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Written by Randy Ganther
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Saturday, 20 April 2013 10:13 |
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There has been much debate on both sides of the aisle about what the solution is for the United States immigration problem and the current status of illegal aliens in the US.
Some want to give those residing illegally in the United States immediate citizen status. Some prefer to fix our border problems with Mexico prior to any discussions about giving illegal aliens any amnesty.
My personal belief is that a real solution to the problem is so simple and so effective that both parties have overlooked what has been right under their noses for so long.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013 04:00 |
As has become obvious from my posts in the last few days about the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, gun violence in the U.S. and the impending gun control legislation, if you read between the lines there can be no mistake that the anti-gunners are coming for any type of gun they can get their hands on.
Unfortunately the anti-gun lobby has reached the tipping point where they feel they now have enough high-profile cases to stand on, especially after the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut involving young children. The most recent shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary has inflamed the anti-gun lobby beyond the point where they can contain themselves and they’re now licking their lips in the hopes of sliding through various gun laws even though the proposed “solutions” will have no effect on crime before the public can understand that these new legislative proposals will have no effect on mass shootings or gun crime.
While the tone of their language after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting in Newtown, Connecticut started with the popularly palatable idea that all measures would be looked at to reduce senseless violence, it quickly turned to an acute focus on guns and gun restrictions alone.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013 04:00 |
I hear time and again by hunters that they aren’t afraid of the government banning hunting or taking away their gun rights. “Do you mean to tell me that the current gun ban and gun control legislation being proposed will end up with the government coming to get my hunting guns locked in my gun safe?”, they ask.
I understand that it’s a hard thing to fathom—the government putting an end to gun hunting rights. For those who use their guns only to hunt and always have, it seems like a paranoid stretch to think that their gun rights will ever be taken away. The anti-gun lobby likes to point this out by making a mockery of such comments by those warning the hunters.
No one knows the future of the drastic gun control measures being tossed about in the current climate after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. But, they say that history repeats itself, so let’s look at what history has shown in other countries with the same types of gun restrictions currently being proposed in the United States.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Monday, 11 February 2013 04:00 |
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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings the true meaning of our Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution has come into question.
Some ask, “Did the Second Amendment ever intend to include assault weapons?” And, “Was the Second Amendment written to ensure and provide for self defense?”
The staunch Second Amendment opponents can’t seem to make up their minds. Many will say that it was written to allow only for self defense of one’s home. Some will say the Second Amendment only preserves hunting rights, while at the same time they’re trying to get the most popular hunting rifle today banned—the AR-style sporting rifle.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Thursday, 07 February 2013 04:00 |
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There continues to be arguments between the pro-gun groups and the anti-gun lobby about the intended purpose and meaning of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The anti-gun lobby argues that the use of the word “militia”, as mentioned in the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States indicates the keeping of arms was meant only to provide for a standing army in times of an invasion by another county. During my college years, I too was indoctrinated into this line of thought.
What I wasn’t told then, and what the anti-gun politicians go out of there way to hide for fear of weakening their stronghold on misconceived public perception, are the real thoughts behind the words of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Monday, 04 February 2013 04:00 |
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John Lott wrote a book called “More Guns, Less Crime,” and that statement has become a heated debate, especially after the recent Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
Those trying to prove that more guns equal more crime love to site statistics comparing two different countries, or irrelevant gun violence information. They love to compare gun murder rates of the U.S. to a country such as England. In these cases they like to point out that England has relatively strict gun control, less guns per capita, and a lower gun murder rate than the U.S. Then these “experts” will site how other countries have fewer guns and fewer murders, therefore they maintain that the phrase “more guns, less crime” strictly doesn’t apply.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:00 |
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What is the true underlying reason behind gun registration? The unknowing gun owner (and non-gun owners) often wonder, “Why should I worry about registering my guns? If gun registration will help reduce the type of shooting that took place at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut why should I be opposed to registration?”
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Monday, 21 January 2013 00:00 |
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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and other gun violence in the United States, the time is ripe to fill the unsuspecting mind with as much falsified fodder as one’s brain can contain.
Those who populate the majority of the media, filling the uninformed with misleading gun information, don’t want you to know the truth behind proposed legislation, why assault weapons bans are ineffective, and why high capacity magazines are not what they want you to think they are.
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Friday, 01 February 2013 00:00 |
Is it time to look outside the box at the real culprit of the gun violence in the U.S? Is there one simple solution that would dramatically reduce violence and gun crime like the mass shooting we just saw at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut?
Or, is it more realistic to admit, hard as it may be, that there may be no one item or issue creating the culture of violence in America? Is gun violence or violence in general intricately woven into the fabric of our country? Or as H. Rap Brown said back in the 60s, “Violence is as American as apple pie.”
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Written by Randy Ganther
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Friday, 25 January 2013 00:00 |
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In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama, as well as others, seemed to indicate that all facets of this shooting would be looked at to find a solution to school violence. What seems to have happened since that time, however, is that most reasonable items have been overlooked in favor of focusing on the guns. For those who have been calling for outright gun bans for years on end it seems that guns are always an easy target--at the expense of actual solutions.
Trying to find a quick-fix for incidents like the Connecticut school shooting is being short-sighted. One would hope that the shooting in Connecticut has shown that school shootings, and gun violence in general, is a complex issue requiring more than just one simple solution.
As is typical of the Newtown shooting, however, many are now making what they claim will be a quick-fix, based on what happened in that one incident. Some of the proposed solutions to this type of violence, focusing primarily on the guns, have been:
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