“Economists understand that when government restricts one market, consumers merely move to another market, and when government tries to foreclose one means, individuals will simply shift into other means to achieve the same ends”
Yes, but what do liberals understand?
Where is the anti-bomb crowd?
Someone should start a group called MO-BED (Mothers Opposed to Bombs and Explosive Devices)
And in Scotland, since half of all murders are committed using knives, doctors want to ban kitchen knives, and the govt wants to ban swords:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=579102005
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=762652006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/4788881.stm
Oh, god, another poster using FR as a satellite printing plant for some publication, unwilling to reply to comments. Between this, LifeSite, and Prometheus Institute, FR feels like a dumping ground.
We only have to recall the fire at the Happy Land social club in NYC, in which 87 people died when a person who had been bounced from the club returned with a plastic container of gasoline which he spread on the only staircase into the club.
see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happyland_Fire
I would also note that people who insist the world would be safe if only we got rid of ammunition don’t seem to care that there must be billions of rounds of it in private hands, and that even casually stored ammunition lasts generations.
Anyone can verify this by going to the next gun show and looking at what collectors are selling.
(We of course will also ignore the estimated 300 million existing guns that have been made to vanish in this scheme by yet more magic thinking.)
After they come for the guns, the knives are next. It has already started in the UK.
Is it legal on FreeRepublic to open a betting pool on the odds that the UK will be entirely disarmed before it gives away all its sovereignty to the EU or that the job won’t be done before the sovereignty is all gone?
see: Knife Rights Foundation
http://www.kniferights.org/