Social media, as billions have learned, allows someone to peer into the interests and beliefs of others.
The recent mass shootings have put the understanding and battle over the Second Amendment under the microscope again. People inside manufactured housing have feelings about this on both sides of the hotly contested issue.
These two actual examples from the left and right perspectives in the manufactured housing industry aptly portray the divide.
Ken Haynes, Jr.
Lance Inderman
Lance Inderman
August 9 at 1:27 PM ·
Red Flag Laws. Here’s what will happen…
It’s a Sunday night and your family has all gone to bed. You let the dogs back in and lock the deadbolt like you do every night. All the lights are off now except a couple of night lights scattered throughout the house leaving that dim glow throughout your home. It’s bedtime and work and school are going to come early in the morning. You crawl in bed, kiss your wife and drift off to sleep being thankful for the air conditioning that allows you to pull that heavy quilt up over your shoulder despite the fact it’s still 85 degrees outside. A few hours pass…
0200 Monday morning and your wife taps your leg and says, “baby I heard something outside”. As you sit up in bed you hear the dog growling in the living room and you know something isn’t right. You grab that trusty ole 870 and head into the living room. Your wife grabs her 9mm and heads down the hall to the kids rooms just like you have rehearsed. “Good boy” you say as you enter the living room, trying to calm both the dog and your wife just as splinters fly across the room and the front door flys open. “Oh shit!” As you shoulder your weapon and send a load of 00 Buck across your living room and see the perpetrator fall in a heap. Before the “thank God” can even run across your brain, you see a second man coming in the door and you fire again. This time you hear the pop of your wife’s 9mm as she has joined in the fight. It has to be those damn meth heads from down in town! Just then you are consumed by a wall of bullets as you see multiple muzzle flashes from just outside the door and you realize something isn’t right. You turn to yell at your wife to “get down” just in time to see her take a load of buckshot to the face and her brain matter splatter the wall behind her. You feel the burning as 5.56 bullets Riddle your body. One clips your spine as you’re scrambling away and paralyzes your lower body. The last thing you see before you bleed out is a SWAT guy from your local PD holding your teenage daughter on the floor with a knee in her back as she screams and cry’s because she just watched her parents being murdered.
Why did this happen? You’re no criminal. You’re a Conservative and an honest family man. Your wife is a school teacher and your daughters are on honor roll. Why did this happen?
Well two days ago, you and your wife went down to welcome the new neighbors to the community. Your wife made them some of her “world famous” cookies and you invited them to church on Sunday. Later that afternoon, you got a friend request on Facebook from your new neighbor, which you gladly accepted. They seemed a little odd, but in the few minutes you talked they were pleasant enough. The next day while you and your family sat in church, your new neighbor scrolled through your Facebook profile. He saw that “Trump 2020” post and got infuriated. See, he’s a staunch liberal and he hates your kind. The next thing he sees are the hunting pictures you took last fall when your daughter bagged her first buck. Now he’s seething with fury because he is wholeheartedly against the “slaughter of innocent animals”. Next he sees your post from the last range day with your buddy and sees those scary black assault weapons on the table and that does it! He has to do something about the racist domestic terrorist living next door. He picks up the phone, calls the local Sheriffs Office and reports you as a threat under the new Red Flag law. The SO follows their SOP’s and conducts a no knock warrant because you have now been denied due process and you are considered guilty until proven innocent.
Now you, your lovely wife and two deputies have been killed for nothing. Your daughter will have absolute hell for the rest of her life. She will never be that successful person you dreamed for her to be because of the mental tragedy caused from seeing her parents murdered. The local news paper will report that you were killed after firing on and killing two deputies and that “over a thousand rounds of ammo and 22 guns were confiscated from your residence”.
Oh, those two deputies were just following orders. They left behind families as well and had served their community for over a decade. They didn’t know you were a stand-up guy with a great family. They weren’t allowed time to investigate things under due process. They were told you had threatened your neighbor and were out in the street waving an AR15 around.
This is the reality of Red Flag gun laws. Innocent people will lose their lives. Red Flag laws will be used for petty and vengeful reasons without merit.
-Chris Anders
“Send bachelors” – Lance Inderman
Emotions on Various Sides of the Gun Topic
For someone who has been robbed or raped at gunpoint can tell you, a gun being misused is a terrible thing. As the survivors of a shooting – be it an individual or en masse – know the pain and suffering can come from invisible scars, not just from visible wounds healed by proper medical treatment.
As a new citizen of the United States, coming from a nation largely disarmed and under the control of a ruling military, the Second Amendment makes sense for those who want to be a free people. All rights, said America’s founders, are given by God. Free speech, private property, freedom of religion, and the like are all natural rights. Properly understood, they should not depend on the government.
False, Misleading Narratives?
There are already laws that exist that establish a higher penalty for crimes committed with a gun.
There are already laws that exist that made the horrible deeds committed by the shooters in El Paso and Dayton, OH illegal.
In Chicago, there are tough laws on gun control. More people were shot in Chicago the weekend of those two mass shootings than the two stories that drew the biggest headlines. The New York Times reported 7 dead, 52 wounded last weekend alone. There were 22 dead, 24 wounded in El Paso. How is gun control working for Chicago?
The manifesto of the shooter in El Paso predicted President Trump would be blamed. The shooter in Dayton was reportedly a supporter of progressives like Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, according to his social media.
Someone declared mentally ill can still get a gun illegally. Convicted felons on parole are barred from gun possession, but routinely obtain them anyway.
There are several false or misleading narratives at play. They include, but are not limited to, the following.
• Like, hate, or somewhere in between on President Trump? Logic tells us all that if he wanted to be a dictator, he would be grabbing privately owned guns, not protecting the rights of gun owners under the Second Amendment. Grabbing guns and disarming people is what history tells us that would be dictators want to do.
• If people will be deceptive on that, what else will they be deceptive about?
• Gun regulators may be well meaning, in fact, most debatably are well meaning. But gun control hasn’t ended crimes with knives in London, England. Gun control in France didn’t keep a terrorist from turning a vehicle into a weapon. That has occurred in the U.S. too.
• Crime begins in the mind and is justified or not by an often fickle human heart. Cain reportedly killed Able with a stone, a rock. Rock control anyone? Would ‘Red Flag’ laws on cars, knives, or rock ownership make someone happy or safer?
Morality must be taught and caught. A sense of respect for human life is needed by those who might callously kill, as opposed to making human life seem disposable.
Lawmakers and the public must learn to seek root causes, not superficial fixes that may make matters worse. A person barred from a red flag law may turn to an illegally obtained weapon, or some other manner of mass murder. Therefore, citizens should not give up their rights lightly.
Already this year, several living in a mobile or manufactured home have shot one or more intruders. Some incidents involve intruders and home owners alike being armed. That happens in all kinds of housing. It’s unlikely that the police would arrive in just some 30 seconds as amazingly occurred in Dayton, OH.
Tse right to life, liberty, and private property includes the right to protect those rights from an unlawful taking. The founders were imperfect people, but they got those points correctly.
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