The world has become less safe and so has our country. Mass killings occur every year and we are shocked. There were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms and Florida didn't even submit stats. Download the data. Wars are being fought all over the world and our military is in harms way. There were record global sales of guns by the U.S. under Obama...even to our enemies!! We have more enemies out there than we have friends. That's another hypocrisy that we just don't admit.
Even weapons from the U.S. were allowed to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers so the arms could be traced to those calling the shots in the Mexican drug cartels. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, that ran the operation, has lost track of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of firearms, many of which have been linked to crimes, including the fatal shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.
According to International Business Times, "international weapons sales by the U.S. tripled last year to reach a record high of $66.3 billion, of which $33.4 billion was pumped in by $33.4 billion sales agreement to Saudi Arabia, according to a new congressional report. Weapons are big business.
Investors.com says, as recently as 2010, defense spending as a share of GDP totaled 4.8%. This year, it's estimated at 4.6%, Office of Management and Budget data show. It plunges to about 2.9% of GDP by 2017 — the lowest since 1940. This amounts to nearly 40% in defense terms and it's far below the average of 5.6% under any administration, Republican or Democrat.
So, as Obama would hack as much as $540 billion out of defense by 2017, our country becomes weaker against the global bad guys who all hate our guts and the bad guys become militarily stronger by the armaments we sell to them. The Second Amendment is under fire as now the Democrats are talking about restricting gun sales to its citizen that will allow the bad guys with guns to become stronger than ever as the rest of us become more defenseless.
Head of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, said, "the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is good guy with a gun." Read about Obama's hypocrisy by clicking here.
2 comments:
It's a catch 22.
So long as it isn't a catch .22 caliber.
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