Confiscation is not the answer to gun violence

Americans are still reeling in the aftermath of another incomprehensible school slaughter, this one on May 24 in Uvalde, Texas, where 21 innocent lives were viciously cut short. Nineteen of the dead were young grade school students and two were teachers. Democrat’s simplistic means of addressing this repeated horror is calling for implementing gun restrictions, limiting calibers and retooling the Second Amendment — which our Founders thought important enough to place immediately after our freedom of speech and right of assembly.

The common thread linking the maniacal killers appears to be dysfunctional, often fatherless families.

Our society has devolved from married, churchgoing families to boys who have no anchor or expectations imposed on them. Salvador Ramos,18, the latest mass murderer was a high school dropout who lived with his grandparents and committed his atrocity after first shooting his grandmother in the face. He was estranged from his mother, who said he, “was a good boy,” though friendless and bullied for posting photos of himself wearing eye makeup. “My son wasn’t a violent person. I’m surprised by what he did,” she is quoted as saying.. “I pray for those families. I’m praying for all of those innocent children, yes I am. They [the children] had no part in this.” Prior to committing the atrocity, he posted his intentions online. The gunman’s father, with his own criminal history, described his son saying, “I want my son’s story out there,” he said. “I don’t want them calling him a monster… they don’t know nothing, man. They don’t know nothing he was going through.”

Texas democrat, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, irrationally claims gun owners want to turn in their “weapons of war.” That’s the latest terminology the left has employed to describe legal firearms.

And across our northern border, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday that Canada is introducing legislation to “implement a national freeze on handgun ownership” throughout the nation.

Seeing Red AZ’s position has remained consistent. We posted “Dem gun hypocrites” December 23rd, 2012. Watch Chuck Schumer (D-NY) practice target shooting.