Obama Is Wrong For America
Okay, I will also throw my hat in the ring: I want Obama to fail! Not only do I want him to fail, I want him to fail immediately. Naturally, like Limbaugh, I don’t want HIM to fail, but his policies. I’m going to focus on two specific arenas since I’ve already covered his economic policies that I want to fail – 2nd Amendment Rights and Veteran Health Care.
While Obama was campaigning, he specifically stated, “I’m not going to take your guns away.” He said it at rallies in Duryea, Pennsylvania and in Boise, Idaho. He also told a news conference that “Lawful gun owners have nothing to fear…I think people can take me at my word.” Maybe the problem is that Obama’s “thinking” is all jacked. The reality is that the American people can NOT take the President at his word. I wouldn’t believe Obama any more if he told me that it snows in Antarctica.
A little over a year ago, I wrote a piece called “What Makes a Statement False?” over at A Soldier’s Perspective. In that piece I talked about the difference between lying and being wrong. A lie is saying something that is knowingly different from the truth. So, to say that Obama was lying when he said that “lawful gun owners have nothing to fear” while his own campaign website at the time touted his plan to revive the gun ban and make it permanent is the truth.
In Obama’s case it’s actually much more sinister. What if he WASN’T lying when he said those words? I mean, honestly, the key word was “lawful”. All Obama really has to do is make gun possession illegal and suddenly he’s telling the truth. Anyone owning a gun that isn’t in the military or police force would then technically be an “unlawful” gun owner. I say that because this is exactly what Obama is planning to do. I will soon be an outlaw!
Attorney General Eric Holder recently commented that he was reinstating a ban on the sale of assault weapons in America. The reasoning he gave, in typical liberal fashion, was to blame those weapons on the increased violence on the Mexican border. The guns I own have been sitting in their safe, secure locations since I purchased them and they haven’t killed anyone yet. How could such dangerous “assault rifles” be so deadly just sitting there? To ensure that they don’t break out of their hiding spots, jump on a Greyhound bus, and head to the border and start arbitrarily shooting people I’ve chained them to the floor and grounded them.
The other day I went to the range and just sat there waiting for my guns to start practicing while I read a book. After finishing a chapter, I looked up and noticed that not one round had been fired! I thought maybe I had somehow angered my gun and apologized profusely, begging for forgiveness and a clue as to what I had done wrong. It wouldn’t even talk to me! Didn’t say a word. I again apologized and set it back down to use the rest of my range time constructively and went back to my book. When my time was up, I again noticed that indeed my gun hadn’t fired any shots without me! How could this be? After all, these guns are dangerous, murderous, violent weapons! They kill indiscriminately across the globe and surely banning them will end this vicious cycle of violence!
Naturally, this is a fictitous argument. Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. The fact is I could have had ANY weapon on the face of the earth on that range and it wouldn’t have shot a single round without a person pulling the trigger. Now the President wants to make criminals out of thousands of innocent, patriotic gun owners by outlawing so-called “assault rifles”. Therefore, Obama is a liar and could care less about our Constitutional rights. It is imperative that if you believe in the 2nd Amendment, you contact your representatives and senators and implore them to vote against any attempts to reinstate the ban. According to the site, Obama “support[s] making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.” Why not? Does this look dangerous to you?
‘Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.’ ~ Thomas Jefferson
FIREARM REFRESHER COURSE
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution (c) 1791. All Rights Reserved.
11. What part of ‘shall not be infringed’ do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don’t make more.
24. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
Second is veterans’ health care. VA Secretary Eric “Army Beret” Shinseki confirmed that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance. That’s right! While government insurance is necessary for the rest of America, military members will have to have private insurance to pay for the injuries sustained by fighting wars the country sent them to fight. To be fair, there is no official proposal and Shinseki noted that the policy is only under “consideration”.
Consideration? In an era where the administration is trying to convince the American people through trillion dollar budgets, why in the hell would they even “consider” making Soldiers use private insurance? Just by acknowledging that the administration is considering this policy means that Obama has lied again. On his campaign website, Obama said that he is “committed to creating a 21st Century Department of Veterans’ Affairs that provides the care and benefits our nation’s veterans deserve.”
Thankfully, many Senators are warning the administration that if they even attempt such legislation, it will be shut down immediately.
North Carolina Republican Richard Burr, said he agreed that the idea should not go forward.
“I think you will give that up” as a revenue stream, if it is included in this April’s budget, Burr told Shinseki.
This isn’t a good sign for our military and further proof that we have a President who is hostile to us. Without any time to fully look into the realities of Gitmo, he signed an executive order to close the prison just 48 hours in office. He announced a firm withdrawal date from Iraq (I agree we’ve won in Iraq and should come home, but you don’t publicly announce the date to the enemy).
Posted on March 10th, 2009 by CJ
Filed under: Mainstream Media, Uncategorized
Good post, CJ. Strangely enough, I too, have one of those dangerous, worthless guns that only shoots when the trigger is pulled by a person.
In London, they had one of the lowest gun based crime rates in the world until they started making the ability to get guns so difficult that no one could do it. Now they have some very strict gun laws and the gun based crime rate is through the roof. In London if someone walks by the during the commission of a violent crime, they just keep walking and maybe call the police. Granted this is starting to happen in some the larger cities in the US, but what I am getting at is that their government has taken away the desire to defend yourself or others if need be. It is not considered self defense in London to kill your attacker even if he has a gun and is raising it to kill you. You are considered a murderer just like the criminal.
The funny thing is that since the crime rates just keeping going up in London they are know considering Knife control. My source for this part is an article I read about two months ago so I do not know the current state of it. But do you see where the path leads. They think that removing tools from some one will take away the hate inside of them. They remove the guns, it still happens, they remove knifes, it still happens, next they will remove sticks, lol, it will still happen, then maybe rocks, wait what about my fists, what about every farming tool, and every construction tool, it will not stop. Eventual only the law abiding subjects of the land will be killed and only the subjects that use violence as a tool for fear will be left.
All of this while states have legislation going through their government that is telling the Federal government that they are over stepping the bounds granted them by the Constitution. Interesting.
Obama is an enemy of the military. He dissed the CMH winners by not attending their ball, something that no sitting Prez. has done for 15 inaugurations. He refused to visit the wounded in Landstuhl, because he couldn’t use it as a photo op. He is thinking of making military dependents pay for their healthcare insurance, with no thoughts to our moving around, our job situations because we move around, etc. And now this with the military, our gun ownership, and countless earmarks that should have been stripped from the copious amounts of money he obviously likes to spend. This isn’t MY America!
The fact that this president refuses to honor congressional medal of honor winners makes me ill…I did not know that.
Great post CJ.
The gun laws are sure getting crazy. Im glad I got my FFL a few years ago. I bet soon you wont be able to get one at all.
The Extreme (Part one)…
“During the invasion of Iraq, Grisham took down a squad of Iraqis when his counterintelligence detachment got pinned down in an ambush. He earned the Bronze Star with “V” after rushing through the gunfire by himself with just a 9mm pistol and a hand…
All very, very true…. Congress is meeting this week on the future of gun laws and ownership.