Soap Box

On January 5th, President Obama announced some new firearms laws he intends to enact by executive order, a constitutionally murky area to say the least.

He was very emotional surrounded by the families of victims of gun violence who hung on his every word and applauded his every pronouncement as he gave a cursory verbal tour through the ideas he says will help to curb mass killings and keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, thugs and the mentally ill.

I say cursory because as America has learned in the last seven years, the devil is always in the details and there is always a political purpose that moves the nation closer to the kind of place Obama believes it should be.

Obama only hits the high spots when he describes his intended actions, never exposing the sordid little secrets in the small print. Obamacare is a good example of this as even learned people are still trying to figure out what parts of it mean.

He made the statement that this was not some slippery slope designed to take away everybody's guns, but this coming from a president who told us we could keep our own doctor and our own health plan, that ISIS was the �JV team� and that they were contained a few days before they pulled off the bloody attack in Paris and stood over the bodies of fallen American service men and allowed Hillary Clinton to tell grieving parents a bald-faced lie.

So when a man who seems to think the Constitution is open to his own personal interpretation and whose reputation for voracity is somewhat less than sterling, says something I, for one, trust it about as far as I can throw one of my Hereford bulls.

No matter what Obama says, his ultimate goal is the total disarming of America and knows he cannot do it in one fell swoop and is going about it in increments.

Obama is a one-eyed jack, but America has seen the hidden side of his face and anybody willing to admit the truth knows that his hidden agenda out weighs the one he holds out before you. He is simply not to be trusted and if he wins this battle will be back shortly to ask for another increment.

Even the most avid gun owners want to see something done about the violence and want to keep guns out of the hands of those capable of such violence, but they also know that the firearms laws currently on the books are sufficient to get the job done.

The problem is that the laws on the books are not being enforced because of incompetent, politically correct politicians. New York�s mayor, Bill de Blasio, took away stop and frisk, the mayor of Baltimore basically declared the city to be a no arrest zone where looters and thugs would be allowed to run wild and destroy the citizen's property, parts of Chicago are relative battle zones where the casualty rates compare with an active war and Rahm Emanuel talks and promises, lost and overwhelmed, never even attempting to attack the root of the problem.

What it is going to take to do something meaningful about gun violence is something Obama and the lion's share of the Democrats are unwilling to do. It's going to take throwing political correctness out the window, backing up our law enforcement agencies and rooting out the gun runners and black marketers, and instituting severe, mandatory federal prison terms for anyone using a gun in the commission of a crime.

It's going to take going into neighborhoods, mosques and any place the trail of murder and mayhem leads, it's going to have Al Sharpton coming unglued and CAIR and the ACLU screaming their heads off.

It means having the mainstream media carping and sniping at every move and gutless politicians spouting meaningless platitudes and milksop blather.

Until America develops a "whatever it takes" attitude and attacks the sickness instead of the symptom, until people face the truth that it's the evil that walks among us that has to be rooted out, no amount of presidential fiat, no new laws, no pie in the sky policies or cosmetic bans are going to stop or even hinder this madness that is taking place in America.

When a president has the potential to turn registration rolls into confiscation lists, ignore the Constitution and go by his own rules; who is going to trust him, even a little bit?

Not me.

What do you think? 

Pray for our troops and the peace of Jerusalem

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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