Posted on 12/16/2012 4:04:20 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Many people are insisting we all sit down and have a thoughtful, calm reflection on the Second Amendment after the Connecticut massacre. Others, particularly on the Left, are more forthright and are demanding more gun control. If we are to engage in the former, however, I want to share some of the arguments Rep. Louie Gohmert made today on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
The segment with Gohmert began with footage of Eric Holder saying we need to discuss who we are as a nation, talk about the freedom and rights we have, and how they can be used in a responsible way. In other words, he wants to talk about gun control. Rep. Gohmert’s response, which brought up Fast and Furious, was priceless:
“Well I think coming from him that’s really important to note coming from a man who’s in a department that forced the sale of guns to people that would bring about the death of people like Brian Terry and there should be national outrage about Mexicans, our neighbors, 200 or more that have been killed by the guns his department have forced to be sold, so he’s right. And Sen. Durbin is right but the conversation we’ve got to have has got to have everybody open-minded. I mean, we all react emotionally that’s why we’ve all shed tears…”
Wallace then brought up the Aurora movie theater massacre and Gohmert making the argument in its aftermath for more people to carry weapons to prevent a similar situation from happening. Wallace asks: “Do we really want folks in movie theaters, and shopping malls, and schools, armed?
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Gohmert responds: “Once we have this actually open dialogue about the situation you find out…every mass killing of more than three people in recent history has been in a place where guns were prohibited, except for one. They choose this place. They know no one will be armed. You know, having been a judge, having reviewed photographs of these horrific scenes and knowing that children have these defensive wounds, gun shots through their arms and hands as they try to protect themselves and hearing the heroic stories of the principal lunging trying to protect…Chris, I wish to God she had had an M4 in her office locked up so when she heard gun fire she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands, but she takes him out, takes his head off before he could kill those precious kids.”
Then the obligatory question by the media: Why do people need semi-automatic weapons? Wallace says these are weapons created for law enforcement, for the military, but why does the average person need these “weapons of mass destruction”?
Gohmert: Well, for the reason that George Washington said: A free people should be an armed people. It ensures against the tyranny of the government if they know that the biggest army is the American people, then you don’t have the tyranny that came from King George. That’s why it was put in there. Once you start drawing the line, where do you stop? And that’s why it is important to not just look emotionally – emotionally our reaction is to immediately say lets get rid of all guns…you do it as a judge. You react emotionally but you use your head and you look at the facts and the facts are that every time guns have been allowed, concealed carry have been allowed, the crime rate has gone down. Washington, DC ought to be the safest place in American and it’s not…”
Indeed, although I think the point could be made with more passion and emphases, had theses teachers & Principal been armed some of theses innocent children might still be alive today.
Only a fool tries to change the world instead of preparing themselves to deal with the world that is.
As a Federal politician, he should feel obliged to point out the cause of this irreparable evil being Washington itself, who passed acts to prohibit the means of self-defense to the very people there to defend. Had the Principal had a gun rather than just her body she might have been successfully in halting the progress of this evil. Many of our kids might still be alive.
Posted this opinion on another thread, but I disagree with the voluntary idea. It should be mandatory along with proper firearms training. Make it a job requirement.
“Liberals have a bizarre worldview.
They believe that since they have willingly disarmed themselves the rest of us should too. The fact is, that the rest of us never made that choice and don’t intend to.
We recognize that disarming ourselves doesn’t eliminate violence.”
Indeed disarming ourselves really is burring our head in the sand. Perhaps Liberals are thinking if they can keep everyone from hearing or seeing the tree fall in the Forrest it doesn’t really fall. lol
“”I think a bill to allow teachers who volunteer to go through defensive handgun training would be great to allow qualified staff to be armed”
Posted this opinion on another thread, but I disagree with the voluntary idea. It should be mandatory along with proper firearms training. Make it a job requirement.”
I would not force a teacher to carry a gun, a lot of our teachers are themselves mentally unbalanced.
Also to keep guns in the class room will require tight security considerations because a lot of parents particularly northern parents will not teach their children about gun safety.
A safer place would be the Principal’s office, or up high in a locked box. This will doubt slow response time, but it will save a lot of innocent lives in the mean time.
That’s good advice, I will pass it on to my son. I told him last night that if there’s EVER a lockdown, to go out the window and run to the nearest public place. He said the windows only open 4 inches. I said: use a chair to bust out the window, clear away the glass and escape. I’ll deal with the damage payments and school administration.
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