Politician Control

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.