Political Dishonesty

Like most liberal leaning politicians, Senator Dianne Feinstein, (D, CA) can make some of the most ridiculous and fallacious comments without being challenged for their veracity. When the Senator claimed “We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to hunt humans with 15-round, 30-round, even 150-round magazines’.  Senator, please, it is not legal to hunt humans under any circumstances,  (except for the US government with its Drone policy) with any weapon regardless of size or magazine capacity. If it were legal, there would be far fewer people in congress than there are now. Term limits no longer would be an issue. Some may find this half attempt at humor to be in bad taste. In response,  I would ask if the suggestion that hunting humans is legal is an attempt at humor or a intentional failure to distinguish between fact and fiction. Or even more sinister, was it an attempt to confuse the lesser informed into supporting any effort to control the masses by taking even more of the rights guaranteed to each of us by virtue of the constitution.

None of the many legislative efforts currently underway address the reasons people kill. People don’t kill because they have guns. They kill for other reasons and we really should try to understand why people take to such horrific tactics and it should be our first priority to begin to understand , why? What are the common elements among the killers that causes them to want to extinguish lives. Instead of focusing on the means by which people murder, should we not be more dedicated to understanding why and then developing methods in which to curtail or eliminate the risk factors that precipitate the behavioral characteristics that lead to casualties.

Perhaps we all should consider the changing state of the American culture. Once a God fearing nation where honesty, ethics and honor were the foundation on which our moral compass was guided and we held each other accountable for our behavior, now personal and immediate gratification is the order of the day.  Respect and honor for others has been replaced with a sense of entitlement. Human interaction has been replaced by violent electronic video games, movies and a culture that has less respect for human life. At least two generations have been desensitized by actual violence in the streets of inner cities to the virtual violence seen in movies and games our kids watch and play.

Government attempts to control guns is not the answer. Hell, it’s not even the question. People who recognize their own since of responsibility do not kill innocent people. It is only those who have immersed themselves into a world where they themselves become the center and constant external stimulus to feed the overwhelming since of entitlement is required to maintain and cope with reality. 

 
Curtailing the rights of law abiding Americans will have no effect on the criminal element that will continue to have weapons of every nature including those with high capacity magazines.  Curtailing or eliminating my right to meet any criminal threat with equal firepower is not only unconstitutional, it’s immoral.