Weekly Opinion Editorial
WELL ARMED
LAMBS!
by Steve Fair
As
I write this, President Obama is set to announce on Tuesday that he will sign
an Executive Order that will create stricter gun laws in America. He is scheduled to hold a Town Hall on CNN to
explain his actions and has announced his action will be ‘entirely consistent
with the Second Amendment.” The
President met with AG Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss the gun issue. “This
is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. It is not going to prevent every mass
shooting. It will potentially save lives
in this country and spare families the pain and extraordinary loss they
experience when they lose loved ones to gun violence,” he said after the
meeting. The plan includes adding background checks for
those who purchase at gun shows and online, tightening up restrictions for gun
ownership on those who have domestic violence history, adding 230 additional
FBI personnel and 200 new ATF agents and some unidentified ‘gun safety
technology.’
“The
good news is that these are not only recommendations that are well within my
legal authority and the executive branch,” Obama said. “But they're also ones that the overwhelming majority of the American
people, including gun owners, support and believe in.”
Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said
that Obama’s executive order is, “delusional, dangerous, not to mention
unconstitutional.” “The thing the president should be doing on gun control is enforcing
the laws that we have. We have long lists of criminals who own guns, who
routinely purchase guns. We know who these people are, and we are not
prosecuting any of them,” Fiorina said.
Other GOP candidates also weighed in. "We're
not changing the Second Amendment," Donald Trump said. "I will veto that. I will un-sign
that so fast." Governor Chris
Christie said, “I’m sure (the gun
executive action) will get stopped by the courts.” Senator Ted Cruz said Obama’s move is
unconstitutional. “It’s entirely backwards. We don’t beat the bad guys by taking away our
guns. We beat the bad guys by using our guns,” Cruz said. Senator Rand Paul said he would fight the
President, ‘tooth and nail’ on the gun control issue. Paul plans to push the Senate GOP caucus to vote
on legislation he proposed in December that would reduce executive orders on
gun control to ‘advisory only. Senator Marco Rubio said, “I believe that every single American has a Constitution—and therefore
God-given right—to defend themselves and their families.” All the Democrat candidates said they
supported the president’s executive order action.
The
second amendment is a critically important right to Americans. In a democratic republic form of
self-government, an armed citizenry serves to prevent tyranny. Without the second amendment, the other tenets
of the Bill of Rights would likely be ignored by government. So why did the founding fathers put the second
amendment in the constitution? Was it so
Americans could own shotguns to duck hunt?
It was about insuring the liberty and survival of a country. The founder of the Democrat Party, Thomas Jefferson
said; “Those who hammer their guns into
plowshares will plow for those who do not.”
It is likely President Obama’s executive
order will be overturned by the courts, but rest assured the liberals in
America will not rest until they have forced every law abiding citizen in
America to give up their guns. They fail
to understand the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a
gun. Guns don’t kill people- people kill people. The root problem of any violent act is a
depraved, wicked heart and gun control will not cure that.
George Mason, the co-author of the second
amendment, said this: “Democracy is two
wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed
lamb contesting the vote!” Americans
need to be well armed lambs.
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