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Isla Vista father overwhelmed by ‘Not One More’ response (VIDEO)
Richard Martinez, who following the death of his son started a “Not One More” campaign to urge lawmakers to find solutions to end gun violence. (Photo by Everytown for Gun Safety)
Richard Martinez, the father of Christopher Martinez, who was among the victims killed in a rampage last month in Isla Vista, California, expressed his appreciation in a video for the thousands of people who heeded his ‘Not One More’ call to action in an effort to spur national gun-control reform.
“Having your child die is the worst thing that can happen to anyone…” says Martinez in a video posted by Everytown for Gun Safety. “And there really aren’t words to describe the feeling that you have.”
Martinez then questions why he wasn’t more engaged on the issue following the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
“I ask myself, where was I after Sandy Hook? Why didn’t I do something? If I had done something, if I had paid attention then maybe my son would be alive,” he states.
Believing others can learn a lesson from his inaction after Sandy Hook, Martinez is urging the public to reach out to lawmakers in Congress.
Gun crime statistics. (Graph by Pew Research Center)
“I asked everyone to do one of two things, to either send a postcard or to post a hashtag to the politicians in Washington stating ‘Not One More,’” he continues, adding, “I’m overwhelmed with the response that we got: 600,000 Americans have sent over 2.4 million postcards. That’s a tremendous response and it’s one I don’t think the politicians in Congress can ignore.”
Yet, there’s good reason to believe that pleas for tougher gun laws will ultimately fall on deaf ears, not because politicians don’t want to curb gun-related violence but because there is no evidence that at least one of the policy solutions Martinez has tacitly endorsed — outlawing so-called “assault weapons” and “semiautomatic weapons” — would be effective.
“I understand this is a complicated problem. I have friends who are in the NRA. I grew up on a farm. I hunted. I killed animals. I understand guns,” Martinez told the Washington Post. “But assault rifles and semiautomatic weapons? There is no need for those except in war.”
The reality is is that there are more so-called “assault weapons” and semiautomatic weapons in circulation in America than ever before, yet gun crime has not increased it has actually declined since the Clinton Era “assault weapon” ban expired in 2004, suggesting that putting more of these “war weapons” in the hands of law-abiding citizens does not have a statistically significant impact on gun crime.
But suppose for a moment that these bans were effective at reducing gun crime, even then the government could not institute such a ban without going door-to-door and confiscating millions of firearms, which many reasonably argue would lead to an all out uprising.
All that said, Martinez is free to pursue his political objectives, though he shouldn’t be surprised if he comes up short because facts and common sense are not on his side.
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Source: http://www.guns.com/2014/06/21/isla-vista-father-overwhelmed-by-not-one-more-response-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=isla-vista-father-overwhelmed-by-not-one-more-response-video
Dear People,
Ok lets get this straight, this persons alleged son / child who was obviously either mentally unstable, or a drug addicted by way of the State or self inflicted.
Of what again we have no clear idea if either of these person’s are really related in any way shape or form, or if they are in fact just worthless B rated actors.
All we have is mass media spin filled with political rhetoric or better noted as “BOVINE WASTE” to weed through to try and figure out if this event even happened and who’s – who.
What I find as well everyone should find rather strange, is the fact that this alleged father seems to have had a massive disconnect with the noted events, after all he keeps talking about his alleged child being a victim, { the question is } a “Victim of what?”
If the child did indeed kill the alleged people, would he not have been the one who committed all of these alleged crime’s, thus making him not a “Victim” but in fact the criminal?
Also we have a child who has been handed everything, to include a rather bent ego let alone self image?
Plus we have a narrative that defies logic presented by the child all on “YOU TUBE” not once but many times he recants the same rants about what’s wrong with any woman who would fail to find him either attractive or worthy of having intercourse with him.
Yet his alert father seems to have been asleep at the wheel over all these RANTS, anyone else find that rather strange? The alleged loving caring father who seems to be so self absorbed with his 15 minutes of FAME from the twisted mass media, that he fails to explain why he was so absent from his child’s life when this child needed obvious help.
I will not even get into all the evidence that would support the fact that this was also just one more staged event for the political engagement to disarm the American people.
Of what is really in TRUTH, to denude the American people of one of the last “RIGHTS” within the real “Bill of Rights.”
As soon as the Second Amendment is stripped away, the last few points of the First Amendment will follow within moments.
So, the question is as always it should be with all of these events: “Who Gains more Power?”
Is it the average American?
Or is it the World Order? Who by the way owns by way of proxy all of the Mass Media, and even YOU and your children. The Second Amendment is all that’s holding them back.
I would submit that the American people are about to go the way of the Native American’s of whom were called “Indians” from what ever tribe they came from.
All so a Corporation run by BANKERS can inflict any desired behavior on the People of the world they so choose.
Peace Shalom