We don’t have problems that we can’t solve…together. That’s the truth. In WW2, a scrapy upstart of a country stepped into the largest war that the world had seen until then, and did what needed to be done. From the women working at home in factories to the rationing of food and gas, whatever needed to be done to fight a war that wasn’t even ours, we did. That’s the spirit of this great nation. When rocks land in our way, we move them.

Climate change is just another rock. Mass shootings…another. But we can’t seem to move them. Why? The answer is obvious: we’re not working together. There are people lying to us, lying to our friends, who want nothing more than to line their pockets or eke out a little bit of power. It’s sad that such people exist in the world, but what’s even more sad is that they are skilled liars, and have corrupted the minds of a lot of this nation’s good people. We can’t continue like this. We just can’t.

More mass shootings. More arguments about gun control laws. Does it matter? Let’s be real for a second. The United States 40% of all guns in the world, 4.25% of the world’s population. That means that if there was any truth at all to the “good guy with a gun” argument, the United States would be the safest country in the world with regards to gun violence. And yet, we aren’t. Okay, so let’s stop talking about that one, shall we?

Another honest moment. The Giffords project (giffords.org) tracks gun laws across the nation. They aren’t pushing gun laws to ban assault weapons on that website. We did an analysis comparing the gun law rating that Giffords discusses, and gun violence in particular states. The results are here, and it’s not surprising at all that the states with worse gun laws are the states with more deaths by gun violence, and these are also (shocker) states with more Republicans.

https://giffords.org/

https://www.rightandfreedom.com/blog/gun-deaths-in-the-united-states

There’s a railroad train of legislation across many states targeting trans (broad-stroke trans) activities, like Drag Queen Story Hour. Why? Nobody knows. There are general “common sense” bias-inspired reasons for it which make little sense. Here’s the kicker: we’re paying for this legislation.

That’s right. We’re paying for legislation that prohibits people from wearing certain clothes. Because apparently, what matters more than the fact that the number one cause of death for children right now is guns, is that some people like to cross-dress. This fear-driven legislation is touted by the entertainment company Fox News. Why?

Again, nobody knows. One thing we do know is that while our congresspeople are writing laws around trans, they are not writing laws around gun control. So the optics are very much: don’t be trans, but shoot who you want (to paraphrase of course). We must do better!

If you’ve been listening to our podcast for a while, then you’ll know our stance on gun control: it can’t happen soon enough. Yet again, we have a reason to be discussing gun control in America. This time, it came in the form of ten people who will no longer kiss their loved ones, no longer taste a birthday cake, no longer walk the earth, who were taken away from us before their time in Monterey Park, California.

We ask why. The school shooting in Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado happened in 1999. Here we are, over twenty years later, and mass shootings are up nationwide over 300%. That’s right. Instead of getting better, we’re actually getting worse. Much worse. Why?

Well, we’ve got some ideas. And we get into it in this latest episode of Right and Freedom called Click, Click, Boom. Here’s a hint: what exactly would it take to change things when we’re seeing night clubs, grocery stores, big-box stores, churches, synagogues,…,basketball pickup games all erupting in gun violence? Listen now and learn how three former Marines, two of whom are actual gun owners, feel about gun violence in the United States of America.

“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

The constitution is a dry document for the most part. It sets the procedures and rules for governing these United States. One way to look at it is that the constitution is the law, but the spirit of the law is enshrined in this pre-amble. It says right there why our rights exist, and if the rules — or the text of the constitution — cause us to move away from the nation described above, then those rules are being interpreted incorrectly. All laws have limits, as do rights, and where those limits should be is defined in the opening paragraph of the Constitution.

Gun rights? Have limits. Free speech? Has limits. Free religion? Has limits. The truth of the matter is that there are already limits, and those limits should be enforced. This episode touches on the topic of school shootings, church influence in politics, and so much more.