Arrogance in Power

In this column, two seemingly unrelated issues are intertwined, so please bear with me as I explain how the two items are related and more than just tangentially. First, we have the argument concerning the soaring cost of gun violence, with extreme expense incurred on the front end in emergency services, trauma care, and investigation- whether or not the victim survives. Then, should the wounded person survive the injuries, we are told that society often has to pay for the continuing burden of extensive rehabilitation, including physical and occupational therapy and perhaps psychological counseling to assist the victim in resuming a normal life, if said injured party is not so badly debilitated that he or she requires even more costly lifetime care. So, according to the gun control advocates, death, injury, a former productive person being turned into an invalid, are all the consequences of our being able to access firearms with which we may hunt, sport and target shoot, and indeed, in a situation where lives are imperiled, protect ourselves, our loved ones, and other innocent people, but ah, there is the rub, liberals including emergency room physicians (such as Vanderbilt's Emergency Department Chairman Corey Slovis who has spoken in local media denouncing easy access to guns because the enormous cost caused by their use) have long been trotted out by the dinosaur press to demonstrate the price we pay for our gun rights while no attempt at balance is presented by the propagandists for the gun banners with no Second Amendment supporters allowed on to counter with either the "more guns, less crime" argument so brilliantly advanced by John R. Lott or the "price of freedom" argument that would be sufficient in a sane society. Now, those Leftists in power are prepared to use any ploy to advance their agenda. They intend to replace the real economy with a false one involving carbon trading credits with "cap and trade" where they will takeover another significant portion of control of our independence and destiny just on the heels of co-opting over fifteen percent of the economy with their just completed "Obama does not care" medical sector coup. An administration eager to create a fictitious economy based on the whole cloth rationale of man-caused global warming to overturn the actual economy that thrives most when there is cheap and abundant energy and is willing to restrict the use of energy by businesses and individuals, thereby imposing greater costs on us, taxes hidden by businesses having to pass on their new-found regulatory and operational costs to consumers, and further restricting our rights, would not hesitate to use other subterfuge to steal more of our formerly enshrined freedoms. I believe the cabal ruling over us now will most likely try to use the new health care regime to impose restrictions on our gun rights, using the excuse of the spiking price of firearms violence, to say that under universal care, our love of guns is simply a privilege that the United States can not afford to maintain. Just as the radicals in charge will use cap and trade under phony anthropogenic global warming to inhibit our liberty, they will similarly lie to take our guns. In come restrictions motivated by budget restraint (society can simply no longer afford that quaint old Second Amendment), and out go our rights.