Inept Government Wants to Disarm the Law-Abidingby Jennifer Freeman
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.-- Oriana Fallaci
Boston City Councilor Rob Consalvo recently announced a plan to install GPS tracking devices on all new handguns in response to the city's increasing murder rate. Unfortunately, Councilor Consalvo has failed to make the connection between the high concentration of MS-13 gang members and the increasing murder rate. Councilor Consalvo also fails to explain how a tracking device will detect, prevent, or solve any crime. Does Councilor Consalvo really believe that a murderer, using a handgun with a GPS tracking device, will keep the handgun in his posession after committing a crime? If the gun was stolen from a law-abiding citizen, would that citizen be held responsible for the crime? Doesn't the tracking device create a gun registry system?
Considering the fact that the MS-13 gang has a high concentration in Boston and the East Coast, it seems logical that cracking down on illegal immigration would be a better way to protect law-abiding citizens. One might assume that the men pictured to the right would be denied entry into this country if they attempted to get here through legal channels. However, considering the fact that a U.S. Border Patrol agent was brought up on federal charges for illegally purchasing a pistol for a Mexican national who intended to smuggle the weapon into Mexico, brings the hiring practices and leadership ability of the U.S. Border Patrol into question.
Meanwhile, the City of Seattle has plans to hire a "Crime Gun Program Coordinator". This newly created position within the Seattle Police Department will be paid for by taxpayers to "develop, maintain and coordinate a centralized and regionally comprehensive crime gun database and integrate the data with relevant information" from the State Department of Licensing, Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and other law enforcement agencies. In other words, there will be one more anti-gun bigot shuffling papers behind a desk instead of one more police officer on the street. Does the City of Seattle really believe gang members like the ones pictured to the right are the least bit concerned about the City's listmaking?
Perhaps instead of devising complicated schemes to spy on private, law-abiding citizens, City officials and police departments should enhance their own internal recordkeeping. Certainly the Long Beach Police Department, which is missing more than a fourth of its shotguns and an unknown number of revolvers, could use a little improvement in this area.
Clearly, there is a rash of gross incompetence occurring in many areas of government and at all levels. Not only are many government officials failing to protect us by refusing to acknowledge the link between illegal immigration and violent crime, but they are also attempting to disarm us at the same time. These politically-correct cowards pander to violent criminals by refusing to stand up for this country and enforce our laws.
They would rather put our lives in jeopardy as well as the future sovereignty of this country than stand up for what's right. It's time to throw the bums out and put a stop to these policies. It's a matter of self defense.
Never give up your guns!
http://www.libertybelles.org/articles/disarm.htm.
