OPINION:
The Red Chinese, North Korea and the USSR have been or were aware for decades that the only way to enslave a population was to disarm them. They also knew that a nation could be controlled through its youth. Add to these philosophical ideas the socialist doctrine that any means necessary can and should be used to achieve a desired end goal, and you have the main ingredients for why the United States is in such turmoil in 2018.
Now we have progressives trotting out 15- and 16-year-old students as the victims of NRA training, when the sad truth is that each and every victim of Parkland, Las Vegas and Newtown were the victims of progressive ideology, period. Progressives have slowly but steadily been removing behavioral boundaries for decades, ensuring that no one is held responsible for their actions, even when they are purely evil, like the murderer in Parkland.
Tinkering with the Second Amendment as a political means to a progressive end is a fool’s errand. Firearms owners of America are not responsible for school shootings and they will not be forced into sacrificing their rights to cover the crimes of the progressive left.
If the gauntlet is thrown, progressives will lose.
JEFFREY DISSELL
Gainesville, Fla.
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