Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Missing From President Trumps Session On Guns

I did listen to today's "listening session" or "workshop" as to guns as sponsored by President Trump.

Missing from that session were, at the least, the following facts/points.

1. It is not only the NRA as is against raising the age to purchase (ie Own, "keep and bear"?) such long arms as semi-automatic rifles. It is the Constitution of the USA as per both Amendments-II and IV as is firmly against any such (State or Federal) law! Our requirement for "equal justice under law" requires all (Law-abiding and legally presumed sane) citizens to all have the same constitutional rights. The proposed change in the age-requirement to buy long-arms would be a clear "Violation Of Civil Rights Under Color Of Law"! THOSE 18 TO 21 YEAR OLD PERSONS ARE CITIZENS!

At age 17-years-young I enlisted in the US Navy and found myself in what was then (Oh so long ago) one of that service's five/six most dangerous (Enlisted grade) specialties. My age-peers, who also enlisted in other services, had access to machine guns and even more dangerous weapons. The proposed change is a very great insult to those best citizens who now enlist before 21-years-of-age. Politicians should remember that the most "conservative" of our citizen-youths vote and will not be pleased with that deprivation of their constitutional rights.

2. During that session I listened to the ongoing vomiting out of the term "Gun Show Loop Hole". The factis that only about two-to-three percent of firearms used in criminal acts are bought at such events and may be bought by such persons (As the Florida high school monster) who can clear "record checks".

3. The vast majority of gun-using mass killers are Democrats---With no contributions to such massacres by, as far as I know, members of the National Rifle Association (Upon request I will provide proofs of that claim; But, note that journalists and police are not looking into that source of pathology.)

4. There are such "weapons of mass destruction" (Which I will NOT describe here) which: Can be easily manufactured, without great technical skills, from inexpensive materials as are legally-and-legally obtained; And, can destroy a large building (eg A school building) or entire residential neighborhood or massacre large groups of people (eg The crowds of students leaving at the end of school days).

5. Teachers need not (And should not) "carry" guns within schools. The best arrangement is to have those pistols contained in biometric lock boxes which are bolted to insides of desk drawers AND which will instantly open by the the teacher touching an authorized-person-only sensor.

6. There are many skilled instructors who have already trained teachers and others to effectively use handguns in a very limited number of hours of training. (The best of such training appears to use "paint ball guns" for "force on force training".)

7. Semiautomatic rifles are, in fact, being used on a more-and-more basis for hunting. They are the best weapon for women and trained youths for home defense (For reasons I will provide upon written request)

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