Gun Control and Life in the United States.

Nowhere in the United States is safe from gun violence. Not fast-food restaurants. Not movie theaters. And not churches and elementary schools! No one, not even little kids are immune or considered sacred any more. No thanks to the availability of guns to every Tom, Dick and Harry, some of whom, in spite of mental sickness, still have easy access to guns, especially the very sensitive assault types.

Fortunately however, the Federal and state governments are not folding their arms in submission to this problem. As part of the measures aimed at curbing this national menace, a gun control legislation requiring background checks for all prospective gun owners was proposed by the Obama administration. But it took just one organization, the National Rifle Association (NRA) to hold the entire nation hostage over the issue.  As usual, the NRA employed its usual arsenal of stupendous wealth and political machinery to defeat the proposed legislation.

While the rest of us regular folks (majority) worry and lament over the now frequently ravaging gun violence in the society, the rich and influential NRA with its supporters (minority) is more concerned about the possible fall in their gun sale revenues if “stringent” rules are applied to gun ownership.

In their constant bids to arm-twist the conservative segment of the American society, the gun-toting NRA ideologues always rely on the following hypocritical factors, among others:

i.                     The right to bear arms as enshrined in the constitution. This is one of the most over-flogged issues traced back to the founding fathers that were actually referring to the threats of invasion by the then British colonists.

ii.                    Moral posturing against homosexuality and abortion. Yet, recent disclosures of people coming out of the “gay closets” all over the nation have included several members of the so-called conservative Americans while abortion has since been discovered not to be a monopoly of the liberal Americans.

The question now therefore is when the majority of us folks in this great country will “wake up” to exercise our constitutional rights to vote out all the senators and congress men/women who have been compromised (one way or the other) by the obnoxious NRA?