Thursday, June 26, 2014
OK, Suzie Q.
You want to protect children and keep them safe.
You propose doing this by disarming responsible citizens so their firearms can't hurt children. Let's say for sake of argument you manage to do this.
Then what?
The truth is that now children are going to be a whole lot less safe because anyone that feels like it can do as they please without fear of repercussions. Yeah, sure, you can call the law and they'll arrive there after the fact and proceed to scrape up the mess.
There is a name for people that rely on the various police departments for their personal security.
They call them 'victims of violent crimes'.
For some reason there are a lot of people out there that thing they are morally superior for being victims rather than taking responsibility for themselves and their loved ones.
It wasn't long ago when an acquanintance was relative victimized by an assailant that injured him so bad he wound up with a steel plate in his head. The victim said he saw it coming.
I asked him if he felt that being armed might have kept him from being injured.
He replied that had he been armed the situation might have escalated and someone could have been killed.
I told him that if he had escalated the situation with a little firepower he most likely would not be walking around with a steel plate in his head.
He looked confused.
The truth is that most likely nobody would have been injured had the victim pulled out some firepower. The thug with the pipe that did the hitting most likely would have cut and run.
When someone ups the ante to the point where there is too much for them to lose they generally fold.
As for protecting children?
I wonder how many people would ever try victimize an armed Mama Bear with her cubs.
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The problem is not "gun violence". "Gun violence" is a buzzword for activists, politicians and media, all three are in this for the attention and profit.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is violence, pure and simple.
If guns were really that big a problem, why aren't there mass shootings on a daily basis in Austria? Austria has very lax gun laws for European standards. So lax that a hunting rifle (like a bolt action or double barrel shotgun) doesn't require a permit. All you need is to be of legal age (18).
An official estimate by the ministry of the interior suggests that there over 10 million firearms in private hands in Austria. The exact number is unknown because only two categories of firearms require registry and a permit under Austrian law (and most gun owners ignore the new EUSSR directive for registry of weapons that don't require permits in the EUSSR's files.)
And despite that legal firearms make roughly 4% of the tools used for violent crime in Austria. Knives make, unsurprisingly, over 40%.
The problem the US has lies much deeper than the availability of firearms. Austria proves this without a doubt.