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Gun control and gunman James Lee’s liberal agenda
American Vision – September 3, 2010
Leftist Gunmen take Hostages, Dissolve Civilization
By Joel McDurmon
Enlightened by Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth as well as a novel about a talking gorilla, James Lee on Wednesday stormed the Discovery Channel building near Washington, D.C. with a gun and homemade (though he was homeless) bombs demanding the corporation change its programming according to his manifesto. The manifesto features themes of disarmament, population reduction, and environmentalist propaganda. Headlines followed.
A three-hour hostage stand-off with police ended with Lee shot dead and no one else hurt.
What can we take from this scenario other than a dead body?
First of all, since Lee’s document includes a diatribe against the show Future Weapons for its glamorization of firearms, let’s talk about disarmament for a moment. The situation Wednesday could very well have been over in three minutes instead of three hours if the State of Maryland had any respect for the Second Amendment. Judged by opencarry.org as one of the top five States where gun rights are most restricted, a private individual needs a permit to carry either open or concealed legally. But an average individual has virtually no chance of receiving a permit for self-defense as the State demands “documented evidence of recent threats, robberies, and/or assaults, supported by official police reports or notarized statements from witnesses” before it will condescend to give permission.
Dear State of Maryland: Can you see the problem with this requirement now? Who in their right mind would make a law saying, “We may consider issuing you a permit, but only after the criminal has his way with you and you have a police report to prove you’ve been attacked.” Please also notice that some of the nation’s strictest gun laws still could not even prevent a mentally ill homeless person with a criminal record from obtaining a handgun with which to carry out this deranged crime.
However, thanks to James Lee, all 1,900 employees of Discovery Communications now have the documented evidence, police report, and plenty of witnesses required for a Personal Protection permit.
I hereby encourage all 1,900 employees of Discovery Communications, Silver Spring, Maryland, to exercise what little Second Amendment rights they have left and immediately apply for a Personal Protection Handgun Permit. At the very least you will swamp the State bureaucrats with what they do best: paperwork.
One also wonders why Lee himself — so opposed to proliferation of arms and war — would resort to guns and bombs as the means for implementing his agenda and steering a corporation to follow his manifesto. Of course, this is what all welfare-States do — mandate education and regulate business according to their own agendas under threat of gunpoint. Lee merely deprived his subjects of the illusion of freedom and democracy as he tried to play Messiah.
Read the complete article here.