The present battle between those that produce and those that consume has been going on for years in many societies.  It is almost cliche today to allude to Greece or Spain or even Argentina. Throughout the world, classes have existed since our early history as a people.  It is a creation and perpetration of those in or desiring power to remain so through the subjugation of others.  It exists in form and practice from hard chains, to outcasts, to race, to cast, to economic.   While the physical exploitation of another human is reprehensible at all levels, it is not to say that in any society left to its own accord, classes of the populace will not develop on their own.  There are always those who are more energetic, ambitious, industrious, and those who would rather sleep late, lounge and see what the industrious have provided for sustenance.  There will also always be those who simply cannot fend for themselves through a lack of capacity, either mental or physical.   Most developed societies have built economic and service centric safety nets to care for those at the very bottom.

Therefore, it should not be surprising that the societal breakdown seen today is rooted on economics.  Economic encumbrance is tool of most of the major socialist governments across the globe and used to enhance the segregation of the classes through a planned growth in government reliance, not only on those at the very bottom but on the lazy and the interlopers.  The building of the entitlement mentality is an organized strategy of social engineering as is the building of an ever larger government industrial complex to service the large and growing entitled base.  Wrapped in the guise of democracy, the slightest hint at a cutting of benefits to the new entitled brings them out to the polls in droves.  To perpetuate this large managed voting block, government must control the media. Through bailouts, lots of advertising dollars and preferential access to stories and leaders, the media become the whores of the message.  Orchestrated through their governmental masters to develop and build on the growing economic separation between the makers and takers, through a persistent barrage of programing, news stories, situational comedies, and documentaries, the false economy of envy and social injustice. Using race, economics and social engineering on so many levels as to be un-followable, Governments, be them sovereign or global, ( National or United Nations) through their vast media holdings create the ultimate us vs. them uprising in culture and society.  Growing ever larger on the backs on the producers until either the producers cry, Enough! or more certainly the ability to raise revenues to sustain the entitlement class is just unbearable causing an economic collapse and the destruction of societal norms.

This is the precarious dance the US finds itself in under the leadership of the current socialist regime.  On every level the actions of the current government are designed and executed to ensure its own existence and prosperity using the carefully crafted entitled class as tools to the preservation of their own power and wealth.  The inevitable economic crash will cause violent uprisings as millions realize that the well is dry, the producers have run out of funds and the ability to provide jobs or produce the tax revenue the government requires to provide for the entitled.  Alas we have become Greece, Spain, Italy,Portugal and Argentina.

What the government has thus far been unable to due to prepare the country for the inevitable is disarm us.  This week Pravda, ( yes That Pravda ) warned US citizens to hold onto our guns, citing that Russia was a very armed society during the time of the Tzars and thus enjoyed a vibrant economic and governmental balance.  The Revolution brought about a seizure of guns and decades of economic and society oppression ensued as the populace was unable to defend itself from years of tyranny.  There is a very real attack on our 4th and 2nd amendments playing out in several venues.  Gov. Cuomo is  call for a confiscation of guns in clear violating both while Florida now has over one million concealed weapons carriers.  The same arguments at differing degrees are being debated in Congress.  Everything is in play.  Meanwhile the lines to get in to regional gun shows, the months long waiting list for rifles at dealers and even from manufacturers direct, due to the unprecedented demand for firearms clearly declares that majority of the population “Gets It”.  But will they be able to keep it?  Its imperative that the message of what is happening gets out on a very socialized level to permeate the fog of the government media.  Very emotional arguments are built on these social issues and arguing on logic in the media is nearly impossible.  Educating family and friends, direct conversations with local government representatives, and personal strategies to protect family, property and way of life in the face of looming economic breakdown and the violence it will bring is the order of the day.  Let’s do our part.  And let us prepare.

As of this week there are a million of us in my state.  We believe in the Constitution, Liberty and the freedom to provide our own security.   We take personal and proactive responsibility for the protection of our family, homes and property.  We are legal and registered concealed weapons carriers.  We believe in the 2nd amendment and that a well armed citizenry is the first and last line of defense against tyranny.  We believe our Founding Fathers understood that liberty and freedom were paramount and that government works best when it works at the will of the people and not by Executive mandate.

Somehow we have taken a detour from the moral highroad and have targeted and labeled the independent patriots in our country as a dangerous subversive counter culture. It is difficult to comprehend that there are active conversations in our Country’s Government about the abolition of our Second Amendment the right to bear arms.  That members of our Congress would openly advocate violating the Fourth Amendment to have our personal and legal property, illegally confiscated by Executive Fiat.

That this is happening to this Great Nation, Conceived in Liberty is a tragedy in itself.

It would have been previously unfathomable that the radical voices of a few could so charge the debate with emotion and contortions of truth that discussion of the discharge of our Constitutional Rights and how best to protect them has become necessary dinnertime conversations.

A few months ago I was in Washington DC and about to get on the Metro when it dawned on me that I was in one of the most dangerous and corrupt cities in America, where Mayor Barry once was once re-elected to office after having been caught on video tape, in a hotel room with a prostitute, smoking crack cocaine, and I, a legal and trained concealed weapon license holder am forced to disarm myself while surrounded by thugs who most likely are not.  The irony of that should not be lost in other large cities either.  It is no surprise that Chicago, The bastion of Government gone wrong and the city with some of the strictest gun laws in America, also has the highest murder rate.   Arm the wolves, slaughter the sheep.

I simply cannot understand the mindset that thinks this is a logical and clear response to the rampant violence in America.  That the answer to high criminal activity is to disarm the law abiding population.  Two plus Two doesn’t equal 4 in this world and I will never understand the gun paranoia.  We have serious issues with violence in America but they are not caused or contributed to by a legally armed law abiding citizenry.  Tragedy and mass murder in American unfortunately happen.  But it has throughout the years and some of the most heinous acts were simply not the result of firearms in the hands of the law abiding.  The worst School Massacre was a bombing in the 1930s that resulted in the deaths of 38 children.  The Oklahoma bombing killed 20 children in the daycare on the ground floor, 9-11 was box cutters and airplanes, and on the same day as the devastating tragedy in CT, 20 plus school children ages 6,7,8 and their teacher where slashed by a deranged  knife wielding attacker at their school in China.

The senseless attack on legally owned firearms is akin to the TSA and school resource officers in that they provide a completely false sense of security.  The real security would come from adopting the Israeli policy of all teachers being armed.  Many with assault weapons.  They don’t have this kind of problem in Israel.  They do have a bombing problem, but when you look at the worst domestic attacks in our history with the largest losses of life, so do we.  The mainstream media always panders to the radical anti gun fringe on this issue because its easy and emotional.  They will never address the myriad difficult issues at play in all incidents like the CT school killings such as the need for active profiling, the stigma of mental health treatment, the need for increased active security, the moral breakdown of the single parent or no active parent home and poor parenting in general.    Its too easy to barrage the nightly news with emotional feel good pleas for banning this gun or confiscating that gun which will do nothing to address the heart of a problem that’s taken generations to create.  Its time to stop the knee jerk feel good reactionary calls for unconstitutional acts against law abiding Americans and address the real causes of violence in America.  In a subsequent article I will address the culpability of the Movie and Game industry in the trend toward violence in America and how their contributions to the left fuel the anti gun debate while ignoring the effect of first shooter games and a steady outpouring of violence from Hollywood.

Last, you may not have paid attention to how quickly the news coverage of the Oregon Mall shooting came to an end.  It was evidently inconvenient for the media to cover  in depth that that killing rampage came to an end after the shooter was confronted by a concealed weapons carrier and knew there was no escape but to kill himself thus saving further bloodshed.