The conflict over \u201cgun control\u201d is just the latest episode to reveal the unadulterated hypocrisy of President Obama and his ilk on the left.<\/p>\n
Obama and his fellow travelers style themselves champions of \u201cthe downtrodden,\u201d \u201cthe poor,\u201d \u201cthe middle class,\u201d and everyone else for whom \u201cthe rich\u201d allegedly has it out.\u00a0 But if they really are who they would like for us to think they are, if their rhetoric was consistent with their policy prescriptions, then we should not expect for them to favor restrictions on the Second Amendment\u2014i.e. \u201cgun control.\u201d<\/p>\n
If those on the left were consistent, then we should expect to hear Obama condemn as \u201cun-American<\/em>\u201d and \u201cunpatriotic\u201d the gross \u201cinequality\u201d or \u201cdisparity\u201d between \u201cthe wealthiest one-percent of Americans,\u201d like himself, and the other \u201c99%\u201d on the issue of security or self-defense.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama blast \u201cmillionaires and billionaires,\u201d \u201cthe children of privilege,\u201d \u201cthe powerful,\u201d\u2014like himself\u2014for the \u201cgreed\u201d that they have shown in availing themselves of means of self-defense that they deny to \u201cthe disadvantaged\u201d generally and \u201cminorities\u201d in particular.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama decry the \u201cunfairness\u201d of \u201cthe advantaged,\u201d like himself, lecturing working class, middle class, and lower class Americans about the need for \u201cgun free\u201d zones while sending their own children off to well-secured private schools.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama demand a more just \u201cdistribution\u201d of benefits and burdens vis-\u00e0-vis the issue of security or self-defense.<\/p>\n Just as the fabulously rich and powerful\u2014like Obama\u2014have the resources and connections to evade oppressive tax laws, so too do the fabulously rich and powerful\u2014like Obama\u2014have the resources to evade oppressive gun laws.\u00a0 Those who are not so rich or powerful, however, are made to feel the brunt of both.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama renounce the \u201cracism\u201d of \u201cgun control.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Those areas with the highest incidence of gun violence are overwhelmingly poor and black.\u00a0 Those responsible for the gun violence almost always possess their guns illegally.\u00a0 Only if they are armed can the law-abiding residents of these neighborhoods hope to defend themselves against the criminal predators in their midst.\u00a0 But \u201cgun control\u201d makes it difficult, and, in some instances, all but impossible for this to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n As long as upper-crust whites and blacks\u2014like Obama\u2014have the means to self-protection while poorer blacks are denied such means, racial justice remains elusive, we should expect to hear the President say.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama reject \u201cthe classism\u201d of \u201cgun control.\u201d\u00a0 The latter imposes burdens upon \u201cthe 99%\u201d of which \u201cthe one-percent\u201d\u2014like Obama\u2014are free.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama wax indignant over \u201cthe sexism\u201d of \u201cgun control.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Purveyors of gun violence are overwhelmingly men.\u00a0 Men are also, on average, larger, stronger, and more aggressive than women.\u00a0 There is no greater equalizer, nothing can more swiftly \u201clevel the playing field,\u201d than a gun. A gun is the greatest means by which women can defend themselves against men.<\/p>\n For disempowering women, \u201cgun-control\u201d furthers \u201cthe misogyny\u201d to which women have been subjected for far too long.\u00a0 It functions as another sign that ours is a society that remains mired in \u201cpatriarchy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, we should expect to hear Obama lambast \u201cthe ageism\u201d of \u201cgun control.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n The perpetrators of gun violence are almost always found among the young. And since the young are, on average, stronger and more aggressive than the aged, the latter are particularly vulnerable to being attacked.\u00a0 Again, nothing can help the cause of egalitarianism along more than that of a gun.\u00a0 The elderly more so than anyone else need to be able to arm themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cGun control\u201d promises to leave this need unrequited.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, \u201cgun control\u201d would be recognized as the Second Amendment killer that it really is.<\/p>\n If those on the left were consistent, they would no longer be on the left.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The conflict over \u201cgun control\u201d is just the latest episode to reveal the unadulterated hypocrisy of President Obama and his ilk on the left. Obama and his fellow travelers style themselves champions of \u201cthe downtrodden,\u201d \u201cthe poor,\u201d \u201cthe middle class,\u201d and everyone else for whom \u201cthe rich\u201d allegedly has it out.\u00a0 But if they really…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n