After guns then what?

Sometimes we begin to see a political movement’s true colors at the strangest times.

Recently Bill Clinton was supposed to be giving a speech on technology in Las Vegas. In the middle of the speech he diverted to a rant about gun control and in the middle of that rant he made the interesting if not surprising comment “why does anyone need a 30 round clip for a weapon”.   

And there we have it; the Liberal’s view of the future for America is not individual liberty for citizens. It’s not Americans having the greatest freedom to live their lives as they see fit. The Liberal’s view of America is a country where the government will decide what you “need”.

Today the Liberal “powers that be” have deemed we don’t need high capacity magazines. Maybe next year we will not need SUV’s, or two bathrooms in our houses. Maybe Washington will decide we don’t need to keep our houses so warm, or that we don’t even need private homes. In the last few years our elected officials decided we don’t need incandescent light bulbs or toilets that flush with too much water. More and more the people in Washington have moved from managing the government to managing our lives.

Recently a co-worker of mine was visiting a customer in China, it was the start of winter and he ask his host why it was so cold in the hotel lobby and in the factory he was visiting. The host explained the government had not turned the heat on yet, apparently the Chinese government had determined the people did not need heat at that time.  

History shows us a long list of failed governments that in order to maintain their power, continually crush the personal liberties of the citizens, all the time telling them they don’t need things like free speech or freedom of assembly. In all these cases, the first thing the government deemed its citizens did not need was firearms.

The funny thing is that being able to purchase a 30 round magazine is ultimately the only thing that really prevents the people in the government from the very tyranny Clinton and his liberal friends’ envision for our future.  Realizing what this one piece of legislation can lead to clarifies that the ability to purchase a 30 round magazine Mr. Clinton is exactly what we as American citizens need.

Not that it is any of your business.