Tuesday, May 15, 2018

There's a problem with Gun Control Movements: they don't work!

Honest people with the best of intent have causee more havoc than the most avaricious warlords.

I’ve spent 18 years fighting for gun control. Here’s how we win

Eighteen years ago I applied for a permit to march on Washington, called it the “Million Mom March,” and scheduled the protest for Mother’s Day 2000. More than 750,000 protestors turned out on the National Mall. Another 250,000 poured into sister marches across the country. This spring, the March for Our Lives surpassed those numbers. It was a promising sign that the gun control movement is finally regaining momentum after failing miserably to keep Americans safe.
Honest, well-intentioned people have worked for decades to eliminate gun-predation on innocent civilians, and their efforts have proved to be ineffective.  (See Below)

Why don't these heart-felt pleas failed to accomplish their goals?

Because the only tools in their box is to either:
(A) take away guns from EVERYONE, or;
(B) conflate honest, law-abiding gun owners with criminals.
(These attitudes are interchangeable; you can't have one without the other.)

These noble goals are not undermined by the criminals in our society, who are their legitimate target: they are defeated by the law-abiding among us.

And "the solution" as you have suggested is doomed to fail, because just saying "NO" has no effect on either the Criminal Class, or the citizens whose (Second Amendment) constitutional rights are zealously defended by citizens who are as honest and caring as you are.

Here are the only two things you can do to get all guns off the streets of America::
(1) Delete the Second Amendment rights for honest citizens to defend themselves, their property, their homes, their families and their country
(2) Initiate a nation-wide program where police will invade every home in America with the goal of searching out, and confiscating, every firearm they can find.
You will have to perform both miracles simultaneously, of course.
                                One is no good without the other.

The abrogation of a constitutional "RIGHT" will be politically unpopular; any federal lawmaker who voted for such a bill would never spend another day in office, after his current turn ran out.  Of course, if it is "the right thing to do", they would obviously sacrifice their political future to bring about the the measure you favor.
(NOT!)

And how many Americans are willing to go from door to door, merrily confiscating firearms from Second Amendment advocates?    Will YOU?

Criminals will not give up your guns; nor will honest citizens who expect their government to protect their Constitutional Rights.   Have you even read the Second Amendment?

The World is over-endowed with Unicorns who expect to solve complex issues with simplistic solutions; this is just one of many "Dreamer" solutions which are probably not expected to be enacted. but are only proposed as "talking points".

Here's the talk which your proposition generates:

Are you trying to start another Civil War?  Making felons of law-abiding citizens is a great start.

It may have worked in Australia  (with notable exceptions) but Australia was started as a nation penal colony of convicted felons who were sent there as penalty for violating British Law.

America is a nation which started (and won!) a war with Great Britain because they  (the British) tried to confiscate our firearms .. among other grievances.
You may march for any purpose you wish, and nobody will seriously object.  Because America marched for the greatest cause .. the right to Keep and Bear Arms.



But when you choose to march for "Gun Control" ... the issue which won our nation's independence ... you should be prepared to lose at every step.

We are armed to protect your right to protest.
We are armed to protect your right to hold an unpopular opinion
We are armed to protect your right to worship your God as best suits your religion
We are armed to protect your right to a fair trial
We are armed to protect your right to vote for anyone you prefer
We are armed to protect your right to NOT house soldiers in your home against your wish

Oh, heck.  Go look up the Bill of Rights to remind yourself of the rights which are yours, and defensible, because the Second Amendment protects all of the OTHER rights which are enumerated in the Constitution.

The people who are "fighting for gun control" probably don't realize that we are also there to fight for their right to protest a Constitutional Amendment to impose draconian Gun Control measures, as well.

Of course, we are unlikely to fight for a Constitutional Amendment to abrogate the Second Amendment.

That would be ... silly.

But you still have the right; you just won't have our support.

Dumb-ass!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The anti-gun folks are ruled by emotion, not logic or facts.