December 15, 2012
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Once Again A Nut Brings Out The Nuts
A nut is Connecticut shot to death twenty young school children and six adults yesterday, and that is a tragedy. There is no doubt of that. But now all the other nuts are coming out of the woodwork again to demand more gun control. The fact is that no amount of gun control will ever prevent tragedies like the one the happened yesterday. We would have to collect and destroy all the guns in the entire world to have any chance of that happening.
And even that level of gun control would not prevent violence! Did you know that just yesterday, two men in Chicago walked up to a stranger's house and sprayed the owners with a flammable insecticide and then light them on fire before fleeing.
Nor would the absence of guns eliminate the mass aspect of this most recent school murder. Just yesterday, while the shooting in Connecticut had us outraged, another incident was being reported out of Beijing; a 36-year-old man identified as villager Min Yingjun, unhappy with the fact that he was unable to keep up with the social and economic change that China is experiencing, walked into elementry school and slashed twenty-two students with a knife. This is only the latest of a series of attacks on schools and children in china by people who have lost their jobs or felt left out of the country's economic boom.
Let''s face it -- gun control isn't the answer. At best it is only a bandaid for a much more complex problem that no one really wants to admit exists. That is that the family of Man is a violent species that has been killing its own kind ever since Cain slew Able, which by the way was not done using a gun. So stop already with the bickering about gun control being the answer to our problems. It isn't!
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I'm a long-time multiple gun owner - in my youth a competitive pistol shooter - and was a member of the NRA before they got all funny and were taken over by the manufacturers.
A look at the guns being offered for sale demonstrates some of the problem . They are advertising and selling guns made up to look like assault rifles, for example, to people who have no need for or much of an idea how to handle a personal gun. If you want to buy a glock pistol (plastic frame, over-stuffed mag and all), you can for a few hundred dollars. If you want to buy a target pistol - you will pay several times as much for something that doesn't look nearly as sexy or holds as many rounds - the same is true of rifles. They even make a cheap shotgun made, they say. "For home protection". If you think such a weapon would be useful, you have no idea how you would go about using it in an emergency situation like a home invasion.
A ban on "assault type" weapons would be a sensible step along with requirements that people who buy a gun have some idea how to shoot it.
What do you suppose the result would have been if that crazy guy in China had had assess to an assault rifle?
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