I, like most, was outraged after the Sandy Hook massacre when 26 seven-year-old children and six adults were ambushed by Adam Lanza using his mother's Bushmaster XM-15 on
Dec. 14, 2012.
Can you believe that in less than two months since the beginning of this year, there have been eight shooting incidents in schools in the U.S.?
The latest shooting was on Valentine's Day, when 15 students and two adults were killed at a high school in Parkland, Fla. The shooter, a 19-year-old, fired a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle into several classrooms. So, right away we blame the shooter and his mental illness.
I am sick of that excuse. Can we not put the blame on where it belongs - gun control and the lack thereof?
I know all about the Second Amendment, but those guys were using muskets not AR-15s. On top of that, it was meant for those to be available for "a well regulated militia," which, at the time, was rightfully "necessary to the security of a free state."
There was no mention of "the security of a free person."
Since then, and only in recent history, the Supreme Court has taken license to alter the obvious intent of that well-intentioned clause.
The writers of the Second Amendment are turning over in their graves knowing how their words were misinterpreted by today's gun toting Supreme Court judges in at least two precedent setting cases leading to be a major contributing cause in criminal civilian deaths.
The latest was in 2007 when the court had to explain its ruling by reminding legislators: "that the right to keep and bear arms is subject to regulation, such as concealed weapons prohibitions, limits on the rights of felons and the mentally ill, laws forbidding the carrying of weapons in certain locations, laws imposing conditions on commercial sales, and prohibitions on the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons."
It is 2018 and legislators have been ineffective for over a decade.
Nicholas Cruz, the shooter, had 10 rifles in his possession.
The guy obviously has issues. So, given the above statement, how did he get permits for all those weapons?
A red flag had to go up and, as we are finding out, there was more than just one flag that did.
The problem?
No one did anything about it, especially the school and the FBI.
Of course, the NRA is unresponsive to the Supreme Court's words and continues to depend on the funds they provide to politicians to do their mal-intended work.
As expected, the orange guy wants to blame it all on the FBI. Absolutely no blame to the NRA anti-gun control lobbyists. Gun control is not about taking away anyone's rights to own a gun, but a way to monitor who gets permits.
I am sick and tired of the tears being shed and people relying on God to fix it every time this happens.
Time for a reality check. God isn't bringing those babies back to their families. It's not that I am anti-God.
I am a decent Catholic.
It is time to cut the crap and do something. The politicians are doing squat. The orange guy would rather play golf while children are being buried not far from his Mar-a-Lago.
Enter the students from Marjory Stoneham Douglas High School in Florida, along with their parents demanding action.
Students from all over the U.S. are joining in, urging politicians to wake up by loading buses and heading to Washington D.C. where a march is planned for March 24, as well as at state legislative offices throughout the country.
They are terrified kids. They are angry kids.
They are tired of those incompetents who have the duty and the power to protect them.
On Tuesday, the Florida House of Representatives rejected a bill that would ban assault rifles.
Trump is throwing a crumb by proposing regulations on bump stock devices, which allow a semiautomatic weapon to act like an automatic weapon.
These young folks are not going to stop until things change. Watch out, because George Clooney and his wife, Oprah and Steven Spielberg have all just donated $500,000 each for the gun control rally and march next month.
Leave it to the kids, they will not take no for an answer!
