And, the gun stories continue – one law abiding NRA member, whom I will call Ray, in Winstead MN, issued two death threats against me for my stance on gun control. Ray may be 15 degrees down bubble, but most disturbing is the attitude of law abiding citizens such as Ray. Thank god, he is on psychotropic medications.
Ray also feels that congress needs to be taught a lesson – so he has picked up on this one million armed man march on Washington D.C.
Ray though is a friendly type, he walked into his Doctor’s office, which was posted NO GUNS – the staff demanded he remove his firearm from their office. Ray described to me the shouting match that ensued and how his second amendment rights over rode the property owners’ rights and the rights of the now terrified other patients in the waiting room.
I wonder how much valium was prescribed that day, and Ray was very proud of the fact he had caused the fear of God in so many people. God bless the second amendment.
Our attitude is further displayed by what happened to a father of one of the boys who was killed in Columbine. He walked into an NRA sponsored gun show and he received a resounding: “Get a life”.
We have congress that is completely impotent against the NRA because without an NRA endorsement, that congress person will lose the big check hand out and will lose the the next reelection.
We are being told we need more guns pumped into an already volatile state of existence. Next, I suppose the proper attire for a grade school student is going to be body amour. One’s success in college will be if one lives long enough to graduate. High school is going to be an abject lesson in fear.
We have gun dealers who feel their customers civil rights are being trampled and will sell a gun to anyone regardless of whether or not the customer passes the criminal check. Besides, we just found out the back ground checks don’t work – a person who had been institutionalized simply checked NO on his gun purchase form and got his guns. A number of people died in that gun rights episode right there in Northern Illinois.
So, what is it going to take to bring us to our senses – what ever that means - a hundred more University episodes, a hundred more Columbines, of those who herald the God given blessings of the gun becoming a victim of their own success, or congress waking up one morning and finding a million rifles pointed at them?
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