Don's Tuesday Column

THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   10/06/2015

   Gun sense, nonsense, lying liars

Well, our hectoring lecturer-in-chief, Emperor Obama, couldn’t wait for the bodies to cool or the blood to dry before politicizing the latest mass-murdering rampage in Roseburg, Oregon last Friday. The murderer had a black mother and had never been victimized for his mixed race background. Without racist, white cops—“acting stupidly”—or a “white Hispanic” neighborhood watchman, Obama was left with…guns.

It must be emphasized that the most proximate, relevant contributing factor to the carnage was the lunacy of “gun free zones.” Muslim haters-of-American-military chose a “gun free” strip mall recruiting storefront in Tennessee, and unarmed Army soldiers at Fort Hood. Theater shooters seek out “gun free” venues for their massacres.

This truism bears repeating: when seconds count, the police are only minutes away (6 minutes, in the Umpqua Community College, UCC, case on Friday). Among recent changes in gun laws tabulated in an article I saw, Texas was the only state to pass state-level legislation prohibiting any educational facility from denying law abiding gun owners their rights on school property. That’s very relevant to school shootings when you consider that, among the teachers, administrators, employees and (at colleges and universities) adult students, there will normally be former military, off-duty law enforcement or ordinary citizens possessed of CCW (concealed carry) permits—and trained in the use of their weapons.

We already know that heroes dwell, walk and—in the case of learning facilities—sit in classrooms and walk the campuses among us. As a teacher, who had survived the Nazis, proved back east, some will selflessly throw their bodies at such murderous nuts; in Roseburg, a former soldier took a number of bullets as he threw his body at the gunman. That teacher died; the former soldier lived. There would surely be dozens among UCC’s 20,000 full and part time students who could reliably and responsibly carry their own weapons for safety.

Oregon, rather than following Texas’ example, was the only state to pass a law further restricting law abiding, gun-owning citizens. They now impose one of the liberals’ favorite knee-jerk cure-alls for gun violence: “universal background checks” applying to all exchanges, even among family members and gun shows. Remember, the Roseburg murderer acquired his short and long guns legally, not having a criminal record or an adjudicated mental condition. Even the guns he acquired from a family member would not have been prohibited under that Oregon law for the same reasons.

However, one girl is possibly alive because of her premonition, her sense of dread prompting her to not attend class at UCC last Friday. There simply is no constitutional, common sense rationale for law-abiding citizens to be denied their God-given right to self-defense in any public space.

Suppose a young law-abiding person, with gun training, had a premonition of trouble on campus that day. A relative who legally owned a hand gun could not, under the new Oregon law, loan them a gun for the purpose of self-protection—not at Umpqua Community College, nor at their workplace, nor in their travels should a former boy or girl friend be stalking them with malintent. The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with an armed good guy.

Given the now-verified targeting of self-professed Christians by the killer, “Will Roseburg Prompt a ‘National Conversation’ on Anti-Christian Bigotry?” by David French, raises essential issues. At the drop of a hat, the usual ideological buffoons, including Obama, decry racially motivated attacks (meaning, of course, black victims of white cops, not of other black gunmen). Media and political leftists are cocked and loaded (so to speak) to cry “Islamophobia” when Muslims are questioned; the Democrats’ phony “war on women” lives on.

Regarding our hypocrite-and-liar-in-chief, Obama misrepresented polls on gun control; he lied about the positions of 2^nd Amendment/gun rights supporters; he endlessly conflates gun laws complied with by lawful citizens with those same laws flouted and ignored by criminals.

He completely misstated the results of gun-confiscation in Australia (the same leftist mouths that tell us we can’t deport 11 million illegal aliens now shamelessly want 300 million guns confiscated). For insight, read “Australia’s 1996 Gun Confiscation Didn’t Work—And it Wouldn’t Work in America,” by Mark Antonio Wright. Neither “firearm suicides,” “non-firearm suicides,” nor “firearm homicide” rates have reflected the gun-seizing tactic of Australia’s law.

Obama’s despicable phoniness is revealed in “Obama: Never Let a Mass Shooting go to Waste!” “Obama and Guns: Then and Now,” and “Politicize This” (searchable by title and posted at DonPolson.blogspot.com under “gun rights”). We are apparently supposed to forget Obama’s 2008 insistence that he “will not take your shotgun…rifle…or handgun away.” We were liars to say “He wants to take your guns away.” Well, my lying eyes and ears witnessed Obama praising confiscation in “Great Britain and Australia” which have “been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings.” Yes, Obama, you want—by your own words—to take our guns away!

“So when he says it’s okay to ‘politicize’ these tragedies, he means it in full. When Obama engages in politics, he distorts the truth, demonizes his opponents, and seeks any other weapon that may be near to hand. He does this because he sees politics not as a realm for compromise, but the means by which he achieves what he wants, because what he wants is the only right and just thing.” (NationalReview.com)