The Assault Weapons Ban Didn’t Work Then and It Won’t Work Now

Townhall.com ^ | December 30, 2012 | Doug Giles

[dljordan]

There’s lots of interesting facts about guns here:
http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/publications/by-type/yearbook/small-arms-survey-2012.html

The amount of “illegal” guns in the gun-free paradise of the EU is greater than the legally held guns. People are just ignoring them and keeping their guns.

[Mouton]

That is exactly where they are going, ban all guns. What bothers me with commentary about how the assault weapons ban did not work is the left will use that as a basis for why they need to much further this time....ban all weapons or as close to it as they can get with a previso they enact registration of guns and gun owners of those remaining in public hands.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

What you aren’t considering is that violence was invented by the chinese when they invented gunpowder. There was never any violence before then. </sarcasm>

In reality, of course, firearms were developed to solve the problem of non-firearm violence. Non-firearm violence, of course, is harder by an order of magnitude and, in the absence of firearms, that fact naturally lends itself to domination by violent elites such as knights and noblemen.

Disarmament of the individual is sine qua non for unlimited tyranny.

To disarm in principle is to trust absolutely. Trusting someone who demands, rather than earns, trust is folly. Disarming in principle is yielding the very right to withdraw trust.

The Wind and the Sun

An Aesop Fable

The wind and the sun argued one day over which one was the stronger. Spotting a man man traveling on the road, they sported a challenge to see which one could remove the coat from the man's back the quickest.

The wind began. He blew strong gusts of air, so strong that the man could barely walk against them. But the man clutched his coat tight against him. The wind blew harder and longer, and the harder the wind blew, the tighter the man held his coat against him.The wind blew until he was exhausted, but he could not remove the coat from the man's back.

It was now the sun's turn. He gently sent his beams upon the traveler. The sun did very little, but quietly shone upon his head and back until the man became so warm that he took off his coat and headed for the nearest shade tree.

The gun controller actually promotes the thing which he purports to oppose. At least, so the reports of lines at gun stores indicate.

Gun ownership is a burden, and as such it is an indication of lack of trust. The government should exert itself to prevent the motive for, and not the access to, weapons. But that would mean doing the government’s job of controlling the power of the sword, and protecting the rights of the people. What fun would that be? </sarcasm>

[TXnMA]

(A significant number of background checks cover multiple gun sales.)