Impairment and Gun Control

To be impaired is  a state of being that is:

• Diminished
• Damaged
• Deteriorated

Every time there is a school shooting incident the focus becomes keeping guns away from those who have been declared mentally impaired – those who are assumed to have inadequate mental ability to use a gun responsibly. This is a deliberate obfuscation.  It is an attempt to ignore the real issues.

Here is the real issue stated statistically: those countries, such as Japan and Germany, which have the strictest gun control laws have the least number of homicides from gun usage.  Those countries, such as America and Canada, which have the loosest gun control laws, have the highest number of homicides from gun usage.  Despite what gun advocates would have us believe, there is a direct correlation between loose gun laws and homicides.

The issue that confronts America is not the capacity of the mentally impaired to access guns.  It is the incapacity of the morally impaired to pass laws that control both the access and usage of guns.  To be morally impaired is to:

• Choose individual rights over community rights.
• Choose self benefit over the common good.
• Choose economics over people.
• Choose despotism over democracy.

Unfortunately, our nation is currently controlled by politicians who are profoundly morally impaired – too impaired to choose what is best for the nation over their own private and political agenda.

Until that changes do not expect anything related to the gun issues to change except treating a few symptoms that are designed to hide from the real issues.

The bottom line is, as it always has been, the election of democrats rather than morally impaired politicians to public office.

Robert