PA Bill Number: HB2235
Title: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ...
Description: Providing for regulation of the meat packing and food processing industry by creating facility health and safety committees in the workplace; ... ...
Last Action: Referred to LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Last Action Date: Apr 25, 2024
The Original Homeland Security: The Second Amendment :: 06/05/2015
Peter Lachance asked former blog partner Cory Steiner to be a guest blogger this week. For information on Cory, see his byline at the end of the blog.
As was the case over 200 years ago, the 2nd Amendment IS homeland security. The armed, law-abiding citizen is our first line of defense. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is as important today as it was then, if not more so, but talking facts to gun control zealots is only likely to make them angry. Much of what they claim simply will not stand up under scrutiny.
The 2nd Amendment isn’t really about guns - it’s about our inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Many who don’t even own a gun understand this and completely support the Constitution of the United States of America.
America was founded on the principles of individual rights, personal responsibility, accountability and self-reliance. Many of us, though, look to government for solutions to our problems. Fortunately, we have the greatest system of government that I know of, but we’ve strayed. We can only enjoy true freedom by accepting responsibility for our own safety, education, food, shelter, health care, retirement, etc.
Gun control is nothing more than a massive propaganda machine devised to gain votes, power and corruption. Clear evidence and common sense reveal that states who allow citizens to carry concealed weapons experience a decreasing crime rate while tightened gun laws have a direct effect on a rise in violent crime.
Many just don’t know the facts and are conditioned to believe that our politicians are actually solving the crime and violence problem in many of our nation’s 186 urban centers when the reverse is true.
The uninformed don’t take the time to understand that a person with a clean record, FBI background check and a legally obtained permit is highly unlikely to commit a crime. The “civilized” elite seem to know what’s best for us and believe that we cannot be trusted to behave responsibly. A state that deprives its law-abiding citizens the means of self-defense is itself a barbaric accomplice to violent crime.
It’s almost as if the people of “gun free safe zone” states have an obligation to be raped and murdered for the good of society. Their “leaders” will sacrifice the innocent and impose their superior wisdom and virtue on others to further their own selfish agenda (which includes creating an environment of dependency that enables self-serving, obscene and abusive governance).
Handgun ownership in the United States doubled in the 20th Century while the murder rate went down. Guns are inanimate tools. They contain no independent power to cause results apart from our decisions, character and purpose. Certainly, limited measures, such as thorough background checks, are welcomed by all, but excessive restrictions and irrational gun phobias transcend gun control into a larger area of concern.
