THE LAST TWO EPISODES END THE GUN DEBATE

THE LAST TWO EPISODES END THE GUN DEBATE

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

The advocacy of gun confiscation was an eye opener. The democrat candidates were in different degrees for gun control; but all agreed to confiscation. Beto O’Rourke taunted gun owners by emphatically saying, “they will go to jail if they do not voluntarily give up their guns.” The debate about guns was over according to these democrats. Their victory lap seems to be premature. 

Currently facts seem to get in the way of denying American citizens their Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. The elimination of this right would leave the US citizens defenseless against lawless people or a tyrannical government. This is the reason our founders established this amendment to deter any cabal of elites from eliminating the people’s other nine rights present in our constitution to protect law abiding citizens.

The ridiculous arguments against gun ownership were highlighted in the Saturday, December 28^th machete attack where an unstable person wounded five orthodox Jews in a rabbi’s home in New York. A day later a shotgun killing of two men took place in a church congregation of 240 members in Texas demonstrating that citizens with guns can stop mass killings. 

In the incident in Texas the shotgun was the weapon of choice to kill as many people as possible. Fortunately for the church, the parishioners decided to have members bear arms for their security. In six seconds the insane perpetrator was killed preventing a huge massacre. He managed to kill two people but the churchgoers with weapons were able to end it in seconds. This incident decisively showed that weapons in the hands of sane people are a detriment to mass killing. 

Any of these attacks could have been accomplished by a vehicle, a bomb, an incendiary device, gassing the home, plowing into the home with a truck or other devices of destruction. Guns are just one of many weapons that kill innocent people.

Both of these horrific acts and others that have been done in the past were done by mentally ill people or by criminals with lengthy criminal histories. It is not normal behavior to kill innocent people. A background check on mentally ill and violent criminals even when they are pinpointed does little to prevent them from obtaining a weapon illegally. 

The disregard of the safety of the innocent for the coddling of the criminal and mentally ill is a major reason for having explosive, demented people free in the midst of healthy, law abiding people.  The mental health professionals need to be retrained to emphasize the importance of protecting the public from a ticking time bomb.  This awareness of public safety should be a primary concern of mental health professionals. Our society has to focus more on the innocent victims and less on the deranged people’s feelings.

Over the past half century this practice of allowing crazy and criminal individuals to roam the streets has become common as many of the helping professions consider it an infringement on the humanistic rights of the individuals to institutionalize them. 

In effect they choose the rights of a few over the many.

Once we realize that guns and mass killings are two separate issues, we can begin to get them under control. Only when mental health professionals, schools and family members view the safety of the public as their primary responsibility can we begin to decrease mass killings. These perpetrators of violence need to regain stability before they can be trusted to mingle with the public and be followed up for a long period, usually for the rest of their lives. 

The increase in identifying the imminently dangerous people and locking up these people would necessitate more lockdown facilities for the safety of citizens. The real issue to solving this problem is to realize the public needs to allocate increased tax resources for preventing these outbursts. This societal desire for efficient mental health is necessary and a huge commitment. It must be done to have a safe and stable society.

The gun confiscation charade is not about stopping mass killings, it is about stopping citizens from retaining their freedom established by the Bill of Rights. Without possession of personal weapons, any resistance to random acts of violence would be futile. Only by citizens being able to fight back with weapons can we lower the number of innocent deaths.

Confiscating guns is not the answer to mass killings. Fully functioning mental health institutions, along with healthy families would prevent and detect potential tragedies before they happen. 

 It is the obligation of every citizen including the family of the sociopath to report dangerous people to the proper authorities. This would prevent unnecessary killings.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.