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:
- Capable of handling an instrument of death and
- 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.
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