(Readers Digest Version)

I ought to be a poster boy for more gun-control laws. My
mother was a forty-four year old a (nobody) when she was shot to death
Wednesday morning September 9, 1981, in Houston,
Texas. She was waiting to clock
into work with a group of co-workers that morning when she was gunned down
right in front of them. There was nothing anyone could have done to save her.
Her attacker was the only one present who was armed. He emptied all six shots from his revolver
were into her body. After she was shot and down on the ground he used his empty
pistol like a rock and started to pistol-whip her. Neither mercy nor quarter
was given. After his gun was empty and the pistol-whipping was going on her
co-workers finally restrained her attacker and held him for the police. She
died about an hour later in the E.R. at Ben Taub Hospital. Pardon the graphic details I
have had over thirty one years to live with these facts-of-life that no one
should have to live with. With what follows maybe being graphic will give a
better understanding for what I have come to believe.

I suppose it is understood that a number of laws were broken
that that morning. Murders often exercise their “cruel an unusual” capital
punishment on anyone anytime they please. It is open season on us all. We only
hear of the bloodshed when they target a high profile (somebody) or (groups)
especially if children are involved. For the forth and fifth estates the higher
profile, the larger the group and especially with children all the better.
Emotions will rule the day and logic be-damned!

The cost a typical murderer pays is small in comparison to
their crime. Freedom from “cruel an unusual punishment” is only a right
reserved for the guilty. Their victims just get to die! It wasn’t until many
years later I learned my mother’s executioner had murdered before! So that it
is clearly understood he was under a restraining order, he was a convicted
felon, a convicted felon with a gun and a convicted felon with a gun committing
murder again! Any one with half a brain knows these things are all against the
law! Simply put neither laws nor the police protect anyone, but more on that
latter.

Six years in prison on average is the cost most murderers
pay. A few years confinement on the taxpayer dime is the cost for so many
innocent lives lost. A high profile victim a (somebody) or a (large group) may
serve a little more time, maybe life, maybe! Occasionally some do get the
needle or as it is now so often being called “cruel an unusual punishment”.
This as opposed to the charity they showed their victims I suppose.

Murder victims never receive a jury trial, they have no
rights to appeal; victims only have to submit to a painful and often brutal
death! That morning my mom just thought she was just going to work. Instead she
was just going to die! I don’t get to see her again, ever! No visits from
friends and family like her murderer probably received. I just visit a stone in
a graveyard and wonder what might have been if only… At that time we learned
we couldn’t to be informed about his trial or his fate. It was against the law!
It took the advent of the internet to finally learn a few meager details, most
notably six years and out. Betty was a (nobody), but as “Momma” she was a
(somebody) to me!

I’d finally had enough. I’m emotional about all of this no
doubt. That doesn’t alter the logic. For years I’ve watched celebrities and
politicians, listened to countless talking heads and read all these agenda
driven articles. Clueless but cunning people with a public platform I’ll never
have. They all express the same stupid pap this article did. Big deal! Go right
ahead, explain the logic of this mindless ideology to my mother, and shout it
real loud. The dead don’t hear well!

Microstamping will not prevent gun violence. NYers should unite against feckless, feel-good, nice sounding laws.
Criminals have no respect or fear of gun laws. Since few gun stores in NYS sell crime guns, we can’t shut them down under current laws.
Public safety is hampered by state judges who seem to think of themselves co-defense counsels. So, we have gun-toting sociopaths who are coddled by judges who think every cop is a corrupt, boozing, lying racist.

Cuomo should lecture the state courts to enforce the laws that are on our books and to stop hamstringing honest law enforcement.

Talk about the apple not falling far from the tree….