Most people are tired of the NRA and gun lobby continuing to spin misinformation to justify America’s most immoral gun policies. It is as if the facts no longer matter. It is as if visual and physical evidence of the carnage left by the liberal availability of guns do not matter.
When countries like Nicaragua, Zimbabwe, & Serbia have a lower gun related death rate than America, one should know that there is a major problem. When our murder rate by guns is looked at in raw numbers, it is equivalent to over 25 murders per day.
The United States is the most armed nation on the planet with approximately 89 guns per hundred people. Yemen is a distant 2nd. One must ask if that level of gun ownership given the constructs of our society is justified. One must ask if the easy availability of guns along with a depressed economy is a powder keg ready to explode.
How many more must die before America’s urban moms, suburban moms, exurban moms, rural moms, and dads force the government to take a stance against gun policies that continue to allow the systematic murder of our citizens. How many more must die till politicians develop a spine to disregard the threats of the NRA.
Piers Morgan confronted vocal pro-gun advocates on his show on Friday. The mainstream media has been negligent in its coverage of many issues, generally allowing it to be spun by political operatives and corporate lobbyists. One can only hope that corporate powers will allow the news bureaus within their networks to do their jobs, report the news, and provide unbiased research. A functioning democracy requires no less.
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Although implied, the most fundamental principle of the US Constitution, FAR exceeding the principle of the Second Amendment, is the guarantee for EACH individual the RIGHT TO LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
For the 26 that died in Newtown and the thousands of others that have been murdered by gun violence, that Fundamental RIGHT was illegally stolen.
The mindset that promotes the ownership of weapons of mass killing is the product of conditioning from childhood in an environment that justifies and glorifies the ownership of such weapons as a means of self-preservation (and for a for feeling superiority and power).
Self-preservation was necessary and reasonable when our fore-fathers wrote the Second Amendment. At the time, the weapons of self-preservation were single shot rifles and hand guns primarily used for providing food on the table.
Were the creators of the Second Amendment alive today, they would be enraged, shocked, and deeply saddened by the application of their Second Amendment in the vaguely shrouded justification of the killing of twenty beautiful elementary school children.
Each of us who still live in the United States should mourn and be DEEPLY ASHAMED that those beautiful children will not enjoy their opportunity for:
LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
It is long past time to interpret the Constitution correctly.