Dying in America

LARRY ANDERSON
Larry Anderson

The causes for murder are many: hatred, passion, fear, greed, revenge, race, religion, politics.

The motivation for violence may vary, but the result is always the same: someone dies, and often the victim is innocent, a bystander, someone simply minding his own business without realizing the peril of an unbalanced, angry mind.

We are all in danger, but we understand life is a risk and one of the keys to survival is minimizing threats.

In that pursuit, we can only be partly successful as individuals. We count on more powerful resources for protection beyond our personal capabilities: the police, the military, and various government agencies. They do the best they can, but they can’t be everywhere or protect everyone all the time.

Too often, the aforementioned become involved after the fact, when the bodies are already strewn across the floor and the horror permanently imprinted on survivors‘ minds.

We expect our government to do as much as it can to stop violence against its citizens, especially when the threat has been pervasive and the examples of capability rising.

We expect good judgment.

I submit this government is working hard to protect us, but I doubt it is doing all it can. If it were, our borders would be more efficiently regulated and visas to enter America would be rare and visiting time enforced stringently.

We are a nation of loopholes. Many come in on visas and never go home.

Why? Because, incredibly, it is allowed. That is how the 9/11 terrorists were able to do their work.

I submit we can be tough on visitor selection and still be America. We can send the message if one wants to enter this nation, expect laws steadfastly enforced. This is a country with many rights and freedoms, but we shouldn’t allow them to become weapons in the hands of fanatics.

There is nothing wrong with saying no, and there is no harm to our freedoms in rejecting those who would deny us ours along with our lives.

Unfortunately, one must sometimes use a big broom to sweep up a few crumbs.

The killer in Orlando, that contemptible, hate-filled monster, slipped through by virtue of a system overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the suspicious and limited in action by political correctness and protections very much in need of empowerment.

Forty-nine died; hundreds had their lives permanently altered.

Politicians offered platitudes.

Yes, we were told by our president, it was tragic, but that was not reason enough to judge others and certainly no justification for limiting the numbers entering the country.

If the slaughter of dozens doesn’t cause us to review policies and leadership, then what will?

Understand, laws not vigorously enforced lose their importance and eventually disappear to the peril of those who believe in law and order and understand their necessity in dangerous times.

Some don’t get it.

There is in this nation a mentality that borders and national identity do not matter, that if we somehow question the wisdom of rampant illegal invasion, we are betraying “what America is” and are racist to boot.

This is nonsense and a direct result of Leftist propaganda.

We absolutely have the right to control our direction and the responsibility to enforce our laws, but that is not being done as it must be.

We also have the responsibility to elect someone who does get it.

A lib might be quick to point out, as Obama did in his June 14th lecture on yet more tolerance, that the Orlando terrorist was an American citizen, born right here.

Yes, that’s right and why? The murderer’s father is a supporter of the Taliban, and the signals the killer was sending were numerous and overlooked.

He had no empathy with this nation, no respect for its laws, and made no effort at assimilation.

From where did his attitudes come if not an ideology contradictory to centuries of American tradition?

Not to sound ominous, but there are many others out there with similar views and capabilities, offered free access by a system incapable of saying no or to accept responsibility when people die.

Not all the threats were born here.

If you think there won’t be other incidents like Orlando, you lack an understanding of what is going on here and why.

Obama seems to think a certain number of losses are to be expected and there is little more to be done. Listen carefully to the June 14th speech online as I did.

Then you will understand why nothing will change and why the homeland is not safe.