Gun Grabbing 101

"We have dozens of gun laws on the books right now. Maybe we should enforce them better."

The gun grabbers are now out in full force. The "never let a good tragedy go to waste" crowd is up and at em. They don't really don't give a rip that the shootings in Orlando were done by a terrorist. He is not the enemy. In fact, he was just some conflicted young man. If he just could not have obtained a gun, he would have lived his life in harmony, sought the help he needed, and the birds would be singing every morning.

Welcome to la-la land. In fact yesterday, some knucklehead stood up in Congress and blabbed for hours, trying to get "meaningful" gun legislation passed. Here is the issue. We have dozens of gun laws on the books right now. Maybe we should enforce them better. Someone brought up a very good point recently. Rather than make guns illegal, we should make shooting someone illegal. Wait! It already is!

I am going to go through is one more time for the gun grabbers. They seem to have a real hard time learning this. So here we go:

• There is a reason we have the Second Amendment. No, it has nothing to do with hunting or target practice. It was included in our Bill of Rights to ensure the government, which is an instrument OF THE PEOPLE, did not become tyrannical. It is the ultimate check and balance. It is so important, so vital, it is the only one of our rights which contains the phrase "shall not be infringed". So those of you knuckleheads in Congress who wish to take this right away, first better take an American history class.
• 99.9999999% (or thereabouts) of all legal gun owners are law abiding citizens. The vast majority are licensed and trained. They take care of their fire arms. They store them securely at their residence. For example, mine are kept in a gun safe. I can access them easily, but nobody else can. I WILL NOT touch any gun I own if I have had a drop of alcohol. And that is common among legal gun owners. 
• I bring the above point up for a reason. Legal gun owners, as well as members of the NRA, are sick and tired of getting blamed for every nut job who kills someone with a gun. Time and time again, I read about someone getting out of prison early after shooting someone. I would love to see the gun laws enforced as follows: 1) Caught with an unlicensed gun, one year in jail. 2) Commit any crime with a gun, a minimum of 15 years in jail. 3) Shoot someone (non-lethal), 30 years in jail. 4) Kill someone - life with no chance of parole. 

There are many folks in this country who feel very strong about our God given or natural rights. Gun ownership, the right of self protection, is one of them. The millions of legal gun owners are not going to sit back quietly and let anyone confiscate their guns. As Charlton Heston famously said, someone would need to pry his gun out of his "cold, dead fingers".