Is this Disneyland?

 

 

"Sometimes Government is just so much Micky Mouse..."

Late yesterday when I sat down with my wife to watch the news, I was overwhelmed. There was simply too much news to comprehend. The nation was reeling from the carnage in Boston. Letters were being mailed to Washington representatives and the White House with ricin in them. A major late season winter storm was moving in. So when I turned on a local station, there was the President addressing the nation. In this time of turmoil, of national tragedy, it is always good to hear from our leader.

What did our President tell us? He was scolding us (again) for the Senate not passing the universal background check bill. He could not understand why only 54 members of the Senate voted for this bill. There were tears by the Vice President, moaning by the main stream media, and much vitriol aimed at the NRA. The real answer is this - many don't trust you sir. It is as simple as that. Too many statements have been made in the past on how you REALLY feel about the Second Amendment. Too many feel this is the start of the slippery slope. Too many have seen how absolute GUN CONTROL has worked (or not) in the President's home town of Chicago.

Lets talk about Chicago for a minute. Last year we lost more young people in Chicago than we lost in Afghanistan. Let that sink in for a minute. We lost more people to violence in a city with absolute gun control than we lost in an active war zone. So far this year has been just as bad if not worse. On one weekend in mid-March, Chicago lost ten young people killed and forty wounded. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that most of the victims were in their mid-teens or early 30s, with the exception of 6-year-old Aliyah Shell, who was gunned down Saturday while playing in front of her home in the Little Village neighborhood.

In that one weekend, we lost about half as many young people as was lost in Sandy Hook on the terrible day last year. Lives lost are lives lost. We did not hear one peep from the White House about the violence in Chicago - not a word. Much of the violence is young black men killing young black men. Is that okay with the President? It is not okay with me. It is not the lack of background checks, the size of he magazines or the type of gun which is killing these young people. It is people with malice in their hearts killing other people. Chicago is a major embarrassment to our country. We treat Chicago with benign neglect. Our President should be talking about this issue on a weekly basis.

Watching a show called Lock Up on the weekends, it never ceases to amaze me the ingenuity of inmates to make weapons out of nothing. Weapons that could be used to kill. Any trained member of the Special Forces will tell you if need be, they can kill with bare hands. Guns are only one method of killing. If there is no malice in the heart, a gun is just a tool used for target practice, hunting or personal protection. If there is malice in the heart, a gun can be deadly.

I am I disappointed by the Senate vote yesterday? Not a bit. I am disappointed that so many of our current gun laws are not enforced. Chicago leads the nation in that regard. I have gone through back ground checks every time I bought a hand gun. I went through a back ground check when I received my carry permit. I have been vetted. I am responsible. I don't need another check. I too, have very little trust in this Administration. We don't know why millions upon millions of rounds have been bought up by the Administration. Nobody in power has any interest in answering that question. Trust.

So Mr. President, please focus on keeping us safe from all enemies, foreign and domestic.That is your oath. Please protect and defend our Constitution - not change it. That is also your oath. Give us a reason to trust you and we will. However trust is earned, not stolen.