"We Must Outlaw Knives,
Baseball Bats and Cars"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron
Ewart, President
National Association of Rural
Landowners (www.narlo.org)
and
nationally recognized author and speaker on freedom and property rights
issues for over 10 years
© Copyright Sunday, January
10, 2016 - All Rights Reserved
The following article
was published on Newswithviews, January 6, 2016
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Every time a gun is used in an accidental
shooting, a crime, a murder, or terrorist attack in the United States, whether
it be a handgun, rifle, AK-47, M-15, or machine pistol, the Democrats and
especially President Obama, immediately call for more gun control, magazine
limits, or outright confiscation of guns from lawful Americans, in spite of an
all-powerful constitutional amendment and U. S. Supreme Court decisions that
give authority to all legal citizens to own firearms. Each single event becomes
a news story that runs for days, if not weeks or months. The liberal news media
gleefully promotes and champions the Democrat’s plea. It makes no difference to
the Democrats that most of the crimes, lone wolf, or terrorist attacks would not
have been stopped by more gun control.
Humans, by their very nature, tend to be violent
in certain circumstances. So let’s put gun violence in perspective with other
forms of human violence.
Just recently, a homeless black woman in her
twenties, with an infant in the back seat of her car, took to the sidewalk in
Las Vegas and killed one person and seriously injured over 30 other people.
Apparently, she did it on purpose. So she used her car as a weapon to kill.
Not too long before the Las Vegas incident,
there was another similar case at a University of Oklahoma Homecoming parade
where a woman purposely drove her car into the crowds of people watching the
parade. Four people were killed, including an infant and at least 33 people were
injured, some quite seriously.
Then there is the case of the drunk teenager who
wiped out, no killed, four people and the corrupt court came up with a new legal
term "affluenza" to get rich people off from heinous crimes. How many people are
killed by cars operated by drunk drivers? According to the CDC, 10,076 people
were killed in 2014 by alcohol-impaired drivers. Alcohol related deaths with
cars account for almost one third of all traffic deaths. God knows how many are
killed by the now legalized marijuana in four states.
These are just recent cases that rapidly
disappeared from the news cycle. There are many more we could relate where a car
is accidently or purposely used to kill people.
Terrorists have not only used airplanes to kill
people in America and other parts of the world, but they have also used cars,
knives and explosives. Just ask an Israeli.
In the United States cars are heavily regulated
in their manufacture and operation and people require licenses to drive them.
Road signage and traffic controls are everywhere. Nevertheless, it is abundantly
clear that cars are deadly weapons and kill people. From the Democrat’s
rationale, there should be more car control and maybe even there should be a new
law to confiscate cars from dangerous people, or maybe cars should be taken away
from everyone because they are so deadly. But alas, the Democrats are and have
been silent on the issue of deaths by car. Only deaths by guns activate their
adrenalin.
According to the FBI for homicides in 2011,
8,583 people died by firearms. In 2013 32,719 people died from car crashes and
over 2,000,000 were injured. In that same year of 2013, 1,694 people died by
knife stab wounds and 496 people died by blunt objects like baseball bats and
hammers. 728 people died by the use of hands and feet. If deaths or injuries
were the rationale to pass laws, it is obvious that government should pass laws
outlawing guns, cars, baseball bats, knives, hands, feet and even swimming
pools.
But there is a much larger issue here that
transcends outlawing knives, guns and cars. From the observations of this author
and many others who use their intellect instead of their emotions, it is clear
that Democrats are the party of excessive controls, regulation and "TAKE AWAYS."
Democrats want to take away our guns. They want to take away our money for
welfare, social justice, environmental protection, legal and illegal immigration
and climate change to control us, regulate us and buy votes. But they don’t want
to spend any money on maintaining a strong military. There are so few votes in
the military industrial complex.
Democrats now control or excessively regulate
our land, our food, our water, our money, our energy, our cars, our guns, our
businesses, our schools, our health care and every other aspect of our lives.
Except for a few instances in the last 100 years, Democrats have unilaterally
controlled the American political process, along with the help of the unions,
public schools, academia and the news media. Democrats have taken over America
like the Communist Party tried to take over the movie industry in the mid
1940’s. But the Democrats managed to take over the movie industry instead. One
man’s Democrat is another man’s Communist or Socialist. The movie industry is a
powerful tool for propaganda, mind control and political money for Democrats and
have been used extensively for such Democrat purposes.
Apparently, Democrats don’t think that Americans
are smart enough to take care of themselves and yet the Democrats have shown us
that they aren’t even capable of managing anything they touch, including
domestic and foreign policy. Under Democrat control, states and cities have, or
are going broke. Under Democrats, the national debt has risen exponentially to
the point that it may be virtually impossible to ever pay back. Under Democrats,
the economy is barely functioning, with tepid growth at best due to
Democrat-sponsored massive regulations.
Under this Democrat President, the national debt
has almost doubled since he took office seven years ago. Think about it.
Obama, a Democrat, has doubled the national debt in seven years that it took
over 200 years to build. Under Democrats and especially this Obama Democrat
President, our position in the world has dropped precipitously. Our enemies
don’t fear us and our friends don’t trust us.
Of course, the only reason that people would
vote for a Democrat is because Democrats TAKE AWAY money from everyone else,
money Democrats have no right to, and unconstitutionally hand it over to those
who vote for Democrats. Those voters are now in the majority and by keeping the
Democrats in power, they allow Democrats to control us, regulate us and TAKE
AWAY our money and other things from us, you know, like our freedom. The hard
truth is, Democrats want you to pay for their compassion so that Democrats can
buy votes to stay in power.
The Democrats have been so successful over the
last 100 years they even have the Republicans joining them so that Republicans
can remain a viable political party but devoid of principle and honor. The
current Republican House and Senate leaders are no different than the Democrats
and in fact are aiding and abetting the Democrats and this
President.
The single answer to this Democrat-Republican
control dilemma can only come from the people themselves and the people show no
signs of wanting to change anything. Except for a few million of us, most of the
people like it just the way it is with their hands deep in the public till. One
day they will be forced to pay a horrendous price and that price might very well
come in the form of mass starvation, slavery, or may be even conquered by a
foreign power. The Biblical phrase that says the meek shall inherit the earth is
a myth. The meek are nothing but collateral, slaves and conscripts for the
powerful and always have been. Only the courageous and the strong, in mind,
spirit and body, will prevail in the long run. The strong always carry the weak
on their backs, either out of compassion, or out of necessity.
Outlawing knives, baseball bats and cars, as we
suggested in the title of this article, will not change anything, whether the
Democrats do it, or the Republicans do it. Nor will more gun controls change
anything. Americans will still be heavily regulated and controlled by an
Absolute Democrat Monarchy and American sovereignty and freedom are, have been
and will continue to be the losers.
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Ron Ewart, a nationally
known author and speaker on freedom and property rights issues and author of
this weekly column, "In Defense of Rural America", is the president of
the National Association of Rural Landowners (NARLO) (http://www.narlo.org) an advocate
and consultant for urban and rural landowners and a non-profit corporation
headquartered in Washington State. He can be reached for comment
at: info@narlo.org.
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