Our Right to Keep and Bear Arms

I would like to start off I saying that I have known and am sure there are many brave honest law enforcement officers in America today. I am also very much for timely and thorough background checks on citizens wanting to purchase weapons. This should include a no doctor patient privilage rule requireing those treating certain mental illnesses to add the infomation to a univeral background check database. I would add that being from NJ I don’t own guns but consider myself able to properly defend myself and family with a gun should the need arise.

This being said I have watched in horror as more often then not the police standby refusing to confront active shooters committing mass murder out of fear for their own well being. Columbine the police withdrew when fired at allowing the further slaughter of students and teachers. The gay nite club I think in Fla. when you can hear the police commander telling his officers pull back shoots fired knowing those very shoots were killing the innocent inside the club. And most recently the school mass shooting again in Fla. including video of the armed officer hired to protect the school standing frozen outside listening to the slaughter of the innocent inside. This was bad enough however what inspired me to write this post was reading in the WSJ this past week that the parents of some of the slain in Fla brought suit against the concerned police departments and negligent officers. And a judge ruled that in fact the police are under no legal obligation to put themselves in harms way to protect us or our children. I have also watched or read many accounts of law enforcement shooting to death unarmed americans. I believe there are three reasons for this. First all of the inner cities being controlled by Democrats for decades are so corrupt that they have looted the cities while simultaneously depriving the citizens an education leaving the vast majority no way forward.

This got me thinking about the fact that in spite of the governments, mostly Democrats best efforts to disarm the civilians in our country our 2nd amendment gives us not only the right to keep arms we have the right to bear them. And given that very same govenment apparently does’nt believe law enforcement has any obligation to protect us, what choice do able law abiding ciitzens have. I have been around 61 years and am of the opinion now that civilians should lawfully purchase arms learn to maintain them and be able to use them during a high stakes situation in or out of the home. And no matter what our completely disfunctional government says dont hesitate to bear them.