Gun Insanity

”A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”.  Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

It seems to me that the NRA, et al, are so focused on the rights of the people that they forget that the initial reason for the establishment of that right is for a well-regulated militia.  Except for one reason, for the life of me I cannot understand the hysteria surrounding back ground checks for gun purchasers.  That one reason is the gun manufacturers.  They are so sure that they will lose profits if any regulations take place that they have become absolutely insane, and have infected the NRA with that insanity.  I think it is the only time I have heard of insanity being contagious!

In several blogs ago I once again waxed eloquent on gun control, and how I think that it is imperative to teach young people responsibility long before they can be allowed to own, or use, a gun.  That guns should be the result of an evidence of responsibility rather than a precursor to it.

Two things have occurred in the media these past couple of days that bear mentioning.  The first was that finally someone, Donny Deutsch on MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ this morning, 5/3, stated in public what I have been ranting about here at home for some time, and that is there is a direct connection between the non-action Congress just took on background checks and gun deaths that will take place between then and when Congress will decide to act.  The blood of those killed by guns is on the hands of these Congressional wimps who have the spines of jelly fish.  This guilt needs to be conveyed over and over and over whenever there is another gun death at the hands of someone who should never have had a gun in the first place, and could have been prevented from having one by background checks.

Which brings me to the second point.  Manufacturing guns specifically for children.  This is insane as well, and manufacturing pink small rifles for girls certainly doesn’t make it OK.  One comment I noted on one news page was that it hadn’t been determined yet whether charges would be filed in the case of the five year old who took his rifle and accidently killed his two year old sister with it.  The five year old certainly should not be charged with anything, but his parents certainly should for creating an atmosphere of child endangerment.  To leave a gun “in a corner”, thinking that made it a safe place is beyond belief.  That gun should never have been purchased in the first place, but if so, should have been kept on the top shelf in a locked gun case until taken out by a responsible adult.  This last, however, probably excludes the parents.  What possible relevance does a rifle for a small child have to do with a well-regulated militia?

Once again, I am certainly not anti-gun.  For us, and for our family, guns are tools that we need to keep predators (four-legged ones) away.  It was good to have one the night a cougar was screaming near our house and our beloved house cat decided to drive that interloper away!  Shooting that gun into the hill side scared them both.  The one ran away, and Big Mo ran back into the house! 

The radical gun wing-nuts are so zeroed in on their “rights” they have forgotten the intent of the 2^nd Amendment – a well-regulated Militia.  We need fairly strict gun regulations to insure that we have that “well-regulated Militia”.