"Legitimate self-defense has absolutely nothing to do with the criminal misuse of guns." —Gerald Vernon, veteran firearms instructor
All this poorly researched article does is prove the case for gun ownership.
1)
"...as Baltimore and Newark, among others, continue to struggle with rising rates of gun-related violence and death."
Would that be New Jersey and Maryland? Two states with some of the
strictest gun control laws in the country already in place? And their violence rate is going up? I thought your point was less guns less violence?
2)
"...In April the Democratic-controlled Senate failed to pass stricter background checks for purchasing guns;"
The recent shooter in Maryland passed a background check to buy his
shotgun. So, not only did the law requiring a background check fail (a
law put in place for this exact scenario), the law against owning an
AR-15 style rifle failed (the law was passed because it's thought this
would stop these types of shootings.) If you are going to shoot
someone, you will find a way.
3)
"California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland and New York passed tightened gun-control laws."
Really? Could you at least do just a little research? Illinois
just became the 50th state to allow Concealed Carry while the courts
have thrown out law after law that the City of Chicago had in place.
How is that tightened?
4)
"As things stand now, almost any of us can find ourselves in a nightmare scenario in almost any public place at almost any time. The statistical probability of that happening is not what matters. What matters is that it can and does routinely happen in the kind of ordinary places that most of us frequent."
That's why we carry. The bad guys will
always have guns, while the
rest of us, if unarmed, will live or die at the whim of the criminal.
And as a side note, aren't gun control people always telling us that we
have no need for guns because the chance of something happening is
infinitesimal? Now you're playing both sides of the same argument.
It's one way or the other, you can't have them both.
5)
"Moreover, these freedoms are derived from a document written by human beings - and what people have created, people can change, for their own good."
No, no they can't. The rights are not given to us by a document, they are given to us at birth. The document (Constitution & Bill of Rights) was put in place to guarantee those rights are never
infringed upon. They are
ours, endowed by our Creator, God given. They are not yours to give and take away whenever you
feel. They are not the majorities to bend and shape to their
will. There are limitations (no shouting fire in a crowded
theater type stuff) but in the end, No, you can't just vote away our
rights. The Second Amendment is in place for exactly this situation -
where people who believe they know better, decide for the rest of us what
we need. It (and all the other Amendments in the Bill of Rights)
protects individual freedoms from repression from the Government and the
majority. Period. Please, again, do some research before writing.
Just a little.
6)
"We are not watching gun carnage unfold in some distant land. It is happening in US schools, on US military bases, at our workplaces."
Most school, military bases and many workplaces are gun free zones.
Does it ever make you wonder why madmen with guns would commit these
criminal atrocities at places where they won't meet anyone
with a gun?
7)
"It is corrupting our right to be safe in the public space - an existential right that underlies all other freedoms and iterations of American dreams, including economic prosperity."
Who told you this was a right?! "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..." Nowhere does it say
safety. Safety is
your personal responsibility. The Government can't
provide it, the Supreme Court has ruled they have no responsibility to provide it, nor should you expect it. I refer you to Benjamin
Franklin's quote "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase
a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
8)
"The price of continuing to watch ourselves from afar, numbed by horror and inaction, is great indeed. The spectre of US gun massacres is taunting us to come to our senses."
Yes, we need to come to our senses, but here is a shocker for you...
not everyone believes in only one way to attack the issue (
GASP!)
Did you ever give a moments thought to other outlooks or are you one of
those people who believe only their way is the right way and
anyone who believes differently is someone who needs your guiding wisdom
and gentle hand?
A gun is the tool of violence, not the symptom. If you want to reduce
violence, you must attack the problem at the source. What are the
symptoms? Mentally ill people, illegal drugs, Gangs (FBI report - 2009 -
Gangs may be the source of 80% of ALL VIOLENT CRIME - see what a little
research can do?) unemployment, lack of education and the fall of the
family unit, just to name a few. Heal the symptoms and you heal the
violence
If you truly believe there is a causality between an inanimate object
(guns) and violence, then by that very argument you have no choice but
to believe that spoons make people fat. And if you believe that none of
the above has its roots in personal responsibility, then honestly, you
are lost and beyond help.
Stay Safe and Carry Responsibly
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