From todays Tactical Wire;
Editor's Notebook, Part II: Our Crazy Uncle in the Attic
By Rich Grassi
I was aware of the op-ed in the grand old newspaper early in the week. I really didn't want to address it. I try not to be disrespectful of people of high office, I really do. Sometimes I fail because sometimes we elevate the truly vacant among us to high office - sometimes to the highest office.
The email alerted me to the op-ed, this one written by the 39th President of the United States, and made some salient points about the odd way in which he "makes his case."
He didn't.
James Earl Carter was elected in 1976. This was a time of literally unprecedented economic unrest - the unheard-of-until-then rising inflation along with rising unemployment was allegedly impossible in a free market economy. Called "stagflation," this was accompanied by a rapid spike in gas prices, this caused by a predominantly Arab OPEC who saw the "Great Satan" as a faltering, weak fool.
A misery index was reported on the daily news - which at that time was more a function of journalism than of adherence to a political side. Our affable, smiling "Jimmy," our leader with the name of our mechanic, fry cook or school teacher, tried to get peace in the Middle East, tried to placate Latin America by giving the Panama Canal away and endured the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran with the taking of hostages.
Weakened in his own party, Edward M. Kennedy ran against the wavering incumbent in the primary. Beset by problems, though still well thought of by constituents, Mr. Carter was no match for Ronald Reagan.
Mr. Carter alleges a number of things in his op-ed, which is written in opposition to your right to own firearms he refers to as "assault weapons." Of course, there is no such firearm in existence and the term is, like the idiot "cop-killer bullets" coined by CBS News, used to get the simple-minded worked up and excited. Since the Bill's Crime of 1994, more and more Americans have purchased firearms banned in that Act by our beneficent government - and those purchasers have not sent them to Mexico! They've by and large kept them.
Like many who seek to seize your rights, he has to reach out to show he's "one of us." In the op-ed, he says, "I have used weapons since I was big enough to carry one, and now own two handguns, four shotguns and three rifles, two with scopes. I use them carefully, for hunting game from our family woods and fields, and occasionally for hunting with my family and friends in other places."
Well, he's not like me! That's too many guns for one man to own - what can he do with all those? He can only shoot one at a time.
And he kills animals? What did they do to him?
Later in his disastrous diatribe, he writes ". . . the N.R.A. is defending criminals' access to assault weapons and use of ammunition that can penetrate protective clothing worn by police officers on duty." Aside from the fact that Mr. Carter either lied or he failed to take his medication before writing - NRA has never defended a criminal's right to do anything and Mr. Carter cannot demonstrate they have - he possesses at least one weapon that can "penetrate protective clothing worn by police officers on duty." I hope it's registered, that he had a background check and he waited a brief waiting period before getting it - all those infringements he recommends for you to own a gun.
See how he spins? A man his age, after all . . . Someone his age, with his apparent mental condition, likely shouldn't own a gun like that . . . should he? Based on his op-ed, I hope they take his driver's license!
Mr. Carter goes on, talking about him, his friends and family, by writing, "But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to
kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can
accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives."
Really? Is this a former President of the United States? If you own an AR15, you want to kill policemen? Did you know that? When my law enforcement agency issued my deadly, high capacity assault weapon Glock pistol, was that a feeling I had - to go to a school or find a workplace and see how many victims I could accumulate?
Did you know that one of the biggest groups of consumers of guns that either were banned in the 1994 Act or would have been if they existed is police officers? Bet you didn't. Most agencies in the country have less than ten sworn officers. Outfits that size very often don't buy all the gear their employees need for the job - so the cops buy their own. Those in bigger agencies often buy their own rifles to keep at home and to train with on their own time. But Smilin' Jimmy doesn't know that.
I'd go on, but repeating his embarrassing fabrications, prevarications and outright libels would simply cause my blood pressure to be elevated. I'm simply irritated by the ramblings of an old fool - one who believes that the world should be as he desires it.
I still can't believe that Mr. Carter, the Nobel "Peace" Prize winner has so many guns . . . someone needs to investigate him.
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