Will Enough Ever Be Enough for Gun Grabbers?

Scott Morefield today at Townhall.com asks if enough will ever be enough for gun grabbers?. To answer that question, he cites the formerly Great Britain as a cautionary tale.

The answer is an easy one if you understand liberalism for the sick disease that it is - NO. They’ll never stop. Just as sure as the sky is blue, once they’ve tasted blood, liberal gun grabbers will never stop lusting for more control over our lives and especially our right to defend ourselves against evildoers.

How can I be so sure? Because we’ve got a time-machine right across the pond, and liberals never stopped there either.

Consider London, England, circa 2018, where the powers-that-be are bumfuzzled by the fact that, for the first time in modern recorded history, the city has experienced more murders than its American counterpart, New York City.

According to The New York (sic-should be London) Times, London’s 15 killings in February 2018 were above New York City’s 14 murders for the month. And the trend continued into March, with London edging New York City by a margin of 22 to 21.

Although the British capital’s gun laws are among the strictest in the world, a significant spike in knife crimes is the driving force behind this particular crime wave. Last year alone, 80 people were killed by stabbing, and this year’s pace of 31 so far is set to overtake that by a wide margin. To put things in perspective, only 16 people have been killed in London by something OTHER than a knife so far in 2018.

One wonders when they will demand that hands and feet be amputated at birth to prevent someone from strangling another or kicking him to death? Or will they criminalize possession of anything more deadly than a Nerf Ball?  While I agree with Jonah Goldberg that the slippery slope arguments are not sufficient in themselves, if one can not identify a place where they might stop, it is hard to see that those who claim a slippery slope are wrong.  Since we have examples of slippery slopes actually occurring we have reason to believe the slippery slope will indeed happen here if we let it.

Keep in mind too the reason for the Second Amendment was placed among the Bill of Rights.  The Founders feared a large standing army, with good reason.  The intent was a militia that could be called up in case the nation needed defending.  The militia was to be minimally trained in military procedures and to bring their own arms and ammunition to the fight.

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of." - James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

The /Formerly Great Britain blazed the trail for liberals to follow after the Dunblane Scotland killing of 16 school children and 1 teacher.  Ever since, the Left has been dancing in the blood of the victims of mass shootings.  Because there is no Second Amendment in England, Parliament had little trouble passing the substantial banning of privately possessed guns, and the licensing of those weapons they still allowed.  Even though Great Britain is an island nation, criminals could still import the guns they needed.  And Morefield is correct that anyone with a grinder can make a knife, so that banning them is literally impossible.

Morefield is correct is this also:  That the real goal is not to save lives, which the Left doesn't care about anyway, but to gain more control.  The Left is obsessed with power and control.  They are convinced they are smarter than you, and they are determined to see you live your life on their terms.

The truth is that murders have been happening since Cain killed his brother Able.  Ever since, mankind has devised weapons of self defense, which occasionally are used for offense.  We can minimize such usage by returning to teaching God's laws, among which are "You shall not murder."  But in truth, murders will continue until Christ comes again in glory.  Until then, Molan Labe.