The great shame of modern America continues as another ghastly school shooting, this time in Florida, points out the inexcusable failure of politicians to impose more reasonable gun controls.
Must we wait for children to be slaughtered in every political district across the country for members of Congress and legislatures to grow spines? We might not have to wait long, at the current pace.
Who will defend our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
That right is diminished because Congress and legislatures are allowing the proliferation of military-style assault weapons that are designed to kill multiple people quickly and are being used to do so on a regular basis.
That right was denied to the children and families in Columbine, Newtown and now Parkland, Fla., where at least 17 students and teachers were killed at a high school Wednesday. It might have been denied to students at an Everett, Wash., high school if it weren’t for a grandmother who discovered a plan and a military-style weapon among her 18-year-old grandson’s belongings Tuesday and called police.
That right should trump strained interpretations of the Second Amendment, which authorized a well-regulated militia, not flooding the country with millions of barely regulated weapons of mass human destruction.
No wonder Russia thinks it can bamboozle American voters. Years of dithering over gun control and brainwashing by the gun lobby has shown the world how easily Americans lose their bearings when bombarded with slogans and propaganda.
The gun lobby’s greedy manipulation of emotions and the political process led to the absurd situation we’re in today. A minority of the population wanting easy access to a particular class of dangerous weapons is prevailing over a nation begging its government to address the horrific mass shootings of children.
Additional gun restrictions will not end murder or shootings. There will always be aberrant behavior. But the frequency and severity of shootings will decrease if the country imposes more reasonable limits on firearms.
That should include a ban on semi-automatic, customizable, military-style assault weapons such as the AR-15 type used in Parkland and other recent mass shootings.
There should also be a national ban on high-capacity magazines that increase the lethality of these attacks, and reduce opportunities to escape or intervene when the shooter reloads.
Concerns of law-abiding gun owners must be taken into account. Gun ownership is a right and deeply held belief for some. Their views deserve respect. But this right was never absolute. Gun sales are regulated and regulations must evolve as conditions warrant.
Several promising steps were introduced in the Washington Legislature this year. But struggles to pass them show this is a bipartisan failure of leadership. The cynical take is that too many representatives are more concerned about winning their next election than addressing an immediate public-health and safety crisis.
Democrats control the state Legislature, but measures addressing assault weapons or high-capacity magazines stalled.
A bump-stock ban passed the Senate. Now it’s up to the House to ban the devices that can be used on semi-automatic guns to emulate the performance of automatic weapons, as demonstrated in the Las Vegas massacre.
Especially disappointing is the failure of Senate Bill 5444. It defines assault weapons and would require buyers of them and high-capacity magazines to undergo background checks comparable to those on handgun buyers. That includes a local law-enforcement check to see if buyers are subject to social-services or domestic-violence court orders.
The measure never reached the Senate floor before the cutoff date.
Perhaps the Parkland school massacre will help motivate lawmakers to approve the bump-stock ban.
Really, that’s the least they can do to address the shame and horror of America’s mass-shooting crisis.
— The Seattle Times
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, HILO, HAWAII
The problem isn’t the firearms or the 2nd Amendment, the problem is there is no moral values in today’s political correctness society! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f2b6b2de5868c4873a8a02033fb2e4deb18895e979fd5a4215b195ceee383fe0.jpg
I must agree.
You are the perfect example of a human void of anything remotely close to anything good.
You are a waste of human flesh.
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, HILO, HAWAII
Hilo Jack, why don’t you come out into the public arena to oppose innocent preborn babies being murdered at Hilo’s House of Murder AKA Hilo Community Surgery Center?
It will be a lot more fun for you then just typing insulting keywords on your computer.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fd3f0523dd1a9f9abc346c34919c441ba4b229739ab964013039dd5b65eb3866.jpg
Sorry, I don’t associate with convicted thieves.
Also, your “right to life” claims should be more than no abortion and no death penalty for convicted murderers.
The slim ball $hithole in Florida sure would have been a much better served up as an aborted fetus instead of the slime ball he became.
Much like you.
PS – If I ever do come down to your little perch, I will be bringing my Weber Grill, a can of lighter fluid and my bible – to toss on and burn, just like you did with the koran.
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK, HILO, HAWAII
No one is stopping you from witnessing against the murdering of innocent children before they are born on your own.
Make a simple sign and go stand in the public arena for the voiceless children who are slaughtered before they come out of their mothers’ wombs.
If you value life of school children then why don’t you value the lives of the children before they are born to go to school?
P.S. If you want to burn a Christian Bible, then burn one, don’t make it sound like some big threat!
Abortion of s fetus is a medical procedure between a doctor and patient
Surely a fake phony wimp like you clearly can’t think you can stop that?
Are you that stupid?
You desire to regulate medical procedures but 19 year olds buying AR15’s and shooting 17 innocent people is OK with you?
Warped priorities
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, HILO, HAWAII
If the FBI would have done its job the killer would have never been able to buy a firearm with his mental condition.
So, no, I don’t believe in a mentally ill 19 year buying a firearm.
I got firearm training and owned two firearms legally by the time I was 16 years old, so age itself has nothing to do with the proper use of firearms.
I’ve owned firearms all my life and fully support the 2nd Amendment. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/55c750cfc782cbd1ff3b2481d9423accaaa3fa94996e0853755ed452f5a9cfac.jpg
You have evil in your heart for believing a so-called medical condition is justification for murdering children who are in their mothers’ wombs.
There is a Satanic evil murdering spirit roaming through our country (and the world) and that murdering spirit doesn’t care whether its victims are preborn or already walking around and it’s individuals like you would promote that murdering spirit by supporting abortion.
Therefore, you need to look in a mirror to re-check your priorities.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fd3f0523dd1a9f9abc346c34919c441ba4b229739ab964013039dd5b65eb3866.jpg
Justify justify justify.
I bet if you were a woman, you would have no issues with the right of a woman to have an abortion.
To you, a gun is your penis.
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK
Don’t you realize it takes both genders for the life of a human being to be conceived?
A preborn baby is a baby of both the woman and the male, not just the female.
So, if your wife or girlfriend got pregnant by you, you would not object to her killing your child.
You would just let the woman kill your own son or daughter without wanting to have your child be born.
You think with your penis and not with your brain.
How can any man consider himself to be a real man to just let the woman kill/murder their son or daughter instead of wanting his child to live?
Real women and real men protect their child in the womb and then later outside of the womb for that’s what REAL woman and men do in life.
To you, killing a preborn baby is nothing more than killing a rat.
LOOK AT THESE MURDERED CHILDREN! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/48c6d340d9546f66101cf1fd9134ed672202ba82fa380191355a7e9db0ae0d80.jpg
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e989bbb6587e51d0eb9038debef21
6981771a65d4c7f4c521e72ba725743b812.jpg
Here is an abortion 12 week baby murdered by the suction aspiration method:
The second aborted child is of 4our months and was murdered by the burning of body from the inside-out by using the Hypertonic Saline method, meaning salt poisoning.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2409d5d3010f6a3732c4d1289ef16a293905547c7d518af4174f8856488ffea1.jpg
The third aborted baby was murdered by using artifical prostaglandins which means forced labor.
IF THESE PICTURES DON’T EFFECT YOUR HEART OR ANYONE ELSE WHO VIEWS THESE PICTURES ON THIS PAGE IN WANTING TO STOP ABORTIONS WHICH END THE LIVES OF INNOCENT PREBORN BABIES THEN YOU HAVE NO LOVE IN YOUR HEART AND HAVE NO MORALITY IN YOUR BODY OR SOUL FOR HUMAN LIFE!
Apparently, you would have no problem with your child being murdered by these types of abortionS by any woman you got pregnant.
Don’t even consider yourself as being a man regardless of how tough you think you are because real men protect their children inside and outside of the womb!
Abortion is legal under the constitution.
In the same way as you claim your gun is.
Why do you fight to death to keep one and fight to death to eliminate the other??
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK
Don’t you realize it takes both genders for the life of a human being to be conceived?
A preborn baby is a baby of both the woman and the male, not just the female.
So, if your wife or girlfriend got pregnant by you, you would not object to her killing your child.
You would just let the woman kill your own son or daughter without wanting to have your child be born.
You think with your penis and not with your brain.
How can any man consider himself to be a real man to just let the woman kill/murder their son or daughter instead of wanting his child to live?
Real women and real men protect their child in the womb and then later outside of the womb for that’s what REAL woman and men do in life.
To you, killing a preborn baby is nothing more than killing a rat.
LOOK AT THESE MURDERED CHILDREN! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/48c6d340d9546f66101cf1fd9134ed672202ba82fa380191355a7e9db0ae0d80.jpg
Murdered at twelve weeks.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e989bbb6587e51d0eb9038debef216981771a65d4c7f4c521e72ba725743b812.jpg
Murdered at four months.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2409d5d3010f6a3732c4d1289ef16a293905547c7d518af4174f8856488ffea1.jpg
Murdered at six months.
If you wouldn’t try to stop your girlfriend or wife from killing your son or daughter then you are not a real man no matter how tough you think you are because real men and even real women protect their children inside and outside of the womb.
ALL MURDER IS WRONG INSIDE THE WOMB AND AT THE SCHOOLS!
FIVE DAYS A WEEK, MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY, PREBORN BABIES ARE MURDERED AT THE HILO COMMUNITY SURGERY CENTER AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU DON’T DO ANYTHING TO STOP IT!
YOU AND THE OTHER SILENT PEOPLE ARE JUST AS GUILTY OF THOSE MURDERS AT THE SURGERY CENTER AS THE PAID ASSASSINS KNOWN AS ABORTION DOCTORS.
AS FOR THE CHURCHES, THE PASTORS ARE COWARDS AND SHOULD JUST CLOSE THEIR CHURCHES AND GET JOBS FLIPPING BURGERS AT MCDONALDS FOR THEY ARE USELESS AS CHRISTIAN PASTORS! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1cd852e42a8c349ebb2f73ba7c98de9bc9d4ec8bf493bb920d1b9a79bebad5fe.jpg
Repeating the same babble over and over does not change the fact that abortion, just as your guns is 100% legal in accordance with the constitution.
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK
So, if your wife or girlfriend wanted to “legally kill” your child by abortion; you wouldn’t object?
Apparently, you would just let her put an end to your child’s life because the U.S. Supreme Court legalized pre-born baby killing.
Are you going to answer my “babble” question?
P.S. I deleted some of my posts because I wanted to make some major changes, so it was easier for me to make new ones.
It’s the woman’s choice.
Period.
Would you be ok with me regulating your body?
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN
Thank you for finally answering my question.
You would let a woman murder your child because you believe she would have the right to kill another human being because the government says its legal to commit murder on one’s own preborn baby.
I would recommend you don’t have sexual intercourse with any woman so you won’t get her pregnant and then you won’t have to just stand by in silence while she slaughters your child for blood sacrifice to satan.
So now, you desire to regulate whom i have intercourse with!
I find it truly amazing as well as quite indicative of perhaps a mental breakdown in capacity that you reason a woman’s right to choose a medical procedure as allowed for under the terms of the constitution and call it “murder,” but think that 17 innocent “murdered” people in Florida is OK – because the constitution says you can have a gun.
Your basis of argument is baseless, hypocritical and quite frankly an insult in intellect.
Perhaps maybe you steal (from the taxpayer) much better than you represent a political position or for that matter as a spokesman for some man made up “god!”
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, HILO, HAWAII
Actually, you shouldn’t have sexual intercourse because you could not be a responsible father considering you would let your pregnant woman murder your pre-born child.
You promote murder and therefore you have evil in your heart!
Goodbye and I will pray for you.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9b40c074ef7afe81b5a07775ab5c2f5578f50ca67b8d8651970935231cca1767.jpg
As for whom should not have had sexual intercourse, I would defer to whom you call your mother and father
Having said that, I doubt intercourse was how you were conceived.
PS
My belief is idiot scum sucking human feces like you should be put down like a rabid dog.
I am sure I can justify my position under the constitution too!
Ah, Hilo Jack = Inever left = bozo45 and who knows how many other banned sockpuppets.
AKA the Hilo Poofter. I would recognize the fascination with feces anywhere.
Ahhhhh NeveaHappen a bought and paid for Russian bot Trump Troll
I recognize paid spineless wimps all day long!
And yet you are ok with endless kids being killed in school by guns.
Because the Supreme Court authorized guns.
No I do not answer sheet insane babble
Don’t you wonder why your posts are being deleted?
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, LINCOLN PARK
Abortion is Homicide!
ROE v. WADE is Legalized Genocide!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/55c750cfc782cbd1ff3b2481d9423accaaa3fa94996e0853755ed452f5a9cfac.jpg
Here is the 3rd picture of a child who was murdered at six months prebirth. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2409d5d3010f6a3732c4d1289ef16a293905547c7d518af4174f8856488ffea1.jpg
Unfortunately I can’t obtain the pictures of the 17 killed in Florida last week
Would it help if I could get them and post them?
PS it is simpletons like you who think with your penis.
YAHWEH’S MINISTRY, HILO, HAWAII https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c2fa2f00684570711e8ffabf2becb0572cde31f9fa28a314426d562aabd1e29d.jpg
A so called minister with a gun fixation… scary!