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?
