March For Our Lives?!

In case you did not know it, there was a march for our lives. The problem is that I do not feel my life is in danger. I do not fear that a gun is waiting for me around every bend, on every corner waiting to inflict me violence upon me.

This is the fallacy of this march. It is focused upon something that will NOT end violence in any way, shape, or form. Violence occurs every day. If I have to prove that to you that violence occurs every day - then you are truly beyond hope.

I have never owned a gun, but I am considering buying one...maybe two for one simple reason. Protection. There is a police station roughly four or five minutes from where I live. So, you would think I live in a decent neighborhood. The problem is that does not matter.

To contact the police in response to a home invasion or robbery, I would have to -

• Assess the situation

• Find my cell phone and hope it is charged (no one has land lines anymore)

• Find a 'safe space' to hide to make the call

• Stay hidden while praying that I am not shot or murdered

First off, this is assuming that I even have a chance to react without the 'bad guys' knowing where I am. Then you are looking at roughly two minutes for all of these actions to happen. Then you could be looking at more than ten minutes for the police to arrive. So, if I rely solely on the police for my protection, then I am a dead man.

The problem is gun control advocates will not accept this reality.

They will tell you that this is a hypothetical exercise and changes nothing about the gun culture, gun violence that is so prevalent in this society. That is where the real issue is.

It is not a March for Our Lives because taking away guns will not take away violence. It is not a March for Our Lives because taking away guns will not change a way a person is, acts, or believes. It is not a March for Our Lives when you have absolutely no connection to reality.

There is a saying - "An armed society is a polite society." That is completely true. Your house is not broken into every single day cause criminals are not sure if you are there, if you are armed, and whether or not you will stand your ground.

There is a Facebook meme I have seen on multiple occasions about placing a sign in your front yard about your neighbor being a gun control advocate who would never own a gun.

Why doesn't every gun control advocate put a sign like this in front of their house? Wait! They do not want to be robbed. The police will protect them, right? Not necessarily. So, if you cannot defend yourself and you cannot necessarily count on the police to protect you either (assuming they get there in time), then what do you do? Gun control they say.

More gun control is the answer?! What planet are these people on?!

The lunacy of the gun control argument is beyond understanding. You almost have to think that these people are so disconnected from reality that they think this sort of thing would work. That it is the gun who is violent. No - it is the person.

As people, we have become so detached from each other, so inhospitable towards each other, that the only solution is a March for Our Lives?? No, you do not speak for me. You do not speak for Americans when your position is nothing different than previously "offered" and will change absolutely nothing when someone decides to go on a murderous rampage.

The gun itself is irrelevant.

The Virginia Tech shooting was committed by a deranged individual using handguns as his weapon. The Columbine shooting was executed with handguns and shotguns primarily. (The assault weapons ban was from 1994-2004. Columbine occurred on April 20, 1999. Virginia Tech occurred on April 16, 2007.)

So, there was a weapons ban on "assault weapons" and it did not stop the shooting at Columbine, and there was not a ban on "assault weapons" and it played no part in the shooting at Virginia Tech.

So, the delusion that this March for Our Lives is about the AR-15, assault weapons, military-style weapons (or whatever the current buzzword is) is utterly devoid of substance, of merit, of a connection to reality.

But my constitutional right to bear arms is real, it is legal, and it is one that I am going to exercise.