Tragically as many as 30 people are killed each year with assault weapons in the U.S.A. In a nation of more than 300 million with more than 30 million legal visitors each year that percent is very small. America has remained a free society with liberal gun ownership, and the traditional wisdom is if it's not broke don't fix it. Democrat Party efforts to break down gun ownership may simply be a show of force and the entitlement to power of feminism. As feminist wisdom goes, rape is a show of power. Cutting down the male dominated gun purchases tradition may be a means to show power raping the second amendment.
This morning I went into a U.S. Federal building to get a few tax forms in order to report my income for 2012 early. I was informed by the security guards at the admission station by the metal detector that the tax office had moved away several hundred miles and that they had no forms in the building. I thought about the security a little and of its cost.
A federal worker was let through a special no-search gate. The peons of the public should wear no shoelaces if they visit because they must take their shoes off, and belt off, take out their coins and of course there are no chairs to sit in. One must leave one's knife someplace outside too.
I should say that knives are necessary for boaters to cut lines in emergencies such as if a skiff is tied to a sinking water-logged log towed off a beach and the boat is tarting to go under, and guns are useful for killing a pack of attacking wild dogs along the Yukon-and they do exist. Even a school teacher from Wisconsin was killed while out jogging by a wolf last year-she was of course unarmed and looked like prey in flight.
Have federal security guards ever stopped a truck bomber from detonating outside a federal building by screening inside? Since the federal government hires so many immigrants couldn't one of the federal workers themselves take a gun to work to shoot down his bosses?
With the Democratic effort to use psychiatrists as informers will that occupation need to Mirandize their patients with the warning that 'Anything you say can and may be used against you in a court of law'? The effort to transform psychiatrists into an intelligence gathering branch of the K.G.B.,or rather Homeland Security/Gestapo is probably the worst part of the raping of the second amendment.
Some would think that if guns are restricted overmuch that the small percent of people killed by guns that are not weapons of mass destruction may be supplanted by searches for weapons of mass destruction to get political satisfaction. It doesn't take a genius to realize that SUV gas tanks can have a spark plug placed in them and wired to the ignition, or that magnetically attached detonators can be placed on hundreds of cars with an hour or two before going off. The inventiveness of some of the very frustrated denied equal rights and the opportunity to be armed in self-defense may lapse from armed neutrality into a state of innovative direct opposition.
If some Phd or M.A. in biology invents a new plague in a basement perhaps gathering naturally occurring anthrax in Cuba, or improves Hanta virus or whatever with all of the genomic data available on line the causality count might be thousands of times greater than the 30 or so casualities that happen in America-such as at the California McDonald's massacre decades ago.
Guns have always been an integral part of American civil liberty-and women have tended to shy away from them when not frontiers women. Women, minorities and homosexuals do comprise a new majority willing to sacrifice the second amendment that is not coincidentally placed after the first in order to recognize the need for public defense of free speech with armed potential violence. Yet the groups seeking to rape the second amendment as a show of power are those groups that have never been leaders in the military defense of the United States against enemies of freedom foreign and domestic. It would be good if they took a deep philosophical look at the chasm they seek to leap off before they work further to destroy a state of civil liberty that isn't broken.
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