Posted on 02/14/2016 8:00:09 AM PST by rktman
A man enters a deli, has a discussion with an employee and leaves. According to numerous reports, coming in from Columbus, Ohio, the man returned roughly 30 minutes later and began randomly swinging a machete, seriously wounding four patrons who, moments earlier, were simply enjoying their time at the restaurant. Ohio enacted new gun control laws less than a year earlier, including requirements for more stringent background checks. These laws failed to protect those wounded by this crazed attacker who was on the FBI watch list.
Gun control; just the words themselves spark very different (yet equally passionate) responses from citizens. Those favoring reduced control cling to notions of inalienable rights and liberty. Pointing to the 2nd Amendment gun owners insist they've a right to all manner of deadly weapons. Murder and mayhem continue to make headlines and the proponents continue to point to gun control as a key answer in calming the tides of terror despite the 'noise' about rights. When it comes to the attacks in Columbus we know tighter gun control laws would have failed to protect anyone the attacker chose to target.
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They will point to this as a victory for gun control
You can get a machete for under $10 in most army surplus and Harbor Freight stores. Just saying. This is not an argument for passing another reg or law. The next thing on the list will be bricks and stones and tire irons.
No baseball bats in your car either. There only intended to smash balls and nothing else.
Gun control advocates simply have no clue. At close quarters a person with a knife in his pocket and even the slightest inkling of the most effective ways to use it... can be just as dangerous as someone carrying a handgun. Terrorists and even untrained garden variety psychos all seem to know this.
I am not going to tell the story again in this post, but in the performance of my duties as a fire fighter an idiot tried to shoot me. If he had been lying in wait with a knife instead of a handgun there is a good chance that I would not still be around.
bfl
That FBI terrorist “watch list” is only good for giving the media the proper spelling on the bad guy’s name the day after the evil deed is done and the perpetrator is identified. Billion$ for the FBI and Homeland Insecurity gives us little protection.
Terrible things happen, especially decades after many men were reared without fathers.
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