Just last Thursday, the Vice President of the United States met with a delegation from the NRA, other gun organizations, and large retailers of guns in America. The meeting was billed as a conversation to enact meaningful ways to curb gun violence in America. Apparently, this “conversation” was completely one-sided.
Apparently, Mr. Biden was completely unwilling to listen to any of the points the NRA and other gun organizations put forward. The meeting obviously was just for show and according to NRA President David Keene, “Biden was just checking a box”. The NRA went so far as to say that this administration has an “agenda to attack the Second Amendment”. In affirmation of Mr. Keene’s point, the Vice President held a press conference in which he said: “There are executive orders…executive action can be taken.” To me, this means that the current administration is willing, once again, to bypass Congress and to ignore the Constitution in order to dictate to the American people what they can and can’t do. The administration also is distorting actual facts about violent crime in America.
The current administration’s position is “facts be damned”, thereby misleading the American people about actual facts and statistics dealing with violent crime in America. Facts are something that most Liberals really hate. Facts tend to get in the way of the well-orchestrated sound bites that liberal politicians put out to the media which is, nine times out of ten, too busy to check those facts. These non-factual sound bites are shouted from the rooftops and repeated over and over again until the unaware voter takes them as holy words.
On the other hand, as a business person, I like facts. I wouldn’t make a move in business without some hard facts. Let’s take a look at these pesky facts. We keep hearing that America is an extremely violent country…much more violent than our civilized European cousins who have enacted “sensible” gun controls -- countries like Great Britain for instance. Really? I don’t think so. The facts are, according to the FBI website, that there were 386.3 violent crimes in America for every 100,000 people in 2011. According to the Home Office website (GB’s equivalent to the FBI), there were 1361 violent crimes per 100,000 people in 2011. Here’s another fact: while not all of those violent crimes included guns, there still were 3½ times as many violent crimes in Great Britain, a free country that has stringent gun control, as there were in America. I also can safely say that the victims of those crimes could not have cared less what implement the criminal used to carry out the crime. Could it be that rapists’, murderers, and robbers think twice when they know their victim might be carrying a gun? Of course it can!
I know there are many more issues I could be addressing here, including mental health and society as a whole and I will be addressing those issues at a later date. But for now, we must join together as Americans and fight the takeover and dismantling of our constitutional rights by a dictatorial administration.
I will be introducing a bill in the upcoming Legislative session based on a bill that currently is working its way through the Wyoming Legislature (HB0104) to ensure our Second Amendment rights in Nevada. I hope you will join with me in support of our constitutional rights.
Apparently, Mr. Biden was completely unwilling to listen to any of the points the NRA and other gun organizations put forward. The meeting obviously was just for show and according to NRA President David Keene, “Biden was just checking a box”. The NRA went so far as to say that this administration has an “agenda to attack the Second Amendment”. In affirmation of Mr. Keene’s point, the Vice President held a press conference in which he said: “There are executive orders…executive action can be taken.” To me, this means that the current administration is willing, once again, to bypass Congress and to ignore the Constitution in order to dictate to the American people what they can and can’t do. The administration also is distorting actual facts about violent crime in America.
The current administration’s position is “facts be damned”, thereby misleading the American people about actual facts and statistics dealing with violent crime in America. Facts are something that most Liberals really hate. Facts tend to get in the way of the well-orchestrated sound bites that liberal politicians put out to the media which is, nine times out of ten, too busy to check those facts. These non-factual sound bites are shouted from the rooftops and repeated over and over again until the unaware voter takes them as holy words.
On the other hand, as a business person, I like facts. I wouldn’t make a move in business without some hard facts. Let’s take a look at these pesky facts. We keep hearing that America is an extremely violent country…much more violent than our civilized European cousins who have enacted “sensible” gun controls -- countries like Great Britain for instance. Really? I don’t think so. The facts are, according to the FBI website, that there were 386.3 violent crimes in America for every 100,000 people in 2011. According to the Home Office website (GB’s equivalent to the FBI), there were 1361 violent crimes per 100,000 people in 2011. Here’s another fact: while not all of those violent crimes included guns, there still were 3½ times as many violent crimes in Great Britain, a free country that has stringent gun control, as there were in America. I also can safely say that the victims of those crimes could not have cared less what implement the criminal used to carry out the crime. Could it be that rapists’, murderers, and robbers think twice when they know their victim might be carrying a gun? Of course it can!
I know there are many more issues I could be addressing here, including mental health and society as a whole and I will be addressing those issues at a later date. But for now, we must join together as Americans and fight the takeover and dismantling of our constitutional rights by a dictatorial administration.
I will be introducing a bill in the upcoming Legislative session based on a bill that currently is working its way through the Wyoming Legislature (HB0104) to ensure our Second Amendment rights in Nevada. I hope you will join with me in support of our constitutional rights.
