America's Hijacking By The Gun Lobby

The massacre yesterday at Virginia Tech has shaken everyone. Whatever be the reasons for the rage of the killer, the fact is that he ended 32 lives. This country seriously needs to think about why Cho Seung-Hi had those guns and how did he end up getting them that easily?

I am sick of the fact that no one is talking about the real issue here: what kind of gun control laws should be there in America? You switch on news channels and you would see no debate on gun control, just some cursory mention. CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, none have a single piece about gun control.

The basis of the argument in favor of gun control is the Second Amendment of the US constitution which states the following:
"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."
For all the people who lobby for guns, this amendment is the basis of their argument. What follows after that is a litany of lying and deceit. What follows is the classical example of how lobbies and special groups own America today.

I believe that no democracy is safe without the controls it exerts on itself. Free will and pure liberty to do whatever you want to can never be accommodated completely in a democratic society. What democracy can do is to provide maximum liberty possible within the constraint that someone else's freedoms are not trampled when you exercise your freedoms. The right to bear a gun goes against this fundamental premise. If the person walking next to me has a gun, he has the ability to inflict maximum damage on me and I have the right to be protected by the laws against this capability.

While the Virginia incident is still fresh, Georgia's senate was discussing a proposal relaxing the gun laws in the state. The proposal called for the following two measures:

1) Allow motorists to store handguns anywhere in their cars, instead of keeping them in plain sight, a glove compartment or front-seat console, as required under current law.

2) Prevents employers from banning their workers from having guns in vehicles in the company parking lot.

The bill was postponed till the next session because of obvious outrage in the short run that it would have created but the sponsor of the bill, Rep. Tim Bearden, R-Villa Rica thought "a bill like his would make it easier for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves in the case of attacks like the one in Virginia. I think now is the perfect time for it". Its not even ridiculous and its not as if people who were backing this bill are morons. These people are sinister criminals and they know what they are doing.

Many people think that Gore lost the 2000 election because of an appearance on Larry King show where he said that 9 mm Ruger and the .380 AMT semiautomatic handguns should be banned.Cho used one of these 9-millimeter Glock to slain students at Virginia Tech yesterday. Classical republican argument has been: "Guns don't kill people; people without love in their hearts kill people." but its not as if only Republicans are to blame. None of the Democrats, and definitely none of the presidential contenders, have come out since yesterday to talk of tougher gun control laws.

This country needs leadership and this country needs someone to break this nexus of the lobbyists and the government....otherwise its just a matter of time before the person in front of me or you would open fire....IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. If this is not scary, I am not sure what is.