The recent tragic shooting that left 11 people, including the gunman, dead in south Alabama has generated demands for “more gun control.” That was predictable. Shootings in other states have led to calls for government to restrict or even do away with the right to bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution.
Rarely considered, though, are the harmful effects of gun control, and how it leaves law-abiding people at the mercy of criminals who are perfectly willing to use guns illegally.
In response to the Alabama shooting, a columnist for London’s Telegraph newspaper pointed out some troubling facts about his own country’s elimination of gun rights. Gerald Warner had this advice for America:
“Any American citizens who are tempted to go down the road of prohibition might be advised to consider the experience of Britain. ... In 1997, the year of the ban (on handguns in Britain), there were 2,636 handgun offences; in 2007 there were 4,175. In England and Wales there are now 28 firearms offences committed every day. Gun crime is now one of the most formidable challenges to law and order.
“Or Americans might look at Australia where, a year ago, a Draconian ban enforced the destruction of 640,381 personal firearms, at a cost of more than $500 million. The results? After 25 years of steady decrease in robberies with firearms, this offence increased by 44 per cent in one year. Homicides with guns increased by 3.2 per cent, assaults by 8.6 per cent. In the state of Victoria homicides with firearms rose 300 per cent. Break-ins and assaults on the elderly hugely increased.”
Gun control disarms the innocent to the benefit of criminals. We ought to remember Britain’s and Australia’s counterproductive gun bans before moving in that direction ourselves.
Better still, we ought simply to obey our own Constitution.
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Hey, don't knock Obama's soon coming push for new gun bans and restrictions. After all, his creepy little Chief of Staff says "never let a good crisis go to waste",and he means it. The murderous Mexican drug gangs now operating within our own borders, along with the looming possibility of gang rule and anarchy witihn Mexico itself fit the bill quite nicely. On the positive side, banning guns in the U.S. will help stem the flow of job seeking illegals into the U.S. as Mexican jungle machine shops spring up and start turning out AK 47 copies and hiring lots of people to make them and run them. (sorry, Obama makes me sarcastic)
Banning our guns will not and cannot prevent drug gang money from finding deadly military weaponry and Obamamamma knows it. The gangs already have machineguns, rpgs, and hand grenades that they are getting from somewhere other than U.S. gunshows and gun dealers. What Obama, his gun hating AG, and anti freedom buds in congress can do is make us more vulnerable to these ruthless killers as they expand their operations within the United States, and,in fact, Mexicanize us. I don't believe a reasonable person can conclude that it's mere coincidence that tightly gun controlled and largly disarmed Mexican citizens find themselves in this predicament. Both history and events in today's headlines are replete with gun controlled horrors.
We need to muster every constitutional tool we have to make gun grabbing one of Obama's biggest failures.
I think he controlled his guns rather well.
If everyone in the NRA could take on the task of getting just one person to sign up, they could double their membership and political clout over night.