{"id":193361,"date":"2019-08-18T07:59:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T07:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193361"},"modified":"2019-08-21T06:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:03:20","slug":"raising-the-red-flag-americans-fear-a-gun-grab-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193361","title":{"rendered":"Raising the Red Flag: Americans Fear a Gun Grab on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert Bridge \u2013 Strategic Review Aug 17, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n

With each new mass shooting to hit the Heartland, calls reverberate across sections of the political spectrum for major infringements to be placed on gun ownership \u2013 in contravention of the US Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gun ownership has prevented<\/a><\/strong><\/span> untold deaths, assaults and robberies over the years, yet that positive news rarely features high in the media. By comparison, the public is bombarded with endless days of non-stop reporting with every Columbine, Sandy Hook, Las Vegas and El Paso tragedy to the point that it seems only a matter of time when the pendulum of public opinion swings in favor of major anti-gun laws. Such a day would most likely herald in an epic showdown between US liberals and conservatives the likes of which the country has never seen.<\/span><\/p>\n

The situation has escalated to the point when political leaders, not least of all the POTUS, are hamstrung from speaking out about specific problems affecting the country lest they actually be accused of aiding and abetting would-be psychopaths. For example, Donald Trump, speaking about the dire situation at the US-Mexico border, called the influx of illegals into the country an \u201cinvasion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d Which is exactly what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet when Patrick Crusius, 21, who shot and killed 22 people at an El Paso shopping center in early August, penned a manifesto using the \u201cinvasion\u201d description, the American leader was accused<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of fanning the flames of hate, as if he was the only person to have acknowledged the crisis. If anything, the partisan standoff demonstrates the dangerous crossroads at where the Democrats and Republicans now find themselves on so many issues, with gun rights front and center.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like clockwork, with every mass shooting the Democrats demand stricter gun control laws without ever considering other possible roots to the problem. Americans, after all, have owned guns since the days of the nation\u2019s founding yet only within the last several decades has the incident of mass shootings become a regularly occurring event. What has changed? For starters, how about the number of Americans who are using antidepressants? On average<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, a whopping 13 percent of the population has taken some sort of antidepressants \u201cin the past month\u201d (2017), while the percentage of people using and abusing this medication, according to the latest statistics, surged 64 percent between 1999 and 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA common thread amongst the most horrific school shootings of the past 25 years is that the majority of the shooters were taking a psychiatric medication,\u201d wrote<\/strong><\/span><\/a> Hyla Cass, M.D., following the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.<\/span><\/p>\n

This glaringly neglected side of the argument has been exposed by numerous studies<\/strong><\/span><\/a> on the subject, yet politicians on the left, together with the left-leaning mainstream media, rarely inform the public about the link between gun violence and drug use. Instead, they go \u2018nuclear,\u2019 as it were, demanding that America\u2019s millions of law-abiding gun owners submit to regulatory measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is just one Catch-22 scenario facing gun owners: as the prescription of antidepressant medication increases exponentially, together with the aggressive behavior linked to such drug use, it becomes increasingly easy for practically anyone to fall into the category of \u201cmedically dependent,\u201d which may someday warrant a person losing their gun rights. The question is worth pondering considering the unprecedented amount of people now on antidepressants. Would some future universal gun ownership directory be matched up against medical records, depriving millions of their guns?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Democrats have proposed expanding background checks for potential gun owners, as well as passing so-called red flag laws (otherwise known as Extreme Risk Protection Order Laws), which are intended to keep guns away from \u201chigh-risk\u201d individuals. In reality, however, they are a cure worse than the disease, where we believe we can accost individuals to disrupt some future illegal activity. Such was the theme of the 2002 Tom Cruise film\u00a0Minority Report where criminals are apprehended before a crime has been committed thanks to the psychic work of a special police unit.<\/em>\u00a0Such outlandish legislation is being touted not just by the perennial anti-gun Democrats, like Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, but from influential Republicans, including Rep. Dan Crenshaw, who seems to have alienated thousands of erstwhile supporters with just a single tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The solutions aren\u2019t obvious, even if we pretend they are. But we must try. Let\u2019s start with the TAPS Act. Maybe also implement state \u201cred flag\u201d laws, or gun violence restraining orders. Stop them before they can hurt someone.https:\/\/t.co\/2G2pZSWaF1<\/a><\/p>\n

— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) August 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n