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Time for Ridcule – Why I am not upset about gun control

I know this is a serious subject but taking the Democrats seriously is NOT the way to end the discussion of gun control. Using Rule #5 “Ridicule is man’s most powerful weapon” is the way to shut the democrats up for good. And gun control could be the opportunity.

Why I am not upset about gun control.

Obama lived his high school years in an addle brained drug induced stupor. He isn’t going to end illegal drug smuggling, because even legalizing it doesn’t provide teenagers with the dope he wants them to have. So he won’t shut down the border, end drug gangs, stop smuggling or do any thing to get the guns out of the hands of drug distribution industry. Actually sometimes I think instead of seeing his birth certificate we should demand to see the results of a random drug test. But I digress…

Fifty years now we have been fighting a war on drugs. Everywhere you look, from the oval office to the states Democrats are giving up on getting those illegal substances out of circulation. Guns will be no different.

Making guns illegal could improve the quantity, quality and lower the price of some of the best assualt weapons in the world. The nearly 20 million AK’s in storage in Russia. No border fence, no smuggling control, no illegal alien deporting, why if I didn’t know better I would say a relative of Al Capone for Obama’s Chicago connection is consulting on this gun regulation thing.

Once guns are illegal, like drugs, you won’t need a waiting period, proof of citizenship, paperwork or any of the other myriad of things needed to acquire them. Like illegal drugs, illegal guns will be everywhere.  Think about drugs for a second. You can’t buy a decongestant without going to a drug store, showing ID, signing paperwork and going through all kind of control to prevent these common harmless pills from “falling into the wrong hands”, But stand in front of any high school for a while and you can get everything from Oxycontin to heroin without any paperwork, license check, or waiting in line. I don’t know what Obama is smoking but he can’t honestly believe making guns illegal will make them any more difficult to get then a crack, can he?

Folks, the problem with John Boehner is he believes Obama’s hype. We need someone with a sense of humor who can laugh at the stupid things that Obama keeps proposing. Obama  can”t balance a check book. He is like a drug addled know it all college freshman, calling home and demanding mom and dad send more money, stop eating meat, sell the SUV, give up your guns. But no matter how much money you give them they can’t balance their check book or control their spending. So they keep calling and demanding more, got to have more. More, give me more.  Then they run off somewhere following some pied piper to wonderland on the way to saving the world from the latest craze stuffing the hat with cash you can’t afford to give away.

Laughing at them. At what they promise opposed to they actually do is simply the best way to make them go to ground.

The next Republican President is the guy who can stand up  and say with a Reaganesque laugh “Wait a minute, you just signed tax increases you promised would fix everything. Before working people even get to see what the Obama tax rate is costing them you want more?  Don’t you know what you are doing? The government doesn’t  need more money, you Mr. President need to get a clue. That’s not leadership, that is a good imitation of a Jack Russel Terrier going throw the money ball, bounce,  throw the money ball, bounce, throw the money ball, bounce….

 

WmCraig

You ask any D.E.A. man,
He’ll say There’s nothin’ we can do,
From the office of the President,
Right down to me and you, me and you. – Glen Fry, Smugglers Blues.

COMMENTS

  • kipling

    A friend of mine who was a colonel in the South African military told me once that you could purchase an AK-47 off the street corner in many African countries for between $5 and $10. One of the moral of Black Hawk Down is that a $50 million dollar helicopter was taken down by a $50 RPG. I am not sure if those last figures are accurate but I remember hearing them in a military briefing at some point.

    • rustyoldgarand

      I doubt it was quite that cheap (street price in Baghdad was about $50 last I heard, and Iraq isn’t that much richer than many African countries), but yeah, black markets provide weapons quite well. Trying to outlaw assault weapons in America would create quite a black market, that’s for sure.

      • kipling

        He is an older gentleman so his reference point was probably about the time the Soviets began to dump a lot of their stuff on the black market. The extra $45 you mentioned probably went to conduct the background check.

  • checkmate2012

    How about telling O that when he controls gov’t spending without running a deficit, we’ll trust him with with controlling gun sales. Glad we won’t have to hold our breaths.

    • funwithknives

      …or as another quip, ask him to actually demand a budget from Harry and The Kids for a change, and This Administration’s credibility just might be ‘considered’ by some.
      But I’m not gonna lose any sleep or go holding my breath, waiting for Barry to get a clue.
      I’ve got hardware to go look at……….

  • garret5

    If we were to consider the utopian pretext that “if there were no guns, people wouldn’t get shot”, I’d be all for a total ban on guns. We all know that won’t happen, because guns can’t be uninvented. Thus there will never be “no guns” and therefore I am against any kind of gun control. Those of us who abide by the law and don’t do anything wrong, should at the very least be considered as worthy of defending ourselves as the most hardened criminals.

    If The People wish to ban private gun ownership, there’s a procedure for that. It’s called an amendment to the Constitution. Repeal the SA and they can grab as many guns as they want. Failing to amend the Constitution, they cannot be allowed to grab anything that can fire shot or projectile, however many rounds can be stacked in a magazine. But so long as we don’t challenge the “voices of reason” to actually pursue an amendment process, we keep playing into their hands. It’s really time to stop being nice to those who wish to take away or right of self-defense and self-determination.

  • Spike

    Many good points in your post. I long for an elected leader who can do just that – stand up and poke fun at Obama and the Dem convential wisdom crowd; using logic, reason and (un)common sense and a wicked sense of humor….

    • garret5

      Meanwhile, Republican candidates all think that they have to embrace the Dem conventional wisdom and thus nothing can ever be challenged. After all, how many Republicans have actually challenged the tenet of Social Security or MediCare? If not transforming them to an opt-in system, let me at least opt-out. The government can keep the money it has stolen from me for these systems that will not provide for me when I am old and unable to provide for myself. We call it Even Steven.

      First, we select the walking corpse McCain to lose huge to Obama. Perhaps it was going to happen no-matter what, but it sure seemed silly to not even try to win.

      Second, we select the all-star Romney, because he was a governor in a liberal state. Great. A Republican to try to out-Democrat the Democrat. John Kerry had a nicer hair-do than Bush, but the haircut doesn’t seem to elect presidents regardless of what CNN thinks.

      I wonder if we could even put up a fight if Biden ran for president. Shouldn’t be too hard to win, but we’ve lost unlosable elections before. Need I mention Sen. Al Franken?

  • BA Cyclone

    I think you and a lot of the previous commenters here rightly focus on “our” failure to challenge the pretext of the ‘conversation’ about gun control (along with just about any other issue at hand).

    The other side is drunk on the power of the laws of men. They and the political class believe if you pass a law, then you have Done Something(tm) and the world is immediately better. Never mind you look up the results or, God forbid, unintended consequences. Or, if you are challenged with such criticism, the necessary response will be — the law was merely not powerful or expansive enough.

    The response to the Newtown tragedy happening in one of the strictest gun control areas of our country is — well THAT doesn’t count because those laws are not FEDERAL! Yeah, right.

    Erickson had a nice point the other night on his radio show: MAYBE we should make mass murder illegal! That would surely stop it.

    We do have a failure of leadership, and surely a failure of communication. It is kind of like the failure of backbone related to these two issues. We have too few elected Republicans who are sure enough of their convictions that they are unafraid to stand in front of a microphone and challenge those who are so willing to negotiate away our Constitutional rights in the name of “safety”.

    New gun laws only affect those who are already willing to abide by laws. None of those who commit mass murder (or any murder) pass that test.

    • BA Cyclone

      Also, I like your angle comparing this to purchasing decongestant. I am all for cracking down on meth use and production. But good grief, I have a stuffy nose and I want some of the good stuff to clear me out, but I have to begin with the assumption that I might abuse this and the government has to ration it to me. That chaps me a little bit every time.