The Horse Is Out of the Barn?

The US citizens are armed and tops the world with a ratio of 120.5 firearms per 100 residents, up from 88 per 100 in 2011, so we are protected against a tyrannical federal government.

Historians suggested that English universal armament caused a moderation of monarchial rule and fostered individual liberties because the populace had in reserve a check which soon brought the fiercest and proudest King to reason: the check of physical force……. It should not be surprising that Americans in the midst of a revolution against tyranny would be suspicious of government, particularly when dealing with plans for their own government. Fear that a tyrannical federal government would militarily oppress the citizens (like in England and other European countries in the 1700’s and before), drove a strong sense of need for the states to have armed civilians (militias) that could mobilize quickly... The Senate was first presented the amendment language "the right of the people to keep and bear arms for the common defense, shall not be infringed." Then the phrase was shortened.

Is that the concern today?
Things have changed…. Proven in recent administrations, the current Military does not blindly follow the elected leadership’s orders against its own citizens. So, if we are not bearing arms to fight off a tyrannical Federal Government, then why extend those 400-year-old ideas? Well, we rely on a different reason, “Personal Protection” against others with a multitude of guns…. So, we created an environment of unlimited guns to fend off a tyrannical federal government, but now we have to fend off violence from our neighbor who also has unlimited guns….. It has morphed into something unrecognizable to the original idea.

When is the Cost of Liberty a weekly Massacre?

Over and over again, ever since the mass shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, there’s been a hollow and heartbreaking cycle. Who among us is perpetuating this morbid level of American exceptionalism, instead of protecting our most valuable resource: human life? The U.S. has already witnessed over 200 mass shootings in less than six months. That equals 10 mass shootings a week……. According to some reports, over 600 children in this country have already lost their promising young lives to gun violence this year.
Police Officers are ready to lay down their lives to save citizens. Are we willing to lay down our guns to save our children? A great nation wouldn’t choose guns over children..... Thoughts and prayers are great things, but go only so far: https://twitter.com/i/status/1...
Is now the time to brace ourselves for an inevitable repeat? Yes it is.

“How do you put the horse back in the barn?” You can’t, but you start to chip away at anything that might make it harder for some troubled soul to extinguish these beautiful young promising lives. Start somewhere. Under state law, the young man who killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, was entitled to his guns. He bought his AR-platform rifles legally for his 18th birthday. He had no criminal record. He was, until the moment he shot his grandmother, a law-abiding citizen, the kind of person we are supposed to trust with high-powered firearms. Despite the evidence that lowering the gun purchase age to 18 in his own state allowed the gunman to buy the weapon used in the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) cited rap music and video games as reasons shootings keep happening. Keep deflecting Ronny.....

It takes 60 votes in the Senate to change federal gun laws. If they didn’t do it after Columbine, Newtown, Las Vegas and Parkland, I have a hard time believing they will after Buffalo and Uvalde…… Sadly, the horse is out of the barn…….