Posted on 10/12/2015 1:05:14 PM PDT by jazusamo
The grand illusion of zealots for laws preventing ordinary, law-abiding people from having guns is that "gun control" laws actually control guns. In a country with many millions of guns, not all of them registered, this is a fantasy and a farce.
Guns do not vanish into thin air because there are gun control laws. Guns — whether legal or illegal — can last for centuries. Passing laws against guns may enable zealots to feel good about themselves, but at the cost of other people's lives.
Why anyone would think that criminals who disobey other laws, including laws against murder, would obey gun control laws is a mystery. A disarmed population makes crime a safer occupation and street violence a safer sport.
The "knockout game" of suddenly throwing a punch to the head of some unsuspecting passer-by would not be nearly so much fun for street hoodlums, if there was a serious risk that the passer-by was carrying a concealed firearm.
Being knocked out in a boxing ring means landing on the canvas. But being knocked out on a street usually means landing on concrete. Victims of the knockout game have ended up in the hospital or in the morgue.
If, instead, just a few of those who play this sick "game" ended up being shot, that would take a lot of the fun out of it for others who are tempted to play the same "game."
Even in places where law-abiding citizens are allowed to own guns, they are seldom allowed to carry concealed weapons — even though concealed weapons protect not only those who carry them, but also protect those who do not, for the hoodlums and criminals have no way of knowing in advance who is armed and who is not.
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Every few years, some low-life's from outside Texas move here, and think they can commit a "driveway robbery" with little risk.
There are a lot of developments that have alleys BEHIND the house, and a fence around the backyard. So, it's easy to follow someone into their driveway, then pull behind them and block them as they pull into their garage. With 6-foot fences on either side of the alley and driveway, no one else can see what is going on.
[An aside: I've never lived in such a house, and I wouldn't]
There's a subsequent rash of these robberies, which make the news. Sometimes it is the same perps, but occasionally others think: "hey, this is cool!", and it becomes an epidemic -- for a week or so.
Then, a potential victim gets out of their car with a handgun and ventilates the perpetrator. It makes the news, and driveway robberies come to a screeching halt, at least for a year or so.
The issue actually boils down to who enforces the law, and how.To say that legally carried weapons should be available, and used, to stop a berserker is to say that the people are the first responders, and the so-called “first responders” are backup.
“Gun control” is first responder control.
Well said. In states where a person with a legally carried weapon does in fact stop a crime and it happens often the backups carrying badges are in fact just backups.
My point is, of course, that inevitably anyone who is assaulted is the first responder. Whether that response is to go into a fetal position, or whether it is to dispatch the assailant with a head shot, it is the first response.
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