I am a member of the NRA and JPFO for ten years now. Everyone could have taken a lesson and I said so to my own friends out of the public eye. Allow the families to grieve and hold to your silence while the left gets more maniacal by the minute. They have already gone into overkill...and they will not win this argument.
I would have stayed silent but 0bassturd had to politicize it while those babies were still lying in the school. Then again at the memorial. He holds the highest office in our land and acts like a third world tin horn thug. I feel I have no choice but to fight that tooth and nail.
Every funeral, every flower, every tear shed will be televised if possible, until the last body is buried, the last pat of a shovel made over a too small grave.
There is no denying the horror or sadness of such an event, as a parent, grand parent, and great grandparent who has had a hand in the raising of all three of those generations, I fully understand the pain of little smiles which will not be under the Christmas tree this year, a pain which will never completely go away.
However, this year millions of other children will smile beneath their trees, or celebrate the holidays in other ways, and in their parent's closet, den, gun safe, car trunk, or other undisclosed location--or perhaps even over the fireplace or nest to the door will hang the very sort of firearms that those who would capitalize on the bloodshed for political purposes would ban. They may even be under that tree, wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied off with a bow.
There are tens of millions of people, if not a hundred million who own firearms in this nation, who got up and ate breakfast, took their kids to school, went to work and harmed no one.
There were still others who used those firearms to defend themselves or others from lethal threats, be those threats human or animal.
That those who appear in a moment of grief pushing legislation which has been rejected time and again in less grievous times appear at the sound of weeping reeks of the rank opportunism of those who could not get their way in any moment of clarity or sanity.
Instead, it is the very legislation they crafted, which bars those who guard our children from having the means to defend themselves and those under their care.
The same people who have thus imperiled the safety and well being of the most precious members of our society--and those entrusted with their care--now tell us all we need to further tilt the playing field in favor of the random maniac, instead of grant the teachers and supervisors in the schools the choice to arm themselves to protect those children.
I recall seeing pickups at our local High Schools, with rifle racks full in the back window of the cab, deer rifles, semi-autos, and shotguns, and no one was shot--ever. It was unthinkable that anyone would even make the attempt.
While there are sick people out there who will find a way to arm themselves, ensuring that those who would defend against them are without the means to do so has been and remains a policy which only guarantees slaughter instead of prevents it.
Further infringing on the ability of the overwhelming majority to defend their person, home, children, and community against those who would wreak evil among us is an idea which is evil in itself.