No one is trying to take your guns away

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Recently a number of our fine citizens,  somewhere to the right of Attila The Hun or Genghis Ghan, have been running around screaming about Obama’s plan regarding gun regulation.

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President Obama and Vice President Biden deliver address on gun control.

The last time I saw tantrums like this was when a daycare worker started taking pacifiers away from two year old kids. Man it was awful, but at some point the kids have to learn that they have to learn to go through life without their pacifiers. I mean, sure, they will suck their thumbs for a while, but they will realize soon enough that doing that, at least in front of other people, really isn’t appropriate.

There are many occasions when, as parents, we have had to limit the activities of our children.  but this was our job;, to protect them from themselves or placing  themselves in danger.

There are other instances where people have to protect themselves from their selves.

Though those to whom I earlier alluded don’t necessarily like to acknowledge it, we in the United States live in a republic, though they like to call it a democracy. Under our form of government we elect an individual to the office of president who is considered the leader of this country.

As anyone who has ever had leadership responsibilities should know, a primary concern of a leader is to look out for his people. Ask any general, admiral, major, captain, or whomever and they will tell you the same thing. A good leader looks out for his people in terms of their safety and well being. A leader has a better overview of a situation, similar to that of a parent, and can see things in a more objective perspective. In fact the role of much of the federal government is to help Americans protect them from themselves. Generally, they don’t have a problem with it.

Thanks to many of the agencies of the federal government we in this country now live longer and safer than our predecessors did. This seems to work out fine until you start to tell some of them that what is bad for them is the equivalent of their is their thumb and there are certain rules they should follow before they suck on it, or roughly that equivalent. Well our leader, President Obama, is acting.

What I am getting at here, of course, is the current yelling, screaming, and gnashing of teeth over having reasonable rules about firearms. This is, they say, about the Second Amendment and someone trying to take it away from them. No, No, No. No one is trying to cut your damn thumb off, or take your Second Amendment Rights from you. NO, dammit. However, as we have learned there are some people who act very irresponsibly with their thumbs and therefore should not have thumbs, or Second Amendment Rights. Because of these few people who have, or may, go around sticking their thumbs into the mouths or other people, or even their eyes, or using their Second Amendment Rights to get firearms and hurt others, we need to have rules to stop them.

Now so far, the rules we have in place haven’t worked so well because people, usually those wrong kind of people, have figured out how to keep or get the use of their thumbs in public by bypassing the rules. This has led to a lot of people getting thumbed, or shot. So it is time to revisit the rules and fix, repair, or alter the rules so that those few who thumb themselves at the rules can’t get around them any longer. BUT, all of you who don’t abuse other people with thumbs need not worry. No one is going to take your thumbs. You can still use it at your own leisure as you please as long it is lawful.

So to all of you in the NRA, and other organizations, please listen. NO ONE IS TRYING TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY FROM YOU! If the government wanted your guns they could get them. Remember Waco, Texas. David Koresh basically said no, but they went to get them. No one is trying to take your guns. They don’t want them unless you are doing something illegal or they are classified as weapons of war such as assault rifles. Grow up and stop acting like you are a two year old living in a banana republic (though it is hard to tell when you listen to the rhetoric). This is the United States of America and we don’t do things like that. Some of us suffered through the years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney but President Obama has won not once, but twice. So, SUCK IT UP PEOPLE, and at least act like you are part of the most advanced country in the world.

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Bill Formby

Bill Formby, aka William A. Formby, PhD, aka Lazersedge is a former Marine and a former police officer. He is a retired University Educator who considers himself a moderate pragmatic progressive liberal, meaning that he thinks practically liberal, acts practically liberal, and he is not going to change in the near future. But, if he does he will be sure to let you know.
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10 years ago

You claim that no one is trying to take away our guns. Not true. The U.n. is.

Reply to  Random and Anonymous
10 years ago

WTF? The UN has absolutely nothing to do with that. Idiot.

Reply to  A Marine
11 years ago

And that is working out how well? Exactly how many guns have been taken away? As usual, the extremist fringe on both sides is spouting nonsense. Yes, that does mean you, “Mr. Marine.”

If you are really a Marine, which side will you be on if an actual insurrection did start? Would you be a good Marine and follow orders to fire upon American citizens, or desert your fellow Marines, join the “defenders of the Second Amendment” and fire upon your former comrades?

It’s time to decide now so you will have no hesitation if the time comes to choose.

Carol Maietta
11 years ago

Good post.
It seems everyone in my circle is talking or joking about this issue and the others are off building up their ammunition supplies and those better keep their thumbs out of our worlds. We recently experienced a shooting of two of our employees by a gunman, so this is top on my mind right now.

Bill Formby
Reply to  Carol Maietta
11 years ago

Maybe we should let kids keep their pacifiers. 🙂

Admin
11 years ago

Black Panthers? You’re showing your age Joe 🙂

Joe Hagstrom
11 years ago

You can’t fight the crazies with facts. We need to do a better job than the right wing propaganda machine shaping the minds of the idiots and haters.

I wonder if spreading a story that Obama wants to make assault weapons legal so Black Panthers can get all they want and use them to intimidate white women to go to dinner at Applebees with them.

Bill Formby
Reply to  Joe Hagstrom
11 years ago

Or make them dance with them on Soul Train. 🙂

11 years ago

But I recently had a guy in Texas tell me that Obama is personally coming to take everyone’s guns away and that all the ex-military people would band together to prevent the federal government from becoming a dictatorship. Hmm, he also called Obama a dictator.

It must be true because he was very confident about all of it.

Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

LOL LOL LOL!!! Love that confidence 🙂

Bill Formby
Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

I remember that conversation James. You know I don’t know if they know it but a lot of police even have armored personnel carriers now. 🙂

Reply to  Bill Formby
11 years ago

They certainly have them in Rio, I have seen them there many time Here, I haven’t heard of any but I usually work with the Policia Civil, who mostly do investigative work. The Policia Militar, who answer most crimes in progress and do the patrol work might have one but I’ve never seen it. I’ll ask my Delegado friend.

Bill Formby
Reply to  James Smith
11 years ago

When doing research with the Birmingham Police Department years ago I remember that they had an armored vehicle with a battering ram on it. The Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Department (where I live) has one parked beside its jail now. I don’t know that they have had cause to use it but we have a sheriff who would love to give a run at someone.

Reply to  Bill Formby
11 years ago

Tuscaloosa? I started my university career at Alabama. In fact, I wrote my first piece of music there while playing with a group called George Rich and the Poor Boys.

Considering that no one has heard of George (or me) since, tells me that perhaps the song was not the big hit George told me it would be. 😉

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