Someone sent us a link to the latest gun-fag’s mental masturbation on the Second Amendment. This one is Becky Margiotta. She says she’s an expert because her father bought her a shotgun when she was 12 years old and she hunted, you know, because that’s why there is a Second Amendment – for hunting with your father. She goes on tell us how she was a West Pointer and a company commander;
Following graduation from West Point, I commanded two Special Operations companies – small forces structured to complete the most physically and politically challenging missions. Multiple times a year, year after year, we underwent recertification on the weapons that were most central to our mission. Going to the range was treated with the utmost of gravity and military discipline. There was no joking around on the range. Every single round of ammunition was accounted for every single time.
Another veterinary dietician who wants us to think that she was a top tier door kicking special forces operator.
I left the Army after completing nine years of service. Right around that time, the shooting at Columbine High School happened. I was heartbroken and horrified to hear how the weapons I had trained to use so carefully – including weapons that don’t belong in civilian hands – had been used in a school to end the lives of 13 innocent children and educators.
Funny, according to Wikipedia, there were no weapons that she had trained so carefully to use in the shooters’ arsenal;
On the day of the massacre, Harris was equipped with a 12-gauge Savage-Springfield 67H pump-action shotgun (which he discharged a total of 25 times) and a Hi-Point 995 Carbine 9 mm carbine with thirteen 10-round magazines (which he fired a total of 96 times).[35]
Klebold was equipped with a 9×19mm Intratec TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun with one 52-, one 32-, and one 28-round magazine and a 12-gauge Stevens 311D double-barreled sawed-off shotgun. Klebold primarily fired the TEC-9 handgun for a total of 55 times, while he discharged a total of 12 rounds from his double-barreled shotgun.
Columbine happened right smack dab in the middle of Bill Clinton’s “assault weapon ban”, which didn’t seem to slow the pair. In fact they broke all kinds of laws to accomplish their dastardly goals – they took firearms on school grounds, they were in possession of firearms that someone else purchased for them, and, oh, yeah, they murdered people which isn’t legal.
The reality is that we know a lot about how to prevent gun violence. For example, we know that in states that require a criminal background check on every gun sale, lives are saved. Many people who commit mass shootings have a history of red flags – and we know that disarming people who have demonstrated that they are a threat to themselves or others helps reduce firearm suicides.
Yeah, well, all states require criminal background checks for gun sales – it’s been that way since before she was a West Point cadet.
As a veteran, I’m intimately familiar with the destructive power of firearms. And, I know how important it is to make sure they don’t fall into the wrong hands. I also know that many Americans look for leadership from veterans on issues like gun violence prevention.
That’s why I’ve joined with fellow veterans and Everytown for Gun Safety, a gun violence prevention organization, to launch the Everytown Veterans Advisory Council. The Council will enable military veterans to play a critical role in ending gun violence in America, providing advice and perspective to policy work around the country.
More than anything, Americans want folks who will tell them the truth about guns, and, Becky, you ain’t it. Any veteran who joins with the Bloomberg folks at “Everytown” isn’t doing what’s best for America, only what’s best for the nanny-class.
How’s about we start with forcing prosecutors to enforce the existing laws instead of forcing the law abiding gun owners to comply with even more useless restrictions to their Constitutional rights.
But making our political gatekeepers do their jobs is harder than writing more laws, isn’t it?
