When a catastrophe happens such
as the theater shooting in Colorado or if someone notices that people are
overweight and lack control of their eating habits or are too lazy to exercise,
Big Brother and its apostles tend to give knee-jerk reactions and wish to
implement extreme measures. At times, I
wonder if they even hear the logic they seem to believe to be sound as it spews
from their mouths. I worry about people
that are so zealous in their beliefs that they don’t see the flaws in their thinking.
For instance, take what happened
during the premiere of Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado. Fourteen people were killed and many injured
by one crazy individual with a gun. That
it was tragic there is no doubt and my heart goes out to the families that were
affected. A few months ago I visited
Virginia Tech where in 2007 students and professors were gunned down without
rhyme or reason. Thirty two people lost
their lives that day and the campus is still feeling the after effects. There is no sense to these shooting
sprees. However, while we need to find a
way to prevent it from happening again, the answer is not to take away the
Second Amendment.
Slow thinkers, such as Michael
Bloomberg who wants to take everything away from the people of America, believe
that tragedies such as these are proof that the American citizen should not be
allowed to own a firearm. “We need to
keep our police safe by taking guns off of the streets.” However, the problem with that is the
firearms in the hands of the vast majority of citizens pose no threat to
anyone. The further problem with that
mindset is I highly doubt criminals will suddenly start obeying the gun laws.
“Sorry, we’re not allowed to use
guns and my compound bow is only good for one shot.”
“Well, damn, there go my plans
for today.”
I don’t know about you, but I
just don’t see that working. Criminals
are criminals because they don’t care about the law. While the police of our country do a great
job, they cannot be everywhere protecting everybody. People need that security of knowing that
they can protect what is theirs, even their very life. We never would have survived the revolution
if men had not been able to bear arms and a nation that fears the people having
guns is a country on the brink of oppression and government occupation.
They do it to everything, though;
not just guns. There is a proposed ban
on sugar-sweetened drinks larger than sixteen ounces in New York City, again by
Michael Bloomberg. Why? Because some people are too fat and have no
control. So, because some people are
lazy gluttons the rest of us who know enough is enough are being punished. It is not government’s job to protect us from
ourselves.
A friend of mine agreed with
Bloomberg and was adamant that there was a problem that has to be dealt
with. I agreed, but didn’t think a ban
for all was the solution. However, that
same friend soon faced a similar predicament in his life. He was about to face changes in his work
because others were not able to accomplish what they were supposed to and he
was justifiably upset. He was about to
suffer due to other’s incompetence.
However, he was able to bypass the disruption to his life by sharing the
following analogy.
A teacher has a classroom of
thirty five students that were her responsibility to educate. Poor Johnnie had a bowel problem and
sometimes couldn’t make it to the bathroom in time. Obviously, this was a serious issue as it
caused quite a disruption to classroom activities, not to mention a mess that
had to be cleaned up. The teacher’s
solution was to put the entire class in diapers because Johnnie had a
problem. It was totally unfair as well as
a ludicrous solution. However, that is
exactly what the government’s first reaction to most things is. Soon we will be a nation of diaper wearers sipping
on juice boxes.
My friend, by the way, was proud
of his analogy until I used it on him with Bloomberg’s answer to obesity. I thought the anecdote fitting and still do.
The solution is not to punish the
nation, but to bring harsher repercussions to the criminal. In a cry to protect the rights of evil doers,
we have stripped the rights of the honest citizen. In order to ensure that everyone is treated
fairly, we have taken the true fairness out of our system. Political correctness is incorrect. We do not need to weaken the rights of
Americans. We need to strengthen the
punishment of those who refuse to abide by the rules of our society and strip
them of all rights and privileges. If
people were more afraid of what would happen to them, then maybe they would be
more reluctant to commit the atrocity in the first place.
There will always be those who
desire to crap on others and cause chaos.
However, they are the only ones who should be wearing the diaper. I for one will be carrying my firearm while sipping
my Super Big Gulp as I’ve learned not to shit on others.
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