By Raleigh Perry
BUFORD, Ga | Last year it was announced by the news agencies that the year 2020 had more murders than any recent years. In fact, there were 4,901 more murders in 2020 than in 2019. That is a lot of murders. Look at the numbers and you will see you are safer in the military in an active war than you are walking down the streets in this country.
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And look at the too many recent shootings. Matters are not improving, but deteriorating.
The more deaths than the year before might be better understood by knowing that there were only 2,400-2,500 U.S. troops killed in the 20 year long war with Afghanistan. It has gotten to the point where I will not go into the city of Atlanta any further than Clairmont Road to the Veterans Administration hospital.
I do not even buy gas anywhere inside I-285, fearing carjacking or robbery. You cannot go on the VA property with a firearm or other type of weapon or you end up in a Federal Court awaiting sentencing, and you are going to get it.
I think that what bothers me most is the complete lack of interest of our Senators and Congressmen to the problem of gun control. The “Big Originalist,” Justice Antonin Scalia, was not the Originalist that he thought he was when he wrote the last decision on the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is rather terse and specific but you have to consider the era in which it was written. Specifically, it reads:
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
Justice Scalia seemed to interpret it as if the statement that “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state,” was unnecessary, so he interpreted the rest of it “the right of the people to keep and bear are, shall not be infringed,” was the only salient part of the Amendment.
Militia, in this case, does not mean the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers or the myriad of other idiotic groups posing as militia and playing soldiers, but an organization ordained by the states and run by the states. States do not have militia today, they have the National Guard, so the concept of a “well regulated militia” does not exist and is not necessary today.
I have no problem with the ownership of guns, but the ownership of AR-15s and like weapons is stupid. Actually, I think that the ownership of a pistol is rather stupid also. So you are carrying a pistol and get stuck up. The man has a gun and he asks for your wallet and your Rolex. The best thing to do is to give the man what he wants and do not try to draw your pistol. If you do, you are going to get shot!
If the assailant begins to walk away, no longer posing a threat, that is not a good time to draw your concealed weapon either because if you shoot him, you can be charged with murder.
The best guns for you to have, if you must have one, is a rifle for big game, a shotgun for squirrels, rabbits, and birds, or a .22 caliber for the squirrel and rabbit.
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