Background Checks and Waiting Periods

I am advocating the use of waiting periods and criminal background checks.

Okay. You can get up off the floor now because the Sniper hasn't lost his mind. I'm not advocating them for gun purchases. I'm advocating them for publishing news stories.

Why? Because abuse of the First Amendment has killed and injured innocent people. Newsweek is responsible for the deaths of at least 16 people and the injuries of hundreds of others because of their blatant false story regarding the desecration of a Muslim holy book by US military interrogators at Gitmo.

We should be asking not why but why not. Why not apply the same twisted logic that the left uses when wanting to legislate and litigate the Second Amendment out of existence? I say let's attack the freedom of the press with the same zeal that the press assails the right to bear arms.

Broadcast media are licensed by the FCC. How come the printed media aren't licensed? I think reporters should have to be licensed to be able to write news stories. Newspapers should have to submit to a waiting period and a criminal background check prior to each publication to ensure that the public will not be injured or killed as a result of negligence on the part of the magazine, newspaper, or reporter.

If this sounds stupid to you, you are not alone. Yet the thought of doing away with the current system of background checks and waiting periods and other burdens placed upon law-abiding citizens for gun ownership is unheard of. There is no difference between limiting the First Amendment and the Second Amendment or any other Amendment for that matter. If you want to change the Constitution, the means for changing it LEGALLY is described in the Constitution. It is by amendment not by legislation or litigation.

Legislation and litigation are arbitrary. That is how we Americans have found ourselves in this situation of ridiculous gun control measures. Every gun control measure that has been instituted since the National Firearms Act of 1933 has been a knee-jerk reaction to some immediate crisis that eventually faded away. Not so with our social-engineering journalists of today.

Journalists are free to write whatever rubbish they wish without regard to whom they may injure. They hide behind "anonymous" and "confidential" sources of "impeccable" and "unimpeachable" character. And our politicians are so spineless that they won't apply the laws that are already on the books to punish these criminals. There are laws against slander, libel, inciting riots, and sedition. But our gutless elected officials cower in the offices because of the First Amendment - we can't do anything to the press because of the First Amendment.

I wish that these same spineless asses had the same attitude when it came to legislating away the rights of gun owners. Oh, we can't do that, because of the Second Amendment. Thanks to them and the crowd that abuse the First Amendment, the Second Amendment is nearly gone.

If guns are responsible for crime, then pencils are responsible for misspelled words.

[Note: This post was subject to a National Criminal Background Check prior to its publication and the author was forced to wait 3 days before posting it.]