GUNS ARE AN EQUALIZER FOR LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AGAINST EVIL

GUNS ARE AN EQUALIZER FOR LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AGAINST EVIL

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD Traditional Realist

Except for government officials who have the right to carry guns, some people believe guns should not be allowed. They think it would eliminate violent crimes and killings. There is little or no appreciation that a gun carried by a law-abiding person acts as a deterrent and protection against violence. Guns to progressives not only symbolize evil but they believe if guns disappear from earth the world would be without killing.

After the recent San Bernardino mass killing President Obama argued for gun control as he has previously done after every other similar tragedy. He refused to mention any connection to radical Islam even when the facts were obvious. This incident happened in California, a state with one of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. The gun laws that President Obama is advocating are already on the books and would not have prevented the massacre. Even his press secretary, Josh Earnest, admitted this in a press conference.

Furthermore the president had the audacity to repeat his false mantra: “I mean I say this every time we’ve got one of these mass shootings. This just doesn’t happen in other countries.”

President Obama’s ridiculous statement was proclaimed just after the Islamic radicals killed 129 Parisians. He failed to remember or blatantly distorted the truth not only about the mass killings but also that “Isis was contained.”  There recently were mass killings in Norway, Israel, and Germany, in Nigeria and Cameroon as well as West Gate Mall in Kenya.  When you factor out gang killing from mass killing the United States is 8^th in the world. It appears the president has a low opinion of the intelligence of the American people.

For the first time since 1920 the New York Times devoted their front page to an editorial. This editorial advocated more restrictive gun control even though San Bernardino, California has ultra restrictive gun laws. The zealots of gun control do not comprehend that it is evil people not guns that are the problem. Gun Free Zones, where no guns are permitted, are a sign to killers that this is a perfect place to commit atrocities since there is minimal threat to them.  There are thousands of city, state and national laws on the books to prevent criminals and mentally ill people from purchasing firearms. The cities and states that have the most restrictive gun laws, contrary to what most would believe, have more deadly violence on innocent people than places where there are significantly fewer gun laws.

The majority of thoughtful humans understand that violence would not end with the stricter gun control or even confiscation of guns because evil people would find other methods to harm or kill innocent victims. In fact they realize that a gun is only one weapon among many for mass killings.

In Switzerland where the government provides a gun for all citizens and trains them to use it, gun violence is the lowest in the world. Israeli politicians are pleading with gun owners to carry their weapons and assist in the rash of stabbings on the West Bank. Suicide bombers, cars driving into crowds and stabbings have become alternative means of killing. In New York City there have been hatchets used to attack policemen, pressure cooker bombs in Boston, box cutters, gas explosions, poisonings and even fists used as deadly weapons.  In Broken Arrow, Oklahoma two teenaged brothers left five family members dead or dying from stab wounds.

Nations that have eliminated guns from citizens have become more repressive governments. The inability of citizens to defend themselves through more intensive gun control laws has empowered governments to go further by confiscating them. The next step is to eliminate the lives of the opposition. This has been the pattern after confiscation: Mao’s China -20 million killed, Turkey- 1915-17 1.5 million Armenians killed, Germany 1939-45- 13 million killed, Guatemala 1964-81 100,000 Mayan Indians, Uganda 1971-79- 300,000 Christians killed, Cambodia 1975-77 one million killed. Millions of defenseless people were exterminated after gun confiscation left them defenseless and extremely repressive governments were established.

The founders of the USA understood this reality very well. It is the reason for the Second Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment was not to protect the rights of hunters as the progressive media is attempting to persuade us. It was established to enable “we the people” to stand up and defend ourselves against government tyranny.

The assault on guns to stop criminal violence is a naïve and bizarre notion. Guns in the hands of decent people can be a blessing while in the hands of evildoers is a potential tragedy. Terrorists and other criminals will always get weapons one way or another. People have a human right to protect themselves. The local government and state police response time is often too long to protect citizens from an ongoing attack. Weapons in the hands of the general public have been shown to be a restraint to criminal activity.

The issue is to contain evil. It is not possible to eliminate it, as it is part of the human condition. Guns are an equalizer against lawless people and a deterrent to out-of-control government attempting to establish a repressive totalitarian government.

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. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.

No Profiling is Poor Government

The number one function of federal government is to provide protection to its citizens. This is clearly spelled out in the preamble to our constitution.

The events of the past three administrations have shown a lack of resolve in defending the USA against terrorism. The Clinton administration had an inability to see and define the terrorist threat and treated it as separate criminal acts. There was the 1993 attack on the Twin Towers, the Mogadishu incident, the killing of 17 sailors on the USS Cole. There was the establishment of the Wall of Separation between the FBI and CIA preventing any sharing of intelligence information, which made it impossible to connect the dots to identify terrorists and to plan to counterattack them.

The 9/11 attacks on the US did consolidate our forces in a plan to actively thwart Al Qaida. Unfortunately throughout the Bush administration there were security leaks from the State Department, Department of Defense and the Justice Department, which hampered the war effort. There were no public announcements of tracing, firing and correcting the lack of loyalty of career bureaucrats.

In a year’s time the Obama administration has gone back to re-establishing the Clinton’s pre 9/11 approach of de-emphasizing the threat from terrorists. A terrorist act was sugarcoated to a ‘man-made disaster.‘ On December 20th, five days before the crotch-bomber incident, this administration sent five Gitmo terrorists back to Yemen knowing the recidivism rate is 20% or higher for terrorists from that country.

This is not a breakdown of the intelligence community; it is the failure of our leadership to give a consistent message. We are either fighting an enemy at war with us or we have foreign criminals coming to America to do suicidal acts for no specific purpose.

Behavioral profiling does work. Israel’s airline, EL AL, has not had a security breach since the 1960s. Our entire government has stubbornly prohibited profiling even with passengers at airports. Being aware and scrutinizing high-risk passengers is nothing more than self-preservation ,yet the administration ignores this common sense method to stop haters of America from entering our shores.

Homeland Security took the lead in wishing away the War on Terrorism and minimizing security. The Christmas Day Miracle revealed a surprising number of red flags that had to be disregarded by an incredible number of agents. The 23 year-old Nigerian, Yemen trained terrorist was placed on a “watch list” and was denied a visa from Great Britain. He boarded a flight in Nigeria, purchased a one-way ticket with cash and had no passport or luggage. His own father, a highly respected banker, personally reported to the CIA on several occasions, his son’s radicalization and involvement with Al Qaida.

Janet Napolitano initially appeared on television and told America that this colossal security failure showed that our security system worked. The next day she completely changed her story. President Obama’s said 72 hours after this event that it was an isolated terrorist. The next day he related that there is evidence 25 other terrorists were waiting in line for their chance. After this information was revealed this incident became a systemic failure of security.

The real cancer is much more deeply imbedded in our federal government than one or two officials. Their response shows incompetency or an attempted cover-up. The systematic nature of their approval of this downgrading of our safeguards as soon as this administration came into power is much more problematic.

The story keeps on changing according to the facts that can no longer be hidden. We can no longer accept an internal review or blue ribbon commission cover-up with no specific actions taken. We must demand to be given a full explanation of who authorized these changes in policy and the methods that will be used to hold them accountable.

There has been incident after incident that indicates there are people in our government who are more dedicated to protecting our enemies than our citizens. Charging these heinous acts as criminal acts allows the enemy combatants to ‘lawyer up’ and prevent any real interrogation. We are being stopped from reaping important intelligence information.

Attorney General Eric Holder has to reverse his policy of closing Gitmo and treating enemy combatants as criminals with all the rights of American citizenship or be held accountable for its disastrous results. All parties that impede the investigation or fail to swear allegiance to the constitution should be sent packing.

It is becoming clear; the only way to make sense of these illogical and counter productive policies is that there are officials in important positions that have little interest in protecting our citizens. Before the advent of political correctness their behavior would be considered treasonous. This type of behavior can no longer be tolerated without accepting further serious attacks and horrific consequences to our economy and the morale of our citizens.

It is time to clean house or face greater suffering.

Dr. Maglio is the author of Invasion Within and Essential Parenting. He is a psychotherapist and the owner/director of Wider Horizons School. Visit: drmaglio.com.