Gun control zealots seem to be motivated by an unhealthy,
pathological fear of guns and a complete lack of understanding of the criminal
mind. They also suffer from the delusion
that the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment does not say and mean what it says
and means. Quite simply, it says that
the right of all U.S. citizens to keep (own) and bear (carry) arms shall not be
infringed (limited, constrained).
Period. Short of a constitutional
amendment this is the supreme law of the land.
Their quest to limit the kinds of guns citizens can own, to
limit the amount of ammunition and size of magazines, to require gun
registration, to require enhanced background checks and waiting periods and to
limit where citizens can carry their arms is simply unconstitutional. Furthermore, it flies in the face of
logic. Criminals intent on doing harm
will buy guns on the black market, they will buy any sort of gun they want,
they will not undergo background checks, they will buy all of the large
magazines and all of the ammunition they want, they will not register those
guns and they will carry and use those weapons anywhere and everywhere they
choose, particularly in places they know that citizens are precluded from
carrying weapons, such as schools.
Criminals are not going to obey any laws, hence the term criminal. It seems that politicians are of the opinion
that they can do anything, they can defy logic, they can simply pass a law and
a problem is magically solved. They are
omnipotent. They can go on television and
claim how much they care and point to what they have done to stop crime. In fact, they have done nothing of the
sort. In reality they have made it
easier for criminals to do their dastardly deeds. But, they have assuaged their delicate egos
and garner the adulation of the uninformed, unthinking faction of the
electorate. Politicians need to own up
to the fact that some problems are out of the reach of government and
politicians to solve. Be honest for once
with the people. Crime is not a
political issue. Evil is an inherent
part of human nature. Vigilance,
preparation and overwhelming resistance is the answer to protecting people from
crime. It is ultimately a personal
responsibility, not public. Politicians
cannot protect people from criminals.
Law enforcement cannot protect people from crime. Taking a proven, effective tool (carrying
weapons) out of the hands of law-abiding citizens puts them at greater risk of
being a victim of crime. That could, and
should be construed as a crime.
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