IS AMERICA BEING HELD AT GUN POINT BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

IS AMERICA BEING HELD AT GUN POINT BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

IS AMERICA BEING HELD AT GUN POINT BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

Here we are at the gates of confusion and the voice of reasoning continues to be shut out because no one is willing to send out an invitation. Let’s face it, this problem isn’t going to go away as long as the corporate engine is given fuel to run. Guns are big business in America. the guns and ammunition industry continues to thrive in the United States. This year, the industry is expected to rack up a steady $11.7 billion in sales and $993 million in profits, according to analysts at IBIS World. Gun makers churned out nearly six million guns last year — double the number that they did a decade ago. Civilian gun sales have surged ever since the financial crisis and the election of President Obama. Many buyers, IBIS notes, were either worried about rising crime rates during the downturn or fearful of new gun-control laws under the Obama administration. Since 2007, the industry has grown at a brisk 5.7 percent annual pace.

THE SECOND AMENDMENT

Analysts HAVE CALLED Obama “the best thing that ever happened to the firearm industry.”  During the first three-and-a-half years of the Obama administration, the FBI conducted nearly 50 million background checks on gun purchases — nearly double the amount during George W. Bush’s first term. (That’s usually a good indicator of rising interest.) The number of licensed dealerships has risen for the first time in 20 years. Now there is one thing I can say about the Government, whenever something tragic happens an official will seem to always find a scapegoat to take the fall.

I find it amazing how everyone is always caught up in the discussion of making it more difficult for convicted felons and mentally disturbed individuals to obtain firearms. When in fact…all of the mass shootings have  been carried out by so-called tax paying citizens. I don’t call a person crazy who has a sickness in their hearts. Every aspect of slavery was demoralizing and dehumanizing to blacks but to say whites were crazy makes no sense. It boiled down to what was in their hearts and how they perceived the world. The shooters in the mass shootings have one thing in common. They all possess a warped sense of thinking. Which means anyone at any time can be classified as being, “crazy” if they think outside the box or fall outside what we consider normal. Stay focused. They greatest illusionist used props and distractions to pull off their tricks.

So regardless of how stringent the governments policies are, it’s a proven fact guns will fall into the hands of people with bad intentions. Especially, if the perpetrators will be featured as the headline story in the news all over the world. As a practice WE, here on StreetJustice will never give the name of individuals who take it upon themselves to take innocent lives for the sake of fulfilling their selfish agendas. WE will never post their photos, social media sites nor will we deb into their background. We would rather devote that time and effort towards remembering the lives of the victims they harm.  In fact, there should be a bill proposed to erase their existence from every data base in the US. So with all due respect to the victims family members WE would like to take this moment to send out our prayers and best wishes.

So as a nation…ARE WE BEING HELD AT GUN POINT BY THE SECOND AMENDMENT?

WHEN a young man walked into an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut in December 2012 and murdered 20 small children and six staff with a Bushmaster rifle from his mother’s gun collection, some wondered if a tipping-point had been reached. Surely America would now enact laws to keep lethal weapons out of the wrong hands? America has done nothing but allowed politics to act as our conscious at a time when senseless violence continue to plague our soil. Don’t get me wrong…I am not so caught up with in the tragedy that I have abandoned common sense. There is absolutely no way to keep us safe from all dangers. Placing a ban on gun will not solve our problem. There are a lot of factors to consider in this discussion. But there has to be an open forum established and lawmakers have to be held accountable for the choices they make regarding this matter.

Numbers don’t lie! Or can we be deceived by general stats to make us feel safer? Particularly, when statistics are involved, the determination of what constitutes a credible fact (and what does not) can contain elements of personal subjectivity. It is our mission to minimize subjective information and to provide highly factual content.

At the 2013 homicide rate, roughly one in every 285 Americans will be murdered in the course of their lives.

* A U.S. Justice Department study based on crime data from 1974-1985 found:

• 42% of Americans will be the victim of a completed violent crime (assault, robbery, rape) in the course of their lives.

• 83% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime.

• 52% of Americans will be the victim of an attempted or completed violent crime more than once.

* A 1997 survey of more than 18,000 prison inmates found that among those serving time for a violent crime, “30% of State offenders and 35% of Federal offenders carried a firearm when committing the crime.”

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WHEN DOES FREEDOM OF SPEECH TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM?

Freedom of speech in the United States is protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and by many state constitutions and state and federal laws.  But the question is: WHEN DOES FREEDOM OF SPEECH TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM? Freedom of speech is the right to communicate one’s opinions and ideas without fear of government retaliation or censorship. The term freedom of expression is sometimes used synonymously, but includes any act of seeking, receiving and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Recently a Georgia woman, Ebony Dickens, was arrested for posting rants stating in part, “all blacks should rise up and shot every white cop.” Protecting free speech means protecting a free press, the democratic process, diversity of thought, and so much more. Now how is that this woman’s Facebook page be sent to the news media for ranting and the individuals who keep carrying out mass shooting all over America continue to execute innocent people in the street.

The First Amendment of the Constitution protects the right to freedom of religion and freedom of expression from government interference. See United States Amendment I. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. The Supreme Court interprets the extent of the protection afforded to these rights. The First Amendment has been interpreted by the Court as applying to the entire federal government even though it is only expressly applicable to Congress. Furthermore, the Court has interpreted, the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as protecting the rights in the First Amendment from interference by state governments. See U.S. Const. amend. XIV.

Here we have a police officer telling you actually the way he feels. But he’s not just speaking for himself. He is a pawn speaking for an organization with ominous political agendas. Plain and simple the United States is a racist country, there is absolutely no way of dancing around the subject. Blacks and minorities are being killed in record numbers by white police officers all around the U.S., this is a fact which cannot be disputed.

If the government is going to arrest people, ie., BLACK PEOPLE, for speaking out… Then surely people; ie., WHITE PEOPLE, who rant and make manifestos publicly on social media should be arrested too before we find them in headlines reading, “ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING” took place somewhere in America.

I’m all about justice! I call a spade a spade and based on the way laws are executed in this country it’s safe to say the United States is in fact a racist country. Despite the fact we have an African American president and BET,  (BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION) which isn’t black owned.

According to FBI statistics, 27 police officers were feloniously killed in 2013, the lowest raw number in more than 50 years. (The previous low was 41 in 2008.) If we go by officer homicides as a percentage of active-duty police, it was probably the safest year in a century. The number of cops killed on duty has been falling since the mid-1990s, consistent with the overall drop in violent crime in America. Assaults against police officers have been in decline as well.

I don’t care what school of thought you ascribe to. It’s clear to see how the powers that be are responsible for how our perceptions are shaped. When one group is discriminated against by the laws which govern the land, it sends out a serious message. I am not advocating violence, I’m just speaking out against it.

WHEN DOES FREEDOM OF SPEECH TAKE AWAY YOUR FREEDOM?

 

 

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