Cecil Moore wrote:
Richard Clark wrote:

Let's see, you cannot catch a kid walking out with a 3 foot assault
rifle every day of the week for a year (we will skip holidays and
weekends when they are more diligent). Yeah, right, that's how it
happened! Shoplifters every day for a year and no one notices it at
the till, or in the records, or in the stock room.


You are shooting your own argument in the foot. The people you are
describing are *LAW-BREAKERS*, not law-abiders. There are already laws
against what they are doing. They already broke the law and you want
yet another law for them to break??? Why not advocate enforcing the
existing laws which are not being properly enforced? How many laws do
they have to break before you realize that law-breakers don't obey laws?
As I said before, you might as well be advocating laws prohibiting
hurricanes from hitting Florida.

Gun control laws don't keep guns out of the hands of criminals.
Gun control laws keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding people
who need guns to defend themselves against criminals. You and the
criminals would like to see all law-abiding citizens disarmed and
helpless.

I noted that i support private ownership of guns before.

But your argument is a bit too simple.

Case in point:

A young boy shot his sister with one of the family guns. It turned out
that the father was a real gun person, and firearms were all around the
house. In fact, the children's toy guns were stacked along with several
real weapons. The little fellow just picked up what he thought was
another toy and pointed at his sister. Took her head off f I'm not mistaken.

The parents were tried on reckless endangerment of children. They
fought the case as a gun control issue.


Another case is closer to home, much closer. Some years ago, there was
a neighbor up the road from us that was shall we say - unusual. Prone to
disturbances. He also let guns lay around the house. One day his son
brought one of the guns (loaded of course, in case someone breaks in and
tries to rape his daughter) points it at my kid, and thank God didn't
pull the trigger.

The police confiscated his guns, and he went on a tear about having his
rights violated.

Point is, all the "guns don't kill people, people kill people", and
who's raping who's daughter, and all the other emotional arguments
wouldn't have meant much to me would it?

The problem with too many people regarding gun laws is that they only
think of the back end of things. It's all after it's over.



In case you missed it: LAW-BREAKERS don't obey laws. They don't obey
the present laws and they won't obey any new laws that you are advocating.



To keep the thread on topic: IMO, you can't see the forest for the trees.


On both sides of the issue

- Mike KB3EIA -