The Virginia Tech tragedy should give the Republicans and the NRA a good reason to celebrate
The tragic and shocking mass murder today at Virginia Tech should give the Republican Party and the NRA a good to celebrate and dance in the streets having succeeded in giving Congress and the Courts the only interpretation of the Second Amendment rights to bear arms and go out and kill and murder innocent people and students.
During the last several decades some 40 such incidents took place where students and young kids taking free and liberal interpretation of the Second Amendment and taking full advantage of lose and very liberal laws covering ownership of guns, went on rampage killing and murdering fellow students. Columbine High School and University of Texas at Austin are but few incidents of such killing and murder.
It is obvious to so many American and the world that it is the gun lobby, the National Rifle Association and its Republican mistresses in Congress have always stood in the way of putting an end to such reckless and painful killing of innocent people and the total destruction of innocent families who lost a loved ones. Yes, it guns and it is guns in hand of people that kills.
The tens of millions of dollars of the gun lobby money that goes to Republican members of Congress make it easier for the courts to give expansive and lose interpretation of the Second Amendment that gives citizens the right to bear arms, even though the first part of the amendment talks of the need for armed and organized militias to protect the states from insurgents and to defend against the colonialist Brits, and does not cover the kind of guns that are on sales now especially since we have a professional army and national guard.
While one can understand the need of hunters, whether professional or armature to own hunting rifles and the need to have such ownership restricted through some very well worded laws and regulations to prevent abuse, there are simply no needs for any professional hunters to buy and carry bazookas or RPG or Uzi or M-16 or for that matter automatic and high caliber weapons such an M-50 mm gun. There are simply no needs for any professional or armature hunter to own and buy an Uzi to go out and hunt animals. A simple shotgun can kill even the most powerful animal. No needs for any hunter to use an Uzi to hunt and kill a moose or a dear. These guns are made to kill people and only people, and Republicans are partners in the assault on America.
The Cheney-Bush’s White House and before that the Reagan and Bush’s White House have always supported the purchase and use of a wide range of weapons including automatic weapons. In the US some 40,000 people are killed annually by gun wielding citizens. This is Vietnam day in and day out with the annual total victims is only few thousands less than the total number of American soldiers who died in Vietnam.
No one can convince me and convince the millions of Americans who are simply fed up with the easy access to guns, that the Republican Party and the NRA are defending the Second Amendment right to bear arms. It is all about lobby money and it has nothing to do with defending the constitution or the rights of citizens. Since when Republicans are known for defending the US Constitution. The Founding Fathers were not in bed with the NRA and did not write the Second Amendment with the futuristic view of giving average citizens to go out and buy all kind of guns and to go out and kill and murder. The Second Amendment was and is designed to give the rights to “bear arms within the context of organized militias. Perhaps the Republican Party can organize its own militia making sure that the millions of Americans who own guns are members of the Republican Militias. At least there will be the possible chance of putting some kind of gun control in the country. At least we citizens who chose not to bear arms know very well that we are secure in our homes and shops and are secure in our towns and cities with the present of a well-armed Republican Militias. Perhaps George Bush and Dick Cheney will consider the needs to send members of this militia to Iraq to fight the Republican War on Iraq. Thus saving the lives of our soldiers and members of the national guards for other and better things.
How many more have to die until such time the Republican Party and its representatives in Congress will come to their senses and put forward an effective gun law that puts behind lock once and for all the tens of millions of guns that are lose and within the reach of so many crazy people. Time for the Republican Party to join all of us and say enough is enough and to say NO to the tens of millions of dollars from the NRA. One has to recall the late Charles Heston as he stood up with his rifle in the NRA convention and declared" Over my dead body" a challenge to America and to Congress. Perhaps Heston is now celebrating too.

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