Well, since the shootings at a grammar school in Newtown, Connecticut, last week, the issue of gun control is back on the Comrade's mind. Never let a crisis go to waste? Apparently the Fast & Furious thing didn't work out right, so here's another opportunity.
At a news conference today, he announced some kind of commission -- I don't know the details, seeing his ugly face on TV sort of trips a scream reflex and I didn't hear what he was saying. However, he put Joe Biden in charge, so I doubt it's going to be a serious effort.
But let's examine this -- seriously -- for a minute.
Blockheads like Pazzo Pelosi hold firmly to the fiction that if you pass a law, you're solving a problem. I once had a magic wand I picked up at a Renaissance Faire. This blind in faith in "there oughta be law," is a magic wand. And it works about the same.
First of all, the challenge seems to be: how do we get guns out of the hands of criminals and lunatics?
Are criminals and lunatics going to worry about not obeying gun control laws? They don't obey any other laws.
What happens in real life is that law-abiding citizens follows the laws. The criminals do not. Net result: armed criminals are free to run rampant over law-abiding citizens. It happens every time.
Second, there are millions of guns in the USA. Hundreds of millions. More guns than population. Think you're going to get rid of those? Think muggers and robbers and hijackers and psychopathic killers are going to give up their guns? If so, I'd like to offer you a parcel of land in Florida....
On the other hand, where "gun control" includes legal "concealed carry," which means anyone might have a gun in their pocket or backpack, violent crime goes down. Criminals aren't usually fools. If you might be armed, they get a little more polite and might consider pursuing other illegal channels rather than stick-em-up games.
Third, a friend just posted some interesting statistics on my Facebook page. Did you know, for example, that gun violence doesn't kill as many people as non-gun violence? Or that non-car accidents (as in, Hey! Watch this!) kill many more people every year than ANY KIND of deliberate violence?
Interesting, no?
In additon, that kid in Connecticut played by the rules -- except on that last day of his life. He was using his mother's guns, which were registerd, and which he was trained to use. The school had a security system -- apparently the killer shot out a window to get in.
His problem wasn't access to guns so much as it was something wrong in his head. He'd lived in a home with guns for several years and doesn't seem to have been compelled to kill anyone. His mother had trained him how to use those guns safely. More or different gun control laws wouldn't have made a bit of difference in his case. Maybe his mother should have thought twice? Maybe the kid just snapped for some reason we'll never know.
But let's do SOMETHING, right? Let's see if we can't violate the Constitution and take away more freedom as some kind of memorial to the 26 dead people in Connecticut. Gun control is just another fascist-liberal hobby horse, like taxing the rich.
Hmmm.... taxing the rich. A much more serious issue than gun control right now. Don't get me started.
But I especially don't want tighter gun ownership restrictionw with the Comrade in the White House. How about a cooling off period before taking this up? How about a period of about four more years?
That's it.
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