I will believe that when Wisconsin demonstrates that it has the power to reduce consumption of illegal drugs.
I live in Bavaria where there is virtually no threat of gun violence to me or my family, so far. But every one of my neighbors is increasingly concerned about the influx of foreigners, especially Russians and Muslims whom they regard to be violent and often possessed of weapons.
In the meantime rural Bavaria remains relatively free of gun violence. This leads Germans to believe that the solution for America is to adopt the German solution: essentially eliminate guns. They regard the constitutional right to keep and bear arms to be a technicality which can be readily dispensed with.
The Germans might be right, if we could eliminate all 200 million guns in America 320 million Americans might be safer but the practical problem is getting there (assuming that's a desirable goal and assuming it's constitutional-different arguments). The Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel wants to get there by intermediate steps. This time it advances what it describes is reasonable registration and background investigations.
The problem with every proposed restriction on the right to keep and bear arms is that the limitations will be observed only by the innocent and exploited by the violent. The analogy is gun free zones. Every time my right to bear arms in America is circumscribed by well-meaning liberals they make me more vulnerable in a society with 200 million weapons. They make me more vulnerable in a society in which the government is setting one race against the other, one race against authority represented by the police. They make me more vulnerable every time they make it more difficult for the police to take effective action against criminals. They make me more vulnerable in a society riven for decades by race riots.
The so-called reasonable registration and background investigation requirements will never be applied without a hidden left-wing agenda. It is much like the hidden left-wing agenda behind the their refusal to build a wall on the border. Leftism should be spontaneously associated in every voter's mind with cronyism and our reaction should be instinctive, when leftist conduct investigations only leftists will get guns.
