David Codrea has an excellent link up to his Gun Rights Examiner article. A quote:
And like it or not, just as we can't require a permit for you to speak your mind, or impose a waiting period before you can purchase a newspaper, or demand that you register your video purchases, just as we can't pass laws prohibiting concealed crucifixes, the same holds true for guns--or at least should.
But that's not the same, cry the gun haters. The only purpose of guns is to kill!
Demonstrably not true, but so may words and ideas, unless you think the despots of the past and present have rounded up and dispatched their victims by themselves. And just as words can also provide deliverance, so too can guns. They do in this country on a daily basis, to the tune of up to 2.5 million times* a year.
This leads us to the final flawed premise; that any of the 20,000* "reasonable" infringements constructed in the minds of headline-seizing politicians, and enacted to date at the federal, state and local level, have made society safer, or have kept the predators among us from wreaking carnage at will.
Is there anyone who seriously thinks law number 20,001 will be the one that finally works?
All of us, in our own way, keep saying the same things. Why is no one listening?
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