Boston Bombing effect on issues: Gun control -1, Immigration +2

City under siege
by National Guard

America has seen a horrendous scene play out in the last few days. Citizens being asked to stay indoors, while others are removed from their home by police, some with babies and blankets in hand. This played out in an effort to search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect still at large. Anytime citizens are held at gun point for any reason, they tend to think one thing: “Am I safe?” Feeling weak and “under the gun” makes anyone think of ways to protect themselves. There is really only one way to you can be protected from a gun, and that’s by having your own.

The announcement that the Senate has hit a road block in its gun control law negotiations, has hit the President even harder, and made a deep dent in his passionate fervor to push for the legislation. So not only does the President go from a plus one, at the point he had a bipartisan compromise to discuss the legislation; he now gets a negative, for losing it. He receives a second negative for the fact that Americans who have guns, want to keep them now more than ever. The media showing armed militia men in suburbia didn't make them "lean forward."

Immigration on the other hand, went from a plus one; simply for the fact that the legislation started from the onset through a bipartisan initiation to a plus two. Boston has changed matters now that the media and law enforcement have verified that the “loose” immigration laws we have, allowed a non-U.S. Citizen leave the United States, return in a few months; then is red flagged as a possible Muslim terrorist, yet was never stopped from walking among us like a regular patriot loving American. If there was ever a major reason to support immigration reform, this is it.

Immigration needs to be addressed, and now more than ever. Without stepping too far into the politically incorrect, let’s face it, many terrorist Muslims can look Hispanic. We have unsecured Mexican and Canadian borders. Even hopping on a plane and entering the United States is not hard to do. The overwhelming focus in airport security is on stopping a bomb from going off on a plane, or not letting a high jacking occur. Maybe it’s time to look at our immigration laws: work visas, student visas, and travel permits. Our new proposed immigration laws are still on the table; so the score stands: Gun Control -1, Immigration +2.