Tom Brokaw: Blinded By The Light

By Semperpapa

In the wake of the shooting in Arizona, the Left did not miss the opportunity to use the tragedy in their ever present effort to kill the 2^nd Amendment of our Constitution.

Predictable, of course, yet disheartening.

The liberal media has had a field day with the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, never missing the opportunity to let a good crisis go to waste.

Film director Spike Lee puts his 2 cents in by calling for the banning of the National Rifle Association, a clear rejection of the constitutional right of the American people.

Revealing is the statement of Tom Brokaw regarding Arizona. The former journalist was on a MSNBC program where he stated that he would not feel comfortable going to a bar or restaurant in Arizona.

Here is part of Brokaw’s statement:

“Here is why I think there are a lot of Glocks being sold: because gun owners are worried that they're going to be outlawed. That's what happened when President Obama first took office is that people were buying ammunition and storing it in underground bunkers because they thought he was going to outlaw guns and ammunition. Gun control is too simple a phrase to define all the complications and nuances of it, frankly. In Arizona they have a wide open system. I would be nervous about going into a bar or restaurant in Arizona on a Saturday night where people can carry concealed without permits.”

One silver lining of the recent events is the increased knowledge of the Left regarding the gun lexicon. Already the progressives, anti-gun proponents have adopted catch terms like “assault rifle” and the always famous “AK47”. Everything that looks like a rifle is an AK47.

Still conveniently misused is the difference between automatic and semi-automatic, a distinction that, when ignored, makes for great sensationalism.

Today, the new term for the take-guns-away-eliminate-crime crowd is “Glock”.

I am sure Tom Brokaw had no idea of what a Glock was until last Saturday, even if the body guards that watched him over the years most likely safeguarded his safety with the very same weapon he is now using in vilifying terms.

But now, Mr. Brokaw has been blinded by the light of his own elitism. He now realizes the existence of the Glock.

Where Mr. Brokaw is still in complete dark is in his statement about going into a bar or restaurant in Arizona. His position is that the “liberal” weapon carry allowance in Arizona is frightening for his elitist taste. How wrong can the man be?!

In 1991, the law in Texas was that legally licensed CCW (Concealed Carry Weapon) permit holders were not allowed to bring their weapon inside establishments like bars and restaurants.

On October 16, in the city of Killeen, a deranged man drove his pick up truck into a diner at the busy lunch hour. He got out of the vehicle and started executing people at random. When the police showed up and engaged the gunman, after being hit few times, the man killed himself, but not before he was able to take the lives of 23 innocent people.

Misguided liberals like Tom Brokaw would probably believe that more stringent gun control laws would have prevented the man from perpetrating his killing spree, but Suzanna Gratia Hupp is the proof of the falsity of that logic.

Suzanna was in the restaurant at the time of the crime, her only fault being that she was having lunch with her elderly parents. Suzanna was also licensed CCW holder, but in compliance with the law, she had left her weapon in her car.

Ms. Hupp witnessed her father being fatally shot. She witnessed her mother refusing to escape the establishment to remain with her dieing husband and subsequently being executed by the gunman herself.

The reality of that horrible day is that had the law preventing law abiding citizens to take responsibility for their own security not being there, Suzanna would have been able to defend herself and others and maybe save some lives.

Ms. Hupp was eventually successful in petitioning the Texas legislature into reversing the law. A small victory for common sense achieved at great cost.

It is obvious that Mr. Brokaw is conveniently forgetting and dismissing the lesson learned in Killeen, Texas.

Personally, I would feel much more comfortable in a restaurant or bar in Arizona or Texas than I feel every time I am in a similar situation here in California, where we are all sitting ducks.

Tom Brokaw can climb his omnipotent pedestal of self righteousness, he may feel important in his dismissal of the Constitution, he may even feel "in-touch" with the latest fad about "Glocks", but if he was in a bar or restaurant in Arizona, he would be as safe as if in his own mother's lap.

Just my thoughts!