THE IMPORTANCE OF IGNORANCE - The RIGHT to bear arms

PART 2.
The American people have been educated to ignorance in many areas of life, all to their detriment. However, there is one particular area of educated ignorance that never ceases to amaze, and that has to do with private gun ownership. Private owners of guns have killed and injured more innocent people by far than they have killed or injured criminals or prevented criminal activity. The Americans who believe that their security is enhanced by owning a gun, must read the tragic statistics that result from this intentionally mis-educated belief.

In 1956, 30,684 died from gunshot of which approximately 6% (1,841) were killed by law officers. In 2,002, 28,663 died from gunshot with a similar 6% of those killed by law officers. Accidental death and suicide resulted in the highest number of fatalities. There are no accurate statistics for killing in self defense or home defense because in many adult civilian deaths, criminal activity was between or among criminals that lead to death by firearm. The statistics on accidental death by firearm far exceeds criminal death by firearm.

The people of the United States are mis-educated to believe that the Second Amendment to the Constitution is either ambiguous or clearly gives everyone, man, woman, and child, the "right to bear arms." If you belong to a militia, you have the right to keep and bear arms. If you don't belong to a militia, you have the right to keep and bear arms. Hah!!

HERE IT IS, "A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, BEING NECESSARY FOR THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE, THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED."

The Supreme court has rarely decided cases that would clarify any ambiguities in this amendment. But that is not my issue. My question, and my answer to it, are these: Why should everyone have the right to bear arms? And my answer is, there is no earthly reason for everyone to have the right to bear arms unless you are in the business of making and selling arms!

Children, criminals, people with physical and mental incapacities to operate weapons safely, should not have the right to bear arms. And, as with driving automobiles, everyone who drives one must be above a certain age and learn how to drive and pass a government test that enables them to obtain a license to drive. And in order to obtain a license, the applicant must belong to a "well regulated militia."

But, if you are in the business of making and selling arms and ammunition for those deadly weapons, then by all means, fight for the right of everyone to bear arms. It means money in your pockets.

Where does ignorance come in? This is educated ignorance to enable the wealthy to accumulate more wealth and also enable patriotism to be converted to soldiering with greater ease, thereby putting even greater amounts of money into the pockets of arms manufacturers, members of the Power Elite.

This is the importance of ignorance. This is why the government spends less and less of its budget each year on education. This is why the textbooks used in school systems throughout the United States are the dumbed-down books acceptable to school boards whose members are themselves often dumbed-down.