deltadave wrote:Good point. So what is everybody actually doing about it?
Well, here in AZ we ... Governor Signs Bill, Teaches Actual Gun Safety for students, get school credit -
http://www.gunlaws.com/HighSchoolMarksmanship.htm
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I have written to my senator ...
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Educate people, like we offer here in AZ -
http://www.trainmeaz.com/
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Have a real "everything on the table" talk ... like this:
Dear Editor,
The tragedy in Newtown has gun lobbyists turned inside out. They fear for their own children, and neighborhoods and local shops. They do. Their hearts are in their throats.
The media are pounding them for answers, sometimes with inane on-air grilling that shows a complete lack of understanding, or worse, total bias against our rights and an abrogation of ethical behavior. Reporters are seething with anger, as are so many politicians, and it's on display. Have you watched Piers Morgan on CNN?
Something must be done. The president has called on us to do something. Well who, our nation's gun lobbyists are asking themselves, better to do that than us?
Who understands the issues better than we do, they ask? Who knows how to draft good, clean, healthy gun laws that will get the desired results? Are we to sit back sheepishly, and let the haters and the fearful ignorantly plaster the nation with poorly thought out assaults on our safety and our rights, as they have done so often in the past? Do we need another foolhardy waiting period or ammo-tax proposal that does nothing to stop crime -- or worse, unintentionally facilitates it?
Will Dianne Feinstein and Charles Schumer come up with another round of bans and Clintonian scolding that does nothing to make people truly safer, infringing on the innocent, just like last time? Or are we to rise up to this challenge, take out our pens and thinking caps now, while there is still time, and begin developing the laws the nation needs to help put an end to these atrocities? The nation is screaming for action. We hear you.
We must meet the flood of irrational anti-rights infringements we know will be offered with decent, reasonable, common-sense laws that get the job done properly.
The nation cannot afford to be bullied by anti-rights bigots on the march, seeking to assault civil rights in the false name of justice, dancing in the blood of victims as they always do. We cannot allow the slanderous use of the dead to motivate an agenda of hate, degrading rights Americans cherish.
We must take the initiative, and the moral high ground, deflect the infringements before they arrive, and let the enemies of freedom struggle uphill against rationale and reason.
The president said, "What choice do we have?... Gun laws are a part of this..." Gun lobbyists worth their salt agree with him. He said we need a broader plan too. This makes sense to us.
Here in Arizona we're already working on the broader part -- we want to see every citizen trained in gun safety and marksmanship. That scares the ignorant masses but appeals to the knowledgeable. And what better time to start than now.
You learn to swim even if you don't have a pool, because water can kill you. The same goes for guns whether you own one yet or not -- and of course guns, like water, can save your life -- a point the media suppresses with cruel regularity. Gun lobbyists know that being gunless is dangerous, a problem that needs serious examination nationwide. Nothing is off the table, especially education. How many schools need to be sacrificed to bring that point home? Now is the time.
Taken in part from here:
http://www.gunlaws.com/Page9Folder100up ... ne-119.htm
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End 'Gun Free Zones"
The public (first responders) should be just as ready to react as the police (second responders).
They should be as well equipped as the second responders. Parity with police.
Gun-free zones are known to be dangerous, reckless and negligent. This is now repeatedly proven beyond any doubt. In public property (government buildings) a separate set of rules will be needed, as Arizona and other states have adopted. A decent respect for the rights of private property owners prevents us as a society from mandating an end to privately maintained make-believe gun-free zones. This is the solution that must be on the table:
The Gun-Free-Zone Liability Act
"If you make a so-called gun-free zone by hanging signs you are liable for any harm it causes." Read more and get draft language here. It's time to help.
http://www.gunlaws.com/GFZ/index.htm
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Oklahoma lawmaker to ask for teachers/principals to have guns -
http://blog.newsok.com/red-dirt-ruckus/ ... have-guns/
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Makes sense, since it seemed to work fairly well in Pearl, MS -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting
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ETA:
And get IDIOTS like this out of office!
http://www.examiner.com/article/democra ... ath-threat"I am a man of peace, but if war comes to my door it will find me home." - Winston Churchill
