OBAMA TAKES HIS OBSESSION TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL…

When Barry “Almighty” recently spoke in reaction to the October 1 attack on Umpqua Community College, he went well beyond his usual calls for stricter gun laws, suggesting, instead, that perhaps America should consider following the path blazed by Australia and Great Britain.  Or how it was in the mid-1990s that Australia and Great Britain both instituted what were virtually complete bans on firearm possession.   But the truth is that such an outrageous knee-jerk response seen coming from hardcore leftists like Barry will do nothing to address the problem of gun violence.  But then this isn’t about solving a problem, it’s about banning guns.

Barry approached his concept of banning guns by saying, “We know that other countries, in response to one mass shooting, have been able to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings.  Friends of ours, allies of ours — Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours.  So we know there are ways to prevent it.”  While it all may sound pretty good, one needs to look a little deeper into Barry’s claims.  And even so, Barry is far from being the only leftwing gun control nut to be found that has suggested taking a gun-free approach to American life.  The anti-Second Amendment message was also being pushed by Slate, Vox, and Dan Savage.

It was the geniuses there at Vox that explained how Australia “confiscated 650,000 guns” via a “mandatory gun buyback” program. Vox claimed the result was that “murders and suicides plummeted’ suggesting such a path might now be an option for America.  But the Australian gun-homicide rate had already been quite low and had been steadily falling in the 15 years prior to a 28 year old man killing 35 people with a semiautomatic rifle.  And while the mandatory buyback program did appear to reduce the rate of accidental firearm deaths, “the gun buy-back and restrictive legislative changes had no influence on firearm homicide in Australia.”

Also, Vox failed to mention that “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” began plummeting in America in the mid-1990s as well.  But in America, the decrease in violent crime did not correlate with a ban on guns but, instead, with a rather significant expansion in the number of guns privately owned.  Because the number of privately owned firearms in America went from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million privately owned firearms in 2009.  Subsequently, the “firearm-related murder and non-negligent homicide” rate fell from 6.6 per 100,000 in 1993 to 3.6 per 100,000 in 2000 and finally to 3.2 per 100,000 in 2011.

But none of this made any difference to Dan Savage, who responded to the attack on Umpqua Community College by calling for the Second Amendment’s repeal.  Savage tweeted, “F**k the NRA, f**k the gun nuts, f**k the Second Amendment — better yet, repeal the Second Amendment.  Wow, Mr. Savage sounds like quite the intellectual.  He speaks like someone who most likely keeps himself surrounded by some level of personal security comprised of individuals authorized to carry weapons.  After all, that usually seems to be the case when it comes to those who are the most vocal about making sure that the rest of are unable to protect ourselves.

Now it goes without saying that not one of these stellar individuals who has so enthusiastically jumped onboard the ‘gun grab’ bandwagon, including Barry, are likely to bring up the fact that unlike Australia and Great Britain we here in America still have something called the Constitution.  Granted the ‘Left’ has done much to undermine it, but it still guarantees us the ‘Right’ to keep and bear arms and in pretty clear language.  Unlike language regarding their favorite topics such as abortion or sodomy that can be found nowhere in the Constitution.  Nor do they mention that there has been talk in Australia about reversing their gun laws.

And you know, Barry and any number of other politicians and pundits make their objective here all the more obvious when they refuse to confront what is a very obvious connection between what has been a Democrat engineered dismantling of American family life and the dramatic rise in violent crime in America.  For example, after Thursday’s Oregon mass shooting, Barry predictably focused attention on the availability of firearms on America, calling on citizens to pressure legislators to enact gun control laws.  “The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine,” Barry said in what was a remarkably lucid moment of his speech. 

Of course, Barry did not say in his impassioned address that which would have truly represented a historic break in the “routine” rhetoric that inevitably follows tragedies involving the use of firearms.  You know, that 26-year-old shooter Chris Harper Mercer was the umpteenth example of a fatherless boy who grows up to be a violent criminal.  You see, it’s simply much easier to blame guns for our problems than to actually address the true underlying causes of American violence.  For one thing, gun control is a popular, quick fix.  All it takes is a law and legislators can pat themselves on the back for having “dealt with” the problem.

Fatherlessness, on the other hand, is a much trickier affair and one that requires more complicated and unpopular solutions, such as dealing with America’s ridiculously lax no-fault divorce laws and a culture that privileges independence over personal responsibility.  And no one wants to confront the ugly truth that our current redefinition of marriage from its historical identity as the union of one man and one woman has effectively made the role of fathers optional.  By putting the desires of adults above the needs of children, we inadvertently feed the fire of violent crime.  So where we seem to be headed is exactly where the left wants us to go. 

And not much is going to change until a majority of Americans finally grasp where it is that the country is being steered.  And if the Democrats accomplish that which they are seeking, America will become Chicago on a much grander scale.  Instead we must focus attention back onto the family.  We know Mercer lived with his mother, Laurel Harper, and that they kept mostly to themselves. His mother called him “baby” all the time, even though he was an adult.  Meanwhile, Mercer’s father, who lives in Tarzana, is now married to another woman and for all intents and purposes, is completely detached from his son’s life.  Sadly, Mercer’s case is not atypical.

Those in the state-controlled media love to find an easy scapegoat for mass shootings, “whether it be the pharmaceutical industry, the National Rifle Association, or even Donald Trump. Of course these scapegoats are designed to fit the politically correct narrative, and they are an easy sell.”  Such knee-jerk reactions allow the public to avoid the rather uncomfortable truth that unstable homes more often than not produce unstable individuals.  And what so often goes ignored is the fact that if these individuals are so intent upon killing, then that’s what they will do.  And if unable to obtain a gun then they will use whatever is that their disposal.  

The bottom line here is that as long as politicians and those in the state-controlled media choose to focus exclusively on firearm availability in their response to violent crime, they will continue to miss the most important element involved.  A more mature response to America’s current crisis would begin with a serious discussion of what factors have come together to produce the breakdown of American families and what can be done to reverse this trend.  Then we would be getting somewhere.  But to expect Democrats to discuss that which they are responsible for bringing about would be the height of wishful thinking.  So instead they will choose the easier target.