Sunday - August 19, 2012

morgan of cnn does not like our attitude as regards gun ownership

Yeah, it’s him again.
And as usual for me reading this guy, I’m annoyed. Again.

What the hell is it with foreigners who come to the USA and then decide they know better how we should approach the issue of gun ownership?

He mentions a stat with regard to gun killings here in Britain.  Well hell, with a population of 62 million I would hope they wouldn’t have a s high a murder rate as we do in the US.  But how convenient he doesn’t mention the daily killing by knives and by beatings. Everyday.

He’s on CNN as many of you may know.  But he has a page in a Sunday magazine here.

Fire when ready BMEWS.

Another day, another horrific gun shooting in America.
Piers Morgan
Live Magazine

This time, a white supremacist entered a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and murdered six worshippers, wounding three other people – including a policeman.

Three weeks ago, a young student dressed as the Joker went on the rampage in a Colorado cinema, shooting 70 people in the country’s worst ever gun-related massacre.

In my first month at CNN, in January, 2011, a congresswoman was shot in the head at an outdoor meeting in Arizona but miraculously survived. Six others were killed, 13 more wounded.

To me, the most disturbing aspect linking all these terrible crimes is that each of the gunmen bought his guns perfectly legally – yet, incredibly, very few Americans I know have a problem with this.

The right to bear arms is so deeply ingrained into the culture in the U.S. that all these outrages get explained away as ‘a few crazies doing crazy things’ and no proper debate on new gun control laws ever happens, let alone actual changes to the law.

It all comes down to the precise wording of the Second Amendment to the American Constitution, which reads: ‘A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.’

The pro-gun lobby, one of the most powerful and noisy forces in American society, argues that this amendment authorises every American to own and use guns.

The anti-gun lobby argues that the exact placement of the commas shows that the Founding Fathers intended the ‘right to bear arms’ only to apply to members of a militia – which, in the 18th century meant an army composed of ordinary citizens, not professional soldiers.

Those commas have thus become the most deadly, expensive and controversial punctuation marks in the history of language.

Whatever your view, the idea that what Thomas Jefferson and his cohorts had in mind when they wrote the Constitution was defending the rights of the mentally unstable or violent racists to legally, and easily, buy high-powered assault weapons to murder other Americans is plainly ridiculous.

The big question for America, where there are an average 11,000 gun murders a year (Britain averages 35), is whether, after the Presidential election on November 6, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney will have the guts to stand up, say so, and do something about it.

Don’t hold your breath.

Posted by peiper     on 08/19/2012 at 03:24 PM   
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