Reality Check

Check out the links below, and read a couple of the articles first, then read  my little rant.

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-06/12-22-06/16local.htm

http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-06/12-22-06/01opinion.htm

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757392/posts

Ok, let me get this straight.  A Mayor wants to ban assault weapons in his city, specifically the AR-15 (which a civilized version of the M-16).  He wishes to do this because he had some wounded cops in a standoff (which killed several people) with a man who happened to legally own such a weapon.

Scott C. Medeiros, 35, killed two Employees and himself in the standoff at the "Foxy Lady" in  New Bedford CT.  This is a "gentleman’s club" (in our neck of the woods, we call that a lot of other names that I won’t repeat here, but suffice it to say, women take off most of their clothes there).

The Mayor of this town stated….

"I’d like our local delegation to sponsor a bill that takes that type of weapon out of civilian hands … any type of military weapon," he said. "This is not an appropriate weapon for a civilian to have.

"It’s a killing tool. … It’s a weapon that’s used to destroy an opposition army. We don’t need a battlefield in the middle of our city."

Mayor Lang said he would like to see Massachusetts follow California’s example and ban the AR-15. "If it’s legal, it’s a loophole that’s got to be closed," he said.

The AR-15 "has firepower that police do not have available to them, except in extraordinary circumstances," Mayor Lang said.

Basically what we have here is a failure to communicate, as the warden told Cool Hand Luke… We have a man who decided he was going to kill some people, realized the hopelessness of his situation, after shooting some cops, and then killed himself.  He could have accomplished the same thing with a knife, with a baseball bat, any handgun, a steel rod, a piece of rope or a sword.  He might even have been able to do the same thing with his bare hands as some martial artists are trained to do.  I even know how to kill people with my bare hands.

Further, that particular state REQUIRES that one have a LICENSE to purchase weapons.

Let me see. Legally purchased weapon, man with no record.  Had a license to purchase said weapon.

Now they want to BAN THE WEAPON?

This ladies and gentlemen, sounds much more like a failure of the system to begin with.  Perhaps they somehow overlooked his background (no record) and failed to recognize that he was mentally unstable (medical records? Can they look at those legally?).

Bsaically, this Mayor has his head WAYYYYYYYYYY up his ass.   Lawmakers in the state are taking a cautious approach at the very least, but most likely it will not eventually stop the banning of military style weapons throughout America.

Australia’s Parliment banned "Assault Weapons" in 1997.  It hasn’t reduced crime in the cities, and it did little to bring back the dead from the attack at Port Arthur.  Thirty-two men and women were murdered and at least another twenty were wounded by a man with a "high powered rifle".

One man, with a rifle was able to kill that many people, making it the worst massacre in Australian history, by a single man.  As it turns out the man was mentally unstable to begin with.

Does that make it right that Australia went on to ban ALL weapons? No. But, the Aussies, for all their vim and vigor caved in and gave UP their weapons instead of fighting back.  I believe South Africa went through a similar situation.

Two weeks ago one man killed two people and the Mayor is calling for a BAN on WEAPONS because he believes they have no place in society.

Let me explain something, Mr. Mayor.  My family started in this country a long, long time ago, and they carried swords, and flintlocks.  Some of them carried bows and arrows.  America has lived because we, Americans.. all of us, immigrants as well as native Americans believe in FREEDOM first.

The very fact that a government would want to disarm the public and civilians in this day and age is akin to King George ording the removal of guns from Colonists in the 1700s.  The only difference is that now we have a government in place, in our OWN country, not that of a foreign government.  This time we have a Mayor, and American calling for the banning of something that absolutely ENSURES our American Rights and Heritage.

The fact that one crazed individual can cause such consternation amongst those who are supposed to be in leadership postions, forcing them to actually either completely throw out their honest views of America, or worse, allow their hidden hatred for American ways to come to the forefront is amazing to me.

This is a simple matter.  Two people died, and the murderer got away with it by killing himself.  There is no one left to punish, but the GUN that did nothing other than act a tool, in the hands of a man who was variously allowed to own the weapon by the state’s own LAWS (him having been FORCED to have a LICENSE to even PURCHASE the weapon in the first place).  This is an absolute FAILURE of the "system" and the people who are in charge.

My solution? Fire the Mayor, the Police Chief and everyone who was negligent in passing idiotic laws forcing law-abiding people to own weapons in the first place.  Reinstitute "Shall ISSUE" any "gun permits" they want, or better yet… "All Citizens of this city may carry anything they wish, as long as they aren’t already criminals".  

The actual Criminals will then be forced to GUESS who has a weapon, and who doesn’t.  The COPS will have BACK UP for situations like the one that occured at a "gentleman’s club" and half if not more of the customers, bar tenders and other bystanders might have returned fire at the CRIMINAL who walked in with a weapon.

The object is not to ban something that is used as a tool, rather make it more difficult for a criminal to perform such an act in the FIRST place by ensuring that ALL Americans have MORE rights than Criminals and are better ARMED than CRIMINALS. So, police? Get yourselves some weapons and as we say on the Internet today, STFU!