Month: March 2021

Main stream media is reporting a rash of various shootings. Everything from a man killing his parents and then shooting up a convenience store to a vengeance shooting at a McDonald’s drive-in. This stuff goes on all the time. But of course now there is some momentum to the anti-gun sentiment and so certain media outlets have taken it upon themselves again to drive a dialogue to facilitate gun control. Not that I blame them. The pendulum swings both directions.

I have a different theory because I don’t think that any amount of gun control legislation will help. Many of these people are getting their guns legally through retail stores that do background checks. Those who don’t won’t care anyway. Do you take all of the so-called assault weapons? The guy who killed his parents above did it with a semi automatic pistol. He could’ve done it with a car if he wanted. Do we take the cars?

Here’s my theory. If someone commits some sort of attempted murder or murder, call it what it is. It’s not an assault and/or battery. It’s attempted homicide. If you shoot up a car in a McDonald’s parking lot you then pay the price of attempted murder. And that price should be you go to jail forever. Until you’re dead. There is no second chance. You leave relatively polite society, and you become part of the society of butt heads in prison. There is no five years, 10 years, life with parole. Nothing. Then when Little Johnny asks where uncle John is, he understands the consequences.

Up the ante on the deterrence. Make sure the criminals know that jail is not just a short health and hospitality stay. They go and they stay forever. I happen to think you should make them work there also. But that’s a different discussion.

So a guy who’s had an AR for six days goes in and shoots up a grocery store killing 10 people including a cop. What I want to know is why wasn’t someone there trained well enough to drop this guy? No one there with a concealed weapon who is trained well enough to drop him or at least slow him down and take his mind off of shooting and put it on surviving? OODA. The reality is there’s going to be these disgusting events. There needs to be more trained people who can deal with the problem immediately, effectively. Are you one of them?

And the family that knew he had mental issues and watched him play with this rifle and didn’t say anything? If they had thought or cared they would have realized that someone with mental issues is not even supposed to have a gun by law. Or were they too scared of him and not trained enough and strong enough in their own minds to deal with the issue? Again no need for laws, just some common sense and mental fortitude.

And then there was the idiot yesterday that walked into a store in Atlanta carrying a rifle and multiple concealed weapons. What exactly was he doing? Was he just trying to prove a point, that he could do so because it’s legal in open carry Georgia? Or was he there to do so much more and just had to go to the bathroom first? Luckily the cops got there quickly, but where was the trained person with a gun ready to go as soon as he walked out of the bathroom? Maybe that person was there and the cops got there first – luckily. Certainly I don’t know the whole story, but I kind of doubt it.

So the argument once again is take the guns or at least have some common sense laws. The common sense laws are already there and may or may not need to be added to. How about the common sense people? That’s what we really need.

And all you people out there brandishing your your weapons, talking about taking back ‘Merica by force, or even shooting people, I’m not sure what you think you’re doing, but you’re going to ruin 2A freedom for everybody for sure. Pretty soon the government is going to take guns if we keep this stupidity up and then they can easily take the rest of our freedom if they want. So you think they’re doing so now? Wait…..

Do you think you’re going to do something about it? Like there will be some great war where We the People take over? The 3 Percenters? Let me tell you something III, if you don’t already know. If the military and police start to come down they already have the training and weapons to take over. Sure it will be bloody. But they have it. Go read Jane’s and find out what kind of weapons they have access to. We the People have no chance. We the People need to have more common sense and keep an eye on our politicians and participate in government. This is the solution.

Tolerance and training and involvement. We seem to have the opposite of all three.