Chris Rock: Just Another Hollywood Tool

This is Chris Rock, someone many of you may know from the movies and television. He does comedy, and this video is one of his attempts at that comedy. He cannot be serious, can he?He stumbled all over himself as if he had no idea what to say, and to make things worse he says something that makes no sense at all! I will discuss his comments one at a time here because they are worth noting. This is how the Left feels about the President, but never felt the same way about President Bush. They fought him, called him a racist, and wanted to impeach him for no other reason than because he was a Bush, a Republican, and someone that did not agree with them.

First Chris Rock, a man of many words I suppose, says that the President is our boss. Well, Chris, no he is not. We elect the President to do the work of the nation as stipulated in the Constitution. He is not MY boss, your boss, and only the boss of those who work under him in the capacity of the job. WE THE PEOPLE are his boss, any President's boss, and to try and lesson that fact is only showing that Chris Rock does not know his ass from his elbow, so to speak. I do not do what the President tells me to do. I do not act how the President tells me to act. I do not believe the same things the man does. And never forget that, ladies and gentlemen. He is just a MAN. A man with flaws, a man, like every other man, who does not understand everything and does not speak for everyone.

Next, and probably the most important comment made by Rock was that President Obama and Michelle Obama are like our parents, and we should listen to what our parents tell us to do or it may hurt us later. This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life, bar none. I have had idiots, zealots for their cause, and mind numbing crazies call my podcast for YEARS that have said some dumb things but this one takes the cake! The President, with all due respect to the office that he holds, is NOT my father and never will be. My father does not make it seem ok to mooch off the system when you are able to work. He does not make it seem like I can do anything that I want to do but then tell me there are things that I should do and what I want to do is not as important as what he wants me to do. The President is nowhere near the man my father is, with all due respect.

Sometimes I wonder if these Hollywood nuts think before they speak, and Chris Rock is an example of those who do not think before they open their mouths. I am an American who can think for himself and form an opinion that may not be the opinion of others. I do not need to be told that the President is my daddy and that what he says goes, because that is not the way it is. The people elected him and while they may have elected him for the wrong reasons, I have to deal with that like everyone else has to. But I will be damned if I sit by and be told that I must listen to him as if he was my father when my father is nothing like the man Barack Obama. I was taught to think for myself, form an opinion, and be a freedom loving American. I was told that I could do anything that I wanted to as long as the government stayed out of my way and allowed me to be me. I do not need the government there to pass me out a handout every time I am down on my luck, I need the government there to make sure everyone is playing by the rules so we all have a fair chance at the American dream. Sadly, many in my generation and after will never experience that American dream because we will be too busy paying back the debt these people, both Left and Right, have left for me and future generations to pay for.

Would your father leave you in debt up to your eyeballs? Would your father tell you that you should sacrifice YOUR happiness to make HIS life better? My father would never do that because my father lives by the motto that every generation should have it better than the one before. I have a warm house to live in, food on the table, and parents that have been there since the beginning. My father never had it that easy. My father never got the education that I have, never made as much as I did when I was working in my field, and most importantly never asked the government for anything when he was down on his luck. My father pushed me to be better, to do more, and to be something else other than a truck driver from Pittsburgh. By the age of 29 I have two published books, I got my degree, and had a job that was much better than I could have ever imagined. I lost that job, of course, but it was fun while it lasted and I work hard every single day to get back to that level so I can help my parents as they grow older. THAT is the job of a child and I never would have learned that if I had a father that told me it was fine to live off of other people.

Ted Nugent Owns Piers Morgan: 'Would you leave us the hell alone?'

In another display of stupidity by Piers Morgan, a man who decided to go to a gun range in Texas on Monday and shoot some guns and have a conversation with Ted Nugent, Morgan showed his true colors as a man who does not yet understand what America is all about. We in America do not change because some mad men do bad things to people who do not deserve it. Should we have banned all travel by airplane after 9/11 because there is always a risk of a plane being hijacked? I doubt many people would say we should have banned all air travel forever because of that, so why would be ban guns that have less to do with murder in this nation than a hammer does?

At the bottom of this blog you will see the video of the interview that Morgan did with Nugent on Monday, and I have to say that Nugent handled himself well and got out the points that needed to be made. He did not act like Alex Jones or get up and start screaming at Morgan. He made his points and Morgan, who rarely ever has a comeback to facts, kept to his usual self while trying to demonize Nugent and all other law-abiding Americans who own guns that he does not believe they should own.

Morgan, as of yet, has never really told the American people why he takes up a cause like this with assault weapons when handguns are the cause of much more of the murder and suicide in this country. He has yet to explain his rationale and after numerous attempts from myself that continues to this day on Twitter to get him to answer the question, he refuses to. That does not surprise me because, frankly, who am I and why would he care what a guy like me has to say. But I am American, I believe in a Second Amendment right that is not violated by those who do not begin to even understand it, and I am one of many who continues and will continue in the war of ideas to make sure that people like Morgan do not shape this conversation out to be something that it never should be in the first place.

After all of the times I have written about this and how many times that we have all discussed this, you would think that the American people would get it and not fall for the trap that they are falling for. This has nothing to do with murder or death of those who are innocent. If you believe Piers Morgan and others are on a crusade to end murder then you are more crazy than Alex Jones is. This has nothing to do with keeping children safe, keeping the populace as a whole safe, or lowering the murder rate. If it were, we would not be discussing bans on so-called "assault weapons" but bans on all firearms. This is not the conversation, although I would have more respect for those who believe it and will actually say it than those like Morgan who dance around it like a school kid doing the moon walk in a high school auditorium. This is about the incremental changes that those on the Left and some on the Right are willing to make to make you believe you are safer even though no gun laws will ever make anyone anywhere safer than they are right at this moment.

If you want to be safe on your person you should learn how to fire a gun and carry one with you. You should learn how to protect yourself and not get into situations where you may end up in danger. We should teach our children that guns are not bad or evil, but can cause harm to those we love or the innocent if not given the proper respect that they deserve. But most importantly we should not be afraid to call the police or talk to someone in authority when we suspect that there is someone that we know that may not be mentally stable and could have the idea of hurting others for no other reason than because they are cowards. No matter what shooting it is we hear people say that they had an idea that he or she might do this or that, but never brought it up to anyone. Why is it that these people, that after the fact say they are not surprised, did not say anything to anyone before it happened? If you believe that someone you know or have come into contact with may be a danger, you should tell someone. Maybe the person just needs someone to talk to or they need that one person to tell them to get help. No matter what they may need we know for a FACT that not saying anything at all has led to the deaths of innocent people and that telling someone in those cases could have hurt nothing at all. I am not saying it would have saved a life, but we will never know.

The Stupidity of Ignorance: Our Society is Falling Apart!

The title to this piece could be a book in itself, but because it is only a blog and I only have a short amount of time to work on it I will make it as brief as possible. I have been writing extensively about gun control legislation being passed in the states and being proposed on the federal level because I think it is important for people to know about, not because I really want to do it. I wish I could write about dumb things that meant nothing all day, and people would come to read it and be happy knowing their nation was on the right track. Unfortunately, that is not the case.

Every time a mass shooting happens, we here the same things from the Left. I am not here to go through those same talking points again, because I have done that already. What I want to show you, as I write this tonight, is not the stupidity being displayed but the underlying cause for the fear that is being spread. Case in point: a 5-year-old being threatened by school officials that he may be suspended...and for WHAT you might ask? Oh..yeah...he made a gun out of Legos at an after school program that he was attending!!!

Here is where the stupidity should become illegal everyone, because this young man did not make this gun because he secretly wants to shoot all the other 5 year old children in the school, but because he just wanted to make a gun! His mother says,"I was given a book and they told me he’s going to be suspended if he does it again and to sign here,". 

The school administration says the making of the gun can be taken as a threat, and if it happens again the child will be thrown out of school. This seems to be a little harsh, but not unexpected coming from a public school and their zero-tolerance policy that has, by all accounts, actually cost people their lives rather than saved any in the process. The whole argument over zero-tolerance BS has been made by many people, including me, in the past so I will not waste time on that again. But what we have here is one of the reasons why this society is falling apart at the seams! We are making criminals out of children for being children and excusing the behavior of the sickest individuals in the nation and blaming their crimes on the guns. Can you see something wrong with this?

The media is not having a conversation about mental illness, are they? All of these individuals who have gone in and shot up these schools or even workplaces all have some mental problem in their past, yet today we do not talk about that, we talk about the guns they supposedly used in the killing sprees that they went on. We do not talk about the problems these people may or may not have had, but we talk about the guns they were carrying as i the guns told these people to go shoot kids, the elderly, or anyone else for that matter. Normal thinking people know this is not the way forward, but those who want to push an agenda forget that while they push their agenda the REAL problems continue, and they have nothing at all to do with the weapons that are being used.

This is a societal problem, one that cannot be fixed with more laws. The laws we have on the books have not stooped people from killing each other, so maybe it is time we went to a plan B and came up with a new solution. We live in a society where we treat each other like crap for not thinking how the next person thinks, for being fat or maybe not speaking like everyone else. We live in a society full of kids who are growing up thinking it is right to go out and have unprotected, per-marital sexual relations with multiple people (sometimes at one time) and that abortions on demand are as normal as stopping into a Taco Bell drive-thru and ordering a Number 5 on the menu! We live in a society where our entertainers glorify the killing of others over money, women, and just because they feel like it while those same entertainers tell the people it is wrong to own the guns these same entertainers use to draw people into the theaters. If I did not know any better, I would think this society has been so perverted, so displaced with filth, that no matter what we do at this point nothing will ever fix the damage that has been done by those who claim to actually want to help this nation.

And now, just like many other occasions that I have written about over the years, a little boy could be suspended if he makes another Lego gun at an after school program!!! It is a LEGO GUN, NO ONE IS IN DANGER! But that does not matter, because the real reason they do not want the child to be open and make what he wishes is to show the child that guns are bad. The Leftist scum in these schools want to show children there is no need for guns, so the next generation will be even more profoundly against our right to protect ourselves. This is the blind leading the future leaders of tomorrow, and these little ones will be the ones who lead when I am too old to fight back against their hair-brained schemes of keeping us safe, not with guns, but with some toy robot bought behind a Wal-Mart in 45 years for a few thousand dollars! Guns are bad, and THAT is the real lesson they want this child to learn. I have said it before and I will say it again: if your child is in a public school and you have the means of educating them another way and you do not, I consider that more of an abuse of the child most other abuses defined by law (besides beating them senseless or not feeding them...obviously that is much worse...but you get the point!).

There is something wrong with society, not with the Constitution! We have the right to bear arms for a reason, and that reason is not outdated. If we do not start treating each other better, speaking to each other better, or promoting and believing in the value of life more than this nation will only get worse over time. We are throwing away a GIFT that we were given over 200 years ago to make ourselves feel better about something that we cannot control when there are things we can control that we are NOT worried about.

it is time we started to fix what we CAN fix, and allow everything else to happen because some things in life YOU cannot control...no matter what you do! I know that is sad, and I know that might break your little heart, but it is true!

So Wait, YOU Can Have An "Assault" Weapon, But I Can't?

When you tell someone that you are only out to help the children, you want to make the streets safer, and then you exempt yourself from what the law that you want to pass would do, then you are no longer trying to help anyone but yourself. This is the case with many Democrats these days as they try to get their friends in Congress to pass the most intrusive gun bans that America has ever seen. Those on the Left and in the media have called us all crazy when we have said that when the government gets to keep the weapons they want others to give up, tyranny is not far off. They still laugh at us but this move only goes to show that we are not just correct, we have been correct all along and any kind of talking point from the Left is meaningless because they have shown themselves for what they really are.

Am I going to call the Obama Administration the Fourth Reich or go off on an Alex Jones-like tirade about 9/11 and Sandy Hook? No, probably not! But the fact of the matter is we the people better start to get mad and better start to listen up to those out there who want to wake us up or time may run out before we can wake the people up. How hard is it to tell your Congressman or woman that you do not agree with this legislation and if it does happen to pass (which I do not believe it will) that you will not obey the law and register. We all need to do this! We all need to call their offices this week and tell them that they can pass what they will but we will not comply, even if that means going to jail!

The Constitution is not a document that was meant to be broken down and interpreted for different occasions and have different meanings based on those different occasions. The Second Amendment is there not because we all like to hunt but so we can protect ourselves from a government that COULD one day try to take more power from the people without asking nicely! The politicians do not want you to know this, and they would have liked it if you would never read on your own and just remember the BS history they teach you in schools. They want to give you the history of this nation and almost never talk about why there is a Second Amendment. I would love to see the President answer a questions about why we have a Second Amendment and why it is important we keep it. I do not think he could honestly answer it, and if he tried he would make it political. These rights are not made to be played with!

I was at a BTR show the other day, in the chat room minding my own business as usual, when I saw a conversation going on about just this topic. There was a person in this room that seemed to believe that it did not matter what the government did or what law they passed, the people would give up their guns and never fight back. This individual also thought that if those people did try to fight back the military would fire at them and there would be n way of winning so we need to basically give up, or at least that is what I took from it. If you cannot do anything and refuse to do anything, that is giving up no matter how you slice it up!

This is the problem with some Americans, they are not willing to fight for their freedoms. We still have a chance to win this battle and make sure none of this happens, but it is up to you. This battle at this time will not be won with a gun, but won with our voices. If and when the time comes the government comes to our door to take our guns I will be right next to you defending our rights, but until then we still have a chance to make sure that does not happen. Compare me to those during the Revolution who wanted to exhaust every last effort before fighting England if you must, but this is not a time to be talking about fighting our own government. This is a time of telling our friends and neighbors that we CAN win this battle out there in the war of ideas if we just try a little harder and make a few phone calls. Remember just a few years ago when  Congress tried to pass immigration reform and the people called for days to make sure that did not happen. After a few days the legislation was scrapped and nothing was done. We can do that again, but if we give up we are giving up the right that protects all other rights inn the Bill of Rights and elsewhere. The Second Amendment gives the people the right to protect themselves in numerous different ways and it does not say that Congress should change the rules in the middle of the game for their enjoyment.

If we are not allowed to have these types of weapons, no one should be allowed to have these types of weapons. So, when you call your Congressman or woman and your Senators, make sure to tell them that if they DO support this legislation that you ask them to bring up an amendment that would strip the ability of ANYONE in this country from having these weapons, not just we the people! NO ONE should have them if we cannot have them. And if that does not sound good to them, tell them that next election you will make sure to work your butt off to have them voted out! This is not a time to play games, Left or Right. NO to new gun bans!!! NO to national registries!! NO to more government intrusion into our lives and into the ways we protect ourselves and our families!!! WE WANT TO BE FREE!!! Take you gun bans and shove them, because we KNOW that gun bans do not work.

But we do know what nations have done to their people who have not been able to defend themselves, and making sure people can protect themselves from that is FAR more important!

The Appointments to the NLRB are Not the Only Unconstitutional Issues in D.C.

An Appeals Court found that last years appointments made by President Obama to the NLRB during a time when the Senate was not technically in recess was unconstitutional. The fight now heads to the Supreme Court where they will decide what the Constitution means by "recess" and could have lasting effects on what power the President has or does not have when filling an appointment when the Senate is not in session.

To bring those of you up to speed who have no idea what is going on, the President, last year, decided he would appoint three individuals to fill the vacancies at the National Labor Relations Board. These vacancies were filled not when the Senate was in recess for a holiday, but when they were technically IN session, coming back every third day to bring the Senate to order and then close out for the day, coming back three days later. This is something the Senate has done in the past to make sure that a President cannot appoint his choices for a certain agency while the Senate is out on a holiday. The President, however, did not see the sessions as real sessions and appointed the three members to the NLRB anyway!

Obviously this was an abuse of power on the President's fault, but I doubt he really cares all that much about that. I find it hard to believe the Supreme Court would overrule the decision by the D.C. appeals court in this case, but I suppose we never know until they hand down their decision. But if you think this is the only unconstitutional talk in Washington these days, you were wrong! There is so much more that is not being talked on your favorite news network that the people in this nation have no idea what is going on.

Take the testimony of one Hillary Clinton, outgoing Secretary of State. She went up this week to testify on the happenings during the Benghazi terror attack on 9/11 and gave very little details as to what happened and why it happened. We are only left to speculate why those people were there at that time, why the Ambassador was not pulled out, and why we did not heed the words of those on the ground asking for more protection when there was ample money to be spent on such protection. Sec. Clinton can blame the attack and the deaths on not having enough money, but she says she never even seen the requests for more help so how can she realistically say that MONEY was the issue here? Money had nothing to do with it at all! It was a failure of the highest order and those in the positions of helping those individuals on the ground who were killed did nothing. We still have no idea why they did nothing!

Besides a few questions from a couple Senators and those in the House, Hillary was given the benefit of the doubt and treated very fairly. I am not saying she should have been screamed at for answers, but more questions should have been answered for the American people. Where are the survivors of the attack? We know where one of them are, at Walter Reed according to Clinton, but what about the others? Why have they not been questioned by Congressional leadership into what they saw and what they heard on the ground? Do they know what really happened and are being hidden from telling their story? The Congressional leadership have no idea who these people are, so in theory they could walk out anyone and say they were there just to try and cover their butts more than they already have.

The people deserve answers and those answers will never come as long as the President and others will not be open and honest with the people. There are only two scenarios here that make much sense to me. One is that this was a blown operation by the CIA to kidnap the Ambassador and use him as leverage over the American government via a terror group to force the release of prisoners. While this may be far-fetched to some, the CIA would have ample ability to set something like this up in that area where they work with local terror groups and the Ambassador himself to fake a kidnapping so the President had reason to release certain prisoners that he felt should not be held any longer. I feel this is a long shot, but can never be totally disregarded as long as we do not know the truth.

The more logical explanation is that warnings of terror threats were not taken seriously at the highest levels of government. The President would have most certainly been briefed on what was going on in Libya at some point, so the talk that he knew nothing at all is not sitting well with me and others. On the day of the attack they were caught off guard and decided to get those out who they could get out and the rest of the people had to stay and fend for themselves. This is more logical because sending in American troops to Libya to rescue or even take down a threat may have been seen by other Northern African nations as aggression, even though it would not have been. In the President's eyes, at least in my opinion, this was the only thing that could have been done and trying to make it look like a video caused it would take away any kind of questions as to the ability of terror organizations in the region to gain a foothold in a region we are all told is better off without a dictator. This kind of attack shows that part of the world is not better off, and shows that possibly the action taken in Libya was wrong from the beginning.

No matter why we were lied to, we know we were lied to and the people want the true story! With everything that is going on in this country from Benghazi to Fast and Furious to the President and others wanting to limit our 2nd Amendment rights, there is a lot to keep up with but we need to keep up with it because we all need to know what happened in these cases. We need to understand that there are some things that are not being told to us and other things that are being told that are lies to make us give up more and more of our rights. We need to stay strong and keep asking questions even when the media does not. We need to stand firm and make sure our rights are not violated to make a few people who are afraid of guns happy that they are being taken away for no other reason than fear and power grabs by those who have too much power to begin with. 

NY Attorney To Sue State Over Gun Ban, Claims 5th Amendment Violation

Attorney Plans Lawsuit Against Gun Law

It did not take too long for someone to come out and say they will sue the state of New Yrk over the gun control law that was recently passed in the state. The law says that automatic weapons banned under the law would have to be grandfathered out, which means if you are in New York and own one of these weapons then you would not be able to pass them on to your children or another person that you wish to have them. The law is not clear on what would happen if you passed on and did not give your gun back to the state, but one could theorize that if your family did not turn in that weapon, they would be breaking the law. That weapon, which was owned by someone who had passed away, is no longer a legal weapon because the person it is registered to is no longer around to claim ownership. The state, most likely, would want to take that weapon, and that is where this lawsuit is headed toward.

One would think this attorney, James Tresmond, would fight this law on Second Amendment grounds, but he is going in a different direction. He plans to file a lawsuit in the coming weeks, more than likely in federal court, claiming the state of New York violated the 5th Amendment when they passed this legislation into law because it does not allow for due process before the item is taken by the government. In case those of you reading this do not know what the 5th Amendment is:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

The key part we want to look at here is "nor be deprived of life, liberty, or PROPERTY, without due process of law". Tresmond is going to argue that because the state of New York will have to take the weapons into their possession after the death of the person who they are legally registered to and that weapon cannot be passed on, that person's 5th Amendment right to not be deprived of property without just cause is being violated. I have never seen this argument before, but as I have read in the past day or so, the legislature actually discussed this when passing the law. One would think they were told that it would be fine and there was no 5th Amendment ground to stand on for those who wanted to fight it, but I think this will be one of the more interesting cases of our generation.

One could argue, as Tresmond more than like will, that the state nor the federal government have the right to grandfather these weapons out of the hands of citizens that legally own them because the state has no claim to them in the first place. The state has shown no cause to take the weapons and if the family would keep them then they would be breaking the law, which means the state has in fact criminalized an activity without giving the individual their due process rights. When you think about the argument, it is very brilliant to say the least. As we all argue the 2nd Amendment all over the internet and everywhere else, in the case of New York their citizens who are against this law want to jump on board to a suit claiming 5th Amendment violations.

It is much too early to tell where this will go, but more than likely we will see this suit or one like it hit the Supreme Court at some point in the next year to year and a half, maybe a little longer depending on the rulings. While I have never thought about this argument, it may have some weight when you get to a court like the Supreme Court who have ruled very narrowly when it comes to 5th Amendment violation over the past century. One would think the people of New York may have a shot to take out this law, but again we are so far away from that at this point it is hard to speculate on what will happen and when.

One thing is for certain: it is good to see a true American stand up for the rights of others as well as himself and fight this constitutional law. It will be exciting for court watchers like myself to see where this goes and the discussions that will be had because of this fight.

The Reason Is Our Society!

Have you ever stopped to think, no matter where you are on this gun control debate, about why all these bad things happen in this nation? First, I should say that when the media hypes mass shootings, that does not mean they are more frequent than other types of crime. We may hear more about them because that is what the media wants, but these news agencies would have to create two or three different news stations to handle the crime that happens in some of these large cities. We are looking at ONE of the instruments used in those crimes, but we rarely sit back to look at why they happen in the first place.

There are many reasons for this and it will depend on the situation, but one of the biggest reasons our society thinks to kill before talking it out with someone is because we have come to a point where people really believe there is no one out there for them. These people you see go into a school and want to harm someone, many times, are the ones that are being bullied or made fun of during the school day. They go to their teachers and the school administration and try to tell them, but that almost never works. They may or may not tell their parents, but the parents know there is something wrong on some level. Many parents believe they need to allow their children to work out their problems on their own, but in fact they need that person to talk to and let out the anger before it builds up too high.

There are many things we can do right inside our schools to make it a better place for kids to get an education and not be subjected to all out verbal and physical abuse. As I have said many times, I was one of those kids who was bullied and it was not the best time of my life. The teachers would do nothing about it, the Administration at the school did nothing, and when it came time to hand out punishment I was the one that got the worst of it. I never thought about going into a school with a gun (I was in high school at the time of Columbine) and I had a few friends that made the time a little better. If a child does not have this, however, he or she will be more prone to violence in that school.

Why are we not talking about making a three strikes and your out rule for those who verbally or physically abuse someone in schools? This seems like it would be something that would be fairly easy to do, and the schools would have no choice to get on board with it. The teachers and administrators also need training in dealing with people who are bullied, verbally or otherwise, and getting back to teach these kids about the value of a human life could go a long way. Now, this would probably not have stopped the shootings in Colorado or even Sandy Hook, but there are many other school shootings where it may have had an impact on the situation. We just do not know because we do not hold those who run the schools accountable for what goes on in the school.

We all like to play video games, right? Well, maybe not all of you but many of you do like to play and many started at a very early age. When I was young, we played Mario, Sonic, and games like that which were not really violent unless you count stomping on a mushroom violent. As I got older we played Mortal Combat and other more violent games, but my father never allowed it in the home so I played at other people's houses. This was before the rating system, but even after the rating system parents bought their kids these games so there was no way to stop it.

My idea is to not ban video games outright, or even games with violence. That will not help the situation and people will still get them anyway. If there is a market for something, someone will make it and in an age where we have amateurs making games online, this is a much easier task than ever before. But what we could do is at least try to get parents in the country to understand there is an age where your child is old enough to play these games, and only you know if they are mature enough to play them and not take them seriously. All children are different so no rating system will be good enough, but the parents know the child the best so they need to make better informed decisions about what their children see and play inside the home.

This is not an easy step because the child could play it somewhere else. This is why it is VERY important to have the discussion with your children that these games are not real, but fantasy to pass the time with. It is not appropriate to stab, shoot, kill, or otherwise harm other people. It is not right to steal a car, rape a woman, buy a prostitute, or any other unethical behavior we see in these games. I know I cannot be the exception to the rule, there must be caring parents out there that have children that will have these conversations! It does not matter if you do not want to, you MUST have these conversations because children are very impressionable. They see movies and try to act like the lead character, and someone in their life needs to tell them that pretending is fine and it is fun, but it is not reality. If you can get your child to understand reality and how it differs from fiction, then your child will be on the road to a better life and able to make better decisions.

I have written about the schools and the games/movies, but what about personal responsibility? This is not something we hear very much anymore, especially when these shootings happen. No one wants to take the blame for it, when there is enough blame to go around. When we flip on the TV and watch a show that promotes sleeping with multiple women or men and having babies at a young age and not being able to care for them, WE ARE a part of the problem. When we have guns in the home and REFUSE to show our children how to use them, how to hold them, and what NOT to do with them, we are a part of the problem. Now you are not going to show your 2 month old how to hold a gun. That gun should be locked away until the child is old enough to understand what it is. But when that time comes do not be afraid that something might happen, show the child that it is a weapon that can kill many, and to be trusted with it you must learn how to be safe with it. Many parents who own weapons do this, but many more do not.

It is hard to teach your child right from wrong when you do wrong yourself. Children pick up on what their parents do and how they act, and many children grow to be just like one of their parents. I grew up going to church every Sunday, and while I do not push religion on anyone it may be an option for that child who needs to learn a little more about right and wrong. That would be up to the parent or even the child at a certain age, of course, but still an option that can be taken under advisement. There are so many things parents can do to make sure their child grows up right, but in a society where the parents are on again/off again, divorcing and marrying three other men after the first, and leaving their kids to their own devices because they have other responsibilities because of the choices they made does not mean the child does not need love and attention. If you have a child with a mental disability, this is even more true than other children!

So, when we look at the gun debate and we keep on arguing back and forth about WHY this kind of thing happens, remember it is not the gun that gets up to shoot someone, there is a person that does that. That person has a story, a life, a mother and a father, and maybe some problems that could have been fixed by seeing a doctor, spending more time with parents, or having a parent that showed interest in the child. We cannot say that would stop most mass shootings in schools or anywhere else, but the fact that we are not even talking about it shows to me that this debate was designed to be one sided from the beginning and there is nothing short of a total change in the way we treat each other and ourselves that will start to change the violence we see in America today.

The Hypocrisy Shows Its Little Head

Today we heard the President of the United States give a speech that was, I suppose, intended to make you and I feel bad enough to hand in our guns and not want a clip with over ten bullets. Why would someone need a magazine like that, some have asked. I ask why is it your place to tell me what kind of weapon or what kind of magazine I should have? Is this really about the children or about pushing the United States and their people to the brink by taking away what they hold closest to them? It seems nothing the President has proposed will do anything to stop the criminal element, especially in a city like Chicago, from getting weapons that are much more powerful than those the regular citizens would have under new legislation.

So one must ask how those citizens would be caring for themselves and their families would be able to protect their own under legislation that only hurts them and not those who are out to hurt them? Not only that, but we see the President not even wanting to touch what comes out of Hollywood and the video game industry. Not that I disagree with that logic because I have never seen a movie kill someone, but if he wants to be consistent one would think he would want to make sure all areas of gun control are covered. But because he has very good friends who have made it a point to say they are not responsible in Hollywood for the violence we see on the streets, he has decided to not even discuss it.

You all know how I feel about this and what I would do to make sure people were more safe in their homes and around others who may be a threat. Not all Americans feel comfortable around a gun, but that does not give the rights of a few more liberty than the other American's who feel they are well protected with semi-automatic guns of all kinds. Nothing that has been done so far, especially in one of the most gun-unfriendly regions in this nation, has been able to stop people from killing each other if the motive and the opportunity is there. I see no movement to making our communities safer inside the community itself, where it has to begin. You can rid the country of all legal weapons if you want, but that will not stop the killings. Those who are pushing for more legislation, on the Left and the Right, understand this more than anyone. This is a political football that no one wants to touch but when the time comes and there is a tragedy, we must make new law to hurt those that are law-abiding citizens.

One of the actions the President would like Congress to take is to make sure your doctor has the ability to alert the state that you live in and the background check that you may not be of sound mind to own a firearm. This includes doctors asking you if you own any weapons. Take away for a minute that a doctor has no legal authority to ask this question with legislation or otherwise, right in the heart of ObamaCare there are rules for keeping patient information safe. It seems the President was on board with that when the legislation passed, but now he would like to give doctors more leeway when it comes to reporting people. How can we have privacy rights when the President would like to throw them out the window of the exact legislation that he pushed and said would be better for Americans? You cannot have it both ways, everyone! You either believe in the privacy rights between a doctor and the patient or you believe the doctor should be able to report ANYTHING that he FEELS is wrong to the state.

Some other memorandums from the President were:

• Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
• Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
• Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities
• Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

And there are many more, 23 in all, that direct federal agencies to do one thing or another that will have no effect on gun violence what so ever because we are not getting to the root of the problem here and those in the media and those who are memorized by the President fail to see this. His real purpose is to push Congress for a return to the Assault Weapons Ban, which in his mind is probably something that could happen or he would not mention it. I also believe that it could happen, and it is not out of the realm of possibility that we could see a return to that law, but this one would be much more damning to the regular American citizen who owns firearms.

At the end of the day, the President said nothing that would help the situation. What about the adult who is not mentally stable, but their family has no recourse because the doctor and the state do not feel there is anything they can do? A family somewhere may know someone in their family needs help, but the person refuses to get that help and the family is powerless to have them committed to get the help they need. This happens, and if we believe the accounts from Sandy Hook this IS what happened! If the mother of Adam Lanza was going to have her son committed as we are told, why did she wait? Why did she have to wait? Was there anything that new legislation could have done to make sure his mother could have had him committed a week before or even months before? The fact we do not know much about the family and the whole story is not helping matters when it comes to looking at situations like this, but a situation could arise just like it and nothing that this debate has brought out does anything to help those in need that may not feel they need the help because they are mentally disabled in some way.

This is a way to take the guns the government does not feel you have the right to have, not to keep anyone safe. Anyone out there with a brain knows that there is nothing that can be done when someone truly wants to kill someone or numerous people. Help for those people need to be available, but that is the best we can do. Taking these guns off the street will not really get them off the street, and our crime rate in cities around the nation with tough gun laws show this. We have a lot of societal problems as well we are not addressing, and that is because on one hand people feel they have the right to live in a society without guns but have the right to watch movies with people with guns. How does that make any sense? So, I can watch someone else with a gun but I cannot have one myself for protection?

Today, tweeting on his official Twitter page, Piers Morgan said: "Obama's hit the nail on the head - the right to life, especially for children, surely supercedes any other rights?"

So does this mean we should rid the country of abortion as well? The argument is that if we did outlaw abortion that women would go to the "back alleys" and have one anyway. The same rules apply here. You may outlaw a gun or a magazine, but that does not stop someone from going to a back alley and buying one. The two situations seem to have nothing to do with each other from the point of view of those who do not support the Second Amendment, but have everything in the world to do with each other! These are the same people than champion abortion rights, yet the right to own a gun is off limits because we have to protect the children? How many babies have been killed over the last decade compared to children out of the womb being killed by a semi-automatic weapon? I promise you, the abortion numbers are MUCH higher, yet we never hear those in the media take that cause up.

Makes you think, doesn't it?

This Is All About Control, Nothing About Guns!

Do you now how I know this? Do you know how I know this has nothing to do with keeping people safe, changing the society and their feelings about how we treat each other, or helping those in need? Because, the legislation that is about to become law in New York does NOTHING to really go after the criminal element that will abuse the law no matter what it is, but it does a lot to make sure the everyday citizen gets refused the type of ammo and gun they would like to have! If you think this is about keeping your little one safe, you are so wrong!

What we have here is a week of gun control fanatics hitting the airwaves and the state house's (including the White House) telling the people we need a change when the people know deep down these changes do nothing. Let's go through the list of changes that NY will be seeing following their new legislation.

• Magazine size limited from 10 to 7 rounds per clip
• Addition to the NY Assault Weapons Ban that would allow those who own them to keep them, but makes these weapons and others like it non-transferable to family. 
• Updated definition of "assault weapon" to include semi-auto handguns and shotguns. Presumably, these types of guns would also be "grandfathered" out as well, just like the AR-15 and other types of rifles. 
• Adds additional mental health requirements to physicians that would require them to alert the state if the physician would believe, rightly or wrongly, that the person may be a threat to themselves or others. There are safeguards for physicians if they do not turn someone in they feel will not hurt someone and then does hurt someone, but you would have to read the legislation to actually get the full understanding of the mental health code. 

I want to take a look at the mental health issue here for a second, because NY played lip service to this problem and did not really go after the real issue which is getting these people the help they need so these types of situations do not happen. All they did was add more of a penalty for those in the medical field that do not turn in someone if they feel they could be a threat, but even to that extent there are ways for the doctor to get around any kind of wrongdoing that the state may think they were guilty of. This legislation does nothing to help those who need it or help the families of those people who may need help get their family member the help they need more easily. Under this legislation, a person who may not be under a doctors care would still have to admit themselves voluntarily, and if they did not want to and the state did not think there was anything wrong with the person the family would be out of options.

Tomorrow the White House will announce new and sweeping changes to laws, some of which the President will make on his own. Listen people, there is a lot the President can do without breaking the law to make it more difficult for you to get guns and ammo. He may bring down NO E.O. on magazines or gun purchases, but if he were to tell the EPA to do studies and look into the environmental issues that the magazines bring, this could raise the cost of your ammo and your guns to levels you have never seen before. He does not have to do much to make it more difficult for the everyday American to go out and buy a gun.

Also, remember the President has buddies on the Right in the House. He got what he wanted out of taxes just a couple weeks ago, and he hopes he will get what he wants out of guns this time. He will never get an all-out assault weapons ban, there is no way Republicans could ever vote for that and keep their jobs, but a national database of gun owners is not out of the question. This would force anyone, no matter what kind of gun you have, to be fingerprinted and put in a database of people who own weapons in America. Not only would this be a Constitutional issue, but many Americans would never comply with this type of law. Washington has to remember that those people in the back alley selling guns out of their trunk will not be asking for fingerprints and not be telling the buyer that they cannot sell them a ten-round magazine! This will, without a doubt, open a bigger market for the gun trade all over the nation.

The people of New York need to stand up and call for the resignations of all those in their state legislature that voted for this legislation. They are limiting the rights of the law-abiding citizen so they can hinder the criminals that never listen to what the law is in the first place. All this does is hurt the everyday man or woman wanting to protect themselves, but these politicians could care less. Other nations are looking at us right now and laughing, knowing that one day soon any kind of fear that nation had of the citizens of the United States will be gone because our own government made it happen. Do not be fooled, people, there are still nations out there that would like nothing better than to land a half a million troops on the Atlantic coast and take half this nation for their own. Nations that we fought during WW2 would have never even thought about it, because the people were too well armed, but in the next decade that may not be the case.

I am not trying to scare you or even bring up the out in left field ideas that some may think about, but you never know what will happen. We have the right to bear arms not so we can hunt but so we can protect ourselves from outside enemies when our government is not able to and to protect us from the government we call our own. Individuals like Piers Morgan and others on the tube do not understand this. They think we should only have guns for hunting because the government or other governments would never try to hurt the people of America! Why would they do that for?

Why did Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Assad, and others harm their and other occupied people? Because they COULD!!

Ben Shapiro Schools Piers Morgan on 2nd Amendment, History of Guns in America

You would be correct if you said that I am taking this attack on our Second Amendment personally, because I am one of those people who believe ANYONE out there that believes they should have a gun for protection or any other means should have one. We do not have to explain ourselves to our government or anyone else for that matter, but people like Piers Morgan would believe otherwise. He seems to believe that anyone who would want an automatic or semi-automatic weapon wants to kill other people, and that is not the case. The majority of legal gun owners in this nation are law-abiding citizens that would never use any of their weapons unless it was a last resort. They use them for sport or even to go out to the range and make sure they keep up on practice. There is nothing wrong with this, yet we are being told there is.

Ben Shapiro, Editor-At-Large of Breitbart.com was recently on Piers Morgan's show to debate the Second Amendment and gun control. Shapiro handled himself VERY well, much better than Alex Jones did and Morgan was not able to get Shapiro to jump up and down like a crazy person to make people think all those who believe we should have any gun we choose are crazy people who want to kill others.

Below is the video of that interview in its entirety. It is a great watch and even though Piers Morgan did act like a child in some cases during the interview, Shapiro did not fall for his games. At one point, he tries to lump Alex Jones together with Shapiro, and that did not go over well!

As you can tell, Morgan is not happy with the fact that he is being told the TRUE meaning of the Second Amendment. I frankly do not even think that Morgan has any idea why we have a Second Amendment and truly believes it is there so we can go hunting and have a hand gun for our homes.

What he misses is that the PURPOSE of the Second Amendment is not so that we can go out and kill some deer or bear, but to protect ourselves from a tyrannical government if and when we have to. We may NEVER have to, as Shapiro points out. We may have to in the next 50-100 years, no one really knows! BUT, and that is a BIG BUT, if the time ever came when the people had to stand up against a government that became abusive, the people have the right to abolish that government and set up a government for which it meets the needs of the people of that time. Piers Morgan has never read that "little book" or the Declaration of Independence either, or he would know why we have a Second Amendment. Remember, without the Colonists having arms and the will to fight, we may not even be the country we are today. History could have been much different than it is right now.

Yes, we keep guns to keep our families safe and to go out and hunt if we choose. What Morgan does not get, and is actually very abusive toward, is that weapons have other functions than just hunting. Shapiro brings up the nations during the 19th and 20th centuries that dealt with tyrannical dictatorships and the loss of human rights, yet Morgan does not seem to care! He seems to think ti is crazy to think our government, at ANY time, would become SO powerful that they would become tyrannical and push their people to fight back. He actually seems to laugh at the notion that it could ever happen, yet that is what happened to the colonists in this nation under the rule of the British.

People like Piers Morgan and others do not understand history. They have never been taught true American history, and in the case of Morgan, who is a transplant to this country, should have been made to learn this nation's history before he was allowed to become a citizen of this great nation. He should have been taught WHY we fought a revolution, why we have the Bill of Rights, and why the restriction of those rights lead to other restrictions of other rights. He should have been made to read the Founder's arguments for the Constitution and against it, about the War between the states and why it was important to this nation, and why we the people hold the power and not those we send to Congress.

He has never been educated on this, and this is one of the reasons why he does not know what he is talking about. If he knew what he was talking about he would not say half the things that he says, because he would then know that he was flat out wrong. The reason we have a Second Amendment is to protect us from the government, not from ourselves!

Our Declaration of Independence says very clearly and wonderfully, I might add: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." 

Just in case someone else comes around and reads this and does not understand it like those on the Left do not understand, this means that the people have the right to abolish their government as our Founder's did if they feel that it is destructive to the people. It goes on to say, and this is really important, that we do not just throw out a government for no reason at all. There should be great cause and thought that goes into it, and should be a last resort. People all through time are more accustomed to living with evil rather than fighting it, and we have seen that many times since this document was written.

So, no, it is not what I want or what many other people want. I do not want another war within the states. I do not want a war with my own government. I choose to fight with ideas and words until such time we can no longer do so. We must keep doing what we are doing now so we do not give up the fight the Founder's also fought...the war with their words. Remember, war was NOT the first choice and was not decided upon easily. There were many dealings with the crown where we gave them the chance to set our people free from the crown, and the people of the time took many beatings until they stood up to defend themselves.

The Second Amendment is there so we have that LAST RESORT. We are not there yet and we may never be, but when the people are ready to give up their guns because they are afraid of what might happen if they do not, the next Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Assad will be knocking on our door to treat our people the same way those innocent people were treated. If and when that would happen, would you want an automatic rifle to keep you safe or would you want a handgun with 5 bullets?

Just Like With Taxes, Democrats Want You To Know That You Are WRONG!

Have you noticed lately that if you do not agree with a Democrat, then you must be wrong? Of course this is nothing new so I should not make it seem like it is, but it much bigger than it used to be. The Republicans got handed their asses during the debate on the debt ceiling, many seem to be ready to give up on gun control, and they are running scared when it comes to actually forcing the government closed if and when the Democrats will not agree to cuts in the coming months. We have to face it: the Republican Party has taken the persona of their leader, Boehner, and become a bunch of crybabies!

But specifically, when it comes to guns and ammo, the Republicans are getting us ready for another disappointment. I do not hear leaders telling the President that they will fight him if he tries to sign Executive Orders on gun control (which would be highly unconstitutional in regards to clip size and other ideas that have come up) even though I do hear states saying they will fight back with their own legislation fighting against it. There are still some states out there that will not be put under this kind of control, but without the Republicans in the House standing up for them the fight probably has little to no chance of making any kind of difference at all.

People on the Left and on the Right have to ask themselves WHY they allow Washington to do this kind of stuff to them? Why would we the people allow a government who must follow the Constitution to restrict those Constitutional rights? Is it because we are afraid someone might come into a mall with a gun? To make sure that fear goes away we would have to rid the world of guns, and just in case you Libs out there are not paying attention, THAT IS NOT POSSIBLE! Democrats do not want to hear you talking about how other forms of violence kill more than semi-auto weapons because they think it is some kind of mind game.

I was just watching CNN right before writing this piece and Paul Begala was having a debate with the editor from Redstate.com. Begala seemed to laugh off the statistics that more people are killed with hammers than they are with semi-auto guns. How this is funny? It is a proven fact that this is the truth, yet do you hear people on the Left wanting to shut down the people who make and use hammers? Of course not, that would be foolish! And so is this, and to a point much more so considering the statistics.

They only have one motive, and that is to make a gun ban that makes the first Assault Weapons Ban look like a walk in the park, no matter how they have to do it. They believe that if the President has to sign a few E.O.'s it does not matter when it is all said and done because the people want it. Actually, if we look at the polls, people believe there should be guards in schools before they believe these kinds of weapons should be forced to be registered or even outlawed. But that, again, means nothing to them because they only talk about what seems in the best interest for them. But remember, these are the same people who are followed around by people who carry weapons that could start a small war, so I take their opinion very lightly as we all should.

It is not up to Washington to tell us what is best for us, it is up to the people to tell Washington what is best for us and the people are saying to leave our guns alone! They use these tragedies, the death of children for God sakes, to push an agenda when they know very well that no matter what law is passed these kinds of things can and will still happen if someone out there wants to cause chaos on that kind of scale. You will never be able to stop it, but in their minds stopping the public from legally owning weapons will stop the problem. In reality, and this is what they do not want you to know, is that they want you disarmed to make you even more dependent on the government.

Just look at the leaders who took weapons off their people and ask me if YOU would want to be in the same category: Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and many others over the years! The Obama Administration would like to be added to the list of people who limited their people's right to defend themselves and be put at the mercy of the government our Founder's said that we were in control of as a people, not the people who we sent there to do our bidding. WE have the control, because WE are the people!

What these elected officials need to do is go and read the Declaration of Independence and take a quiz on it, because I do not think they really understand what it really means!