School Shootings Blow back's REAL TARGET: Our Fears, Freedoms

Will Grapentine

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before." These words were spoken by former Obama hatchet man and Democrat political wizard Ram Emanuel. Very early on this quote was said in an interview, and vit's ethos has been well-documented within the Obama administration from the get go. Presidential politics aside, I think that very quote can also be used to sum up the topic of school shootings, gun violence as a whole, and how certain isolated cases - although horrific - are INDEED NOT the product of some grand root cause or conspiratorial issue to assign blame to. Certainly in the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado shooting (AKA the "Batman Shooting", as it took place on the premiere day of 'The Dark Knight Rises' in July of 2012), and the more recent Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, their have only been one winner following these tragedies: those who politicized the horrific tragedy as a means to a greater end.

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The biggest example, are those who want to trample the Second Amendment's right to bare arms (famously upheld in the famed case of 'DC V. HELLER') by utilizing the Tenth Amendment (which is state and local government enacting stricter laws beyond the federal). This has happened recently in towns such as Providence and Exeter, that use a "death by a thousand paper cuts" game plan to make it harder to purchasing guns or limiting access to legal firearm purchasing by average,non-criminal law-abiding citizens.

The second example of those utilizing gun violence for a more sinister purpose are those that target the entertainment industry as the root cause for feeding young peoples minds with - GASP! - "inappropriately violent material". Although a drum beat of parenting groups, social workers, and pop psychologists for YEARS ('Ninja Turtles' in the '80s, 'Power Rangers' and 'Mortal Combat' in the 90s, etc), video games have now entered the frey and become the target for the enemies of expression to prey upon. Most recently, this cabal has found a hero in big time Hollywood exec Harvey Weinstein, producer of Quentin Terrentino's peace-protests-on-film 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction' (read: sarcasm) now calling for a self-censorship against releasing violent movies (how that holds up with the rest of Hollywood brass - the one that banks on purely an entertained movie goer -we have yet to find out).

Lastly, those that never let such sad tragedies as school shootings go to waste would be the society of those that prey on the fearful. Politicians, "child expert" authors, or anti gun lobbyists in D.C. that believe more government is always the answer, and a 'Police State' with law enforcement and military the only ones who have the right to bare arms simply because they are an arm of government.

This agitators have a BIG MICROPHONE and are often given what appears to be the loudest voice in the debate on freedoms (whether it be First OR Second Amendment-related). In the meantime, let us as freedom-loving individuals be mindful of Rham's words and be skeptical of those that want to trade our long-standing liberties for an uncertain security.

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