Gun Control…?

By Jim Culp

September 17, 2019

You hear a whole lot about people breaking the law these days. Rapes, murders, robbery…and stuff that will just sicken you (as it does me) like incest and child rape.

Here in the USA, we are unlike any other nation on this planet we call Earth. We are very young (roughly 230 years) for a country when you compare us to ancient countries like Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom. I’ve been to these places, and 200 years is like yesterday to them.

You also hear a lot today about “this and that” being “Unconstitutional.”

You know what I speak of. There’s abortion, charities, infringement of copyright, and a list as long as my “bills due” sheet.

Well, on December 15, 1791; an Amendment (the 2^nd) to the United States Constitution was ratified. It stated thus:

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.^”

The Amendment doesn’t say that the government can infringe firearms of any make or manufacture, but in 1968, our government did just that. A large number of firearms such as sub-machineguns, machineguns, bazookas, recoilless rifles, and grenade launchers were prohibited to be sold to the general public without an expensive license. These were to be strictly monitored by the federal government’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. As always, this was in response to the (then) recent murders of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Strangely, none of these men was killed with a type of weapons that this act was passed for. John F. Kennedy was assassinated with a 6.5×52mm Carcano rifle. He paid $29.95 for it. This weapon was a five shot bolt action rifle. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated with an Iver Johnson .22 caliber revolver. Its street value was $4.00. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot with a Remington pump action 30.06, and its street value at that time was about $32.00.

The reason you had to endure that last paragraph was this…none of these men were shot with machine guns, bazookas, or automatic weapons. Some people in those days possessed such, because they had brought them home from World War II and Korea. Rarely was anyone shot with them, because them men that owned them weren’t murderers; they were patriots.

On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinkley. Hinkley employed a Röhm RG-14 .22 caliber revolver. Reagan was wounded, as well as three other men. James, Brady, the White House press secretary, was shot in the head. Mr. Brady was permanently disabled and died in 2014.

The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was passed in 1993. It had been introduced by Senator Charles Schumer, and mandated background checks, five day waiting periods on all firearms sold in the United States.

Again, I say this to you.

Ignorant politicians can pass all the laws that they wish, but criminals will still have firearms, knives, clubs, and anything else they want. Criminals don’t go to stores and buy guns. They steal them, appropriate them through turf take-overs, and from people they murder. The Brady Act, as well as the Gun Control Act of 1968…did absolutely nothing to regulate gun violence, knife violence, or Columbian neck ties. The next bill that gets passed will result in the same things…law abiding citizens having to wade through red tape to buy something that our Constitution says we can own if we want. Do you want the Federal Government to regulate every single piece of your life? Watch what you say…because it is coming very soon.

-Jim

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