Gun Debate or Debacle?

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Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Gun Debate or Debacle?

Gun control people are lining up their sheep to march on Washington DC to protest gun violence and insist on stricter gun controls. Thousands are expected and many will try to influence our federal law makers to change what the Second Amendment has guaranteed us from the beginning of our birth as a free nation. Granted the clause states “a well regulated” phrase that is being interpreted in many various ways to suit individual and partisan needs at a time when our country is so vulnerable to domestic terrorism and internal strife to survive the hell it has become.

It is speculated that this fever of gun control was sparked or initiated by the school massacre at Newton Connecticut but I suspect it goes much deeper than that. It is my opinion that this is a direct assault by those that oppose gun ownership by law abiding citizens and another attempt to strip away those rights given to us in our Second Amendment.

There is no doubt that many politicians will jump on this band wagon to repel the NRA and other pro-gun views with their own interest in mind and not that of our country’s heritage or Bill of Rights. This has become a fight between what is constitutional and what the government wants of its people. To disarm America is to disarm liberty and freedom.

It must be pointed out that the NRA does not speak for me nor does it represent the views I have on this subject. It is with pure intentions that I want to preserve our Constitution as it was written to preserve the ideals our founding fathers brought forth when they created the Bill of Rights.

One might say it’s a debate between liberty and tyranny with an outcome that will impact us all, gun owners and non-gun owners as once the Bill of Rights has been diluted, other rights will fall right behind the Second Amendment and destroy our moral foundation called America.

Yahoo News reports that “The Newtown massacre has galvanized the U.S. debate on guns and spurred President Barack Obama to propose the most significant gun-control steps in decades. It goes on and states in part “Obama wants to revive a ban on military-style assault weapons, a proposal that faces a tough battle in Congress. He also wants to put in place mandatory background checks for all gun buyers.”

This debate will turn into a debacle for two reasons; the first reason is selfish interests of those wishing to remove our hands and ownership from the guns we already own and carry lawfully and the second is to destroy the moral fiber of our constitution that has been attacked numerous times now through litigation and lawmaking by extremists that have no interest in preserving our way of life and liberty.

It is up to every legal gun owner to speak out and contact their federal and state representatives and express their own opinion and stand on the Second Amendment and the right to carry guns without specific legislation restricting or eliminating certain guns from being bought through existing and legal channels today.

If you decide not to take any action and sit back to watch this debacle from the couch, don’t come crying to me about how your constitutional rights were infringed or violated when you wouldn’t lift a finger to protect those rights.