Salvador Ramos, 18, entered Robb Elementary School approximately noon Tuesday, May 24th and started shooting.
This from en-volve.com.
Ramos killed at least 20 people, including many children under the age of ten, before he finally died.
Whatever information we learn in the coming days and over time, there is one thing we can all agree on: This was a terrible tragedy.
Despite what drove Ramos to commit these killings, one thing will remain: The gun he used did not kill these people—RAMOS killed these people.
Many experts believe this is because our culture has changed. The world is different, because people are different. It’s not the other way around.
On December 15th, 1791, the first ten amendments to the Constitution were ratified and formed what is known as the “Bill of Rights.”
The Second Amendment listed in the Bill of Rights reads:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
NOTE: The Second Amendment does not give We the People the right to bear Arms. The Constitution assumes that right comes from God. What the Second Amendment does, however, is clarify that the God-given right to bear Arms “shall not be infringed.”
Those on the Left refuse to recognize this God-given right and have sought to bring about its demise. Their struggles obfuscate a real solution to school shootings.
Within the last 25 years, many on the political Left have fought to eliminate or negate this ratification, utilizing in part as political collateral horrific tragedies such as this and those in the recent past:
Sandy Hook elementary, where 26 individuals (including 20 children) were murdered; Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, which resulted in the loss of 17 innocent lives, the Oxford High School shootings, that left 4 murdered and several injured, and of course, Columbine High School, which saw the slaughter of 15 helpless students.
Gun Laws and Their Effectiveness
The most extensive and intensive background checks have been put in place as well as greater gun restrictions, all in efforts to deter or decrease gun fatalities.
However, studies show that such restrictions have made little difference.
While cities like Chicago maintain some of the most stringent gun laws in the nation, there were more than 3,200 shootings in 2020 alone, leaving nearly 800 dead: those numbers are up more than 50% from the prior year.
The expression, “guns don’t kill people, people kill people,” is not merely a catch phrase; it is a matter of fact.
Tom Selleck accurately identified the problem and made it public.
In 1999, actor Tom Selleck (a member of the NRA) while being interviewed for his then-current film on ‘The Rosie O’Donnell Show’ responded to a bombardment of questions about gun control.
Selleck said:
The troubling direction in our culture and where I see consensus, which is what I think we ought to concentrate on in our culture, is [that] nobody argues anymore (whether they’re conservatives or liberal), whether our society is going in the wrong direction.
They may argue trying to quantify how far it’s gone wrong or why it’s gone that far wrong; whether it’s guns or television or the internet or whatever—but there’s consensus saying that something’s happened.
Guns were much more accessible 40 years ago. A kid could walk into a pawn shop or hardware store and buy a high-capacity magazine weapon that could kill a lot of people, and they didn’t do it.
The question we ought to be asking is…
Look, suicide is a tragedy; it’s a horrible thing, but 30 or 40 years ago, particularly men—(and even young men) when they were suicidal, they went and unfortunately blew their brains out.
In today’s world, someone who is suicidal sits home, nurses their grievance, develops a rage and is just as suicidal, but they take 20 people with
them.[Why the change?]
Selleck’s grasp of the reality concerning guns is one that escapes far too many, particularly those of the left who seem to be working other motives.
As difficult as it was to hear the mother of Telemachus Orfanos (the 27 year-old that was among the 12 murdered at the Borderline Bar & Grill in 2018) say she wanted, “Gun control, not prayers”, many of us already know that gun control is not the answer.
Clearly, it never was. Those on the political Left would have us to believe that all they want is gun control, but we know the truth; gun control is not the end; it is the beginning.
Ironically, leftists ignore statistics that prove guns are not the problem.
A CBS report explained that according to the FBI, across the United States in 2018, there were: 1,515 deaths by knives or cutting instruments, 443 people were killed with hammers/clubs/other blunt objects, 672 people were killed from fists/feet/’personal weapons’ compared to the 297 killed by (any) rifles.
The reason leftists can’t acknowledge facts like this is that [the facts] completely render their arguments moot.
Not surprisingly, every democrat presidential candidate in the 2020 election ran on a gun control platform and promise.
Michigan Radio host simply known as ‘Renk’ once put it this way:
I believe that the outcry we are hearing today for gun control has nothing to do with protecting Americans and legal citizens from violence. I believe it must do simply with hatred. Hatred of people who do not believe in the same government policies as others.
I believe if we look further, you will find that the side that wants gun control really just cannot stand that the other “team” will not go along with their governmental policies of “controlling” the people.
In other words, the plan that we are being fed by the Left is not the real plan.
It is a smokescreen- the ‘old bait n’ switch, or “the rope a dope.”
The truth is you cannot make guns behave. They are inanimate objects with no moral compass, no sense of right or wrong.
Obviously, they are just machines; no different than an automobile. Yet, while gun murders claim 39,000 lives each year, and deaths by car accident are only slightly behind at 38,000, there is still (as of this writing) no call for car control. So, rather than deal with the issue honestly, the Left would rather eliminate the guns.
Regardless of what we hear, our 2nd amendment is designed so that we would be able to protect ourselves and our families.
Thus, what better way to control people than to take away their ability to protect themselves?
This is the Real Plan—Control of We the People.
Be not deceived. Gun control is people control. If you don’t understand that… you are part of the problem.
Final thought, an observation: Sadly, this article merely provides an alternate impression or cause of an increasing problem. We still are no closer to a solution. The Right and the Wrong (Left) will never reach an agreement.
Obvious is, however, democrat-communist leadership has not been the solution. And what is not the solution is, in fact, the problem.
