OREGON VICTIMS...
Imagine if you were in that position. Knowing if you said yes, it was likely the wrong answer to such a shooter, maybe if you were a little bit down the line already, having seen other people respond yes and get shot?
Imagine if you were in that position. Knowing if you said yes, it was likely the wrong answer to such a shooter, maybe if you were a little bit down the line already, having seen other people respond yes and get shot?
President Obama focused on gun control and politicizing the event. We’d like to point out the courage that that must have taken in the face of such evil to still pronounce your faith.
Many people praising the courage of the victims also spoke on social media, some under the hashtag #IAmAChristian, seeking to honor and support the victims. Among those posting was presidential candidate Ben Carson.
It is not clear that all those killed were in fact Christians. Lawrence Levine the teacher was shot right away without being asked the question. He was Jewish, a fact that the shooter, who was a student in the class, may have known.
Here are the nine who were killed. clockwise from left: Lucero Alcaraz, 19; Quinn Glen Cooper, 18; Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59; Lucas Eibel, 18; Jason Dale Johnson, 33; Lawrence Levine, 67; Sarena Dawn Moore, 44; Treven Taylor Anspach, 20; and Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18.
From: Marcheta Vaughn
"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." - Plato
Conundrums
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.
"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."
The definition of the word Conundrum is: "something that is puzzling or confusing".
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy -- yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized -- yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims -- yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government -- yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer -- yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about -- yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.
These three short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering.
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money! What's interesting is the first group "worked" for their money, but the second didn't.
Think about it.....and last but not least:
3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens?
....missing something?
Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free.
"A gun is like a parachute. If you need one and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."
The definition of the word Conundrum is: "something that is puzzling or confusing".
Here are six Conundrums of socialism in the United States of America:
1. America is capitalist and greedy -- yet half of the population is subsidized.
2. Half of the population is subsidized -- yet they think they are victims.
3. They think they are victims -- yet their representatives run the government.
4. Their representatives run the government -- yet the poor keep getting poorer.
5. The poor keep getting poorer -- yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.
6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about -- yet they want America to be more like those other countries.
Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.
These three short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering.
2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money! What's interesting is the first group "worked" for their money, but the second didn't.
Think about it.....and last but not least:
3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to illegal aliens?
....missing something?
December 2, 2013 4:00 AM The Weimar Republic’s well-intentioned gun registry became a tool for evil. The perennial gun-control debate in America did not begin here. The same arguments for and against were made in the 1920s in the chaos of Germany’s Weimar Republic, which opted for gun registration. Law-abiding persons complied with the law, but the Communists and Nazis committing acts of political violence did not. In 1931, Weimar authorities discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. They were written by Werner Best, a future Gestapo official. In reaction to such threats, the government authorized the registration of all firearms and the confiscation thereof, if required for “public safety.” The interior minister warned that the records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group. In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. Constitutional rights were suspended, and mass searches for and seizures of guns and dissident publications ensued. Police revoked gun licenses of Social Democrats and others who were not “politically reliable.” During the five years of repression that followed, society was “cleansed” by the National Socialist regime. Undesirables were placed in camps where labor made them “free,” and normal rights of citizenship were taken from Jews. The Gestapo banned independent gun clubs and arrested their leaders. Gestapo counsel Werner Best issued a directive to the police forbidding issuance of firearm permits to Jews. In 1938, Hitler signed a new Gun Control Act. Now that many “enemies of the state” had been removed from society, some restrictions could be slightly liberalized, especially for Nazi Party members. But Jews were prohibited from working in the firearms industry, and .22 caliber hollow-point ammunition was banned. The time had come to launch a decisive blow to the Jewish community, to render it defenseless so that its “ill-gotten” property could be redistributed as an entitlement to the German “Volk.” The German Jews were ordered to surrender all their weapons, and the police had the records on all who had registered them. Even those who gave up their weapons voluntarily were turned over to the Gestapo. This took place in the weeks before what became known as the Night of the Broken Glass, or Kristallnacht, occurred in November 1938. That the Jews were disarmed before it, minimizing any risk of resistance, is the strongest evidence that the pogrom was planned in advance. An incident was needed to justify unleashing the attack. That incident would be the shooting of a German diplomat in Paris by a teenage Polish Jew. Hitler directed propaganda minister Josef Goebbels to orchestrate the Night of the Broken Glass. This massive operation, allegedly conducted as a search for weapons, entailed the ransacking of homes and businesses, and the arson of synagogues. SS chief Heinrich Himmler decreed that 20 years be served in a concentration camp by any Jew possessing a firearm. Rusty revolvers and bayonets from the Great War were confiscated from Jewish veterans who had served with distinction. Twenty thousand Jewish men were thrown into concentration camps, and had to pay ransoms to get released. The U.S. media covered the above events. And when France fell to Nazi invasion in 1940, the New York Times reported that the French were deprived of rights such as free speech and firearm possession just as the Germans had been. Frenchmen who failed to surrender their firearms within 24 hours were subject to the death penalty. No wonder that in 1941, just days before the Pearl Harbor attack, Congress reaffirmed Second Amendment rights and prohibited gun registration. In 1968, bills to register guns were debated, with opponents recalling the Nazi experience and supporters denying that the Nazis ever used registration records to confiscate guns. The bills were defeated, as every such proposal has been ever since, including recent “universal background check” bills. As in Weimar Germany, some well-meaning people today advocate severe restrictions, including bans and registration, on gun ownership by law-abiding persons. Such proponents are in no sense “Nazis,” any more than were the Weimar officials who promoted similar restrictions. And it would be a travesty to compare today’s situation to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Still, as history teaches, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. — Stephen Halbrook is a research fellow with the Independent Institute and the author of the new book, Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State.”
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/
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