After a national tragedy like the one in Parkland, Florida last February, it is inevitable that anti-gunners will blame the National Rifle Association.
The scapegoating comes from every institution because hoplophobes abound in media, politics, higher education, and entertainment. Examples are endless and easy to cite:
After the mass killing in Las Vegas, progressive pundit Keith Olbermann questioned why the NRA “is not branded for what it is — a terrorist organization” in a clip for GQ’s “The Resistance.”
Former congressional candidate Pat Davis went so far as to say, “F*ck the NRA” in a TV ad back in May. Davis, a current member of the Albuquerque City Council, was hoping to represent New Mexico’s first congressional district. Not long after the ad aired he dropped out of the race.
Rapper Eminem in March released a song called “Nowhere Fast,” in which he suggested the NRA was pulling the strings of the Parkland killer, “This whole country is going nuts/ and the NRA is in our way/ they’re responsible for this whole production/ they hold the strings, they control the puppet.”
Sociology Professor Patricia Hill took her ire so far that she vandalized the home of NRA executive Chris Cox. Hill, who sprayed fake blood on his home, was convicted of a misdemeanor destruction of property in May. Interestingly enough, she still listed on the faculty page at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (Had a conservative professor vandalized the home of a PETA executive, would he still have his job?)
SEE ALSO: Alyssa Milano on Anti-NRA Rally: Those Armed Guards Protecting Me Aren’t Mine
We don’t blame Ford or GM for the actions of drunk drivers. Yet when a mass killer obtains a firearm and guns down his classmates it’s the gun lobby’s fault. It doesn’t make sense.
Andrew Pollack, whose daughter was slain at Stoneman Douglas High School, understands that blaming the NRA — the nation’s leading organization when it comes to teaching safe and responsible gun ownership — serves no purpose. It doesn’t make sense logically but even more to the point, it doesn’t do anything to make school children safer.
On Twitter this week, Pollack fired back at actress and anti-gun activist Alyssa Milano who resorted to the tired trick of NRA bashing at a recent gathering.
.@Alyssa_Milano in her speech in Parkland blamed the @NRA for the shooting that killed my daughter. She needs to learn her facts before she speaks
The FBI, Sherrif Israel, mental illness counselors, school administrators & failed diversionary programs are to blame.
Not the NRA
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) October 1, 2018
Yes, if we’re going to point the finger at anyone other than the shooter, it should be the local, state and federal agencies and school personnel that identified the killer as a potential threat and failed to stop him, both before the attack was perpetrated and while it was taking place.
You’ll recall that authorities were given multiple tips from concerned citizens about the mental state of the shooter, including that he might be a serious threat to public safety, and that an armed resource officer fled the scene instead of engaging the gunman. Had local police or the FBI followed up on those red flags, or had the SRO done his job, things might have turned out very differently for the victims of Parkland.
If we are really going to “make a difference,” as gun control advocates like to say, we need to harden schools. This is the main mission of Andrew Pollack post-Parkland. Pro-gun or anti-gun, everyone should support improving school safety. Capable men with guns protect bankers and politicians and celebrities and businessmen all across this country — isn’t it time we rely on these armed individuals to protect school children? Emphasize capable, because we don’t need any more cowardly slugs on the job, who are there just to collect a paycheck and who will run at the first sign of trouble.
I am not doing this to get famous, I am doing this so no family ever again has to feel the way my family feels. There are no excuses! We must have proper security in every school in America! I will not stop until that is accomplished. We must #FixIt! #MeadowsMovement pic.twitter.com/Hz6v9S9vrI
— Andrew Pollack (@AndrewPollackFL) April 11, 2018
It would appear that Ms. Alyssa Milano feels she needs to improve her public image and has chosen a classically overblown and “no information required” method of doing so.
Pity. Her ignorance is painful to behold, as is her firm resolve to remain ignorant. That’s sad, since she could inform herself and present an intelligent argument…but alas, it appears emotion wins the day.
This is not new; Ben Franklin commented that “Passion shites upon Reason’s neck”. True then, true now.
Roger that. And her hypocrisy reigns supreme”(Had a conservative professor vandalized the home of a PETA executive, would he still have his job?)” !
Z,
While I understand what you are trying to say, you are forgetting a prime tenet of debate, or even communication. That is, the originator of a comment invites opinion about the comment, or even themselves. The person replying does not need to have training, education, or a level of intelligence to qualify his/her opinion. As an example, if I state “OJ was guilty of murder”, you do not need to be an attorney or a witness to tell me I am wrong, stupid, or an azzhole. There is no irony involved in that comment.
Her comment is a statement, his comment is a reply. He is not required to have knowledge of her to express his opinion about her thoughts or feelings. I have never met her, and know little about her outside of her acting career, yet I believe she is one of the most idiotic, thoughtless, baseless, and downright ignorant people regarding the NRA and 2A that I have ever heard speak. Saying that does not make my comment ironic in any way.
And who made YOU the expert? Apparently, it’s OK for you to denigrate Chris’s opinion but not for Chris to disparage Milano’s opinion. Are you Alyssa Milano’s brother-in-law, or something?
Chris Krupp’s opinion DOES matter to him and to me (that’s at least two of us). Chris’s appreciation of Miss Milano’s abilities is his opinion and he is entitled to it, no matter how you feel about it. Jimmy Kimmel is another one who thinks just because he said something vaguely funny in 2006 he has become God’s gift to philosophy, sociology and political science. I have often said (including in this forum) that notoriety in one field (acting, for Pete’s sake) does not instantly and totally transfer to expertise in a completely different field. It is my opinion but it is also the truth. Peter Weller is the notable exception in Hollywood (PhD from UCLA) but only in Italian Renaissance Art History. Milano isn’t even a good actress. While training, talent and experience in a field isn’t absolutely necessary to utter valid opinions on significant subjects it certainly helps to lend credibility to those opinions.
I think everyone here knows this is a platform for the free exchange of opinions, and, absent “feet and inches”, that’s all it is.
Let’s face it all the people that want a ban on firearms really are ignorant. Everything they can do today is because of all the men and women who died for their rights. That’s right, fought wars with weapons.
Most of the weapons that come across the border towns, the government sent to Mexico. Go figure.
As it has already been stated, politicians and alike are all protected by people who carry firearms. If they want weapons banned then they need to give up their protection details first.
In reality, the laws only keep the honest people honest. Criminals will always get what they want. Take the peoples rights away, makes sense, then you have nothing more than a dictatorship. Wake up people, before it’s too late.
It bears repeating over and over. This school worked with that Sheriff to hold back information and reduce reported incidents with students like the killer in order to get financial “rewards” from the Obama administration. Their was a criminal conspiracy to hide crime in the schools to get rewards for reduced crime in the school. The government class in that town cleared a path to murder by their greed and dishonesty.
I will tell you right now and this is the truth. And this makes no difference if you own guns or if you hate touching guns. Guns are not the issue now, your liberty is. Show this to your friends, your neighbors all the fence-sitters, the moderate Democrats and independents that you know and remind them about what’s going on because right now the soul of America is at stake.
The extremist left, the biased media, the entire national hysterical reaction to anything raised by these extremists has turned this country into a battle ground between a highly vocal, well-organized and violent minority that has wormed its way in at all levels of our society (from schools to universities to government offices, Hollywood, and the bureaucracies of states and the US Government) are doing their best to turn this country into a communist or socialist state. They want to rule by decree not by the Constitution or the laws of this great nation. They want to be a law unto themselves.
Just look at the ACLU. Just recently it announced that it will not take cases unless those cases fall in line with their unspoken “value systems”. The new president, look him up, believes in the presumption of GUILT not innocence. Past presidents of the ACLU have quit and criticized this new breed of so-called civil liberties lawyers. They are not lawyers. They are socialists. Just look it up. Do your own research. The ACLU has finally been corrupted by these communist handlers.
They don’t care about individual rights. They follow the orders of their handlers. Who are their handlers? Extremists, radicals, and mentally ill people who espouse the Marxist line that violence is the root of the next revolution and make no mistake about it, they will use violence and treachery to obtain and keep power.
All of you out there, maybe you’re fence sitters. I don’t know. Maybe you used to vote for candidates rather than parties, or maybe you used to vote parties rather than candidates. Today I would urge you to go to the polls in November. Vote because this country NOW depends on YOU. It depends on your co-workers, family, friends and neighbors. Don’t sit around whining about who’s throwing pig blood on whose home, or seeing purple haired nutjobs terrorizing neighborhoods, town squares and Senate office buildings.
Go out and Vote Red. You can’t afford to let these lunatics (the Democrats) have power. We know what happens and what will happen if they do have power. We know that they don’t care about your rights. They care about their agenda. And boy that agenda is dangerous! If you think I’m kidding, go visit some of their websites and compare that to Nazi Germany in 1933.
We know that if they make a scurrilous, unproven allegation, they presume YOU guilty until YOU prove your innocence. They are un-America. They are dangerous. And they are coming after you, your family, your liberty and your property.
You may not think you’re a target today, but make no mistake about it you’ve been a target for a long time. They don’t JUST want your guns. They want to indoctrinate your children and teach them to spy on you, they want to control your livelihood, they want to force you into government programs and subsidies and turn you into a slave of the state. They want your property, and they want to decide what they want for you, not what you want for yourselves.
Why? Why do I say this? Because communism and socialism has nothing to do with the will of the individual, the will of the polity. It has to do with the will of a small, well-organized group of people who consider YOU property of their state. The pursuit of happiness? Doesn’t exist in communism or socialism. Your happiness doesn’t mean anything to the state. The state controls your life, and you don’t control it. And who controls the communist state? People you don’t know and never elected. People who don’t care about your rights.
Today you have the vote. The sovereignty of this nation belongs to its people, not some but ALL of its people. That means YOU. Do not abdicate that right, or the obligation to vote that goes with it.
So again I implore all of you to get out and vote. If you have early voting, vote early. Vote Republican as a straight ticket. No matter what your favorite Democratic or independent candidate may TELL you, they are controlled by the Democratic party. They are not independent. They are not free-thinkers. They follow orders. You don’t have to elect puppets of an unseen group of communist and socialist handlers.
Thanks for reading this. God bless America.
I WILL die a freeman before I LIVE as a slave to government!!!
Mr Pollack my prayers go out to you. The fault for these horrible things lies with the dumbocrat/anti-gun. Here is why. You dumbocrats think that JFK was a GOD you loved him, thought he was amazing, well so did I. So let me inform you of some of his thoughts. President JFK believed it you wanted to increase The Federal Governments revenue then LOWER TAXES! President JFK was a STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF THE 2ND AMENDMENT! Now it is time for you dumbocrats to really start crying President JFK WAS A LIFE MEMBER OF THE NRA! If you know nothing about the NRA you should heed this saying ‘Before you criticize abuse my shoes WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES’! The NRA has always, does and will always SUPPORT LONG SENTENCE FOR CRIMINAL ACTS WITH ANY WEAPON SPECIALLY GUNS. If there had been and armed security guard at the school many of the children would have been saved. You don’t guard a chicken coop from wolves with a NO WOLVES sign, you need an equal or stronger force to overcome ANIMALS(human knind)!
One cannot blame the school, the police or governments without first looking to the parents of a young shooter. I believe it is the responsibility of the parent and or guardian of a child to know what they are doing.
Sure… because you practically brought soft-core porn to daytime television, that makes you a subject-matter expert on the NRA and the definition of a terrorist organization. Roger that.
Just keep doing what you are good at chick. Even Sasha Grey made it into an actual movie. Well.. her acting was better.. but you’ll get there.
Celebrity doesn’t equal intelligence. This particular fool won’t acknowledge that the amount of money spent on anti-gun measures far outdistances NRA funding. The NRA is an easy target to pick on rather than the real culprits.
In response to Ms. Milano, please educate yourself before trying to qualify yourself in subject areas, that you have little
or No knowledge in…….
Time to quote various authors on this subject!
Hoplophobia
Hoplophobia is a political neologism coined by retired American military officer Jeff Cooper as a pejorative to describe an “irrational aversion to weapons.” It is also used to describe the “fear of firearms” or the “fear of armed citizens.” HOPLOPHOBIA. (1966) From the Greek___(weapon) plus __ (terror).
An unreasoning, obsessive neurotic fear of weapons as such, usually accompanied by an irrational feeling that weapons possess a will or consciousness for evil, apart from the will of their user. Not equivalent to normal apprehension in the presence of an armed enemy. Hoplon also means instrument, tool or tackle, but it is the root of hoplite (man-at-arms, gendarme) and thus principally signifies “weapon” in English derivations.
Col. Jeff Cooper, widely acclaimed as “The Father of the Modern Technique of Shooting,” introduced the two-handed grip at eye level, when it was standard for people to shoot one-handed, and often from the hip. Far less known, Cooper was a historian with a Master’s Degree in History from the University of Calif. at Riverside and he held a B.A. from Stanford in Political Science.
Hoplophobia, n. Irrational, morbid fear of guns (c. 1966, coined by Col. Jeff Cooper, from the Greek hoplites, weapon; see his book Principles of Personal Defense). May cause sweating, faintness, discomfort, rapid pulse, nausea, sleeplessness, nondescript fears, more, at mere thought of guns. Presence of working firearms may cause panic attack. Hoplophobe, hoplophobic.
Hoplophobes are common and should never be involved in setting gun policies. Point out hoplophobic behavior when noticed, it is dangerous, sufferers deserve pity, and should seek treatment. When confronted about their condition, hoplophobes typically go into denial, a common characteristic of the affliction. Sometimes helped by training, or by coaching at a range, a process known to psychiatry as “desensitization,” a useful methodology in treating many phobias.
Hoplophobic behavior is often obvious from self-evident irrational responses to real-life situations and is frequently seen in the news media and public debate. When a criminal commits a crime using a gun, hoplophobes often seek to disarm, or make lists of, innocent people who didn’t do anything, a common, classic and irrational response.
The idea of creating an enormously expensive government-run 90-million-name database of legitimate gun owners — which would not include armed criminals — is a prime example of an irrational hoplophobic response to the issue of crime. How writing your name in such a list would help stop crime is never even addressed. (See, “The Only Question About Gun Registration”)
An effort is underway nationally to have Hoplophobia recognized in the DSM, the official directory of mental ailments. Resistance from elements in the medical profession suggest this may be quite difficult, but that does not reduce the importance of recognizing a widespread, virulent, detrimental mental condition commonly found in the populace. The actual number of undiagnosed hoplophobes is unknown but believed to be in the tens of millions.
Read Dr. Sarah Thompson’s brilliant essay on the medical nature of this affliction, the article that got the ball rolling on serious medical study of a condition affecting millions of Americans.
Read Dr. Bruce Eimers’s insightful short description of the problem.
Hoplophobes are dangerous. They should not be involved in setting public policy.
Hoplophobes are victims. They are sick and need help.
Hoplophobes deserve sympathy. It’s not their fault they are afflicted.
Hoplophobes should seek treatment. Help shoot for a cure.
People who are terrified of and hate guns — hoplophobes — don’t care about anything rational, and we waste our time on such arguments. They want guns to go away. They don’t trust guns. They don’t trust people who have guns, and especially people who like guns. The only exception is “official” people with guns, meaning, they’re from the government, a source of relief.
They will seize on anything else, because Hoplophobia is an irrational fear. Conveniently for them, the language of the report itself says that the limits of this individual right have not been clearly defined.
To a Hoplophobes, that means your right to arms can be legally limited to a single gun, with a single round, that does not operate, and is locked away, with government holding the key. And even that leaves them nervous.
What we really need is research and medical-treatment programs for the poor, unfortunate people who are terrified of guns, won’t go near guns, who would not defend themselves or their families if they had to, and who, very plainly, hate guns.
Hate is a terrible thing.
It must be confronted vigorously, righteously, and in a forthright manner. Logic and law do not confront hate or help lessen it. We must learn not to tolerate gun hate, anywhere we find it.
Hoplophobic behavior in government, schools, and all facets of public life must be recognized for what it is, exposed, and rooted out or treated. Seemingly utopian pacifists are free to profess their love of a weapon-free world, but they must start by disarming the evil, criminal and tyrannical. Disarming the public is a vent for their twisted fear and hatred, a grotesque affront to freedom, and unacceptable. Disarming an innocent person is an act of violence.
Guns save lives. Guns stop crime. Guns are why America is still free. The history of freedom is inextricably tied to the development of weapons (an interesting study, by the way, if you have the time to examine it). Good people need guns. Efforts to end that are immoral and unjust, and when done by government, is a direct failure to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” That’s a violation of the oath of office, which should lead to removal from office and possibly even criminal charges.
The people we elect or hire for public service should be screened for latent or overt gun hatred, and disqualified if such hatred is found, before it can do any more harm to our nation and its values.
It is well past the time when the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), the catalog of recognized mental infirmities, includes “Hoplophobia,” in all its forms, and serious medical research is conducted to identify and treat this pernicious condition that threatens us all. The doctors among you should begin raising this issue. If you’re not a doctor but have one or two, ask them about it.
The opponents of gun rights come in four fundamental categories:
Utopian Idealists – Dreamers willing to ignore human nature (anger, hostility, temper, greed, lust, hunger, poverty, want, megalomania, social pathologies, etc.) in the vain hope for a world where no one ever needs to defend themselves or others; Result: misguided efforts to disarm the public since no one should ever be capable of exerting lethal force for any reason. Fairly rare.
Routine Bigots – Ignorant gun haters who, generally, have never actually seen a real gun much less fired one, and hate what they don’t know; strong corollaries with race haters; Result: Vigorous anti-rights profile if left alone, however they often resolve their blind hatred when education removes the ignorance — frequent anecdotes of such folks “converting” after their first time at a range. Quite common.
Hoplophobes — Unfortunate souls afflicted with a phobic terror of firearms, deserving of pity, and in need of medical attention; Result: Though they should never be involved in setting policy on self-defense, national security, or Second Amendment rights, they often insinuate themselves into such positions, their need for treatment goes unattended, and they cause grievous social harm. Easily mistaken for plain bigots. Too common.
Power Mongers – Like some at the U.N or many anti-gun-rights politicians, they know full well that an armed public interferes with their plans, and they insidiously use lies about the gun issue, and “disarmament (of you but not them) as a road to peace” as a power base and source of support; Result: truly evil, tyrants’ who ultimately suppress human rights, contribute to global genocides, live an elite lifestyle, care not for their fellow citizens. Rare but extremely dangerous.
Example of the Sickness:
“My own view on gun control is simple: I hate guns and I cannot imagine why anybody would want to own one. If I had my way, guns for sport would be registered, and all other guns would be banned.”
–Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Harvard School of Public Health
The right of decent private citizens to personally possess, transport, and responsibly use arms without government interference is the ultimate freedom and the main pillar supporting all other liberties. Few cultures have allowed their general population access to weapons, the tools of power, to the same degree as the United States. Instead, most societies have restricted the keeping and bearing of arms to a select few power brokers and their agents, often resulting in oppression on a grand scale.
Despite a massive amount of historical evidence to the contrary, there is a substantial body of Americans, many occupying positions of influence, who contend that the abrogation of the Second Amendment is the quickest path to domestic tranquility. Since this is as absurd as advocating blood-letting as a cure for anemia, it would seem advisable to question the motives and mentalities of the gun control advocates themselves.
In my observation, weapon prohibitionists can be broken down into seven major categories. Even though their motives may vary they all pose a mortal threat to liberty.
ELITISTS
Many of those in favor of oppressive firearms legislation are best classed as elitists. Elitists frequently identify with a peer group based on wealth, power, rank, social status, occupation, education, ethnic group, etc. and perceive themselves and their peers as inherently superior to and more responsible than the “common people”, thus more deserving of certain rights. Since elitists practically consider those outside their class or caste as members of another species, that most anti-elitist list of laws, the Bill of Rights is viewed by them as anathema. Naturally, the Second Amendment is their first target as it serves as the supporting structure for other nine amendments.
AUTHORITARIANS
Another type of individual who favors the restriction of private gun ownership is the authoritarian. Authoritarian personalities are characterized by their belief in unquestioning obedience to an authority figure or group and a disdain for individual freedom of action, expression, and judgement. Those with authoritarian personalities function well in symbiosis with elitists occupying positions of power. Because authoritarians repress their desires for autonomy they harbor a deep resentment toward free and independent thinkers. Of course, authoritarians do not want firearms in the hands of the general population as this constitutes a major obstacle to fulfilling their pathological and obsessive desire to control people.
CRIMINALS
It goes without saying that career criminals would like to see the public disarmed for obvious reasons. A well-armed population makes crimes such as assault, robbery, and burglary hazardous for the perpetrator and this is bad for “business.” Also, even non-violent or “white collar” criminals live in constant fear of retribution from the public that they financially bleed and would therefore prefer that the public be disarmed. Evidence supporting this hypothesis can be gathered by studying the Second Amendment voting records of those legislators who have been convicted of willful misconduct.
THE FEARFUL
Cowards are easily or excessively frightened by things and situations that are recognized as dangerous, difficult, or painful. It therefore stands to reason that the mere thought of guns and the circumstances in which they are employed causes them abnormal amounts of stress. Rather than admit their weakness to themselves or others, some fearful types jump on the anti-gun bandwagon and purport moral superiority to those “barbaric” enough to employ lethal force against armed assailants by claiming various humanitarian and pragmatic motives for allowing evil to remain unchecked. Many of these individuals harbor an envy induced resentment toward anyone with the means, skill, and will to successfully stand up to criminal aggression.
The desire to assert oneself exists in nearly everyone, wimps included, so cowards seek out tame enemies against whom they can ply their pitiful brand of machismo. Instead of the sociopaths who commit acts of wanton aggression with guns, guns themselves and responsible gun owners are the main targets of their attacks. After all, real criminals are dangerous, so cowards prefer doing battle with inanimate objects that do not have a will of their own and decent law-abiding people whose high level of integrity and self-discipline prevent them from physically lashing out against mere verbal assailants, however obnoxious they may be.
IDEOLOGICAL CHAMELEONS
Ideological chameleons follow the simple social strategy of avoiding controversy and confrontation by espousing the beliefs of the people in their immediate vicinity or advocating the philosophy of those who scream the loudest in a debate. Quite a few supposedly pro Second Amendment public officials have shown themselves to be ideological chameleons when they supported restrictions on the private possession of military style semiautomatic rifles following recent atrocities in which such firearms were employed. Like their reptilian namesake, people who merely blend in with the ambient philosophical foliage seem to have little insight into the moral and social ramifications of their actions. Political and/or economic gain along with avoidance of confrontation are their only goals.
SECURITY MONOPOLISTS
Security monopolists are those members and representatives of public and private security providing concerns who want the means of self-protection out of private hands so that they can command high fees for protecting the citizenry against the rising tide of crime. These profiteers stand to lose a great deal of capital if citizens can efficiently defend themselves. To the security monopolist, each criminal who enters and exits the revolving door of justice is a renewable source of revenue providing jobs for police, social workers, victim counsellors, judges, prison employees, security guards, burglar alarm installers, locksmiths, and others employed by the security monopolies or their satellite organizations. No wonder it is so common for an honest citizen to be more ruthlessly hounded by the authorities when he shoots a criminal in self-defense than a criminal who shoots honest citizens.
THE DYSFUNCTIONALLY UNWORLDLY
Just as a limb will weaken and atrophy if not used, so will aspects of the mind fail to develop if nothing in one’s environment exists to challenge them. People who have led excessively sheltered lives tend to have a difficult time understanding certain cause and effect relationships and an even harder time appreciating just how cruel the world can be. These dysfunction ally unworldly types are truly perplexed at the very notion of firearms ownership regarding defense. To them, tyranny and crime are things that happen in other places far removed from their “civilized” universe. Also, they do not understand the value of private property and why some people would fight for theirs since they never had to work hard to acquire what they possess. While those suffering from dysfunctional unworldliness are most often people who have been born into considerable wealth, this condition is also common in members of the clergy, academicians, practioners of the arts, and others who have spent much of their lives cloistered in a safe and pampering environment. While many of these people may be quite talented and intelligent in some ways, their extreme naivety makes them easy prey for the tyrants who use them for the financial support and favorable advertisement of their regimes. The anti-gun movement is well represented and financed by the dysfunction ally unworldly.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, and it behooves all vigilant lovers of liberty to know and be able to recognize the various types of arms prohibitionists and understand their differing but equally dangerous motives. Acquiring knowledge of one’s foes is the first step toward defeating them. We must never forget that a threat to private firearms ownership is a threat to all freedoms.
The inalienable and fundamental right to keep and bear arms which is enumerated by (but predates) the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is not about hunting, gun collecting, or target shooting. Its purpose is to ensure that every responsible American personally possesses the means to defend the Republic from all forms of tyranny, within and without. It is what permits the other nine Amendments in the Bill of Rights to be more than mere hollow phrases on a piece of paper. Its free exercise is the antithesis of serfdom and the only meaningful form of holocaust insurance known to man.
We must never insult and degrade the spirits of our Founding Fathers by permitting the Second Amendment, the pillar of freedom, to be destroyed by the cold flame of legislative ink.
She always has armed guards around her she is a hypocrite which most celebrities are. They also dont want just one type of firearm they want all of them gone. If they would put their money where it will do the most good Harding the schools across the country. I called my state Representatives and ask them to start a tax for and only for school security, we must control egress.
They believe they can take away all firearms the border patrol this year has confiscated 300 firearms (AK 47) and just over 172,000 rounds of ammo coming into the US.
our biggest problem is this political party nonsense I frankly do not care if your Dem or Rep I care about our “leaders” fixing issues that we as Americans live with and thru on a daily bases. The job of the politicians is to serve the people I can promise you that not one of these Washington weasels has yours or any other average Americans interest in mind. This Dem vs Rep only divides us further when in a time we should be coming together to help our brothers and sisters get thru these tough times. People want to use it to try and push there agenda or get recognition for there next great hype whatever that maybe. Im not going to get in to a gun grab debate but I wish everyone affected by this and all the other needless loss of life tragedy’s
my condolence and prayers
Does this woman OPINION mean anything ? No. Shut your gob and go act in something. Why would anyone take any of the opinions offered by celebrities seriously ? They have no credibility. Just their way to stay in the limelight………….
What you’ve done, without any awareness of irony, is post your opinion as though it matters or has credibility.
Just to recap, you think your opinion is valid and credible and other people should be aware of it but her opinion is invalid and without credibility because she’s an actress. What’s your job and how does it validate you?