Message for Obama and other Americans

I return to the subject of gun control in America, that I previously wrote about here http://bit.ly/ZKx2Rq

The Obama administration is pushing for tighter controls on guns and bullying people to support this, sickeningly using the poor dead children of Newtown as a bargaining chip.  Who could oppose such legislation?  Who could oppose laws that would mean young ones are not put in such danger again?

Thankfully, a very significant number of Americans are resisting the moral blackmail that Obama and his control freak colleagues are using.

It occurred to me though, that the real killer of children in America isn't the gun but obesity.   We hear some words from Obama but no real action.  How many children have died, during Obama's time in office from gunfire and how many from obesity related illnesses?  How many have, in his time, acquired the diseases that will mar and shorten their adult lives?  Surely, if Obama really cared about America's children, he would be out doing something, every single day.
 
I wonder though if the reason he isn't, is political?

Has he perhaps calculated that the only way to tackle this obesity problem is to take on the largest constituency in America - that is - Parents!

Because, at the end of the day, it is the abdication of responsibility by America's parents, that is a far bigger killer than that Lanza boy in Newtown.

So Mr President, don't go after the NRA and law-abiding citizens.  Don't bother pushing a Medicare or Obamacare package, down the throats of America.  Instead, do the right thing and as aggressively, push America's parents to take responsibility for their children's health and lifestyle.   Don't bother about same-sex marriage, focus on an agenda that puts the health of America's children at its heart.  Since the Democrats are so keen on taxes, tax sugar, tax fat!  Put a large federal sales tax on soda drinks and candy bars and fast food and high sugar cereals etc.  It won't balance your budget but it will likely save more lives than your and Joe Biden's gun legislation.

US - Please don't deport Piers Morgan

I would like some democracy-loving American to start a petition to keep Piers Morgan in the USA.

The grounds would be the what I believe are his comments being protected under the  First Amendment to the US Constitution.  The framers maybe didn't anticipate the abuse of the rights nor the mindless mutterings that would be protected under the amendment but they were good people acting in a good way and they would, I believe, have accepted that sometimes the greater good is served.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I do have another motive.  I don't want this over-rated ass, back in the UK.  The USA is a big country and you have absorbed the witterings of many fools, in the past, so please, do the UK this favour.

A major concern, for me, is that people might look at Morgan's journalistic record and conclude that his First Amendments privileges are forfeit because of his prior mendacity or rather the lying that occurred on his watch.  He was the editor of the UK tabloid, the Daily Mirror, when they published expose photos that purported to show British troops torturing Iraqi prisoners.  Thing was, the photos were speedily exposed as being frauds.  I can't remember the exact details but I seem to recall something of the apology which said that 'yes, these were made up but they depict real events'  Or words to that effect.

Please though put this to one side and consider the service you are doing for an old ally. 

Of course his ravings about gun-control, coming as they do, from someone raised in the super-controlled (some would say, over-controlled) European environment, take no account of how the US has come about and stayed together as a union.  How could they?  In Europe, the concept of protecting your own home or life is something that is 'farmed out' to the police.  In the UK this is particularly worrying when there are regular exposes of police lies, cover-ups and evidence fabrication, such that, today, many question who it is the police actually protect.  

The US Constitution and its Amendments are not to blame for the horrific massacre in Newtown.

Neither are the gun manufacturers.  We don't blame car manufacturers when the product they produce is involved in the deaths of three times more people than die of gun related deaths.

The one to blame, seems to be universally accepted as being Adam Lanza.  You might, just might look at apportioning some responsibility to a state that didn't offer better medical treatment for people with mental health issues but fundamentally, it was a person, Adam Lanza, that did the killing.

Morgan and his gun control zealots can take all of the guns away from all of the people but that won't, I am sorry to say, stop mad people killing innocents.

On the same day as the Newtown massacre, a madman ran amok in China and stabbed 20 children.  So, ban knives?

Newtown, CT

What to say? 

Words to describe the evil that was visited upon this small town will always seem inadequate.  As you will have seen though, that doesn't stop the 'talking heads' jumping to all sorts of conclusions and such.  I guess that includes me!

Also included among these is President Obama who has rushed in to say that 'meaningful action' must be taken.  He is referring to trying to push through some kind of gun control laws in the wake of the Newtown horror.  Don't be surprised!  Like all socialists, Obama looks at all events through a political prism - how can I use this to push 'the agenda' forward?  In this case, how can I put forward a plan for greater state control?  He is aided by the usual suspects such as Diane Feinstein of California.  Surprisingly, there is no rush to say that treatment for mental health should be improved, though one must believe that the killer cannot have been anything but insane!

For Europeans, gun control is 'accepted'  - as in, 'the powers that be' impose it and that's it.  No democracy, no popular vote, just 'we know best'. 

Britain had its own horrific event at Dunblane and then rushed through legislation which had the effect of removing legally registered guns from most law-abiding citizens but not affecting the criminals nor the mentally unbalanced that commit such acts and can always seem to find weapons, when they need them.

Does anyone see the LA gangs giving up their hardware?  Or will it just be the law-abiding people in small, isolated communities, who are then exposed to the gun-toting criminals, who don't give-up theirs?

Now though, is not the time for politics. 

Now we should really reserve our thoughts and prayers for the families that found themselves, with holes in their lives, suddenly appearing last Friday.  I am truly amazed when I hear these people speak.   Their love for the children is obviously apparent but their compassion towards the surviving members of the Lanza family is truly Christian.

Many of the teachers are being hailed as heroes and rightly so, but I also think these suffering parents deserve this accolade for the dignified and spiritual way that they are facing this tragedy.

Keep them and the departed in your prayers.

Politicians - please resist the temptation to intervene!