A good friend and fellow blogger just posted a story last
Tuesday with a header stating that Evil is Alive & Well in the U.S.A. It’s
about the failure of Congress to include the assault weapons ban in their gun
control legislation. He goes on to say or agrees that Wayne La Pierre and the
NRA are no better than the Klu-Klux- Klan and the al-Qaeda and that Americans
should be ashamed of them selves for sponsoring and allowing this organization
to have that much power and political clout. Politicians who disagree with
banning assault weapons or banning all guns should be ashamed of them selves
for not standing up to the gun lobby and we should send these cowards packing.
I want to be first to say that I will support his right to
say and publish his thoughts and his beliefs to the death for we have been
given this right under the 1st amendment of the Bill of Rights. Each
of those amendments are linked together and interwoven to provide the fabric of
who we are and what our country stands for. It has been said that the pen is
mightier than the sword so that being the case man’s thoughts being uttered or
put to paper can do more good or damage than any weapon. History has shown that
is has brought nations to its knees and caused new nations to rise up.
What’s hard for me to wrap my head around is why anyone with
any intelligence and stature would have a problem figuring out that if you weaken
one amendment you will weaken rest. If I can stand behind his right of freedom
of speech, freedom of the press and the freedom to lawfully assemble then why
is it so hard for him to stand behind my rights under the 2nd
amendment to keep and bear arms.
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