Gun seizure – What will you do?

For those of you that don’t know me check my website for a full version but, for this purpose I am a former police officer. I am disabled partially from injuries received from the department I worked for. One of these days I might just tell you about it. I am also a free-lance writer – about the only thing I can do now. The article below was written and published in www.officer.com where I was the internal affairs writer. I am altering it somewhat to give citizens an insight as to what really goes on in the background of a cops life.

I guess you all think I have lost my brain about bringing this subject to the fore front to police officers or, anyone else for that matter. However, my task here is to make you think about ethics.  Gun control in our country is a ball of fire now and we must talk about it.  First let’s look at the verbiage of the constitution under the 2^nd amendment “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. 

Before I go any further I want it clear to you that unequivocally, clearly, unmistakably, undeniably, obviously, positively, and undisputedly, I believe in gun control.  Gun control is how well you control your firearm in practice where you put every round in the kill zone or, in many rounds you can put into a thug protecting your family. Looking back at the 2^nd amendment and drill this into your head if you have to put a bullet in the K-5 zone you have the “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”.  Furthermore, if you are in fear of harm to you, a family member, or Bubba on the street you have a right or, duty to protect you or, others.

This is my belief and I can speak for no-one else.  My forefathers came here from Germany and Scotland.  The German side of the family came for religious freedom as they were not allowed to practice as Protestants at home.  They landed in Virginia. President Washington didn’t like our kind and ran us down the Appalachia Mountains were we ended up in the Carolina’s and Georgia.  Still have a bone to pick with GW.

It was engraved into my soul by my father (Germany during Korea), an uncle who is 85 and still in pain today after being shot up in Korea, two great buried at Normandy. My grandfather was on the way to a ship bound for overseas WWI when victory was proclaimed, and I can go on back the Revolutionary war. They fought and died for that piece of paper we call the Constitution and its Amendment’s that we have lived under for over 200 years now.  

Then as now when it was written it was meant as it is one sentence.  England wanted to take the firearms of our ancestors and they wanted to insure that we were able to defend ourselves. Were if not for our ancestors hiding their firearms or, ways of keeping their firearms we may have been raised as English, French, German, or Spanish today without the freedom we have today. Can you imagine walking into Dunkin Donuts for a cup of tea?

Today  there are some folks that believe citizens should not have firearm and are hell bent to push their ideas upon the rest of the citizens of this country.  .

What folks in Washington today don’t understand that we know is that if THEY declared every AR15 is illegal and will be turned in starting tomorrow within one year – it aint gonna happen. They may get 30% of those out there. What about the rest?  Who is going to get them? 

As of right now your local police officers are the first line of defense boys and girls. Now think about that a few minutes. Depending upon the jurisdiction you may or may not have a problem. In some areas there are few if any firearms in citizens homes because of local law and ordinances. So, there will be little resistance.

However, in other locations in which the citizens were taught from age 1 how to use a firearm and shot their first deer at age 6 they are going to act differently. This ain’t going to be pretty. These are locations where there is little law enforcement in the area. These folks know the officers by name and associate with them when off duty. They go to church with them, hunt, fish, and vacation together. Do you see you either of you killing each other over a gun.

Do any of you remember Ruby Ridge? There were tragedies on both sides in this case mentally and physically. Law enforcement officers had a warrant on Randy Weaver for failing to appear after in court for selling two sawed off shotguns. On August 21, 1992 US Marshals encountered Weaver along with his son Sammy and Kevin Harrison on a roadway on Weavers property.  One of the marshals’ shot the Weaver’s dog and a gunfight ensued in which Sammy was killed and Harrison was wounded. Sammy was 14 years old.

A day later Harris, Weaver, and his daughter Sarah left the cabin with the intent to bury Sammy. A FBI sniper fearing that Harrison was armed and was going to shoot at a helicopter in the area shot and wounded Weaver. As they ran back to the cabin the sniper fired again killing Vicki Weaver as she held her infant daughter.

Weaver surrendered nine days later. Weaver and Harris were tried and acquitted in a federal court of charges murder and other charges.  They later filed a 1983 action against the officers and departments involved and were awarded 3.1 million dollars.

First Randy Weaver broke the law by possessing the shotguns no argument they had legal right to be there they took what action they believed was necessary. What bothers me is how many Ruby Ridge scenario’s will we have if laws are passed to ban and direct seizure of firearms? 

We will have to think this through. To the officer out there sworn to uphold the law and with sound ethics to the community you have sworn to serve and protect could you seize someone’s firearm? Could you take that life over a gun? Realistically how far would you be willing to go? Is it worth it?

Citizens are you that devoted to your rights under the constitution to take a life?? These are serious questions you have to figure out for yourselves. A lot to think about isn’t it.

The best question is – isn’t it time we lived the constitution the way it was written not the way a left wing liberal wants us to?