I have made this argument many times on this blog, and other better writers than I am have made the same argument. Guns don't kill people. Guns are merely tools to be used by people. Rather, it is people who kill other people. While the vegan crowd likes to think that we are intended to be peaceful plant eaters like the apes, the truth is we are a predator species. But we are also a social species, which means we must learn to tame our predatory natures. But some people don't, preferring to take from others what they don't want to earn for themselves. So, why do some keep demanding more gun control laws, when the 20,000 laws on the books already don't seem to work as advertised? That is the point today in an article by Jenn Jacques at Bearing Arms entitled The Gun Control Truth American Politicians and Media Largely Ignore.
But the truth about gun control won’t be heard from a podium at a debate or read on the bumper of a Prius. The truth can only be found through the lens of common sense.
Perhaps that’s why there are so many people today who can’t see it.
Alan Korwin spoke passionately on TownHall about the subject, saying:
This is the great flaw with law. It doesn’t work. It gives you legal options after the action, and it deters good people, sometimes, but it doesn’t do much other good. Gun control deters no one intent on evil acts. Only some of us understand this unfortunately. If laws against armed bank robbery worked, we’d have no armed bank robbers, right?
Laws’ failures are legendary, monumental, self evident, and yet missed. If laws against committing jihadi atrocities worked, there would be no San Bernardino, no Brussels, no Paris, none of the names that are going to happen in the not-too-distant future. If only gun control worked.?
The constantly vilified supposedly evil gun lobby (the NRA) fervently wishes those laws worked. Every one of their five million members wishes gun-control laws—the 20,000 we hear are already on the books—worked as advertised. There isn’t any criminal act you can commit with a firearm that isn’t already illegal. If only those laws did something to stop crime! We’d be safer, and the left wouldn’t be out there, all alone you might have noticed, pressing for still more laws to do what those laws aren’t doing.?
The worst part—new gun laws being proposed don’t even confront crime. They don’t have to, because the crimes are already outlawed. But I repeat myself. The new laws make crimes out of things that aren’t crime—by banning legal activity Americans do every day. Look at gun-transfer laws, pitched as more background checks* for example, the current rallying cry of more-gun-law proponents.?
It’s already illegal for criminals to transfer guns, buy guns, have guns, giveaway guns, get guns, anything. More background checks will increasingly burden the innocent, but it won’t disarm or stop criminals who are already armed. Enhanced enforcement and arrests will have that desired effect, but these aren’t proposed.?
Armed criminals are armed now despite all the laws banning it already. You do understand that, don’t you? Such questions are mysteriously not posed to gun-control advocates by the media. Instead, reporters virtually cheerlead and campaign for new laws that will incrementally disarm or subarm the public.?
Gentle readers should go and read the whole article by Korwin, including the reference to Diplomatic Carry which is interesting in itself. Yes, the article is old, from 2016, but in truth the ideas are timeless. The making of a law has never prevented someone from breaking that law (which is why our laws have punishments attached.) If gun control worked, we would live in the most peaceful time in man's existence on planet Earth. But you can see the results in the next article mentioned.
As proof of the thesis that Korwin and Jacques put forward, as if there needed to be any more proof, Jacques cites a Daily Caller article discussing the gun control efforts of El Salvador. The couhtry of El Salvador, in Central America, has an ironic name. "El Salvador" means "The Savior" but it doesn't sound like He is doing much to save the poor people of El Salvador.
There’s been no mention in coverage of El Salvador’s crime wave about gun control. Probably because the laws there, in some aspects, are a gun-grabber’s dream. In 1999, El Salvador passed tough gun control legislation. Among provisions of the law were the requirement to get a license that has to be renewed every three years, private citizens can only buy one gun every two years, firearms are registered, and there is no constitutional protection of the right to keep and bear arms. The legislation has not had the effects that those who support strict gun laws in the United States would like to advertise.
According to GunPolicy.org, 1,863 people were killed in firearms-related incidents of all types the year that the new gun law was passed. A decade later, despite the law, the death toll was 3,042, or an average of 25 people over a three-day period. Today, the murder rate now averages almost one person per hour.
So, we have Korwin giving us a dose of common sense, and then the Daily Caller illustrating that a country with the gun-grabbers wet dream of gun control has a crime problem even bigger than ours. Now, even Harvard University admits that there are other countries with fewer guns and restrictive gun control that nevertheless have more crime and murder that the United States. Of course, that study has been pulled. I wonder why?
We have an estimated 20,000 laws on the books. Let that sink in. Yet somehow, it is not enough to disarm those who would commit crimes including murder. Even so, the solution is to propose more laws. Maybe we should try something else? Einstien's definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Are our gun grabbers insane?
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