This is a disturbing article.
While I am all for the pendulum of American politics swinging back to the opposite pole, for a while at least to create balance, gun control is an issue where I will forever remain conservative.
The question is wheather or not this paranoia is founded in truth, or this is just another case of a bunch of Rednecks freaking out and getting excited over any opportunity to add to the family arsenal.
The argument in favor of gun control will forever escape me. The typical argument I hear from my bleeding heart liberal douchebag friends is “There is serious gun control in Europe and the rate of violent crime there is much lower”.
This is untrue, and I have two points to make in reference to this ageless liberal rhetoric.
1) The violent crime rate is just as high, and much higher in some of the nations only recently added to the EU. More people get stabbed and beaten to death in Europe. I’ll take a bullet over slow painful death by bludgeoning any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people… often. That will never stop or change, no matter how many sociology classes you take. There are plenty of people in the world who didn’t enjoy the privileged life you did and would jump at the opportunity to kill you for little more than the clothes you are wearing.
2) We are to guns what Columbia is to Cocaine. In the United States, fully automatic machine guns were totally legal to own until 1984. Europeans by contrast, have been pussies for over a century about guns, and most European nations have had restrictions on private ownership of guns to some extent since their invention.
Point number one is self explanitory. Let’s bear in mind point number two and delve a bit deeper, into the mind of the criminal.
What is a Criminal? We could define one quite simply as “a person who does not obey the law”. It is typical liberal logic to assume that making something against the law will make people who, by their nature don’t obey the law, somehow comply.
This guy will be first in line to turn in his guns...
Immagine this conversation:
Cletus: Yo ese, I’m gonna kill this fucker.
Timmy: Word. But make sure you use a knife. Guns is illegal and shit.
Here’s the bottom line: The American government will never be able to get rid of all the guns in this country. They won’t even be able to get close. Assuming the police gave up on everything EXCEPT collecting guns from private citizens, the infrastructure and manpower needed to collect over 200 million registered firearms simply does not exist. This is not to mention the millions of illegally circulating weapons that aren’t registered.
Making guns illegal will do nothing except to take them from the hands of law abiding citizens while virtually guaranteeing that a massive organized crime boom will occur, much in the same way drug cartels started popping up in the 1980’s with stiffer drug laws.
A massive black market will be born, and it will probably be EASIER for criminals to get weapons as a result of the dedicated networks of supply and manufacturing that will be put in place.
I’m all for criminal background checks, but anything else is nothing more than the clumsy apparatus of government trying to fix the gun problem with the same poorly conceived legislation that failed in the war on drugs.
Instead of treating the symptoms of a fucked up society, liberals should apply themselves where they usually actually do some good… in getting more money for education and programs to help people in underprivileged neighborhoods.
