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.

Obama's Real Top Priority

Obama once spoke about the horrendous practice of Human Trafficking when he said to Pastor Rick Warren, "This has to be a top priority". After almost 2 years in office the issue of human trafficking has yet to be addressed. However, there has been plenty of time to address other “top priorities” for this busy president.

He insisted on ramming health care down the throats of American when 3 of 4 did not want it, taking 6 vacations, golfing, funding abortion with federal money, making speeches for fellow Democrats, golfing, bashing Bush, lying to the public about what was in the health care bill, whittling away at individual liberties of Americans who want to make their own decisions for their lives, throwing 60 White House parties, praying with Muslims on Muslim Friday Prayer, golfing, blaming Republicans even though they were powerless to halt anything the ruling party wanted to do if they were in one accord, hiring Communists for White House positions, continuing reckless spending, suing Arizona for doing what he said was his job although he refuses to do it, bragging on non-existent jobs created & fictitious jobs saved, golfing, buying shrimp, crying about how terrorist suspects are mistreated, making racial slurs against white policemen before he admittedly had all the facts, gleefully meeting Hugo Chavez, golfing, running infomercials to try and convince us not to believe our own gut and ears about what was in the health care bill, covering up crosses with plywood to hide the hint that he is a Christian, pandering to ACORN buddies whom he promised would join him in Washington to “set the agenda” for the transformation of the United States, praising the many contributions Muslims have made to America (although he failed to mention 9/11 as one of them), hiring a few more Communists and radicals, quoting the "Holy Koran" as an example of how all humanity should fashion their lives, shutting down cities and construction projects so he can make 10 minute speeches, going on The View to gain swooning women support, watching his poll numbers slide into the ditch and pretending not to care, golfing, making speeches to the Muslim community to show that he is on their side against any criticism aimed in their direction, promoting an unneeded Islamic mosque near Ground Zero and not being sensitive to all Americans who were attacked on 9/11, renaming 9/11 as a Day of Remembrance and refusing to identify the attackers as having any ties to Islam, golfing, backing up on his support of a mosque when he heard Americans state their disapproval, deciding to never attend a church anymore because it is disruptive and yet continues to disrupt city after city as he continues his speaking career, promoting a global climate change agenda Americans do not want and can't afford in this economy, lying about the upswing in economic recovery while unemployment remains above what he promised it would reach if we passed the stimulus bill, flying to Copenhagen to corral the Olympics for his hometown buddies at the cost of a million dollars wasted, golfing, making more campaign stops and speeches after he was elected than before, initiating a war against Fox News as an enemy of his design for America, apologizing for America more times than can be countered, touting an over-priced electric car as proof that Americans are ready to switch from oil-based transportation, making ineffective concessions to Russia so they would like us more, continuing not to promote nuclear power in USA but sending millions to South America so they can build a nuclear plant, caring more for the 'rights' of terrorists than the people they kill, trying to fulfill his promise to be the greenest president ever, avoiding his promise made nine times that the health care process would be televised on C-SPAN, slighting our military by going to the gym instead of visiting wounded troops overseas, fighting against anyone who would dare obstruct the steady flow of “Undocumented Democrats” coming across the border into California, Arizona and Texas, promising to make us eat more health while he visits ice cream parlors and BBQ joints, redistributing the wealth and making sure we don’t have much of it left for ourselves, praising withdrawal of troops from Iraq while leaving 50,000 still there as violence continues and the job is not complete, seemingly taking credit for the Surge after bashing Bush for the idea and voting against funding it, praising his efforts to make this a “Summer of Recovery” in speech after speech when all America watches a “Summer of Job Loss”…..

Oh, did I mention playing golf? Do I really need to continue? Americans are not stupid and have eyes to see that electing an inexperienced politician who saw a whooping 145 days experience in the Senate as qualification for becoming the President of the United States and the most powerful political figure in the world, was nothing if not pure folly. Obama labors under the delusion that making promises is equivalent to keeping them.

And what of human trafficking issue that “must be a top priority”? Well, it came in way down the list behind hitting the links, slurping ice cream and swaggering in White House Conga Lines while many Americans are deciding whether to pay their house mortgage or eat . In fact, after all these months I am uncertain if he has even mentioned it again as he did during the campaign when he was intent upon making vain promises in effort to gain support and get votes and prove his love for suffering humanity.

Proclaiming himself to be the politician that would “change the way Washington is run”, Obama has proved to be the ultimate politician, self-serving instead of serving the people who put their trust in him. With back-room deals, hiring and firing in the middle of the night and other dubious actions, Obama has created the most obscured presidency. It has become his legacy instead of the transparency he promised.

Obama has so many “top priority” issues that, in effect, only his liberal agenda of making America less safe, poorer, and seen as more evil in the eyes of all of the world is his top priority.

The once outwardly praised Messiah who rode into Washington on the Democratic donkey amidst praises and heartfelt tears, has shed his Messianic robes and went from being the Messiah to being Judas, a betrayer of all he once said he stood for and to the American people.

Under his “leadership” and I use that term very loosely, we have not seen the oceans recede and the land heal as he promised. “We are the ones the world has been waiting for” now echoes as pure, shameless narcissism.

And what of the 27 million living the hellish life of forced slavery that Obama promised to rescue? They’ll just have to wait a while longer. It’s tee-off time.

So while his promise to work to end human trafficking went unaddressed, Obama has succeeded in trafficking in the dreams of Americans and people all over the world as he sold them on the auction block. To be fair, in his mind he probably thinks that he ‘kind of’ kept his promise.