Not One More Inch, Mr Trump

I heard part of the gathering yesterday of Trump and Congressmen and women on both sides of the aisle, and was not pleased with an otherwise good so far President.  Ed Straker has a post over at the American Thinker today entitled Trump on Disarming Citizens: Take the Guns First, Then Go Through Due Process Second.

Trump is sounding here just like Obama and the other Democrats. This is why I felt he could not be trusted. As I have said before, I view a person's attitude on Second Amendment rights as determining their thoughts on other rights. For the most part, people who have an absolute view of the Second Amendment will generally view the rest of the Bill of Rights as inviolable. Here, we see that someone who is willing to take our gun rights doesn't care about due process, and presumably doesn't care about any other right we as citizens have.

 Ed Straker makes the point that one can not really define "mentally ill" satisfactorily. He is right, nonetheless, one can say that the shooter was certainly consumed with evil. He repeatedly made comments and threats which led various people to contact the Sheriff's office and the FBI, I am now hearing, 66 times! Threats are illegal, and can be acted upon.  This therefore represents a monumental failure of Government at all levels. He should have been stopped. He wasn't. So what makes Trump think that giving more power to this failed Government would do anything at all?

None of the proposed legislative "fixes" would to anything to have stopped this young man from obtaining what he needed to complete his evil plan. The fact that he obtained an AR-15 rifle hardly means that is the only thing he could have used. He could have used a stolen handgun. He could have acquired a Ruger Mine 14 through theft of the black market. He could have used a knife as was done in China. The point is that it is the human being, and his attitude that must be addressed, not the individual tools. As far as the "fix NICS" goes, only those adjudicated by a Court of law as a danger to themselves and others should be denied a right protected by the Constitution, and then the court should make a specific finding that the person should be denied Second Amendment rights and for how long, and or under what circumstances those rights are to be restored.

I truly believe that we have survived this long as a Republic because of the Second Amendment. Obama has already shown us what a President who believes he is "Dictator for Life" like Idi Amine might do. We do not need another one. As for Trump, I believe if he continues down this path that he will not be re-elected. Peoples' enthusiasm for Trump is not personal to him, but is contingent on his doing the right thing.  A lot of people voted for Trump for no other reason than that he doesn't take any guff from anyone.  They have remained loyal because he has continued to push a conservative agenda.  But a majority of his supporters will not support this.

Update:  William F. Marshall, and investigator for Judicial Watch, has an article at The American Thinker today entitled  The Cascading Failures of Government. Marshall's point is that every law necessary to have prevented the Parkland shooter from committing his crime was in place.  Multiple people "saw something and said something." yet were ignored because of a Leftist policy of letting minority criminals off the hook.  We don't need any other laws.  There is nothing for the legislatures at any level of government to do.  What needs to be done is to enforce the law evenly, and fairly across the board.  Try enforcing the laws we have before you make a bunch of new ones.