*Editor’s Note* – The Editorial Board of the Portland Press Herald is a shining example of many years of misinformation, disinformation, brainwashing and psychological operations by sinister power brokers aiming at the destruction of the United States, at least what we thought it used to be.
A right is a right, or it should be. It’s not a right when governments and nongovernmental organizations and individuals are allowed to destroy those rights, “without infringing unjustly” on them. If the Second Amendment were truly a right, then how can an editorial board of a newspaper, or anybody else, claim that infringing on a right can be done “justly?”
“Infringe” means to actively break the terms of a law – in this case the Second Amendment. Once a right is infringed upon, it is no longer a right. We should never break the terms of a right.
What I also find amazing is that people, like this editorial board, will waste words in their own newspaper lamenting the failures, corruption, hypocrisy, double standards, etc. of Government, but call upon Government to solve what they deem a problem.
You see, the problem is that this editorial board and millions of people just like them, demand things like new studies and data that supports their misguided ideology. Because of all the things I mentioned above, i.e. misinformation, disinformation, brainwashing and PSYOPs, these people cannot and will not see that what they have been told to do and say is not an answer to anything.
The brainwashing really shows off well when someone, like the editorial board, thinks Government can solve this problem. Government can’t solve anything. Examine the major “wars on” failures, by the public’s standards, on such things as drugs, terror, poverty, etc. For countless years these programs, that taxpayers continue to pay for, have failed miserably. We have nothing to show for it except higher taxes.
The editorial board believes that if people like the NRA would leave the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) alone, they could come up with some data that would surely point the way to end gun violence. Have they forgotten that the CDC is the Government?
We know that science has been bastardized at all levels for profit and agenda promotion. No “scientific” study can be trusted anymore. None! To call upon perhaps the most corrupt government and those that control it, to solve the violence problem in this country, is insanity.
The one constant that keeps this nation from falling 100% into the throes of tyranny, is the Second Amendment. The Founders, we are told, devised the Second Amendment for the protection FROM government tyranny. Please understand that. They new over 250 years ago that without a deterrent, like the Second Amendment, government tyranny would prevail. Today, we find ourselves asking Government to take away our guns. Mad!
About all that is left is the preservation of the Second Amendment. When that is gone, so are we as a free nation…or at least what is left of it.
It is ignorant to claim that infringing on the Second Amendment can be done justly. It is the result of brainwashing to think that crooked government can solve anything.
What the editorial board is really asking for here is for those of us who understand the actual value of the Second Amendment to stand down and let those opposed to liberty and freedom FROM tyranny, cook up the science to support their claims – claims that have never been able to be substantiated.
Ignoring the existing facts and refusing to accept the history of guns and their effect on society, will not reduce gun violence.
Perhaps a nation that turns its attention to God and away from man/government worship, would do more to curb violence, drugs, terror, etc. than demanding one’s own way, rooted in ignorance and mind control.
It is possible that through good public policy, the United States can reduce the number of firearm-related deaths and injuries without infringing unjustly on Second Amendment rights.But to do that, just as has been done in other public health crises, policymakers need good data. And to get good data, agencies like the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must be allowed to work without interference or fear of reprisal.
