Eat your ancient heart out, Frank Lautenberg.
California’s Kimberly Rhode captured America’s second gold medal of the London games on Sunday in women’s skeet shooting.
Rhode is a 3-time gold medal winner and now the first American in Olympic history to win an individual sport medal in — believe it or not — 5 consecutive Olympic games. A very rare feat indeed!
Our friends in the U.K. haven’t done as well. That’s not surprising; in fact, thanks to draconian British gun control laws, many of their Olympians (specifically the pistol team) can’t even train in their home country. The fact that shooting events occur at all is the result of a special Parliamentary waiver.
Can you even imagine?
But I can guarantee you this much, Save Jerseyans: had Ms. Rhode been present at that fateful viewing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado with her firearm in hand, the shooter would be one head shorter today!
So congratulations to Kimberly Rhode; here’s hoping her and the rest of our Olympic shooting teams can continue to hone their craft on domestic soil unlike their British counterparts.
Folks — the Second Amendment is NOT about the Olympics, recreation, or hunting. It was written for CITIZENS, not the government, to have the means to protect themselves from those who wish to harm them.
"Who are the militia? Are they not ourselves? Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms each man gainst his own bosom. Congress have no power to disarm the militia. Their swords, and every other terrible implement of the soldier, are the birthright of an American…. [T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or state governments, but, where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the people." (Tench Coxe, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.)