Ron Paul gaf afgelopen maandag commentaar op de schietpartij in Parkland, Florida.

Paul
wenst deze zaak niet te politiseren en volgens hem helpen
antiwapenwetten niet….

Meneer
Paul, hoe kan u iets dergelijks zeggen als de voorbeelden in het
buitenland voor het oprapen liggen, nergens ter wereld, in landen waar geen oorlog heerst (hoewel wat betreft de VS..??)  worden zoveel mensen neergeschoten
als in de VS……

Waarom
deze zaak niet politiseren meneer Paul? De NRA, groot voorstander van wapenbezit, doet niet anders
dan lobbyen in Washington, waar deze organisatie godbetert zelfs lobbyisten in de politiek heeft! (dat is zonder meer misdadig, al zal u daar waarschijnlijk anders over denken)

Voorts
kan ik me wel vinden in wat u zegt over psychofarmaca, meneer Paul,
maar ook hier vergeet u een belangrijk component: de uitzichtloze
armoede van vele miljoenen in de VS, een motor voor psychische ellende en misdaad! 

Meneer Paul, u haalt de FBI aan, die wist welk gevaar de schutter vormde, maar haar werk niet heeft gedaan, inderdaad schandalig (maar bepaald niet op zichzelf staand). Over een ‘veiligheids-overheidsorgaan’ gesproken: in uw ‘land’, de VS heb je ook nog de ‘trigger happy’ politie, voor wie de kleur van een persoon leidend is in wel of niet schieten >> een slechter voorbeeld kan je als ‘volk’ niet wensen…………

Uw overheid is voor het grootste deel van de VS bevolking totaal onbetrouwbaar en kiest keer op keer voor de welgestelden en het (grote) bedrijfsleven, ook dit kan leiden tot grote frustraties, die op den duur in geweld kunnen uitmonden…..

Tot
slot wil ik u het volgende voorleggen meneer Paul: bij elke eigenaar
van wapens, sterker nog, bij ieder van ons, met wie psychisch tot op heden niets aan de hand is, kunnen morgen de
stoppen doorslaan, door een verbod op wapenbezit kan je ten minste
voorkomen, dat deze personen een wapen binnen handbereik
hebben…… Nogmaals, zie de voorbeelden in het buitenland!

Ron
Paul: Gun Control Won’t Solve the Problem — Let’s Look Beyond
Politics

February
19, 2018 at 10:50 am

Written
by Ron
Paul

(RPI) — Another
terrible school shooting took place in Parkland, Florida last week
and unfortunately many politicians and pundits have used the tragedy
– as they often do – to push their own agenda.

Many
will use the tragedy to argue that Americans should be prohibited
from owning guns. As if anti-gun laws would dissuade a disturbed or
violent individual intent on causing harm. Those intent on mass
murder don’t obey gun laws.

It’s
unfortunate that while many are quick to demand that guns be taken
away from peaceful Americans, they don’t seem to have much to say
about guns when they’re in the hands of government authorities
shooting innocent people. If we need any gun control, it is to get
control of the guns in the hands of thousands of government employees
who use them against innocent people with impunity.

For
example, why do those calling for more gun control remain silent when
armed federal agents raid Amish farms to stop them from selling raw
milk? This shows the hypocrisy of those who call for restrictions on
private firearms ownership while supporting the use of government
violence as a means of controlling our lives.

Unfortunately
there are many key questions lost in the race to score political
points from the shooting.

Why
does it always seem that the shooter in these mass killings has been
on some kind of psychotropic drugs? As the New American magazine
pointed out this week, at least ten high profile mass shootings have
been committed by individuals who “were either on — or just
recently coming off of — psychiatric medications.” The young
killer in Florida was no different. According to his aunt, he had
been on these medications to treat mental problems.

Why
is no one questioning these medications – all of which come with
labels warning of horrific side effects? Perhaps one reason they are
ignored is that the pharmaceutical industry spends billions of
dollars lobbying Congress.

Also,
how is it possible that the FBI once again missed so many obvious
clues that a violent person intent on causing massive harm to others
was about to strike? Is the FBI actually this incompetent, or perhaps
its focus was in other areas — like meddling in our own elections
by presenting “evidence” they knew was flawed to the FISA court
to get permission to spy on the Trump campaign?

We’ve
heard many stories of how alert FBI field agents tried to alert their
bosses before 9/11 that foreigners were taking flight lessons but
were not interested in learning how to land the planes.

Is
giving the federal government more power to spy on us – as they
demand – the answer to stop these terrible crimes? Hardly!

Those
who think that giving federal authorities greater surveillance powers
might prevent mass shootings should consider that the FBI has been
alerted that the latest school shooter had made Facebook posts and
YouTube comments talking about his intention to be, as he put it, “a
professional school shooter.” But the Bureau failed to properly
investigate the tips. If the FBI fails to stop someone who openly
boasts about their intentions on social media why should we believe
that giving them the power to snoop on every American would increase
our safety?

We
cannot stop tragedies like this by banning guns. We need to look
seriously into the psychotropic drugs that more and more Americans
are being prescribed. We need to demand that our elected
Representatives demand a real day of reckoning at the FBI. We need to
keep focused and ignore those who politicize such events.

Op-ed
by Ron
Paul /
Republished with permission / RPI / Report
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