Terror vs. Tyranny

If there was any doubt we live in troubling times, this weekends events in Florida should certainly clear away all doubts. Senseless killing has never had a justification and the slaughtering of innocent, unarmed people simply must stop. The question is, how?

The radicals will call for no guns or better gun control, but as we have seen around the world, what works in one country does not in another and while our 2nd amendment states, and was ratified by the Supreme Court we have the right to bear arms, it is each state’s legislature that maintains the right to determine how and where, yet for some reason the common sense idea of simply having anyone register any legally obtained firearm still haven’t quite taken hold. And frankly, with so many of these incidents showing up, not to mention the ones that don’t make national news, the concept of requiring everyone over the age of 21, with the appropriate training and certification (to include a mental health check) to carry a gun is starting to make sense. If you want to argue that last point, please refer to how many people are killed with a gun vs. a car … and try to convince those 200+ million licensed drivers to give up their cars (another lethal weapon of note).

The old hippies, of which I am one, will claim “make love, not war” which is still a pretty good concept, although we just don’t have the power we once did and the kids of today need to be more afraid of STD’s to the point that abstinence is a smart idea, despite it’s universal rejection by anyone under 35.

Republicans will blame Democrats and vice versa; both current candidates are talking out of both sides of their mouths so getting any realistic guidance or leadership on the subject is all but a mute point.

The fact of the matter is that the price of freedom and democracy (despite the fact we are not a true democracy) can be a high one and God knows there are enough pin heads in Washington trying to take away more and more of our rights every day. I for one do not want to live in a “safe” nation in which I have to sacrifice my freedoms to far too many trigger happy police, FBI, ATF, NSA & more that are getting off from some of the most hennas crimes without so much as a slap on the wrist. Let’s face it, this mess is not a small one.

When an otherwise upstanding citizen and veteran packs his van in front of a Federal building in Oklahoma City and kills so many innocents because he could not get elements of our own government to look and see what the corruption is doing to the country and do something about it; what chance does the common man have? Is it any mystery that we are teetering on the brink of a class war, race war, war against the top 1% ers? We have conditioned ourselves to believe and preach a “me first” attitude for so long, the number of common sense people that recognize this country was built on the concept of sacrifice for the greater good is all but gone. America’s Greatest Generation; those magnificent citizens that went to war and sacrificed everything to help us win the 2nd world war understood …. How did we forget? Why were we willing to give up that philosophy? Who, if anyone one or group is to blame?

We have met the enemy, and it is us. Yes, only we can fix this mess and it is going to have to start at the very bottom. Quit blaming somebody else. Accept your part of the responsibility and start doing the necessary things in order to “create a more perfect union”. Sit down and write letters to your congressmen and when you get a one of those letters asking for money, send one back asking for MORE money. GO visit him/her in their office, make your voice heard and when they throw you out, go back with 10 of your friends. Keep it up until they do listen and invite the news media, they love a good story, especially if it puts that congressman/woman on the hot seat.

OK, you’ve got your start. Time to get crack ‘in!