E-Newsletter No. 103 July 2022
Our Liberties are under attack and in danger of being toppled. In previous months, we have talked about the Left’s attacks on the First and Second Amendments. This month, we were planning to discuss the Fourth Amendment. However, that discussion is being delayed one month due to the need to revisit the Second Amendment in light of the Uvalde, Texas and Highland Park, Illinois tragedies.
The first question to be addressed is – Are these two tragedies (which are horrendous tragedies) more or less tragic than the 797 murders in Chicago during 2021? (Set aside the other murders that also happened in New York, Detroit, etc).
The next question is – Were those deaths more or less tragic than the 50 murders in Chicago during 2021 that did not involve a firearm? (Stabbings, blunt force trauma, arson, strangulation, child abuse, vehicular).
The next question is – Has anyone on the Left researched the fact that over 80% of the victims who died during a “mass shooting” (an incident with more than 6 victims) were murdered by handguns?
The next question is – Does anyone seriously believe that “just one more law” will ever be able to stop evil in a person’s heart? (Cain killed Abel before guns were ever invented).
The final question is – What is the real reason for the Left’s desire to violate the US Constitution by violating the actual words in the Second Amendment that read “…shall not be infringed”? Is the Left’s true agenda a desire to eliminate the Second Amendment and ban all firearms? (Conservatives have a serious issue with that agenda).
One other final question – Why do some on the Left condone the practice of allowing a baby to be “aborted” after birth? (aka infanticide). Isn’t such an occurrence also just as tragic, if not even more so?
Our Editorial Board absolutely understands the horror of the Uvalde, Texas and Highland Park, Illinois tragedies (along with Columbine and Sandy Hook, etc.). But might we also ask another question – Are there other motives behind the resistance to having a safer environment in our schools, by having a trained, armed safety officer on site (similar to banks, airports, and in schools in Israel)? It is well documented by the media that the police can never get there in time once a tragedy starts. Is the elimination of the Second Amendment more important than enhancing school safety?
We also recognize that the Leftist media focuses on these horrors and generally avoids covering the daily tragedies that occur in our country’s largest cities that are run by Democrats. So, might we also ask yet another question – Do Black Lives really matter to the Left, and even to BLM itself, given BLM’s calls to defund the police? Our Editorial Board unequivocally believes that All Lives Matter. And we also believe that once our society starts to focus on the root cause of these tragedies, we will realize that we need to shift the focus away from AR-15s and back to the root cause of these tragedies.
Two final thoughts…. Benjamin Franklin once said “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” We would go further and say that giving up Liberty to purchase “no real valid assurance of any kind of Safety” is a fool’s choice.
Lastly… We recently ran across an article that discussed a key difference between the concepts of Freedom and Liberty. Many people think that Freedom and Liberty are the same thing. We agree that many of the aspects are similar, and they are both vital to the human condition. However, there is an important distinction. Freedom is a personal thing – an individual is free to think and act to pursue their own individual preferences in life. Does that sometimes lead to bad choices and/or evil? Unfortunately, yes. On the other hand, Liberty is a “societal” concept. Unfortunately, Liberties can be toppled by a government that is intent on tyranny.
US Debt Clock – – June 1st – $91,550 per citizen / July 1st – $91,700