Again! Another Gun Owner Commits Mass Murder

In just a few days, 2 gun owners killed about 10 people and destroyed untold number of lives.  The most recent gun owner that killed four did so in Pennsylvania.

There are several things I have focused on if you have not fully read my blog, which are:

1. The people that kill people with guns are typically gun owners (a fact the NRA ignores)
2. We must change the message; instead of saying "gun control" we should use the NRAs own language for example, "we do not need gun control because guns do not kill people, but we do need people control because people kill people" and
3. As such. we should institute laws that ensure responsible gun ownership; conversely, if one cannot be responsible then they forfeit their Second Amendment (2A) right until they can conclusively do so.

In short, its about people control, not gun control.

I believe in the phrase, "you abuse it, you lose it."

Sadly, a few gun owners have abused the 2A right by infringing upon our (as in ALL OF US) unalienable rights endowed by our creator and in doing so, these few put at risk OUR 2A right.  I know one gun owner who believes that the 2A right, which was endowed by our government, precedes those rights endowed by our creator.  What gets my goat is that this gun owner has touted his belief in Jesus Christ. Go figure.

I digress, the point is if the NRA is truly the protector of the 2A that it claims then it needs to promote responsible gun ownership to ensure that ALL gun owners will respect their's and more importantly others' unalienable rights.  While changing their message will help, they need to support laws that will ensure it.  Another way to look at, not all people should be able to exercise their 2A right, because they are detrimental to themselves and more importantly, you, me and our way of life.

Yes, it will be a cumbersome to gun owners, but less cumbersome then lying stone cold dead on the ground with no where else to go. 

Oh, by the way. the 2A remains intact.  Is that not what we want?

Another Gun Owner, Another Mass Shooting

Guns do not kill people, but gun owners do as evidence by the mass shooting in Sebring, FL yesterday.

Some bullets fall on rocky ground, but some bullets tear the hearts out of people.  These bullets that lead to destruction are just like seeds that fall on fertile ground.  Unlike the seeds that will grow and eventually bear fruit, the destruction from the bullets will metastasize to eventually lead to repealing the Second Amendment (2A) unless gun advocates embrace responsibility – people most demonstrate without a doubt that they will respect other’s unalienable rights endowed by our creator else they are not worthy of exercising their 2A right.

Attack the Problem, Not the Symptom

Tonight I spoke at Duval County Public Schools (DCPS) monthly school board meeting, the second in a series.  You could say this presentation is a follow-up to my presentation this past September entitled, Sue the Gun Manufacturers.  My speech is as follows:

Good evening Board Chair, Fellow Board members, Superintendent Greene, Guests and fellow attendees.

Is not the purpose of an education to gain the cognitive thinking skills with which to solve problems?  Reading, writing, arithmetic are just means to that end are they not?  Many educational institutions based on perusing their websites do not share this goal; instead I mostly found oblique objectives.

I contend this lack of focus and direction is not new or our country would not be encountering problems that should have never arisen. We have allowed our own laws to infringe upon and even annihilate for some the unalienable rights endowed by our creator.  We respond to these outcomes with the very same activity that leads us there- passing new laws that further rub out these rights.

When in a hole, stop digging.  Some may even say the hole in which we find ourselves is analogous to hell given that lives were snuffed out in Parkland, FL and Duval county schools now look like the pea farm (James I. Montgomery Correctional Center).

As I understand it, some of you want more guns on campus. We do not need more guns. I am not alone in this thought as evidenced by the Gifford Law Center (GLC) lawsuit.  However, I think GLC is misguided as well.  It tackles the symptom not the disease that has led to this rot and stench and in doing so forces DCPS to consume precious resources that should be used to educate our children. 

When I stood before you back in September I advocated that you sue the Federal government.

In 2005 Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act.  Arguably it is unconstitutional as it gives gun manufactures protections that neither you nor I have and it hinders your ability to protect my children’s unalienable rights; worse, it has led you to infringe on their rights. Meaningful change will not occur until it and other misguided laws are altered or abolished.

We do not need gun laws, as guns do not kill people; people kill people.  Since people are well, human, we need laws to ensure people are:

1. Capable of handling an instrument of death and
2. Will respect other’s unalienable rights.

I call these laws, Responsibility Laws.  

Madam Chairwoman, School Board Members, and Doctor Green I encourage you to set aside your differences with GLC and seek to overturn those laws that force you to infringe upon my children’s unalienable rights. After I leave this meeting I will share these thought of mine with GLC representatives.

I encourage both DCPS and GLC to join forces to fight for our unalienable rights because "whenever any law becomes destructive of these [rights], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new [laws] to [a]ffect their Safety and Happiness."

Most of the words in that last sentence were written ~ 250 years ago. I just nipped and tucked in a few places.

Let’s fight the good fight.  Let’s fight for our children’s well being.