Yesterday afternoon, as I was driving home from work, I decided to listen to the President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama’s, Press Conference, hastily arranged to respond to the defeat of  his Gun Control Initiative  in the United States Senate.

What I heard was , as the title suggests, the First Presidential Temper Tantrum.

As my local ABC Radio affiliate, WKIM, joined the presser, a gentleman who had lost a child to the psychopath responsible for the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre was speaking.

I tuned the gentleman out, because my mind was too occupied with the cognitive realization and resulting revulsion, that Obama was using these grieving Newtown parents as propaganda tools….mere instruments designed to help the Manchurian President achieve his goal of taking firearms from law-abiding Americans.

The grieving parent introduced the president and then, the condescending vitriol that began to spew out of Obama’s mouth, almost caused me to drive off of the road.

I’m going to speak plainly and honestly about what’s happened here because the American people are trying to figure out how can something have 90 percent support and yet not happen. We had a Democrat and a Republican -– both gun owners, both fierce defenders of our Second Amendment, with “A” grades from the NRA — come together and worked together to write a common-sense compromise on background checks. And I want to thank Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey for their courage in doing that. That was not easy given their traditional strong support for Second Amendment rights.

As they said, nobody could honestly claim that the package they put together infringed on our Second Amendment rights. All it did was extend the same background check rules that already apply to guns purchased from a dealer to guns purchased at gun shows or over the Internet. So 60 percent of guns are already purchased through a background check system; this would have covered a lot of the guns that are currently outside that system.

Their legislation showed respect for gun owners, and it showed respect for the victims of gun violence. And Gabby Giffords, by the way, is both — she’s a gun owner and a victim of gun violence. She is a Westerner and a moderate. And she supports these background checks.

In fact, even the NRA used to support expanded background checks. The current leader of the NRA used to support these background checks. So while this compromise didn’t contain everything I wanted or everything that these families wanted, it did represent progress. It represented moderation and common sense. That’s why 90 percent of the American people supported it.

But instead of supporting this compromise, the gun lobby and its allies willfully lied about the bill. They claimed that it would create some sort of “big brother” gun registry, even though the bill did the opposite. This legislation, in fact, outlawed any registry. Plain and simple, right there in the text. But that didn’t matter.

And unfortunately, this pattern of spreading untruths about this legislation served a purpose, because those lies upset an intense minority of gun owners, and that in turn intimidated a lot of senators. And I talked to several of these senators over the past few weeks, and they’re all good people. I know all of them were shocked by tragedies like Newtown. And I also understand that they come from states that are strongly pro-gun. And I have consistently said that there are regional differences when it comes to guns, and that both sides have to listen to each other.

But the fact is most of these senators could not offer any good reason why we wouldn’t want to make it harder for criminals and those with severe mental illnesses to buy a gun. There were no coherent arguments as to why we wouldn’t do this. It came down to politics — the worry that that vocal minority of gun owners would come after them in future elections. They worried that the gun lobby would spend a lot of money and paint them as anti-Second Amendment.

And obviously, a lot of Republicans had that fear, but Democrats had that fear, too. And so they caved to the pressure, and they started looking for an excuse — any excuse — to vote “no.”

One common argument I heard was that this legislation wouldn’t prevent all future massacres. And that’s true. As I said from the start, no single piece of legislation can stop every act of violence and evil. We learned that tragically just two days ago. But if action by Congress could have saved one person, one child, a few hundred, a few thousand — if it could have prevented those people from losing their lives to gun violence in the future while preserving our Second Amendment rights, we had an obligation to try.

And this legislation met that test. And too many senators failed theirs.

I’ve heard some say that blocking this step would be a victory. And my question is, a victory for who? A victory for what? All that happened today was the preservation of the loophole that lets dangerous criminals buy guns without a background check. That didn’t make our kids safer. Victory for not doing something that 90 percent of Americans, 80 percent of Republicans, the vast majority of your constituents wanted to get done? It begs the question, who are we here to represent?

I’ve heard folks say that having the families of victims lobby for this legislation was somehow misplaced. “A prop,” somebody called them. “Emotional blackmail,” some outlet said. Are they serious? Do we really think that thousands of families whose lives have been shattered by gun violence don’t have a right to weigh in on this issue? Do we think their emotions, their loss is not relevant to this debate?

So all in all, this was a pretty shameful day for Washington.

And, now, Mr. President…I’m going to speak plainly and honestly.

I’m glad you failed.

Even your fellow Democrats are admitting that this bill would not have stopped that murderous psychopath from killing those children in Newtown. So, why did you insult the American People, lecturing us like a pedantic professor, instead of approaching us as a United States President, who is supposed to be the leader and servant of all Americans and who works for us?

Is it possible that you believed your own outrageous propaganda concerning Gun Control?

Evidently, you did. Or, you would not have kept repeating your blatantly false assertion that 90% of Americans are in favor of the failed “Background Check” Initiative and how it would keep guns out of the hands of psychopaths and criminals. 

I guess you refuse to believe the CBS News Poll which shows that 90% of Americans believe that Gun Control is not a very important issue at all.

Blows your plans for Gun Confiscation all to Hades, doesn’t it?

Here’s your problem, Mr. President:

We, the average Americans living out here in the Heartland, think you are full of it, and don’t trust you any further than we can throw you.

You pushed Obamacare down our throats, and now, you’ve tried to take away our guns. Bad move, Scooter.

You see, as Americans, we value our freedom, and trust our Founding Fathers and the Constitution which they wrote so masterfully, more than your empty promises, which all have expiration dates.

Our Founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to win our freedom. 

It would be disrespectful not to follow their example.

And, that would be shameful.

Until He Comes, 

KJ