Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Is that your best Mr. O.?

Really, Mr. Obama, is that the best you got? You go to Newtown, CT., stand in front of a group of grieving people and you say, "these tragedies must stop". You ramble on with so many "I"'s, "me"'s, "mine"'s and then do a photo shoot hugging some kids, jump back on your plane, fly back to D.C.,  and make arrangements for your Hawaiian Christmas vacation.

Of course all Americans agree with you that these tragedies of violence must stop, but we look to you to tell us HOW do we stop these tragedies. Your fake crocodile tears are a dead give away. You're probably shedding a tear over a missed putt last week on the golf course.

Mr. Obama, if you really want to delve into curbing violence it starts in the family core. It begins in the most important unit we  hold close to our hearts. The family unit. 

I served for over four years as the media relations spokesperson and volunteer board president for the California Branch of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), formerly the Adam Walsh Center.  I conducted and facilitated many parenting classes and workshops about children. I spoke to children of all ages from Kindgergarten to High School on the topics of "stranger danger", drugs, self-respect, date rape, and respect for family and others. 

In all the classes and workshops I facilitated I always spoke of the fragility of our children. Children will always be the world's greatest natural resouce. Children don't emerge from the womb with a set of instructions attached to their backside. They seek love, warmth, and comfort from the first person they see when their eyes open. As they grow older they will seek and find these ingredients through other means if not given at home. Unfortunately some find it at an early age with groups called gangs.

Too many young teen age girls are giving birth who themselves have crack-addict mothers, and absent fathers. It is clearly the demise of the family unit that is the basis for violence in our country today. I always told the group at the classes I facilitated I was raised on LSD. They looked in shock till I explained LSD meant Love, Support, and Discipline.  My parents were never my buddies, pals, friends, and they always reminded me of that. 

Whenever I was disobedient as a teenager, and got "grounded" I would argue with Dad saying he was unfair, and we need to "debate" his punishment. His only reply, in a quiet, broken English dialogue he would say, "this family is not a democracy....it's a dictatorship, and I'm the dictator till you're eighteen". Then he would smile, tell me to take my "grounded" punishment and stop whining.

Never once in your photo shoot at Newtown did you even touch on any of these subjects. Just a few minutes ago your own Jay Carney could not mention one single item of what you plan to do about the "tragedies that must stop".  You spend more time straddling the fence to make sure you don't offend anyone that just may cast a vote for your minions in 2014.

Can you explain, Mr. Obama, the big spike upwards in gun sales since the Newton massacre?
It's because Americans believe you're going to convince Congress that if guns are removed from Americans then gun crime will go down. Really, do you honestly believe that?  We must, therefore, abolish knives, forks, box cutters, wire, automobiles, etc., because they kill people as much as guns do. Mr. Obama this is just another step in you refusal to step up to the responsibilities and leadership of your position. 

Of course you do know you're making one contingency of America very happy. Yes, it's the criminals that carry guns. Do you think criminals are going to abide by any gun control laws?
Of course not. Criminals are going to feel very confident that whenever they walk into a place to commit a crime they will be the only ones carrying a gun.

Just imagine if there were signs on the entrances to Shady Hook Elementary school that said, EVERY TEACHER HERE HAS A LICENSE TO CARRY A GUN, AND HAVE GUNS AVAILABLE TO THEM.  Do you think that just maybe he would've stopped, turned around, and left?And maybe twenty young children would be home for Christmas this year.
Or what if the teacher that greeted that evil shooter at the door had a gun on her when the shooter started to smash into the lobby? 

As my hero Ronald Reagan used to say often, "you must protect peace through power". I am a proud NRA member, and as I type this I have a .357 in my shoulder holster. I follow all the laws and safety protocols of gun ownership. I pray that all I ever shoot at are targets at the gun range. However, when I go to sleep at night I load my .357, set the house alarm, and sleep like a newborn.  Guns don't kill people....people kill people. And people have a right to protect themselves.

And that's Politics with Pete for today....God Bless our country...our children...and our troops.

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