, look up
“California unable to disarm 19,700 felons and mentally ill people”
(latimes.com 2/18). So, they can’t rightly take guns away from nearly 20,000
people but they want us to give ours up (NY law requires surrendering guns; DOJ
memo says Obama’s goals would require complete registration and confiscation).
Sorry, but “from my cold, dead hands.”
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