The left says, "What's mine is mine - what's yours is negotiable."
“Gun control stops gun violence. Gun possession does not deter crime; it merely makes it more lethal. Making these inarguable truths into necessary law takes the work of persuasion and legislation and litigation.”
Just like man-made global warming is settled science.
-- If anything, they tend to make a sniffy point of discriminating actual machine guns from mere semi-automatic ones, among them the Bushmaster. (Back in the twenties, the availability of the tommy gun to gangsters meant that the police were often brutally out-gunned.)
BTW - the “mental work” at the New Yorker, while not finished, was ended long ago.
More like reflexive knee-jerking.
How can you finish something that has never been started?
No wonder this moron writes for the New Yorker. Probably spent his entire life in Manhattan, which explains his myopia mental irrationality.
By the way, I didn’t know there ever WAS any “mental work” there.
What is in fact totally undeniable, is that the better armed are the law abiding citizens, the greater the deterrent to the lawless thugs.
Of course, the cruelty of the wish to deny other people the right to defend themselves, must not be over-looked. The campaign to disarm law-abiding citizens can never be considered to be kindly motivated; the pretense that it is, has chilling implications. Those parroting the slogans of those pretending otherwise are analogous to the political cadres chanting allegiance to the Government, in a 1934 Nazi rally.
William Flax
“The mental work is done” means “I’m not going to bother thinking about it anymore.” I’m guessing that mental work was done long ago.
Can you name one place where gun control is effective in controlling gun violence? Can you name one place where gun possession has not reduced crime?
Anyway, the second amendment is not about crime prevention, hunting, collecting, sharp shooting. It is about defending oneself from others, especially an overreaching Federal Government.