Michael1942's Blog

As I look at President Obama’s second inauguration, it occurs to me that there we all have taken sides and in truth there are no sides. What we really have are individual opinions Based on information we read, hear and perceive. Not enough of us broaden our scope of knowledge to see that our real issues are not going to be resolved by our elected officials. These elected folks have an agenda that does not necessarily include what we want or need. Taking the recent and fiery issue of firearms, the President has never stated he would take away any firearms from anyone; the desire is to keep the firearms out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people (including the mentally ill). I believe we all can agree that no matter what weapons are available there are reasons to exclude the availability of certain people to possess and acquire firearms of any kind. The controversy over stronger laws against acquisition the so called “assault weapons” means only  future purchasers of these types of weapons will need to undergo closer and more intense scrutiny  prior to purchase. There is nothing said about taking the weapons from existing owners. The one issue should be the purchase of additional high capacity magazines and that I believe should be the only cause for concern among owners of the high volume weapons that use them. If the various Gun rights organization would assist in informing their memberships of what is really in play perhaps we would have better laws that could prevent repeats of the recent events which took so many lives. What we have is as stated in a classic movie: “a failure to communicate”.  The beauty of America is the ability to dissent and voice opinions but an informed opinion is better than a crowd mentality of misinformation.