Posted on 10/08/2017 8:06:55 AM PDT by richardb72
Is support for gun ownership and the Second Amendment a “fetish”? Bret Stephens, a New York Times columnist, sure thinks so.
Stephens acknowledges the “feckless” gun-control laws that keep being trotted out before we even know the facts of each case. (Indeed, as with universal background checks on private gun transfers, we keep finding out that they would not have stopped any of these attacks.) So his solution is to “repeal the Second Amendment,” because gun ownership doesn’t “need a blanket Constitutional protection.”
He says he doesn’t want to ban guns, but according to the Supreme Court, the only protection that is so far given by the Second Amendment is that the government can’t completely ban all guns, or all handguns. So whatever Stephens’s intentions may be, cities such as Washington and Chicago would again try to ban guns. And California’s handgun-safety regulations, which currently allow only a dozen models to be sold, will continue on their path to banning handguns completely.
Here’s one problem with this argument: A ban on guns, even in cities like Washington and Chicago, will make things much worse. While gun bans (either a ban on all guns or on all handguns) have been imposed in many places, every time guns have been banned, murder rates have gone up.
One would think that one time, just out of simple randomness, murder rates would have gone down or at least stayed the same. Yet in every single case for which we have crime data both before and after the ban, murder rates have gone up, often by huge amounts.
Americans, including Stephens, should be familiar with the disasters that befell Washington and Chicago after their gun bans. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Good points in this article.
“He says he doesn’t want to ban guns”
Oh, thank goodness. Now, pound sand, Stephens, you assclown...
The left HATE the police and they hate small government, BUT they want us to give up our guns to the government and the police so THEY can protect us all? WTH?!?!?
Liberalism is a mental disease. No sense trying to understand it. Just eradicate it.
He’s mentioned it in other instances but another good cautionary tale about banning guns is Jamaica. After banning all civilian gun ownership there in about 1974 with it’s Gun Court Act, crime and violence increased exponentially, making Jamaica one of the most violent places on earth for many years, even today.
It is a very disturbing portrait to read in David Kopel’s book “The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy” the one on Jamaican violence and political corruption accompanied by the strict gun control and that is not far removed what is taking place in New York City, Chicago, DC, and even Toronto.
We have to quit thinking of gun control as having anything to do with guns. More than anything, the left despises dissidents. Anything they can use as a pretext for harming those who disagree becomes a cause celeb, whether it’s climate, income disparity, LBGT issues, etc. These ‘causes’ are merely vehicles to punish their enemies, and their enemies are anyone whose thinking is contrary to theirs. Their ultimate goal, and only goal, is absolute power through political conformity.
Since 1994, Gun ownership up 59%, Homicide by gun down 49%. Hmmm?
NY is trying to get it’s ‘safe act’ enacted country wide- They pushed that unconstitutional ‘safe act’ on the people of NY under the deceitful guise of ‘imminent need to prevent gun violence’ - and now they want the whole country to adopt this unconstitutional law
[[”EDITORIAL: SAFE Act can work to prevent killings
Local police had heard about a man threatening a dog with a rifle, and Chief Justin Derway went to a home on Culvert Street, where Devin A. Pratt was standing in a driveway, holding an AR-15-style rifle.
Derway confiscated the rifle, because under New York’s SAFE Act, certain semi-automatic rifles with military features are illegal.”
They wish to make it illegal to buy certain SEMI AUTOMATIC guns simply because they ‘look like military style assault weapons’ -
Again- States are slowly slowly slowly chipping away at our second amendment rights
Liberals know a gun ban will lead to an increase in the murder rate. They count on it.
Crime is very helpful to governments in keeping control of the masses. It is hard to fight against a corrupt and totalitarian government when individuals are more worried about basic survival.
JoMa
Banning guns invariantly leads to gangs with illegal guns, taking over neighborhoods where they can shake down citizens for their government check to get voters to the polls to vote for Bolshekrats who want to ban guns. Banning guns is money laundering by the Bolshies to pay off the gangs to keep the Bolshies in power.
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