More Guns, Less Crime: Why “Gun Free Zones” are Invitations for Criminals

I don’t mean to politicize a tragedy, but when our elected officials–Senator Dianne Feinstein–waste no time to make Monday’s Navy Yard shootings a stage to push policy in our nation’s capitol, I feel its only necessary to reply to the gun grabbers.

Details are still sketchy, but what we do know is that 34 year-old, Aaron Alexis of Fort Worth, Texas took the lives of 12 innocent Navy Yard contract workers, as well as injuring 13 others, on what seems to be a planned shooting spree that started just after 8:00am EST this morning.

This is the second military base shooting during President Obama’s administration, the first coming back in 2009, at the Foot Hood military base in Texas.

You would think the last place a mass murderer would pick to take out whatever anger or revenge, would be a military base–where our military soldiers are trained and equipped to defend our country against any threat.  But Alexis had two things going for him–first, Alexis had a security clearance that granted him access to the Navy Yard from a military contractor he’d recently been hired by.

Second, is that fact that all military personnel are by law are unable to carry a sidearm on base for their own protection, due to the 1993 gun bill signed by President Bill Clinton.

Even though the 12 victims were civilians, the fact that half of the entire base which employees nearly 3,000 individuals could have been armed–the other half civilians–could have been enough to deter Alexis from his actions and or help to defend against him as well.

The scary reality we must face is that criminals know “gun free zones” are areas where they are able to follow through with these senseless acts of violence, with help often arriving before it is too late, and too many lives lost.

Talk Loudly and Carry a Limp Stick

Main stream media will have you believe that the foreign policy strategy and execution of the Obama administration since 2009 has been quite a success.  Osama Bin Laden is dead, al- Qaeda is on the run and our brilliant diplomatic leader is close to making a deal with a ruthless dictator in Syria to hand over his chemical weapons to the U.N. because (Assad) is terrified of what President Obama may do.

However when one reads the details, the Obama administration’s handling of foreign affairs has been one of the worst since fellow Democrat Jimmy Carter in the late 1970’s.

First let’s asses the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan back in May of 2011.  Now there’s no denying this was a success by finally bringing justice to the man who was responsible for killing nearly 3,000 innocent Americans on 9/11/01.

However it was the administrations’ actions after the raid that raises many eyebrows such as the releasing of classified information about the raid, which ultimately led to the deaths of multiple members of Seal team 6.   Also, the Obama administration has done nothing to help the jailed Pakistani doctor, Shakeel Afridi, who helped lead CIA operatives to the Bin Laden compound.

The second misconception the Obama administration would like American’s to believe is that since Bin-Laden is dead, Al-Qaeda is on the retreat.  This is far from true and the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi, Libya—coming on the eve of last year’s presidential election—on 9/11/12 are just one example. 

The attack, which was first labeled as a spontaneous demonstration over a YouTube video—that no one in the Muslim world even saw—led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens.  It took the State Department as well as the White House weeks to fully acknowledge that the attack was terrorism and preplanned, however further details and those held accountable are still unknown to this day. 

Lastly is the nearly two and a half year long civil war ongoing in Syria.  On August 21, video out of the country spread around the world showing hundreds of men, women and children suffering at the hands of chemical weapons, which was presumed to be used by the Assad regime on his own people.

Going back to April of 2012, President Obama was asked about Syrian intervention—and going off the teleprompter—Obama drew a “red line” if Assad were to use chemical weapons on his own countrymen.

This put President Obama in a pickle, and immediately—after returning from a weeklong vacation in Martha’s Vineyard—without any studies, or congressional dialogue announced that America should take action!  This put Congress on both sides of the aisle—on vacation as well—calling on the President to think before acting, and that Congressional approval should come first.

After deliberating with his “brain trust” Obama then called on Congress to vote on military action in Syria, beginning his nonstop campaign as president, this time urging Republicans and Democrats to go to war—something he had been very critical of his predecessor doing.

Finally, after Secretary of State John Kerry made the biggest foreign policy gaffe in recent memory by telling the media that if Syria gave up all their chemical weapons, they could avoid war.  Thus set the stage for Vladimir Putin to save the day, and negotiate a deal with his Syrian ally to do just that.

After this negotiation, Congress has delayed the vote to go to war, waiting to see what will come of the Russia, Syria agreement.  Already though one thing is clear, Obama has lost respect among the international world, with Putin going to as many lengths as to have an op-ed published in Wednesday’s New York Times, mocking America and subliminally giving his stamp as the new world leader.  

A Big Bite of Conservatism hits the Big Apple

This week The Heritage Foundation pulled out all the stops in their latest effort to persuade the American public that Obamacare  is not what it was promised to be, and that defunding it in next month’s Continuing Resolution to fund the government, is what’s best for all Americans.

In the heart of Times Square now sits a Hollywood style billboard plainly stating “Waning: Obamacare may be hazardous to your health.”

The sign will remain in the heart of the Times Square “Bowtie” for the rest of the month, which on its busiest days is host to over 460,000 pedestrians, and what Heritage President Jim DeMint hopes will stir up debate around this unpopular law.

This is one of the most initiative, but yet simple ways (besides the money) to relay the message to the majority of Americans who do not think Obamacare effects them, when in fact it effects us all!  Employee mandates are already killing jobs, and the 20,000 pages of regulations have cost premium rates to skyrocket in almost every state.

But the most important thing that every American should understand is that we must make sure medical decisions are left up to the individual and doctor.  Destroying this relationship, and leaving medical decisions in the hands of D.C. bureaucrats will no longer give the quality health care that millions of Americans have come to rely on.

Little Barry & The Limbaugh Theorem

Well he’s at it again! Today in Sweden, President Barack Obama once again pushed the blame on someone else–this time “the world”–when he stated that he was not the one that set the red line for action in Syria, but rather the world set it a long time ago. This is the definition of what Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh calls “The Limbaugh Theorem” meaning that the President constantly separates himself from the distraction at hand to make it look as if he had or has nothing to do with it.