Posted on 08/19/2012 6:31:21 PM PDT by smokingfrog
After the shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Oak Creek, Wis., the cries for gun control have grown a little louder. Ben Stein talks about why that's not the right solution - if there is one.
There have been murdering lunatics since time began. “Gun control” will never stop them from killing people. Executing them will.
I am sure Ben has got some family effected by gun control.
Very short vid, but very well put.
I have to pollute myself by going to CBS, Crying Babies Sorority? If I can find it on you tube I’ll only have to shower once.
Ben’s another clueless guy with an opinion about why he’s clueless. But at least he’s honest about it, unlike the leftwinger, crazed, gun control fanatics.
There isn’t any *magic solution* to the so-called problem, and gun control only makes it worse by factors.
Murderers are murderers, and will use anything as a weapon to terrorize and kill. They need to be caught and executed. Access to medical/mental health records, pre-buy, isn’t the answer, but that’ll be a moot point soon for the gov’t agencies, if it already isn’t.
The so-called toothpaste has long been out of the tube, and the gc-idiots in CA, NY, IL, MD etc, only make it worse, again by factors.
Having been a robbery/shooting victim in the early 70s, in FL, and truly miraculously-survived it, I determined that I wasn’t going to be a victim twice, and have CCW’d since. It’s an answer, but it’s also not the magic solution everyone’s looking for. There simply just isn’t one.
The gun controller’s are seeking something that can never be achieved
The end to violent crime.
We will always have it with us but they think it will end if we just do away with high capacity dangerous assault weapons. Ha.
The progs are using their highmindedness against them
If the government gets the power to deny “mentally ill” people gun rights, we will soon see everyone but thugs named too mentally ill to have self defense rights.
People will avoid counseling for fear of it being used by nanny staters against them. We will have the government trolling all communications to locate “mentally ill” (politically incorrect) people for denial of second amendment rights. We will have liberals serving as “informers” to tag people they hate as “mentally ill.” ATF will go at it with the enthusiam and the sense of truth and justice of Stalin.
Ben Stein: I agree with Obama's plan of raising taxes on millionaires
Ben supported Al Franken. Nothing he has to say is worth posting on FR.
It's already happened, and is happening, why do you think that Army mental-health (issues) is the way it is?
We will have the government trolling all communications to locate “mentally ill” (politically incorrect) people for denial of second amendment rights. We will have liberals serving as “informers” to tag people they hate as “mentally ill.” ATF will go at it with the enthusiasm and the sense of truth and justice of Stalin.
Of course; if there's any way that the government can deny weapons to people then it will be abused, even by the given justification for the denial. {That is to say, that when the government has the power to dictate who can have arms then they will invariably use that power.}
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