The Left's Newest Useful Idiot, David Hogg

The Left has made a rock star of David Hogg, as he hogs the spotlight (I couldn't resist) that he has been thrust into, to gain attention for their anti-America and anti-gun agenda. He wants his opinions to be taken seriously and at the same time calls himself a "kid" who is fed up with gun violence. So, which is it? Are you an adult who has legitimate ideas or are you a spoiled kid being used as a puppet for those who need a new voice for their nonsense?

Does anyone really think he would be given all this press and praise and fame if he were AGAINST gun control, or against the trashing of the Constitution? Of course, he wouldn’t have gained any attention, except as perhaps a nut case and then he’d get summarily dismissed with a little patronizing, "Well, bless his little heart."

David Hogg has had his 15 minutes of fame and we have had enough of him too. Get back in class and out of our faces. Take the time to find out what it takes to be a real American who contributes to society instead of trying to manipulate it with clenched fists and tough-sounding sound bites. Take the time to learn the value of the Constitution and why and how it has shaped the greatest country in the history of the civilized world and get a grip on why it must be defended, not attacked or dismantled.

The Left needs new voices to promote their nonsense because the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, and CNN’s talking heads aren't getting the job done. Liberals love a good crisis and a good act of violence. They stand tall on the bodies of dead children and point attention and blame at the NRA and against guns, the inanimate objects they blame for all the violence. That is easier to do that than to address the troubled souls who commit the violence. Guns don't walk into schools, malls or churches and shoot people. They are merely tools and sometimes they are used in atrocious ways, but then so are knives, baseball bats, and speeding vehicles.

The FBI claims more people are killed every year by hands and feet than by assault-style rifles but hands and feet cannot be a target for liberty-haters, but guns and scary-looking “assault rifles” can be. Knives accounted for 1,604 deaths in 2016 while only 374 were attributed to rifles of all sorts. So where is the cry to ban knives? Logic has nothing to do with anti-gun arguments.

Let's get real about this debate and speak to the good guns actually do. When they are used to stop crimes by average citizens, we get silence from the media. Their reporting is all one-sided and we hear only what advances their agenda. They sling their lies, half-truths and misconceptions knowing if they do it often enough, some of it will stick and be taken as gospel. A lie told enough times will eventually be seen by some of the gullible and truly uninformed, as fact. But the truth remains the truth and lies, no matter how fervently they are believed, will still be lies.

No problem can be addressed effectively without taking into consideration the truth and not just the myths surrounding it. Anti-gun organizations twist facts into falsehoods and parade them as the gospel truth, doing a disservice to all Americans, including those that would benefit from the truth but are so adamant in spreading lies that they cannot see they harm themselves too.

Falsehoods serve no one. Include both sides of the story in the conversation and let the chips fall when they may. Stop demonizing everyone who doesn't believe like you do. If that's all you got to fight back with, you have already lost. That is what adults do and what kids will never understand, not even 17-year-olds like David Hogg. The system they are trying to destroy is what makes this country work and what makes it great.

They, like most people, do not like being lied to but somehow, they think it is their duty and right, of course, for the "greater good," to lie to you and I. Imagine the world we would live in if lying was not possible and everyone had to tell the truth. Since it would ever come to that, we have to sort out the lies for the truths and act accordingly. It is on us to declare our side and to remember that the truth will defend itself in the end. Lies will always lose at some point, at least, we must believe that and stand for the truth when we can. Silence sometimes has the same effect as consent.  

As for the flash-in-the-pan wanna-be celebrities who seek to destroy America for the sake of their utopia-style vision of what they think this country should be, just refuse to give them your attention. Let them fade away into irrelevancy. America is too powerful and important to be destroyed by mindless puppets who parrot what they are told, whether true or not.

Sometimes we just need to let the truth out of its cage, and like a lion, it will defend itself. As for the peddlers of lies, myths and uninformed opinions, well, “Bless their little hearts.”

Hypocrisy and Gun Control Go Hand in Hand

 

Few things bring out the Liberal ire than the mention of the Second Amendment and the Constitutional Right of Americans to own guns. Immediately after their mouth starts to water, the lies, misconceptions and myths start to fly.

An ad depicting the fact that the Obama children are protected by guns all day but that he does little to protect the rest of the nations kids, has been seen as both on-target and vile, depending upon your point of view. Jay Carney, the White House spokesman thought it was unfair to bring the president's kids into a political issue.

The hypocrisy of this administration not to be neglected, Obama himself signs his new gun control demands with four hand-picked children watching on. Maybe Carney failed to give President Obama the memo. Does our president even think of children when he is not pushing an agenda?

As Senator, Barack Obama was the only person with the callousness to actually take the floor and voice his opposition to a bill that would have demanded life support for babies born alive from a botched abortion. Let him use those kids as a backdrop for his disingenuous "protecting the most vulnerable among us" campaign.

No one argues that protecting the children of America must be a top priority but Obama saying it doesn't make it his priority.

During the 2008 campaign he was questioned by Pastor Rick Warrens about his stand on human trafficking, the third largest criminal industry in the world, which often targets young people for the sex trade. Then Senator Obama said, "This has to be a top priority". One solution of his was to be tougher with penalties on those caught.

This is an industry that brings in over 32 billion dollars annually, and enslaves 27 million people of all ages, thousands in the United States. However, when was the last time he stood behind his bully-pulpit and went after those who profit from their innocence? Who champions their cause? Not President Obama in spite of his saying the right words and expressing the right sentiment at public debates when seeking votes. Little has been done to expose the problem by Washington, much less address it.

But when it comes to gun control, an issue that he, both as a Senator and a President, holds close to his heart, President Obama doesn't mind using the bodies of children to make him stand a little taller to get his message heard. No, Jay Carney, that is abuse of children. I thought only Hamas used children as human shields.

Obama believes that to frame the gun control issue as a children's health or protection issue, he will keep opponents from attacking his efforts to negate the Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms. To stand upon your Second Amendment rights, and to demand its protection, he wants you to believe, is to not care about children. Those four students from Newtown, CT were on stage with Obama during his ceremonious signing of orders for one reason, to shield him from criticism.

School shootings are the most horrific events that take place in our world. There can be no mistake about that. But one of the reasons that schools, churches, and malls are chosen by mass murderers as killing fields is because they know they'll find more helpless victims there. Curiously, they never choose a gun show or a cop bar to target. Unarmed victims are the order of the day and what better place to find them than at "No-Gun Zones"?

The misrepresentation of gun violence is promoted by the media in their lack of reporting of incidents where guns were used to actually stop crimes. These cases do not fit their anti-gun agenda, especially in larger cities.

Jacob Tyler Roberts, who shot up the Clackamas Mall in Oregon, stopped his rampage only after he saw a man had him in his sights. His next shot took his own life. Another gun on the scene, even without being fired, put a stop to the killing. Guns do this every day but it isn't reported because it would strengthen the need for more guns, not less, in our culture. So the myths prevail, to our own detriment.

Reporters hiding the truth because it doesn't promote your own brand of facts used to be called "yellow journalism". Now it is business as usual.

While everyone remembers Columbine or Virginia Tech because of the shootings there, few have ever heard of Pearl High School in Mississippi or Edinboro, Pennsylvania. In these two shootings, armed citizens put an end to the rampage but that story didn't make it to the newspapers, much less the TV networks.

These two incidents had the lowest number of victims among mass shooting in recent history simply because the shooter was not the only one with a gun. In these cases armed citizens had the situation under control before the police arrived, which wasn't for 4 1/2 minutes at Pearl High School and a full 11 minutes in Edinboro.

Since 1995 people carrying a weapon have not been allowed within a 1,000 feet of a school but that hasn't prevent armed thugs from carrying out their mayhem. In fact, no law has and cannot stop someone with such evil on their minds. If they could, signs posted on doors would have stopped all such crimes. It isn't that criminals can't read. It is that they don't care.

There have been no studies that show laws deter gun crimes, but in more cases than we are told, other guns do. The best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. A repeatedly proven fact.

Gun owners are being demonized in America today as if law-abiding gun owners are behind the terrible acts of violence even though gun and headline-grabbing politicians know that isn't true. Adam Lanza in his shooting of kids and teachers in Newtown, CT, broke 41 laws that day. Laws such as the theft of weapons, transporting them, carrying them into the school, as well as using them on others, existed on the books but did not deter him in committing his insane act.

Diane Feinsten, Senator from California, has proposed reinstating the "Assault Weapons Ban" President Bill Clinton imposed and George W. Bush reversed, though it has not been shown to stop their use in crimes. It was interestingly in effect during the time of the Columbine shooting and did not prevent it. Feinstein herself, not only at one time defended the right of a person to arm his/herself for protection, has for years had a concealed carry permit with "unrestricted pistol" provisions. Hypocrisy in Washington is appalling.

America may have a gun violence problem but it appears Obamaland certainly does. Sixty percent of all gun violence comes from major cities that voted for Obama's style of gun control. The cities with the strictest gun regulations seem to have the highest gun crime rates with Chicago and Washington DC being the worst in America.

Contrarily, cities like Kennesaw, Georgia, where in 1982 by city ordinance, every household was required to have a firearm, tell a different story. Since that bold move, which caused opponents to proclaim there would be gun fights in the streets, which never materialized, crime has fallen 89% while the rest of the state has seen a mere 10% drop.

This is the story all across the nation but since it doesn't fit the anti-gun narrative you won't hear of it. Why it is such a hard pill to swallow, is beyond me. But time and time again it has been proved that more guns equals less crime. Criminals don't want armed victims, they want unarmed, helpless ones and "Gun-Free Zones" offer an endless supply.

An armed citizenry makes for a unsafe working environment for criminals. They will get no apologies from me. It is supposed to.