This may or may not be true; I don't know and don't particularly care. The interesting thing is, look who's on the defensive now! Used to be, we had to defend conceal carry saying that it won't increase crime (shootouts at stoplights and all that). Now, we are on the offense. The million mommies are on the defensive! I love it.
Bottom line: policy arguments come and go. The fact is that a law abiding citizen has an inalienable right to self defense, including the right to carry. That should be enough for most people.
Bottom line: policy arguments come and go. The fact is that a law abiding citizen has an inalienable right to self defense, including the right to carry. That should be enough for most people.
Exactly.
Except that it doesn't matter what is enough for most people. If my inalienable right to self defense includes using a gun to save my life then no person or group of people have the right -- nor should they have the power -- to force me to be defenseless. 911 is slow crime follow-up. Martial arts don't stop a criminal's speeding bullet.
And if I were a criminal it would be well within my mental make up to steal a gun to commit other crimes.
If a politician or bureaucrat doesn't trust me with a gun I cannot trust them to wield the power of government. They and their 911 can't defend me in the few moments that most violent crimes occur.
If they're going to force me to forego my inalienable right to self defense then should I be a victim of a violent crime they will be held accountable for failing to be there to defend me.
If they proclaim that they criminal is to fault because he didn't abide the law I will agree. Yet that is besides the point that the politician and bureaucrat failed to defend me during the crime. Though they did insure that I'd be defenseless during the crime.
Bottom line: politicians and bureaucrats know full well that they cannot be there to defend a victim during a violent crime. When they vote for gun control laws they know full well that they will be leaving victims defenseless.
They are parasites more destructive than the criminals they proclaim to be protecting their constituents from.