What can be said in regards to the wholesale destruction of human life that occurred in Washington State. My heart truly goes out to those four Washington police officers and their families. There are really no words to express my sadness. My thoughts and prayers are with them all.
The death of police officers in this country is on the rise. A few of the young men that are now police officers here in my area played baseball under my tutelage when they were lads, and, I really worry for them. My son also is working toward a degree in criminal law and will soon begin training in the police academy for a career in that very same field.
And then there is the cold blooded killing that occurred in Florida, on Thanksgiving day no less. Once again this is a tragedy in which words cannot properly convey how I feel about both these instances.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how or why someone could or would perpetrate such crimes as these. So what can be said?
Once again the call will be sounded by liberals to confiscate all guns. That is always their answer. There are always those that think that when America is “gun free” such slaughter will cease. I’m sorry, they are wrong. You will never grab weapons from criminals and that would leave those of us that are law abiding at their disposal. And I mean that literally.
The problem is that number one, the laws on the books are being skirted. Why was a man like Maurice Clemmons who has a long criminal record in Arkansas and Washington allowed to be on the streets? We once again have a “Willie Horton situation.” And this time a Republican Governor appears to be at fault. If Mike Huckabee, who was Arkansas Governor when he allegedly granted this man clemency had any aspirations to run for president in 2012, he may as well drop that plan in my opinion. This appears to be a breakdown in many facets of the legal system though.
Although this man had five felony convictions in Arkansas, he had at least eight felony charges in Washington. So Washington is not innocent in this matter either. How in the world does a man walk out of jail with a child-rape charge that carries a possible life sentence? He was released even though he was saddled with eight felony charges in all for crying out loud! Not to mention piles of serious legal run-ins in the past.
The fact that Clemmon’s had told people to “watch the news on T.V. cause I’m gonna shoot some cops” sends shivers up my spine. Why didn’t any of them alert someone? Most likely some of those he told helped him in an attempt to elude capture. Unbelievable.
In the “child rape” charge Clemmons posted “$15,000″ with a Chehalis company called “Jail Sucks
Bail Bonds.” The bondsman, in turn, put up $150,000, securing Clemmons’ release. You’ve got to be kidding me!
And now we law abiding citizens will have to hear about how our 2nd Amendment rights should be scrapped. In reality our courts and elected officials are continuing in it’s failure to uphold it’s duties. How many times will this happen? And how many more will die because of our court system and it’s neglect.
At least if there are law abiding citizens with concealed weapons, innocent lives may be saved Lord willing. You can bet without them many more folks will die violently.
