The "Gun Control" farce

[Little-Acorn]

Thomas Sowell nails it once again.

Liberals keep pushing for the same tired "laws" that they have already proven don't work.

And that's because they don't dare look at the actual results... and don't dare let the American people do what the citizens know is best.

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http://townhall.com/columnists/thoma...farce-n2064750

The 'Gun Control' Farce
Thomas Sowell | Oct 13, 2015

President Obama's intrusion into the mourning community of Roseburg, Oregon, in order to promote his political crusade for stronger gun control laws, is part of a pattern of his using various other sites of shooting rampages in the past to promote this long-standing crusade of the political left.

The zealotry of gun control advocates might make some sense if they had any serious evidence that more restrictive gun control laws actually reduce gun crimes. But they seldom even discuss the issue in terms of empirical evidence.

Saving lives is serious business. But claiming to be saving lives and refusing to deal with evidence is a farce. Nor is the Second Amendment or the National Rifle Association the real issue, despite how much the media and the intelligentsia focus on them.

If there is hard evidence that stronger gun control laws actually reduce gun crimes in general or reduce murders in particular, the Second Amendment can be repealed, as other Amendments have been repealed. Constitutional Amendments exist to serve the people. People do not exist to be sacrificed to Constitutional Amendments.

But if hard evidence shows that restrictions on gun ownership lead to more gun crimes, rather than less, then the National Rifle Association's opposition to those restrictions makes sense, independently of the Second Amendment.


(full text of the article can be read at the above URL)

[Christie Brinkley]

The gun control crowd relies on dumb down idiots willing to support anything that sounds good.


Why make somewhere a 'gun free zone' if some nutcase is going to shoot someone then I don't think they care whether they are meant to have guns in that area or not.

Criminals don't follow gun laws, they don't follow laws full stop that is why they are criminals. Criminals will obtain weapons whether legal or illegally.

For any anti gunners who think banning guns is actually a good idea then look at Mexico, guns are supposed to be banned and look at the drug war and violence currently ravaging the country.

[indago]

Fact: Gun Free Zones are not working, as shown by guns brought into Gun Free Zones and used to kill innocent civilians.



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