What if the grim reaper (a.k.a., the DJT’s guard dog) were
to allow the Senate to vote on the bill passed in February of 2019 on universal
background checks on all gun purchases? It is time that everyone does their job.
What if more companies refused to sell AR-15, AK-47 and
similar assault weapons and large capacity magazines (e.g., more than 15) for
all weapons?
What if cities and counties refused to allow gun shows to be
organized in their jurisdictions?
What if the sale of weapons of any kind through the Internet
were made illegal?
What if everyone knew what was actually written in the
second amendment to the US constitution:
“A well regulated Militia, being
necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and
bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
What if the second amendment were to be expanded to include
bazookas, grenades, surface to surface and surface to air missiles? Tanks? 50
caliber machine guns? The slippery slope slides both ways.
What if we, the people, in order to form a more perfect
union, decided to stand up and be counted in opposition to the separation of
families and the incarceration of immigrant
children, or in opposition to denying temporary protective status to
neighbors escaping the devastation of a sustained hurricane 5, or against
sending back to countries of origin those previously granted protective status
so as to provide them with life-saving medical care … what if we, the people,
really understood the blessing of liberty and decided to be a shining country
on the hill of humanity?
What if the justices on the supreme court were to actually
behave like impartial and independent justices interested in the welfare of all
as in “we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all …” as stated in
the Declaration of Independence as the obligation of governments in response to
absolute despotism, which is the current direction of these divided states
under #45.
What if people everywhere embraced the following from the
Book of Leviticus in the Hebrew Bible:
9 “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your
field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your
harvest. 10 And
you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen
grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the
sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
11 “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall
not lie to one another. 12 You shall not swear by my name falsely,
and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.
13 “You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of
a hired worker shall not remain with you all night until the morning. 14 You shall not
curse the deaf or put a stumbling block before the blind, but you
shall fear your God: I am the Lord.
15 “You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to
the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your
neighbor. 16 You
shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall
not stand up against the life[a] of your
neighbor: I am the Lord.
17 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall
reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him. 18 You shall not
take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people,
but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
What if the temporary resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
in Washington DC understood and lives by those words?
What if the “American eagle were to really spread its wings and
straighten up and fly right?”
What if you were to add ideas to this short list of musings
of worlds yet to be realized?
