Posted on 05/13/2013 9:06:48 PM PDT by marktwain
“A Dude From The Rainy Left Coast” asks if I would prefer to live in a world with no gun controls or one with reasonable gun controls, and why.
We had a world with no gun controls, once. A world in which you could hop a coastwise trader in New Orleans, and get off in any port north of Guyana. With your life preserver hanging on your belt, and without as much as a raised eyebrow from anyone.
A world where wide areas of the world had four or five murders a year for every million population. Most as a result of some dude violating, or attempting to violate, the ‘unwritten law against adultery.”
That was a world where a man who wanted to could cut a stout walking stick in Calais, put a life preserver in its holster, and walk to Moscow and beyond. With the good wishes of everyone he met, including the border guards.
Today, we have what generations past called “reasonable gun control.” While gun control laws have become less strict, and violence has responded by becoming less frequent, we know what the results of “reasonable gun control” are. Sky high murder and violent crime rates as well as overmuch government hostility.
Within reason, you can have any violent crime rate you want by manipulating the gun laws. Absolute gun bans result in violent crime rates as bad as Venezuela. Or worse.
Semi-absolute gun bans with large quantities of forbidden weapons coming in from the outside results in Chicago.
And so on down the severity scale until you get to Kansas City, 1895. Which needed only modern health care and sanitation to be a near ideal place to live. And to live without idiotic, and enforced, restrictions on who could buy a gun, or where they could take it.
“Gun control” is only needed if you live in a world without God.
Gun control is never needed. Not even then. Think about it, if everyone in the entire world followed the 10 commandments. There would be no need for any type of weapon. Therefore, the closer to God the world is, the less guns are needed.
(Of course nobody lived in a broken home or was on welfare.)
When I was in elementary school, my older brother in High School would bring his .22lr rifle ont ehschool bus so he could participate in rifle club after school. I carried the box of fifty rounds for him because I had a lunch box ... and the rounds were 25 cents a box!
Don't know about that. Last 5 times I pulled a trigger and very sincerely meant it, it was a rattlesnake very nearby, like at my feet.
And once at a skunk. Never shoot a skunk with snakeshot from a .38. Ever. Bad idea.
/johnny
That reminds me of the great quote: “An Armed Society is a Polite Society”. Gun control reverses that.
There is no “reasonable” way to violate people’s rights.
Liberal Vermont has constitutional carry, is it the murder capital of the world? No.
Yep, my older Brother was in the Gun Club at his School.
The carried his .22 Rifle to School (in a rifle case) and nobody gave him a second look. This was on Long Island, NY in the late 50’s.
Wow!!
And USPS would ship it to your door!
What do you recommend shooting skunk with? I have some pesky ones around.
BTW, those would be classed as a destructive device today, and would not be legal unless you had the papers, or you had converted it to .50 BMG
.22lr to the brain. They will not release their scent if they get ‘corked’. Done it several times around these parts, when a skunk is seen out roaming in the mid day (uusually rabid when they do that).
I would prefer to live in a world with no gun controls because I never carried a key to our house until I was 15 or 16. The vehicle keys were always left in the cars and trucks. Car trunks had a button to push to open them and they were always unlocked.
My Grandpa’s house on the edge of town didn’t even have a lock on any of the doors. He was a cop for quite a few years and never drew his revolver from the holster when he was in uniform.
Until drugs came on the scene we never had a use for locks. Let’s start shooting drug dealers.
BTW, those would be classed as a destructive device today, and would not be legal unless you had the papers, or you had converted it to .50 BMG
That’s right.
My Dad had a 3 star general friend from World War II and he would bring us all sorts of goodies in the early ‘60’s. Living on a 30,000 acre ranch had it’s benefits.
Let me know the season opens. I’ve got some nice tools to harvest the vermin.
20mm?
My choice is none. Who makes the determination of “reasonable”?
I have mine, you have yours. Someone gets out of hand, we take care of them.
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