My political safe place....hear me rant....: A freedom I would gladly forfeit...

Friday, July 20, 2012

A freedom I would gladly forfeit...

I truly believe that one day...generations from now people will look back with shock at how we basically hand killers their weapons and say it is their right! I am not saying that hunters can no longer hunt. I personally HATE hunting! I don't understand wanting to kill another living thing. I don't have the stomach for it. But we need to get rid of the assault weapons...civilians should not be able to buy 4 guns in less than 2 months and all the additional clips or whatever you call them which allow for more bullets. Nobody has the right to buy guns to become the killers of many just bc of the 2nd Amendment which was passed during a time of a vastly different lifestyle from that which we live today!? I mean the man bought an assault riffle for the Colorado movie theatre killing! Does someone really need that to protect their family and home...or to hunt a deer? Can anyone enlighten me? Obviously our nation has an issue with people wanting to kill their neighbors! Obviously this right we are so proud of as Americans has not proven to be beneficial for those whom have lost their lives by a deranged, evil or mentally ill individual who practiced his right to bare arms. One day our children with scoff at how dumb people of our time were...much like we have begun to scoff how ridiculous people were to smoke while pregnant, or in public, or in front of children. We learned from that mistake. Are we too proud to learn from these tragic events? How many more kids and young people and deranged individuals have to prove that the retail market for guns is flawed by purchasing guns legally in order to kill? Where is Bill Clinton when you need him? I hope that Obama can get a backbone on this "touchy" subject and support the passing on a law that will better regulate gun sales. Whether it is not allowing for multiple assault weapons to be purchased by one individual over a certain time period...removing assault weapons from legal civilian purchase...whatever...I don't care! If only Romney wasn't under such grips from the staunch Republicans and could think for himself...maybe he would pass a law on arms like he did as Governor of Mass. But now he has completely changed and is all for the 2nd Amendment at it's fullest. Our only hope is Obama...but I doubt he will touch on the subject during an election year...I do not doubt that he would support a law on gun restriction. (And contrary to Republican bullet points, Obama has not done anything about gun restrictions or the 2nd Amendment--unfortunately).
If you want to add your name to a campaign asking for simple and do-able things...sign this petition: http://www.bradycampaign.org/ or contact your representatives. I hope people will be inspired to act on this.
How many more cases like this do we have to see on tv until we have to live through it ourselves? Or should we ask for our elected officials to help us help ourselves by asking for a bit more from gun owners...sellers...all involved? I am not asking for everyone with a gun (that they use to protect their families) be handed back or not allowed...BUT WHO NEEDS AN ASSAULT RIFLE other than a killer or someone on our countries various defense teams?!! It is pretty basic common sense, really.

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BYU commencement in 1972, President Brown counseled graduating students to “Strive to develop a maturity of mind and emotion and a depth of spirit which enables you to differ with others on matters of politics without calling into question the integrity of those with whom you differ. Allow within the bounds of your definition of religious orthodoxy variation of political belief. Do not have the temerity to dogmatize on issues where the Lord has seen fit to be silent.” He also warned, “beware of those who feel obliged to prove their own patriotism by calling into question the loyalty of others. Be skeptical of those who attempt to demonstrate their love of country by demeaning its institutions.”

And when you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information
Oh, they can bend it all they want
John Mayer: "Waiting on the World to Change"

"Let us learn respect for others if we are to realize the abundant life. Man, by nature, is tempted to seek only his glory and not the glory of his neighbor or the glory of his God. None of us lives alone—in our city, our nation, or our world. There is no dividing line between our prosperity and our neighbor’s poverty."

-Thomas S Monson

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Scripture of the day:

Scriptures to have in our hearts when we vote!

"That now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality." — 2 Corinthians 8:14

"Renounce war and proclaim peace." — D&C 98:16

"And the Lord called his people Zion, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them." — Moses 7:18

"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction." — James 1:27

"Plead the cause of the poor and the needy." — D&C 124:75

"We do not believe it just to mingle religious influence with civil government, whereby one religious society is fostered and another proscribed in its spiritual privileges, and the individual rights of its members, as citizens, denied." — D&C 134:9

"And now, because of the steadiness of the church they began to be exceedingly rich, having abundance of all things whatsoever they stood in need—an abundance of flocks and herds, and fatlings of every kind, and also abundance of grain, and of gold, and of silver, and of precious things, and abundance of silk and fine-twined linen, and all manner of good homely cloth. And thus, in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; and they did not set their hearts upon riches; therefore they were liberal to all, both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, whether out of the church or in the church, having no respect to persons as to those who stood in need." —Alma 1:29-30

Hel 4:12-13
12 And it was because of the ^apride of their hearts, because of their exceeding ^briches, yea, it was because of their oppression to the ^cpoor, withholding their food from the hungry, withholding their clothing from the naked, and smiting their humble brethren upon the cheek, making a ^dmock of that which was sacred, denying the spirit of prophecy and of revelation, murdering, plundering, lying, stealing, committing adultery, rising up in great contentions, and deserting away into the land of Nephi, among the Lamanites—

13 And because of this their great wickedness, and their ^aboastings in their own strength, they were left in their own strength; therefore they did not prosper, but were afflicted and smitten, and driven before the Lamanites, until they had lost possession of almost all their lands.