December 7, 2015

Today is the 74th Anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  More than 2,000 people were killed, thousands more wounded, and a crippling blow on the US Navy was delivered in a short period of time.  Americans came together, rebuilt the fleet, and masterfully conducted war on a global scale, proving to the world that, "You don't *&$# with America."

September 11, 2001, Islamist terrorists hijack four commercial aircraft, slam two of them into the towers of the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon, and lost the fourth to a courageous group of passengers who forced the plane into the ground, killing everyone aboard.  All totaled, more than 3,000 people lose their lives in the attack, thousands more wounded, and thousands more with ongoing medical problems from the dust from the falling towers, or injuries related to the attack.  Americans came together, rebuilt the tower, toppled a sadistic dictator and a tyrannical leadership bringing freedom to both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Fast Forward another fourteen years, to 2015.  Islamist terrorists publicly behead anyone in Syria and Iraq that isn't affiliated with ISIS.  They carry out attacks in Germany, German warplanes fly 1,100 sorties in a week.  The terrorists kill 130 some people in Paris, French warplanes fly another 1,200 sorties in a week.  In California, 14 people are killed by a couple who have pledged allegiance to the "Islamic State," the President cites the need for more gun control, our Governor flies to San Bernadino to get a few photo's taken before he goes to Paris to show the world what a Paradise he has created in California, and it takes Presidential speech writers 4 days to come up with a spin on the attack that meets with Obama's approval.  Meanwhile, US military aircraft continue to run less than 50 sorties per week.  Is it me?  Or is there something wrong?

First of all, the Right to own weapons is guaranteed by our Constitution, more correctly by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, such Amendments being known as The Bill of Rights.  It would take a Constitutional Amendment to change that, and that just cannot happen.  The sole purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect the citizenry from a Government that seeks to ignore the Constitution for the purpose of oppressing We The People.  While many are distracted by gun control, many others are assailing our Right to Free Speech under the guise of Political Correctness.  All the while, the President, by his own words, "has a phone and a pen," and no intention of living up to his oath of office to, "protect and defend" the Constitution, not "object and suspend".

I'm 64, and have 30 - 35 years, tops, left on this planet, and yet I may still live to see this Country suffer some horrendous injury.  That thought saddens me in ways I cannot describe.  I pray, every day, that Americans put aside their petty arguments, and start working together one more time.

In the 20th Century, American history was a continuing story of overcoming any disaster, Natural or man-made. So far, the 21st Century is a story of vanity, over-sensitivity, and entitlement.  It's not a great start, but together we can overcome anything.  We're AMERICAN'S damn it!  It's time to go back to acting like it.