Posted on 01/05/2014 9:24:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
centurion316 wrote: “If the crime argument doesn’t work, they will come up with some other argument.”
They already have... Now, it’s common to find them touting the ‘public health’ impacts of additional gun control. They’ve even managed to incorporate it into Zero’s signature legislative effluent, Zer0-don’t-care. Your healthcare provider will be asking you about firearms in your home when you pop in for treatment...
People should ponder your post #6. I have had that theory for awhile and believe it’s true. Liberals actually understand the true correlation between guns/crime etc, and WANT people to be preyed on, and victimized by their constituents... e.g. criminals.
Criminals don’t follow gun laws. Only insane lefties think otherwise,
Good ideas sell themselves...They do not have to be “sold” to an unwilling public, much less imposed by law at the point of a gun...
Ping for later
“For the Left, gun control has nothing to do with reduction of criminal behavior. Criminals will not be deterred by gun control laws and they know it. The goal of gun control is political power. If the crime argument doesn’t work, they will come up with some other argument. But, they will never admit their true aim.”
In a nutshell. Say it loud; say it often.
Don’t lose your job over it, though. Yet.
Someone will need to do a study to determine whether these studies that show gun control to be unhelpful in curbing murder will reduce the mind-numbing number of calls for gun control.
Somehow, I doubt that will be the case.
As is pretty well known, gun control has little to do with controlling violence, and lots to do with controlling people, e.g., gun owners.
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