Indiscriminate Sale of Firearms Should Be Prohibited

WOW, thank goodness I'm not the only one that thought this article was really out there and hard to follow. Of course, it was written in 1934, maybe that has something to do with it?

"Fortunately, no murders were ever committed prior to the invention of gunpowder, so I'm pretty much convinced by his reasoning."

Wish I'd said that.........

That this fool would cite as a FAVORABLE precedent Justice George Jeffreys (and misspell his name to boot), arguably one of the most corrupt, evil, and insane judges ever to disgrace an English bench, gives a fairly good idea of his intelligence. Jeffreys was responsible for the kangaroo trials and mass executions after Monmouth's Rebellion in 1685.

His behaviour was beyond anything that was ever heard of in a civilized nation. He was perpetually either drunk or in a rage, liker a fury than the zeal of a judge. He required the prisoners to plead guilty. And in that case he gave them some hope of favour, if they gave him no trouble; otherwise he told them, he would execute the letter of the law upon them in its utmost severity.
This made many plead guilty, who had a great defence in law. But he shewed no mercy. He ordered a great many to be hanged up immediately without allowing them a minute's time to say their prayers. He hanged, in several places, about six hundred persons. The greatest part of these were of the meanest sort, and no distinction. The impieties with which he treated them, and his behaviour towards some of the nobility and gentry that were well affected, but came and pleaded in favour of some prisoners, would have amazed one, if done by a bashaw in Turkey. England had never known anything like it.

Gilbert Burnet, The History of My Own Times

The flowery language of this gun-grabber gives a veneer of respectability and learning to the modern eye, but it is just the same old fascistic anti-gun nonsense dressed up in a gangland suit.

We must treat the men who carry guns as potential murderers.

I wonder if the good Doctor would, by the same logic, wish to treat the men who carry AIDS as potential murderers?