I have to wonder sometimes how some people reach the conclusions that they do. To be specific, let’s look at those who would say that we’d all have a safer society if only the government had guns. Right now it seems farfetched that anyone would agree to that. But the issue today is comprehensive gun owner registration and smaller clips. That nose under the tent now will easily lead to stricter rules when it is discovered, after another mass murder using legal arms, more restrictions will be necessary. Eventually only the government will have guns – much to the joy of those who think more government leads to a utopia. When one looks at statistics it reveals that governments all over the world are by far the most leading cause of 99.9% of deaths by firepower when the population is disarmed.
Now I know plenty of people who own guns. They take them out to go hunting and afterward they are returned to a lock safe. Some have merely inherited their arms and wouldn’t know even how to load them. Some enjoy hobby shooting and for those who do, I know none of them that have any desire to shoot anyone. One aspect of the concealed weapons course makes it plain that if you pull that trigger you will most likely pay a dear price even if you are defending a life. It’s a legal ride – civil or criminal – that you don’t want to get on. But do I want to limit anyone’s ability to defend themselves? Never! Will a criminal register a weapon? Will he use a seven round clip if a 30 round is available? They already have the most important advantage in their favor – the element of surprise. Suppose in the Cold War our government in Washington had unilaterally disarmed ourselves of all nuclear weapons. Imagine the blackmail and danger we would have experienced from our sworn enemies. Now that same government under the current administration wants the public to do exactly that. Maybe they are not saying it now but they are thinking it; this same administration that sponsored Fast and Furious which abetted the transportation and selling of semi – automatic weapons to drug felons in Mexico so they could murder helpless DISARMED Mexican citizens. And the same administration that most likely was running arms to Syrian rebels through the Benghazi, Libya, United States embassy extension agency. The hypocrisy awes me. President Obama, after Fast and Furious and the Benghazi affair, has no platform upon which to rave against the NRA (which he did anyway) for its alleged lies and misrepresentations after the failed anti-gun vote in the Senate April 18. Want more irony? Paul Revere’s ride was April 18, 1775. The colonists had stored a huge cache of weapons and powder at Concord and Lexington. The British were coming to disarm the colonists. We know what that attempt led to: The birth of a country.
Disarmament will lead to the reverse.
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