by Lina Bryce
While Hillary Clinton acknowledges that the Second Amendment is a Constitutional right, she argues that there are still just “too many guns in our homes” and we’ve got to do something about it. And by “doing something about it”, she means strip way the second amendment by conveniently blaming the gun and not the individual.
The Democratic presidential front-runner suggested on a campaign stop in Philadelphia on Wednesday that the gun lobby is way to large and this needs to be a voting issue. She argued that the nation has “got to do more to save more lives”. But the “lives” we are talking about are not the majority of deaths recorded by the CDC, which shows that 192,945 die annually from poisoning. Clinton cherry picks the 33,000 people who have been “killed by guns”, she says, regardless of the equivalent amount of people who have died in one year as a result of motor vehicle accidents and six times more, 192, 945, who have died as a result of an injury. Interestingly, she doesn’t mention anything about the enormous Pharmaceutical or Automobile industry lobby that immeasurably benefited financially from government legislation.
The facts according the CDC are that 33,804 people have been killed in incidents relating to vehicles, but we don’t advocate for fewer cars to be driven on our roads. We know that many of those deaths may be attributed to DUIs, but we never advocate for outlawing alcohol. Generally, we see a call for harsher punishment for the violators. The U.S. had raised the drinking age to 21 decades ago, yet this has done little to waver the will of the weak-minded to break the law or prevent one from making poor decisions and get into a two-ton vehicle while intoxicated.
It’s important to point out these facts because the left continues to pander to the bleeding heart individual on the false diatribe that guns are what need to be limited and that would stop the shootings, regardless of the consequences it may result in preventing a law-abiding citizen from protecting themselves from those who will find ways around their laws. Needless to say, this misguided belief also detracts the responsibility of the person who committed the action.
Clinton’s criticism of the strength of the gun lobby may be a valid contention, after all there are a lot of powerful interests in Washington, but lets not leave out some of the largest ones: The various Farm Lobbies, Pharmaceuticals, and the Automobile lobby in Washington. They are all making decisions that are not necessarily in the best interest of the american people, but they are nonetheless, a clear and evident power in legislation.
However, there is one distinction. There is no compromising on the Constitutional right to defend oneself and that is something the Clintons have perhaps taken for granted, due to their entitlement to armed secret service and trained personal security detail. Most of us women aren’t entitled to that same privilege, that you are, Mrs. Clinton, and as a woman, you should know better. Perhaps your privileged status has desensitized you from this reality?
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