Hey all you gun control fanatics! Can you tell my something? Can you tell my why you think it is important to take away my Second Amendment Right to own and carry a gun? Do you live in the country, where I live? Do you encounter predators attacking your livestock? Do you live more than 20 miles from any law enforcement? Are you a woman and travel by yourself and camp out in areas that have potential criminals that can attack you? Well I do!
I live on a farm where it is at least 20 miles to the sheriff’s office, any phone call for help would mean at least 30 if not 60 minutes before anyone could get to my farm, provided they could get a deputy up here with the roads I live on. By that time, I could be raped or murdered and robbed. In an instance such as this, the Law of Nature dictates I should defend myself and yet you want to take my RIGHT to a gun away. Where is the justice in that?
Gun Free Zones; they didn’t have them before Joe Biden pushed for them. There weren’t that many school attacks prior to those zones but a hell of a lot more since then. Why? Well, maybe, just maybe that Gun Free Zone sign tells those mental deviants that there are easy targets there. No one is going to fire back on them, so kill as many as you want and have your name plastered across the news media.
In my business, I travel with a load of livestock and some working dogs. I camp out at night, where at times, there are no people for miles around. In Kansas, there are bobcats, mountain lions, coyotes and dogs that run wild. My goats and dogs are easy targets for those predators. BUT, with me and my gun, I can protect my animals from attack. Sometimes I just have to shoot a bullet into the ground, to scare them off, other times, I must shoot to kill.
I had a newborn goat born at my farm. I went to the barn to get a towel, to help the new mother dry it off. When I came back, the baby was not beside its mother. A Bald Eagle had swooped down and snatched the little 4 pound baby. As I watched the Eagle soar away with the baby in its talons, I knew, because of the laws against shooting eagles, that I had no choice but to let that baby go. I lost the potential income off that baby because I had no way to defend it. Had there been no law, I could have shot the bird down, and maybe saved the baby, since it was only flying ten feet off the ground. I would have taken that risk to save that baby goat. But, being the law abiding citizen that I am, I could do NOTHING to rescue that newborn goat. Guess what people? If you take away the guns, only the criminals will have them and you will have to stand by and watch your loved ones raped, murdered, abducted and worse because you have no way to save them.
I visited Dachau prison camp just north of Munich Germany, when I was living in Germany, in the early 1990’s. There wasn’t much left, the disease in the original buildings required their being destroyed but there was a mock building that was to resemble the barracks and there was the museum’s entry that had pictures and information on the prison camp, the number of Jews killed there and there were the gas chambers as well as the new ovens that thank God, were never used, because the Nazis were stopped before they were ever started up. There was however, a smell near the ovens and gas chamber. It was the smell of charred flesh and the black ash was lying in an area that was planted to flowers. Symbolic of the Jews rising up out of the ash. Those Jews and others were forced into those camps because they had no way to defend themselves. No way to fight back against a government that had taken their rights away and were systematically murdering them. I will never forget that smell. I will never forget the feeling I felt, walking on the grounds where innocent people were murdered because of a madman and an ideology that one race was greater than another.
Are we to repeat history because of the excuse that it is the guns that kill innocent people? Are we to take away the rights of law abiding citizens, who own guns for protection and hunting, just because of a few mad people, who kill? Facts are facts, the shooters of all the school shootings, since Columbine, were people who were mentally unstable, on psychotropic drugs, were isolated and ignored by mental health professionals, teachers and law enforcement agencies, who had been warned, yet never took the threats seriously. YET we blame an inanimate object for the actions of a person. We have thousands killed by drunk drivers, yet we do not outlaw vehicles. We have gun laws in Chicago and Boston that are extreme, yet we have shootings in those cities almost daily. It isn’t the gun, it is the person utilizing that gun to do harm.
The bombing in Oklahoma City; nitrogen fertilizer was used. On 9/11, airplanes were used. Rapists use any type of weapons or tricks to get their victims caught. Serial killers tend to want to rape, stab, strangle or suffocate. Drunk drivers run people down or hit other vehicles. It isn’t what they use, it is the person.
Now, to all you who want to take my rights away, tell me again why you demand you want to take my rights away in a logical explanation. Am I to be left a victim of your un-reasoned logic?
They say that those who do not learn history are damned to repeat it. I see the writing on the wall and ask you to leave me out of your nonsensical demands.