A Demonstration in Denver
On March 24, 2018, Linda and I, after touring the Molly Brown house, were swept away in a river of happy protestors in downtown Denver, Colorado, all flowing toward the Capitol to an anti-gun rally, attended by hundreds of people carrying homemade signs of protest. They were led by ministers, civic leaders, and concerned parents. The day was crisp, the sky blue, the people jovial, the demonstration peaceful, attended by the very young and the very old. Some of the signs were clever, though many used violent and vulgar language. The crowds were courteous and kind, the speakers loud, artificial, sonorous, and belligerent, rhythmically chanting the plagiarized parallelism of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a Dream speech,’ trying to rouse the distracted crowd who appeared more in a picnic mood than a protest demonstration.
They were exercising their rights of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech to trample on the Second Amendment and destroy every citizen’s right to bear arms. Nothing is ever simple. One would feel safe in the hands of a thousand of those jovial protestors at the rally, armed or not, yet they were willing to give up their guns in some vain hope that terrorists, criminals, thieves, housebreakers, fanatics, deranged aberrations, robbers, intruders, and murderers will also voluntarily give up their guns.
I care nothing for guns. I don’t shoot. I don’t hunt. I can’t stand to see anyone or anything suffer. I am a sentimentalist when it comes to animals, but I eat meat, I wear leather shoes and fur lined coats, and I care for the Constitution. And I will oppose those good people of Denver, Colorado who voted to stupefy their youth by legalizing marijuana while they push to take way all American citizens’ right to bear arms.
On the one hand I will protect their right to march peacefully but I will protest their right to take away my right to bear arms. That I don’t bear arms is my choice, and I intend to keep it that way. Emotion is on their side as was demonstrated in their predictable speeches, but logic and common sense is not on their side. The only people who will be restricted to bear arms are law abiding citizens. Criminals who bear arms are criminals because they don’t obey the law. Even in high security prisons, ingenious weapons emerge, and inmates are murdered by a shank, some nothing but plastic toothbrushes melted and hardened into lethal weapons. For law abiding people to forfeit their rights of carrying guns because criminals who murder them carry guns defies logic. Guns will always be available to those who want to kill. The black market for the sale of guns will flourish, and the criminal world will grow richer and more dangerous. What will deter them? The left has defunded the police, released hardened criminals on the streets who were incarcerated by rule of law before a jury of their peers, transferred the safety of our borders to drug cartels, made serious crimes misdemeanors, and encouraged riots in the streets.
A simple question should be asked: Why did our forefathers die for the right to bear arms? It was because of oppression from evil people. Today, the oppressions are even greater, coming from within, by terrorists, robbers, drug dealers, and murderers who all bear arms. People who want to kill will find ways to kill and an unarmed citizenry make safe targets.
What then is the tragic flaw? What has changed in America? It is not guns. Guns have always been available. If you look at the internet, the headlines will read something like this, “Gun violence becomes leading cause of death among US Youth.’
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