Congress is now considering a ban
on guns that look like assault weapons.
They do so in response to a number of homicides, including the tragic
events of Newtown CT, even though no assault style weapon was used. I will be the first to admit I am not sure I
know the right answer, but I am pretty sure the agenda being pushed by the Democrats is self-serving and will do nothing to prevent future outrageous gun
violence.
An old friend offered a studied
and reasonable approach to reducing the ability to rapidly reload weapons, but
those reasonable measures will probably never be adopted because we are rushing
to decision based on emotion instead of reason.
This weekend a Navy SEAL sniper, a
true warrior/hero was slain at a gun range, by a Marine Veteran alleged to be
suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). I don’t know the specific details, beyond
what was in the news, but when Chris Kyle was killed he was helping troubled
veterans in the way he thought best. He
wasn’t killed because the gun was evil; it was because someone who shouldn’t
have had a gun had one. Would the
proposed laws have prevented this tragedy?
As we see with the wide ranging
degree of state restrictions, just having laws restricting or mandating
controls does very little to stop the violence. For example, I would cite Chicago where even though they have among the most restrictive laws in the nation,
if not the most restrictive, the murder rate from guns is the among the highest
per capita in the country.
Could that be because the laws are
not strict enough, or is it because an overworked Police Department and a judicial
system that has lost its authority through lax enforcement and judicial
involvement in social engineering, work against the intended safeguards of a
strict law?
If we move forward with these
proposed bans on semi-automatic assault style weapons it will be because
Congress and the Administration continue to write legislation that is out of
touch with the real issues.
2 comments:
Gino, for the record I did not remove your post. The only thing I can conclude is the internet police at Google feel it is their duty to control political thought.
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