They Are At It Again -
Now it is a Bunch of Mayors

Hello, Folks,

I recently watched as CNBC broadcasted a symposium of city mayors on "Illegal Guns", and witnessed a truly shameful exhibition of breach of Oath of Office by the participants.

They all swore an oath of the constitution. That includes the Bill of Rights, including the 2nd Amendment.

What came out of the mouths of these miscreants made me ill.

Folks, guns are not and should not be made "illegal" Thomas Jefferson rightly called guns "Liberty Teeth', for if the people do not have guns, government can, and will exercise its power and oppress its subjects. Guns are supposed to be the mechanism to prevent such thing from happening.

History has proven time and again that the Founding Fathers were right about this issue.

The mayors, however, don't see it that way.

What became evident is that they want to spread throughout this country program that are geared toward eliminating gun ownership.

These supposedly learned city leaders ignore the statistics that show that in those areas where gun ownership is highest and laws least restrictive, crime is lowest. Conversely, in those cities with the most stringent gun laws such as Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Washington, D.C., crime rates are highest.

Why? Because while criminals have guns, the citizens have no means of protecting themselves against the depredations of those who would attack them.

Most criminals are basically cowards at heart, but they are not totally stupid. They know they can run roughshod over the defenseless, but are reluctant to attack those who own guns, know how to use them and will use them to protect their family and property.

With that in mind, everyone should be allowed and encouraged to own a gun, practice with it, and use it when necessary for self defense or the defense of another.

But now. The mayors don't see it that way.

Folks, guns are inanimate objects. Left alone, the gun will sit idly for centuries, doing nothing. Guns are not to blame.The societal problems that bring firearms problems to the forefront are lack of proper education and skewed value systems that create environments where criminals flourish.

The same mechanism can be attributed to the miserable failure of the so-called "war on drugs".

There are more people in prison in this country than any other country in the world. This is accurately reported in The State, Columbia, S.C., February 29, 2008, Page A1, which goes on to say "2.3 million adults incarcerated". A majority are, by Department of Justice statistics, drug related convictions. Many also involve gun offenses, i.e., the mere presence of a gun or possession by someone else involved is a drug conspiracy, a concept which is truly ridiculous, in the face of logic.

The result at this time is that there are more drugs on the street and crime is not significantly lowered in those categories which constitute serious drug and firearms related offenses.

Yet the mayors now want to register people with any gun offense, the same way sex offenders are registered. They want a country-wide database. They want those on the registry to be subject to monthly visits by police and report their whereabouts at all times. They want to increase the restriction on ownership and availability of guns.

Will these incursions on 2nd Amendment Rights reduce crime? Nope! No more than current sex offense laws stop perverts from committing repeat, or even first offenses. These dummies, the mayors, simply don't exhibit the capacity to learn from experience. They just want to use their offices to further degrade the Rights of people under their control, regardless of the folly their acts.

This is why "The No Vote Party" is so important.

Join "The No Vote Party" today.

D. Tom

Editor: It cost $444 million to run SC prisons in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007. Spending for prisons is 6.7 percent of the general fund spending. Prisons employ 9.9 percent of the state work force of 62,000.

And the worst statistic of all........1 in 100 adults is incarcerated!
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world! We spend six times the cost of higher education on prison costs.