Sangster's Thoughts: Gun Control and What America Needs to Do

Colorado is headed the wrong way on guns, and our Democrat controlled house and senate are driving us. All of the voting has been down party lines. Republicans voted to protect 2nd Amendment Constitutional rights, while Democrats voted for more limitations to be put on the freedoms Americans are supposed to have.

Unfortunately, Colorado is not the only state headed in this direction. Other states are considering similar or even stricter laws. There are many places which are already paying the prices for their gun laws, which have taken weapons away from the public. Chicago is one of those which comes to mind.

Some may see these as measures that are needed to protect us from gun violence. However, what they actually do is limit the public's ability to defend itself from violent criminals, mentally unstable individuals, foreign enemies, and from an oppressive government.

As Americans, we are guaranteed the rights to own and use firearms. This is not just a single shot musket or rifle. It is not a five shot revolver or a pistol that holds ten bullets. When it was written, people had their own personal cannons. The 2nd Amendment gives us the right to any weapon we can obtain. That would include an Abrams tank, an Apache helicopter, a Raptor jet fighter, or a super carrier.

Our Founding Fathers thought it of such importance, that they placed it second in the Bill of Rights. The 2nd Amendment is the right which protects all the others. Without the right to weapons, we have no way of actually protecting the other rights, we are given.

Gun control, is simply that. A form of control upon what weapons Americans can have. If that is controlled then everything else eventually becomes controlled. That isn't just rhetoric, it's fact that's been prove in history, time and time again.

Americans need to stop complaining and whining that the government should take more control. That's not how true Americans think or act. Real Americans act, within Constitutional laws. What Americans need to do is block restrictive laws from being put into place. They need to call their representatives. They need to vote out anyone who votes for gun control. They need to vote in people who will defend their freedoms.

While they are doing that, they need to go out and buy a gun. They need to take the proper classes to gain concealed carry licenses. And most importantly they need to be willing to take matters into their own hands and defend their homes, their schools, their movie theaters, their churches, themselves from any enemies that threaten life and freedom.