Gun Control and America.

Nowhere in the United States is safe anymore from gun violence. Not fast-food restaurants. Not movie theaters. And not even churches and elementary schools. No one, including little kids are immune or considered sacred by every Tom, Dick and Harry who are too mentally sick to have access to guns, especially the very sensitive assault types.

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 takes just one organization, the National Rifle Association (NRA) to hold the entire nation hostage on the issue of gun control.  As it often does, 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 individuals (minority) are 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. 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 regular folks in this God’s own 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?