Channeling Rod Serling [Twilight on Guns]

Channeling Rod Serling

Steven R. Berryman

January 16, 2013

If 2013 had been a Twilight Zone Soliloquy

(Narrator enters from stage left, puffs cigarette, and perches on an old crate)

You are looking at a depressed version of the nation that once gave its Founding Fathers great pride and greater hope; it is the morning of the day that would change the impact of the Second Amendment forever.

What had been legislative due process has now become the waiting game of Executive decrees about gun law.  This from the man that the people had elected president, apparently because the majority wanted to be “taken care of.”

The president famous for never allowing an opportunity to escape without exploitation is riding the wave of sorrow in America emanating from the Newtown, Connecticut shooting tragedy.  The paranoid among the nation already know that the Executive Decrees will serve an anti-gun agenda more than it will serve the legacy of those innocent children lost in the flower of their youth.

Solutions by Obama, surrounded by a backdrop of children-props, will overreach the issues by far.  Select demonized firearms will become very valuable overnight.  Bullets have just doubled in value.  Over-sized automatic gun magazines have quadrupled in value.

The above assuming some “grandfathering” of existing merchandise already on the streets. 

But certainly the president without bona fides will attach strings that the Government can pluck at will.  Searches and seizures without warrant?  “Probable Cause” rules to become a gimme, perhaps in some new secret court?

This theater of the absurd is playing out on this actual day, as we sit on the sidelines, waiting for the details to emerge, frustrated by fact that the people – half of them gun owners already – have not seen debate by congress on the matter, or any proper constitutional steps invoked.  No bills from the House.  No negotiation with the Senate over the finery. 

Of course The People’s faith in Government has waned, as trust has become eroded.  Fake fiscal cliffs, quantitative easing spent from your taxed income, picking winners and losers to satisfy political promises, and redistribution of wealth against your best wishes…just for starters.  Then create class warfare by crushing the middle class; the ones raising the children under oppressive stresses….Did you miss the 2% retaken from your payroll check yet?

The children, yes, the children!  That’s what the gun law Executive Decrees are all about; yes, yes. 

The man plucked up as a result of affirmative action, without so much as a proven record in the U.S. Senate will decide your children’s future.  It will be harder to “take our Government back” now, should the need ever arise under some future Stalinistic scenario.

Is a disarmed society a more polite society, or will it now be easier to identify who the criminals are because they are the ones with the guns?  The great irony in our present state on this dubious day is that should fresh restrictions be imposed on honest innocent citizens, then the criminals will benefit, as they, by definition, do not follow the laws anyway.

Liberals:  I dare you to plant a sign in your yard saying “This home is a gun free zone.”

…And see who is now more likely to visit you than the house with a NRA sign. 

(Narrator in black and white, takes a long puff on his cigarette, and exits stage right)

(Camera pans up to a field of stars in a crisp night sky)

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With apologies to Rod Serling