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Do We Understand – Important Truths From President James Madison

Exclamation Mark Sometimes revisiting a topic is required to help promote urgency in learning. Other times revisiting a subject helps to broaden the mind to more of the problem. My intent in reviewing the topic of understanding is for both of these reasons. President Madison provides counsel that every American should be adhering to, regardless of political flavor, as the first policy in being a responsible citizen.

We begin with an absolute from President Madison, stated two different ways, with the same meaning:

- - “The trust is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”
  - “All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.”

To those who would like to be female apologists and excuse women just because President Madison used the term “men” here, the President spoke of “men” as in all humankind. As in, when power is invested in any person, they should be mistrusted. They should be carefully watched, monitored, and scrutinized. Not blindly trusted to act and never called out for their actions. Hence the role of the media, the role of laws, the role of three co-equal branches of government. Yet, what do we find today?

Honestly, take a look around, and take off the political glasses of partisan politics for a moment. Can you honestly claim that the media is representing fairly both sides of the partisan political spectrum? Can you honestly trust the co-equal branches of government not to be intimidated, cajoled, browbeaten, or unduly influenced by another branch? Is the military following their civilian leaders without political influence and acting in the best interest of all Americans? Is each of the co-equal branches of the government pulling their weight and acting in accordance with the law?

Now, look closer to home. How about the school board, the mayor, the governor, the state legislature, the county board, the city council, the town council, and every other bureaucrat vested with public trust. Are they obeying the duties and honoring the roles of their office and deserving of the public trust? What about the teachers in classrooms who the school board officials directly supervise? Are your children taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, or are they being taught wokeism, sexism, and being groomed for sexual perverts?

“Public office is a public trust, the authority and opportunities of which must be used as absolutely as the public moneys for the public benefit, and not for the purposes of any individual or party.” ~ Dorman Bridgeman Eaton

Public trust remains the single most important and least discussed aspect of American culture and American politics, mainly because public trust is the most misunderstood concept. Public trust has been intentionally misunderstood (plasticized), so it can be perverted and challenging to understand. Yet, public trust comes down to one thing and is revealed through an easy test in its most simple form. Would you leave your home and children alone, under the supervision of any person holding public office? If the answer is yes, they hold your public trust. If the answer is no, why are they in office?

Using President Madison’s quotes above, no one in a position of public trust should be “trusted” without verification, scrutinization, and they should be held accountable for their decisions made while in office. Missouri is the “Show-Me State!” I possess a “Missouri Mindset,” show me you have done the job correctly. Show me; you are transparent in doing the job you were elected to perform. Show me you can be trusted. I am willing to give anyone a chance at leadership, but they had better show me they can do the job!

Under the heading of trust and show me comes an important principle, and President Madison elaborates this principle simply, eloquently, and precisely.

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Find me that article of the US Constitution. If you cannot find that, then the Federal, State, and City governments need to get out of taking money through taxes and giving money to people who have not earned it. Welfare belongs to charity groups and religions, not governments! Pork barrel spending is anathema to good order and discipline and should be shunned and shamed. Consider with me the plethora of laws that have been invented to control society just because of the government welfare programs. Soulful Musings: Don't Tell Me, "Show Me"

Food controls, including price controls, control what, when, and how much a farmer can grow, how a farmer can grow, and much more. These controls include legalized theft of a farmer’s goods which the supreme court has upheld.

Dairy, farm, and rancher controls for grain, meat, and milk. Then when the government has too much in store, they force price-controls, forcing dairy and ranchers out of business in support of large commercial production facilities at the expense of smaller and medium-sized operations. Labeling laws that unfairly punish smaller and medium-sized establishments.

Larger governments manage programs through bureaucrats and bureaucratic inertia that are abused at every potential opportunity and are not scrutinized adequately for waste, fraud, and abuse. Where systems and operations are regularly gamed to keep the benefits rolling in at the expense of society, taxpayers, and those needing assistance cannot receive assistance due to the gamesmanship and fraud of others. Show Don't Tell - Working Writers

I am all for helping people learn how to help themselves, using charity programs and religious outreach. But, taxpayer dollars should NEVER be spent in helping one person at the cost of another person!

The following has caused many a discussion in my home. I hope it will cause many a conversation in your homes. May those discussions be heated, be full of lovely disagreement, and be full of fiery opinions. For in the spirited debates come ideas and solutions that work. Invite people who disagree with you to dinner, and may the food and conversation be a delightful experience and a gustatory wonder!

“In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.”

What is the discussion in my home centered upon, “How does a citizen ‘oblige a government to control itself?’” I will offer a couple of suggestions here. Feel free to refute my recommendations with your own in the comments below. Better still, suggest more ideas for topics of discussion. I am not the only person with ideas, and we need every person to help “oblige” the government to control itself!

1. 1. Be an informed electorate! – The one thing a politician fears or should fear more than a ballot box is an informed electorate. Do you know why the politicians preferred Dewey’s system of functionally illiterate stooges to the informed electorate of the early 1900s? They could get away with robbing the citizens blind! When the citizenry is not informed, they become property, bought and sold as chattel (cows, goats, sheep). Doesn’t this make you angry that your elected leaders and the unelected Hollywood elite think of you this way?
  2. Scrutinize government and demand transparency! – It is your government. Tell me something, if your neighbor went across town and graffitied buildings, broke windows, burned property, and defecated on private property, then told the authorities that you had paid him to do these acts, would you be a little concerned? If your neighbor did these things and used your hard-earned money to pay for these crimes, would you want revenge and a criminal charge levied against your neighbor? These are the actions of your government; why does the government get a pass? Your name is on the check, right beside mine, claiming full financial responsibility for the actions of our intermediaries, the government.
  3. Gather with like-minded people, teach each other, learn from each other, and teach your children WHY! – Every tin-pot dictator in history has captured children, taken them from hearth and home, and “educated” them away from parents to influence the next generation. Today, we call this “education,” “state-run schools,” using “laws,” and obligations as “good parents” to shame and force parents to send their children into re-education camps. Want to freak out the government; change the next generation!

Finally, President Madison provides two pieces of advice for living in the American Society worthy of knowing and on-boarding.

- - “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.”
  - “The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.”

Consider a parable. Give a person a fish, and he eats for a day. Teach a person to fish, and he eats for a lifetime. Teach a person to fish and sell his wares, and his children build a prosperous society. Knowledge will always govern ignorance, but knowledge and confidence build nations! I do not want to build small communities; I want to rebuild the American Nation, a free nation under God, with liberty and justice for all. I cannot do this alone; our forefathers did not undertake this task alone. It took every member of the 13-original colonies to shake off tyranny and oppression and then build America.

Knowledge Check! It will take every single American citizen, and every single person desiring to be an American citizen to rebuild America, after all the damage intentionally done to her by the political leaders, secret societies, and bitter haters who have abused American generosity and then wanted to protect their pile by destroying America. America has been abused by countries foreign, and enemies domestic, corporations foreign and domestic, and individuals who have paid large sums to watch America burn. Do you understand better now? Is the mission clearer in your mind? Is the task ahead more urgent and more desirable? What are your next steps?

© 2021 M. Dave Salisbury
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Division vs. Unity, Labels, and Big Tech

Last week, while scrubbing my SPAM folder on Gmail, I discovered that Google had arbitrarily been sending several emails containing news of a more conservative slant straight to SPAM. Why would Google arbitrarily act in a manner to thwart the delivery of email? A topic for discussion later in this article.

America faces a huge test right now; division is costing us opportunity, liberty, freedom, and potential. Worse, it will eventually destroy the United States of America, a free Republic (if we can keep it). What is this nefarious foe; a lack of unity. The political parties have become so divisive that families are being torn asunder over something as petty as which political party to embrace. Religion, lifestyle choices, employment opportunities, and so much more are being used to erode America at the family foundation.

Socialsolutions.com reports some disturbing statistics from 2018. However, the COVID-Farrago has seen these numbers only increase, and the numbers for 2020 are still not compiled and updated. ACLEDdata.com provides some of the statistics from 2020, and the political violence inflicted on families is stunning! Where does the blame lay for all this violence, property damage, public property destruction, and the host of terrorism committed in George Floyd’s name; the US President, Vice President, Speakers of the House and Senate, the governors, the mayors, and state legislators.

I am not excusing individual accountability for specific acts, but every silent politician in America has condoned the divisive behavior. The corporate media have fed the violence and division, and the press has even been videoed participating in the violence. My wife stated something, “The problems have become too great for any single individual to make a difference.” I vociferously disagreed then and state unequivocally now that good is still in the majority of America and Americans and that one individual who declares enough is enough can make a world of difference!

Charmaine Yoest, Jack Spencer, John G. Malcolm, and James Carafano, writing for The Daily Signal, published an article on 11 June 2021 worthy of reading. The twelve points they outlined are listed below, and additional commentary is mine.

1. 1. Protect Our Vote – I cannot stress this enough. The November 2020 elections, like all elections since we allowed computers into the mix, were fraught with illegal and illicit behaviors and reflects malfeasance towards the voter. However, that problem is specifically targeted at the local political leaders and judges who refused to allow time for transparent investigations. President Biden and his administration are definitely not helping the situation. Getting the Federal Government out of elections is the pre-eminent step we need to return State Rights to State Governments.
  2. Secure Our Border – America was built on defensible borders, and neglecting those borders is the height of Treason! Webster defines Treason as “The betrayal of allegiance toward one’s own country, especially by committing hostile acts against it or aiding its enemies in committing such acts.” Hostile acts can be refusing to act when problems arise if the failure to act benefits you personally. The continued flaunting of National Security on America’s borders (North and South) is treasonous, and those committing these actions of inaction need to be held accountable before the bar of law!
  3. Stop Adding Debt – Of all the points raised in this Daily Signal article, this point is second most important, only behind defensible borders! Inflation must be fought with smarter monetary policies. Want a good reference for smarter economic policies; Mark Skidmore is a leading economist in the field of government economics and is almost entirely unknown unless you have a hobby in following government monetary policies. Dr. Skidmore has worked with a highly intelligent team of economists to try and find more than $94 Trillion in lost money in the Federal Government. Before America spends another dime, a full and transparent audit must be completed, all the books opened, and criminal charges brought!
  4. Stand Up To China – One of the things I particularly loved about President Trump, and honestly, there weren’t very many, was his hard stance against China! I applaud President Trump’s efforts at leading America while surrounded by enemies foreign and predominantly domestic! But to take a hardline stance against China is still desperately needed; yet, what do we see in the capitols of America, kowtowing to China by America’s elected leaders. ENOUGH! Stop committing Treason with a dedicated foreign enemy!
  5. Do NOT Raise Taxes – [Emphasis Mine] You cannot spend yourself out of debt, and you cannot tax your populace for personal benefits to remain elected by buying votes through forced taxation and government largess! America has never had an income problem; we have always had a spending problem! Debt is captivity, captivity to our enemies is Treason, and those committing Treason need to be held accountable before the law. From the bureaucrat to the politician, every single one needs to be held responsible for what they have and have not done in properly honoring the funds delivered to the Government through forced taxation!
  6. Stop the woke! – From Critical Race Theory to wave upon wave of identity politics, America is being divided so as to be more easily conquered. If you cannot see how dangerous these lines of division are, we need to talk about waking up mentally and recognizing the 800# Gorilla in the room! You do not need to have special identity laws for every single invented identity, and going down that slippery slope produces nothing but harm, chaos, and destruction. Ask Caesar from Ancient Rome how identity politics worked in Ancient Rome. History relates what happens at the end of the identity politics games, and the results are never beneficial!
  7. Cut Red Tape – Another one of those things I applaud President Trump for doing was cutting the Federal Government Red Tape to free the American worker, businesses, and manufacturing. Want a startling statistic; besides inflation, the only other driver of higher costs is government red tape. I learned this as a kid when I saw the taxes included in a gallon of gas. I asked if the same was true of all prices and my parents had no idea. Thus began my hobby of understanding and tracking economics! But, do not take my word for it; look up the cost of bread from 1940 to today, and look at how much government red tape has influenced just a loaf of bread. We, the proper owners of the Government in America, must regain the reigns from the asylum patients and cut government red tape!
  8. Help Us Sleep Safe at Night – Talk about a conjoined issue with defensible borders! Tell me, why are portions of America’s National Parks just as deadly as Northern Mexico? I have read first-hand accounts of scouts stumbling upon drug manufacturing facilities, landmines and guerilla war tactics employed to dissuade investigation, and the armed terrorists living in America’s National Parks to produce drugs for the American markets. Before Big-Tech thought this would blacken certain political parties’ chances at re-election or election, many of those stories were scrubbed from the Internet. Tell me, do you sleep safer at night right now than you did three years ago? My home security costs have skyrocketed, 24/7 surveillance makes me feel like a prisoner in my own home. Yet, the elected officials have blocked all attempts at using the military to root out the terrorists and gangs from America’s National parks and defend the US Borders.
  9. Stop Big-Tech! – Have you noticed the censorship occurring across the Internet? How one day you can find stories on a specific topic and the next you cannot locate those same sources? Perfect example, in February 2020, I could find Dr. Fauci’s research on Coronaviruses and many other research topics. Now, I can find nothing of those early research projects that proved Dr. Fauci is either lying in his research then or lying to the public now. I have emails being sent arbitrarily to SPAM if it is content Google opposes politically. I have witnessed LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and other social media restrict access, shut down accounts, and destroy people’s livelihoods, all because of content the Big-Tech does not find politically palatable. I am done being censored, censured, and prohibited, all because some tech company does not like the truth!
  10. Deliver School Choice – Long have I written that K-12 education is sexually grooming and abusing America’s children instead of teaching them how to read, write, and think logically through arithmetics. K-12 education in America, since the 1860s, has been purposefully designed not to teach students how to read because a literate society knows freedoms and liberties, and an illiterate society can be controlled. Hence, I disagree with these authors; even school choice cannot save America’s youth from abuse at the hands of teachers and bureaucrats embedded in the education system. The individual states need to be freed from the Federal Department of Education. Then, the states need to revamp what education means and begin to throw out the bureaucrats and increase the abilities of teachers to lead and instruct in their classrooms!
  11. Empower Patients, NOT Government – [Emphasis Mine] Being a disabled veteran, having my medical care through the VA, I could not agree more that the Government needs to be ripped out of healthcare and the doctor-patient relationship. However, we also need the litigious nature of society to be corrected. The cost of malpractice insurance is so exceedingly prohibitive that doctors cannot practice independently, and the corporatization of medicine has been growing twice the government intrusion rate! Thus, the red tape needs to be removed, government intrusion needs to be clipped, and people looking at the judicial branch as a gold mine need to be shunted and stopped!
  12. Make Our Streets Safe! – Again, we find an issue with root causes behind defensible borders, military action to fight the drug trade, and the overhaul of the criminal justice system. When the criminal has more rights and protections than the victims, justice is not served! When sentences do not include community service to repair damage to a society, justice for the community is not served. When jail has more privileges than not being incarcerated, the criminal justice system is everything but bringing justice to criminals! We have enough trash, graffiti, weeds, and other community service work needing to be performed for three armies of criminals. Get them on this service instead of sitting all day. Worse, all those “peaceful protestors,” a.k.a domestic terrorists, need to be out repairing the damage to the communities they wrought!

Unity is a precious resource America has always enjoyed in abundance, and the political enemies of America despise America for the unity that has always been here. We might fight like brothers amongst ourselves, we might have ancient grudges and family disputes that spill over state lines, but we are inherently a unified people. Stop allowing the media to preach division, hate, and identity politics. Stop allowing those elected as representatives to divide you and your family. America, we have a choice before us, unite and live, or divide and fall. All of the changes discussed stem from a simple point, will we choose to unite and live or allow division to separate us to be conquered as unpitied sacrifices in a contemptible struggle?

Join me! Join with your neighbors and family members! Let us for a community of responsible and intelligent citizens, who are informed, and active in halting the government abuses at every turn! As a united front, we can win! Believe that, and we are halfway to restoring America to the ”Shining city on a hill!”

© 2021 M. Dave Salisbury
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NO MORE BS: Come, Let Us Reason Together – Chapter 5

Bait & Switch In Chapters 2 and 3 of this series, the discussion regarding money and the $350 Billion dollars COVID relief monies were discussed. As this is a continuing discussion, I would encourage you to read those missives as well for a fuller understanding of the principles being discussed. Regardless, several facts remain pertinent:

1. 1. The states accepting this money will be bound to spend it in a manner the Federal Government specifies.
  2. The money being given to the states as a “stimulus for COVID economic growth,” will not spur anything but inflation and poor fiscal policies.
  3. The strings attached to this money are a noose on individual state economic growth long after the deadline to spend the money (31 December 2026) comes and goes.

Doherty (2021) writing for the NCSL (National Conference of State Legislatures) provides some clarity on the Treasury Department’s rules and regulations regarding this $350 Billion albatross being forced down the state’s throats. The funds being discussed originate in the $1.9 Trillion American Rescue Plan Act, and the Treasury Department has released operational guidance to the states and cities receiving the funds. Never forget, while the Treasury Department claims there is an algorithm for sharing the money, politics and political connections will be the final determinant in who receives how much of the funds being doled out.

The Duty of Americans Pensions are the first point of discussion as to where these funds can go; never forget, pensions remain the largest single expense for states in the United States. Those bloated governmental salaries, negotiated by unions, and put in place by legislative fiat, keep the taxpayer on the hook for poor financial planning long after the initial beneficiaries of the union retirement pyramid scheme and dead and buried. Read carefully the pension data provided by USAToday for a full and detailed discussion on just how big the pension problem is for the states of the United States.

Millstone of Designed Incompetence Just as important, look at the total number of government workers as a share of the total workforce, and you will discover just how big your state and local governments have become. For example, two states selected at random from the 50-state list, New Jersey, and New Mexico are displayed below, and sourced from the article:

New Jersey

Funded ratio: 38.4%
Total pension shortfall: $130.7 billion shortfall (3rd largest)
Gov’t workers as share of total workforce: 13.3% (20th lowest)
Avg. annual payout per public retiree: $32,148 (9th highest)

New Mexico

Funded ratio: 61%
Total pension shortfall: $18.2 billion shortfall (18th largest)
Gov’t workers as share of total workforce: 18.6% (4th highest)
Avg. annual payout per public retiree: $20,907 (15th lowest)

Apathy Consider New Jersey for a moment, if you met 100 new people in one day, more than 1/10^th of those met will work for the state or local government in some capacity, and those 11 people are earning $32,148 taxpayer paid dollars a year for being retired. Worse, New Jersey is kiting checks on your children’s future to the tune of $130.7 Billion dollars every year. Raising taxes cannot help closing the funding gap in the pension. Want more news, the majority of those retired are not living in New Jersey, so all those taxpayer monies are not being recouped in sales taxes, property taxes, and other taxes.

Yet, the Federal Government just borrowed $1.9 Trillion to give the states $350 Billion, and the monies provided will not even pay a years’ worth of pension payments in most cases. Let alone pay for all the other accounts that have been stripped to pay for the pension gap. For example, infrastructure (Roads, Bridges, Highways, Broadband Internet, the Electrical Grid, etc.), Teachers, Community Colleges, Unemployment Insurance, Water and Wastewater Treatment facilities, and Health and Human Services, just to name a few cash strapped state programs.

Plato 2 A few days ago, I was discussing broadband Internet grids, and there susceptibility to failure with people who work for a major Internet Service Provider. In Umatilla County, as an example, the Internet either currently, or previously, went down nightly for 5-6 hours at a time. Read the outage reports and you will find regular large geographic areas of the country suffering with Internet latency and connectivity issues. Yet, your state legislators must focus not upon the potholes damaging your car, not upon shaky bridges and overpasses prone to failure, but upon pensions for retirees. All due to labor unions and promises that should never have been made in the first place!

Pensions are the number one reason I, personally, think that government workers should not be able to unionize, and that the government pensions should be as rigidly controlled as the private sectors pensions. Yet, the inverse is true, unions growing in the public sector, shrinking in the private sector, and the taxpayer is left with the bill. Since the government can continue to kite checks, our children’s great grandchildren are already up to their necks in debt that is unsustainable.

Plato 3 Come, let us reason together for solutions that actually work. I offer below the following suggestions, feel free to agree, disagree, add more, and discuss openly in the comments. We, the owners of government, must re-take control of the government, and to do so, we must communicate and act.

1. 1. Reduce the size of government immediately to the size posted on 31 December 1999. This is an immediate and interim step. To be followed by a position by position, value discussion, where technological solutions to replace workers is decided. Eventually culling government size back to a Pre-1930’s level.
  2. Automate as many functions as possible. The processes of how government function are necessarily complicated to justify a jobs program. This culture of complication must cease forthwith, the processes cleared of unnecessary complications, and streamlined to allow for automation of the processes.
  3. Take the pensions and eradicate the unions. Privatize pensions should be the letter of the law for all, public and private sector employees. Thus, creating a new market and investment industry.
  4. Privatize public maintenance of roads, the fuel taxes are sufficient to pay for this and improve road maintenance immediately.
  5. Privatize wastewater and water generation and distribution.
  6. Privatize and deregulate all utilities, allowing for maximum competition, and ending the private geographic monopolies the tech companies and Internet providers have established.
  7. Privatize K-12 and Community Colleges changing the pay structures for teachers and reducing the “staff” positions. Get focused on delivering a product, the product is an educated student who can read, write, and do math, thinking logically, and critically. This means ending the surplus of standardized tests and putting the teacher in charge of the classroom.

Patriotism Never Give Up! Not every child should be forced into college. Not every job requires a college degree. Opening the community colleges produces certified, trained, and non-debt laden students that are workforce ready. Workforce ready means able, willing, and skilled in working, be that in academia for a degree, or in the workforce as a tradesman the requirement is the same and the distinction needs removed from the leaders of K-12 educational leadership.

The aim and the intent of all government programs is to get out of the way and let people act as they think best for themselves and their families. Not pushing children to college for a degree and a life of debt payments. Not forcing them into the military because you are too lazy to teach them how to read, write, think, and speak. Not forcing them into poverty to support a government jobs program. The government will not go “quietly into that dark night.” But, with enough insistence the government we currently know can be cut, reduced, and forced to retreat. We, the citizens, need to take back our government through the ballot box, through the judicial branch, and through demanding change in the legislative and executive branches at all levels of the government.

Knowledge Check! First step, believe it is possible; live like it has already occurred. Second step, join others to raise the cry and demand the changes. Third, support only candidates who already live fiscally proper, morally upright, and ethically dedicated. Fourth, never give up! Never lose focus, and never relinquish the moral high ground for a bowl of pottage or 30 pieces of silver.

NO MORE BS: I’m A Gun!

Lorne Green sings a song called “I’m a Gun.” A song that is sung from the gun’s point of view of being manufactured to kill, how the killer was not the gun, the holder of the gun, and the remorse the gun feels for the user’s mistakes, but how the firearm cannot change the user’s desires. Consider this truth for a moment, Chicago is about to become a deadly land again, with the weekend shooting totals that far exceed anything seen on a modern battlefield. Happening every weekend until the weather changes to cold again and the shooters go inside to lick their wounds.

But the corporate media will blame the gun for the violence.

I read a recent news article complaining that COVID must soon be over because America is back to shooting each other. Except in an odd twist of fate, several stabbing attacks also happened; however, nobody ever blames the knife for knife violence. Yet, the gun is always to blame for gun violence. Use a hammer, a baseball bat, a machete, etc., and those weapons are never blamed for the violence perpetrated. Use a gun, and get an automatic pass on responsibility, for the gun jumped off the table, forced you to pack it to the site of the crime, twisted your arm to get into your hand, and the gun was the problem for the violence.

At least, this logic is what every defense lawyer and politician in America believes.

The media define mass shootings as at least four people being shot in the same incident, time, and location. Really, but war is never considered a “mass shooting.” So, there must be something else that separates gun violence and war violence. Please note, there is not a broadly defined and accepted definition for a mass shooting. Hence, each newspaper can calculate the statistics; differently, each politician can calculate the numbers to fit a political agenda. Every defense lawyer has a ready-made claim for a courtroom to reduce the severity of the shooter’s actions.

But never forget, the gun is at fault when used in the act of violence against another person.

Law officers, military, and other first responders are a different category in statistics on mass shootings. For example, the 2009 Fort Hood shooting cannot be a terrorist incident or premeditated murder; it can only be classified as “workplace violence.” Pres. Obama set the pattern which has continued. 2016, two airmen are shot in a workplace incident at Lackland Air Force Base. Does the craven and cowardly with their megaphones make you sick yet? Gun violence leaves victims, but the victims cannot be “real” victims because they are in a different category if they are first responders or military. I disagree most vociferously!

Hey, do not blame the shooter; it’s the gun’s fault!

Regarding classifications of mass shootings, family incidents do not qualify as mass shootings. Neither do indiscriminate gun rampages where an armed person drives through a city, leaving victims in separate locations and at different times. Domestic violence, even when perpetrated with a gun, is not a mass shooting, even if the body count and sites are sufficient under other circumstances to be considered a mass shooting. Broaden the criteria to define a mass shooting, and the media and lawyers will through a conniption fit because they lose the ability to control the narrative. Lose the narrative and lose public sympathy for the unfortunate minority user of a gun in committing violence.

All because a gun is different, and the gun can force the shooter to become a victim.

On another interesting aspect where gun violence is concerned, the sex/gender, age, and other demographic data select who the victims are and where the problems lay in mass shootings. A white male will be vilified in the news for using a gun to commit a crime and cannot be a victim of the weapon being violent. Whereas Latinos and Blacks can get a pass for being victims of guns being violent and causing mass shootings; because, as we all know, the gun is the violent perpetrator when used by minorities.

If you are WASP, do not own a gun, as this is automatically a bad thing according to the media.

Speaking of WASP (White, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant), mental illnesses have grown in conjunction with the mass shootings advertised by the media. Several research reports have conclusively reflected a relationship between psychotropic drugs given to children and children using guns to effect violence at school. Yet, when was the last time you saw a K-12 teacher who had a doctorate in chemistry and pharmacology before your kids were ordered to be on a mind-altering drug?

But do not blame the teachers peddling drugs to kids committing gun violence; it’s the gun’s fault!

There are many terms for another category of gun violence deserving discussion, copycat phenomenon, media contagion, and so many more. Hence, a good defense lawyer can use media contagion to reason their client went homicidal after a gun attacked them and forced the shooter to use the tool in the act of violence. With websites and social media, corporate media, and the politicians needing a talking point, the notoriety of a mass shooting has escalated since the Easter Sunday Massacre (1975) in Hamilton, Ohio. This is a valid excuse for shooting; I don’t think so!

The darn gun, jumping into vulnerable hands, and making killers is just too much!

Personal accountability is the pre-eminent staple in the criminal justice system. The defense uses every trick they can play to avoid negative consequences for their client, and the prosecutor is expected to hold that person accountable. Except, where gun violence is concerned, the prosecutor and the defender are in the same boat, blaming the gun for the violent acts committed by minorities. But WASPs get none of the soft-shoe handlings after a mass shooting. Think I am wrong; look at the demographic data and the sentencing of gun violence committers in New York, Detroit, and Chicago. Then we can talk about the disparity in treatment and sentencing in the criminal justice system. Let’s ask the couple in Missouri if they feel their case was handled correctly when the media crucified them for defending their home with a gun.

America believes in one law for all! A “Liberty FIRST Culture” understands why the “Rule of Law” remains the sounding cry of freedom and liberty. But do not be fooled; the gun is never at fault for gun violence. The number of bullets in a gun/magazine is not the reason people died in gun violence. The type of round, the powder load, full/half/no metal jacket does not deserve the blame for injuries committed. Stop playing stupid games with the law and with guns. Violence is violence, and the offender deserves their day in court and a short drop with a sudden stop! The media and politicians need to either understand or leave public office, for blaming guns for people caused violence is an elective mental disease at best!

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