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Control Whose guns?
A few Questions About gun Control.

Recently, gun control advocates and the media have been in a vicious
struggle with the NRA about guns. A recent time magazine article
suggested that we should just "get rid of the damn things."

What really is the problem? Why does the NRA oppose even the most
modest gun control proposals? One reason I believe is the media.
I remember well how the media touted the passage of the Brady Bill as
"proof" that the NRA is becoming weaker indeed, some even went so far
as to say that the NRA's political "death knell" was sounded with the
passage of the bill.

It is also true that the NRA is quite aware that each gun control
proposal no matter how modest is only a smokescreen. Gun control
proponents are smart enough to realize that if they are ever to achieve
a total ban on guns, they must do so incrementally.

Each bill that is put forth, no matter how modest, is intended to chip
away at peoples resistance to gun control; in the hope that some day a
total ban on guns can be achieved, but is that even possible?

Going all the way back to prohibition The United states has never
successfully banned anything be it booze, drugs or even illegal
immigrants.

If there is a demand and money to be made of course, anything can and
will flow freely into the U.SA, so why all the nonsense about banning
guns?

Even the Brady bill, for the most part, only keeps guns out of the
hands of convicted felons who have gone "straight" and are therefore
unwilling to buy street guns.

As for keeping guns out of the hands of kids, it is illegal in all
fifty states for anyone under the age of eighteen to buy a handgun and
so; every kid who is walking around with a concealed handgun is in
violation of the law. No state will issue a concealed weapons permit to
a minor.

A few years ago I spoke to a friend of mine, who is a federal officer,
he told me that we could totally ban both guns and ammo and within six
months to one year guns and ammo would rival drugs as the number one
contraband import into the United States.

Sooner or later we must realize that when we ban something all we do is
make criminals out of otherwise law-abiding people. There will always
be illegally obtainable guns in the United States; all new gun laws
would do is make things harder for the law-abiding citizen.
Unlike the UK, the United States has the second amendment to the
constitution. Despite differing "interpretations" of the second
amendment, most Americans would seem to believe that the second
amendment gives them the right to bear arms.

I am all in favor of gun safety and I believe that parents who choose
to allow their children to have guns should insist that they take a gun
safety course. Parents of very young children should take reasonable
precautions, of their own choosing to keep guns out of their
hands.
But the very idea of the government telling people how they should
store their own guns in their own homes is outrageous. Now the
government wants to prosecute people if a child or anyone else uses
their gun in a crime and, they cannot prove that they had the gun
stored in a government-approved manner.

Laws of that type would eliminate the gun as a tool for home
protection; a gun can't do much good during a break-in if it has a
trigger lock and is locked away in a gun cabinet.

Like most people I was shocked by the shootings at Columbine high
school but how many laws did those guys break while carrying out their
evil plan? By one count they broke almost one hundred laws.

Which brings us back to the title of this article. Just whose guns
would gun control advocates control?

Clearly they are not intending to control the guns of a crack dealer
whose every waking act is illegal and were he arrested, would probably
find the gun charge to be the least of his worries.

Nor, one would think, are they really trying to control the guns of
children for whom buying or concealing guns is already against the
law.
No, it is the guns of the law-abiding citizen that gun control
advocates are trying to control, for it is only they who will obey any
laws that gun control advocates might get passed and at what cost to
our personal freedom and our right to self defense, as well as our
commitment to our constitution?