Either Traitors or Fools

Yesterday, in the American Thinker, there was a short piece entitled Does Gun Control Work? Look South, you fools by Russ Vaughn.

Mr. Vaughn points out that the Mexican Constitution does indeed recognize that people do have the right to keep and bear arms. But the Mexican Federales place so many restrictions on gun ownership, that the average peasant doesn't qualify. Besides, there is only one gun store in all of Mexico. Yet, the country is awash in guns and drugs. And no, the majority of guns do not come from the United States civilian gun market. Crew served machine guns and grenade launchers are not available here on the civilian market. Vaughn's point?

Let's see if we got this right. The simple citizen can't own anything larger than a .22 because of federal gun control laws, while the drug cartels, who could care less about said gun control restraints possess armories which in many cases rival or exceed those of the Mexican police forces and even the national armed forces. The money quote from the Washington Post article is this, "Asked whether Mexico's gun-control laws were working, Mendoza said, 'Ask the criminals.' "

What is it that liberals seem incapable of grasping about the stark truth that if you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have them? Look south you wishful fools, and see what your gun control has wrought.

Now, "liberals," as Vaughn politely puts it, or more likely Progressives, are anything but fools. Oh, there are the true believers and useful idiots in the crowd. But I think the Progressives know full well that gun control does not work as a crime control scheme. So what is it they really want? Let me suggest, since no one is saying, that one reason could be that the Progressives do not want us to have available that fourth box, the cartridge box (the other three boxes are the soap box, the jury box, and the ballot box.)  So which is it, Progressives.  Are you traitors, or just plain fools.