by Jack Lee
I’ve decided to surrender and join the winning team…liberal democrats, and as my first act of contrition I am going to request our beloved leaders ban certain dangerous items for the good of the children, to protect the poor, to save the elderly and, and all the blue colar union members who contribute so much campaign money to our liberal politicians! No expense should be spared, for our cause is great and lives depend on us!
We already know that guns kill people, right? People don’t..it’s guns. I’ve heard that over and over so many times it must be true. Now lets talk hard facts: Did you know there were 680 accidental gun deaths in 2006 and that represents .000002% of the whole United States population? So any thing or any activity that represents a higher percentage of risk therefore ought to be just as tightly controlled as guns! Restrict or ban dangerous things before its too late I beg you! We have set a wonderful standard for our safety using gun statistics and everything else more dangerous must now fall in line or the world will surely end!
My short list of [extremely] dangerous things or activities that are even more risky than guns (when it comes to accident deaths) are as follows:
Doctors and hospitals: We’ve got over 2,000 deaths/year from unnecessary surgery; 7000 deaths/year from medication errors in hospitals; 20,000 deaths/year from other errors in hospitals; 80,000 deaths/year from infections in hospitals; 106,000 deaths/year from non-error, adverse effects of medications – these total up to 225,000 deaths per year in the US.
Motor vehicle traffic deaths – 44,000 a year on average.
Cars, hospitals and doctors, they gotta go if we are going to be true to our plan to save many people from accidental deaths that are more likely to occur than gun deaths.
What else should we ban? Okay, in 2005, there were 3,582 fatal unintentional drownings in the United States, averaging ten deaths per day and this includes boating-related incidents. It’s quite clear that swimming activities, pools, spa’s and boats gotta go too…boats are far more dangerous than guns.
Alright, enough of the joking already. This tongue in cheek diatribe was to expose the flawed logic of those silly lefties who fear and hate guns because they are gunaphobics and there is no other logical reason, just their own mental illness or ignorance; take those women in Congress, Barbara Boxer, Babara Lee, Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters (yes please take them!) these babes have never fired a gun and wouldn’t know which way to point one. Then we have these feminized liberal men who no nothing about gun either, have zero clue about guns for self protection or hunting, yet these elected officials are in a position to take away our gun rights because they claim they know better? The claim they know more than those of us who actually own and use guns daily and that just chaps me, because it is so incredibly unfair and wrong for these morons to be telling us how to live our lives.
The left has an pathological aversion to firearms because they routinely and unfairly equate them not only with the gun accidents, but with serious crime. But this the perverbal mixing of apples and oranges! Two different issues folks and issues that should not be confused to reach a conclusion. .
The criminal using a weapon in a crime makes the moral choice to use it and that’s where accountability should begin and end, with the perpetrator. That person is solely accountable for his/her actions! That moral decision by the perpetrator was his or hers alone and I should not be held responsible for it just because I own a legal firearm. My legal right and his/her criminal activity must be kept seperate! Besides, we have long held we can’t legislate morality, right? Sure, the left regularly beats us over the head with that one, so what does the left do about it concerning moral gun use? They try to legislate moral behavior by banning or restricting the item and punishing everyone. The so-called liberals chose to punish everyone, except the criminal, when they try to make it all but impossible to own and carry firearms legally and according to our Constitutional right. But, like I said earlier there is no nexus between the use of illegal weapons in a crime and legally carrying a firearm, there are no facts to show otherwise either. So, how can anyone with half a brain think that banning guns is the way to go? Better ask a liberal democrat cause I sure don’t know, I only know they think this way.
Consider, there are about 350,000,000 firearms in the United States, but only a very small fraction of those are used in a criminal manner, and only a much smaller fraction actually cause accidental injury. Now hold that thought as we move on to the next point where I will re-connect the dots:
The liberal left has long defended the 2-5 million Muslims living within the USA because only a very small fraction of them have tried to commit acts of terrorism. Okay, this is a legitimate argument and I have no problem with that. It is quite logical and valid by any measure. Afterall, we can’t punish a whole class of people for the wrongs of a few! Sorry I had to use my Muslim friends, but I had to make my point as dramatically as I could so it would sink in. So you see the left is reversing themselves when they try to punish a whole class of people (legal gun owners) for the fractional number of wrongs committed by those who are illegal gun owners and lawbreakers. Does this get through to any liberals out there? I’m doing my best to make this blatantly obvious.
If we are going to live our lives on emotion rather than logic we might as well start firing up the gas chambers for Muslims! (My apologies again, I didn’t mean that obviously it was just used to illustrate an absurdity) But, thank God we are not an overly emotional people are we? No, and our actions following 9/11 prove it. This is an issue about hard cold facts and statistics backed up by the 2nd Amendment.
So why would you want to re-elect anyone who favors more gun control? They have flawed logic andtherefore they shouldn’t be in power. They’re more dangerous than the firearms they would ban!