“The Right…and the Wrong”
By Jim Culp
November 6, 2022
Ballot Measure 114 is the most extreme Gun Control Measure
ever put forth. The issue here is simple. This isn’t “gun control,” it is the continuing
effort of people in the US Government to destroy the Second Amendment, a Constitutional
Right.
An eligible initiative measure is one in which the
required number of signatures have been submitted to and verified by the county
elections officials.
In the United States, a ballot measure is a law, issue, or question that appears on
a statewide or local ballot for voters of the jurisdiction to decide.
The problem here is, the
last thing we need in the USA is to strip anyone of their rights. In a country
where we have the most crooked bunch of shit-heads since Tricky Dickey; we need
action by the citizenry.
I will address this is my
own special way, and there will be two…me as a citizen, and me as a veteran.
As a citizen, taking away by
right to defend my hearth and home with firearms (that were purchased legally)
when someone tries to rob, kill, do any harm to me or mine in any way, is my Constitutional
Right as a citizen of the USA. The opposite of me is the trash that runs around
our cities and towns today, and I draw your attention to Kansas City. These
thugs are A) “people” that are life-long criminals, B) obtained their firearms
illegally, and B) modified said weapons to fire in automatic mode (which is
also a felony).
Let’s look at some
statistics. Kansas City (as a whole) had the following numbers for these three
years:
2020: 182
2021: 155
2022: 220
Regionally: 269
This is simply because the
system is broken. There are people trying to fix it, but it’s an extreme uphill
battle.
As a veteran, I have higher
insight than the average drunk. There are countries that I have visited where
there is very low crime, and the police are not tough on the citizenry, because
there is somewhat of a symbiosis in that perspective.
Then, there are countries
like England and Germany, and there is crime…
but it is almost never with guns. That is because it is illegal to own
firearms unless these are secured in a place where their sporting ranges and the
like exist. When I was in Germany, the Wall was still there, and Germany was
divided per the rules in place since World War II. There is a different Germany
there now, but the gun rules remain the same for both areas. As for crime,
German police are very tough and stomp it out (brutally if necessary).
I have also been to
countries where there is practically no law enforced, except for religious laws,
which are brutally squashed within hours or day.
Every time I went anywhere (17
countries in my career) I tried to learn the laws and unspoken rules in each.
This, of course, was governed by the amount I had to do this. There are some
that are in a common group with others, and some that have laws that were unique
to that country (like Saudi Arabia).
All that said, none of those
countries had a constitution with some of the unique amendments like the USA.
The ruthless idea that restricting or confiscating law abiding citizen’s legally
purchased firearms and ammunition is another assault on the Second Amendment,
the amendment that guarantees our freedom of gun ownership.
Destroy the 2nd
Amendment? This country will collapse on itself with a brutal civil war.
Most Sincerely,
Jim Culp
US Army, Retired
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