-Caveat Lector-
Gunning for Guns is enforcement of the police
state....final, all encompassing enforcement of the police
state.
MICHAEL SPITZER wrote:
>
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> August 5, 1999 /23 Av, 5759
>
> Thomas Sowell
>
> Gunning for guns
>
> http://www.jewishworldreview.com
>
> -- NOW THAT THE MASS SHOOTINGS in Atlanta have led to predictable
> demands for more federal gun control laws, let us at least make
> an effort to think rationally. Is the way to prevent more
> tragedies like the one in Atlanta to pass laws ensuring that
> virtually all Americans will be as helpless as those who were
> shot and killed by Matt Barton? Does that make any sense?
>
> When people ask emotionally, "How can we stop these things?" the
> most straightforward answer is to ask: How was it in fact
> stopped? It was stopped, like most shooting sprees, by the
> arrival on the scene of other people with guns.
>
> It is the monopoly of guns by people with evil intentions that is
> dangerous. Some of the most dangerous places in America are
> places where strict gun-control laws provide assurance to violent
> criminals that their victims will not be able to defend
> themselves.
>
> What if every third or fourth person in that building in Atlanta
> had a gun available at the time? Under such conditions, it is
> very unlikely that Matt Barton could have shot 22 people before
> he was stopped.
>
> There are communities whose gun laws permit law-abiding citizens
> to have ready access to firearms and where many citizens
> accordingly have registered guns. These communities have less
> violence in general and fewer shooting sprees like this in
> particular. Wouldn't it be better if nobody had guns? Of course
> it would. It would be better if man had never invented the bow
> and arrow, much less modern weapons. But that is not a serious
> option.
>
> The one thing that so-called "gun control" laws do not do is
> control guns. They disarm potential victims. People who do not
> care about the law can always get guns in a country with 200
> million guns and more coming in, both legally and illegally.
>
> We can't even stop millions of human beings from coming into this
> country illegally -- and a handgun is a lot smaller than a
> person. That basic reality is not changed by politicians and
> media loudmouths who appeal to emotions and symbolism by crying
> out for more guns laws. You can always pass feel-good laws and
> ignore their actual consequences. In fact, we have already done
> too much of that on too many other issues.
>
> The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in
> upscale developments with armed security guards -- and who want
> to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves.
> Affluent homeowners pay to have private armed security patrols
> cruising their neighborhoods. Many of them are also for gun
> control. Of course you don't have to have a gun yourself when you
> are paying other people to carry guns for you. But what about
> lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city
> neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless,
> so that limousine liberals can "make a statement" by adding to
> the thousands of gun laws already on the books?
>
> Could gangs of armed hoodlums and criminals flourish and
> terrorize whole neighborhoods, as they do, if people all around
> them had guns? We don't have to speculate. Studies at the
> University of Chicago show that violence drops immediately in
> communities that pass laws permitting law-abiding citizens to
> carry concealed weapons.
>
> Such communities do not have shoot-outs on the streets or
> vigilante actions -- the big bugaboos of those who love to
> believe that others lack the brains or the decency that they
> reserve for the anointed like themselves. Contrary to those to
> whom politics is an ego trip, both citizens and criminals have
> common sense. That is why there are more shootings when only one
> side has guns.
>
> If the real purpose of gun control laws was to prevent crime,
> then we would expect their most zealous advocates to be zealous
> about other anti-crime measures as well. They are not. On the
> contrary, those who are most vocal against guns are generally the
> most reluctant to put criminals behind bars and keep them there.
>
> How many gun-control advocates have even noticed -- much less
> protested -- the fact that John Hinckley, who attempted to
> assassinate President Reagan and grievously wounded press
> secretary Jim Brady in the process, is now walking the streets
> again on furlough? Instead, they have exploited the shooting of
> Jim Brady to pass laws disarming more citizens who have never
> shot anybody.
>
> There is a very real possibility that the tragedy in Atlanta will
> lead to more laws making more such tragedies more likely.
>
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