After another school shooting the left is doing all it can to ban guns under the guise of "gun control." I'll preface this post by saying that while I own firearms, I'm no "gun nut." I have a couple guns in my bedroom just to ensure any intruder trying to break into my house doesn't walk out. I don't hunt or carry a gun on me ever. It's purely for self-defense.
Why can't we be logical about this issue? Banning or "controlling" guns isn't going to do a goddamn bit of good. Prohibition never works, and the only people whose guns would be taken away are law-abiding individuals who are never going to use the weapon unless its in self-defense. A black market for guns will develop overnight supplying guns and ammo to anyone who doesn't care about being lawful. And just like our prohibition on drugs, with black markets come more nefarious people selling their product and even more crime.
But lets say we could actually ban guns (we can't). Some lunatic wants to kill a school full of kids. You don't think he's going to find a way? You don't think he could make a homemade bomb? Or rent a box truck with some fertilizer? He's going to find a way to kill people one way or another, so why are we wasting time talking about gun control?
Another argument from the left is their misunderstanding of the 2nd amendment and thinking an armed citizen militia wouldn't be able to do anything if the government became totalitarian. Their argument is "John Doe with a rifle stands no chance against the greatest military in the world." Well, no, probably not, but we need to think logically here too. John Doe isn't going be fighting the greatest military in the world, because the overwhelming majority of the service men and women of the US Armed Forces would be on the side of the citizens in a dispute with the government. Most in the military lean right, tend to support the 2nd amendment and wouldn't follow the orders of bureaucrats to forcefully confiscate guns from their neighbors.
But again, live in leftist world and pretend they would. You don't think an armed militia of 175-200 million armed Americans would defeat the US military? Do you really think the government would use WMDs on our own soil?
Why can't we be logical about this issue? Banning or "controlling" guns isn't going to do a goddamn bit of good. Prohibition never works, and the only people whose guns would be taken away are law-abiding individuals who are never going to use the weapon unless its in self-defense. A black market for guns will develop overnight supplying guns and ammo to anyone who doesn't care about being lawful. And just like our prohibition on drugs, with black markets come more nefarious people selling their product and even more crime.
But lets say we could actually ban guns (we can't). Some lunatic wants to kill a school full of kids. You don't think he's going to find a way? You don't think he could make a homemade bomb? Or rent a box truck with some fertilizer? He's going to find a way to kill people one way or another, so why are we wasting time talking about gun control?
Another argument from the left is their misunderstanding of the 2nd amendment and thinking an armed citizen militia wouldn't be able to do anything if the government became totalitarian. Their argument is "John Doe with a rifle stands no chance against the greatest military in the world." Well, no, probably not, but we need to think logically here too. John Doe isn't going be fighting the greatest military in the world, because the overwhelming majority of the service men and women of the US Armed Forces would be on the side of the citizens in a dispute with the government. Most in the military lean right, tend to support the 2nd amendment and wouldn't follow the orders of bureaucrats to forcefully confiscate guns from their neighbors.
But again, live in leftist world and pretend they would. You don't think an armed militia of 175-200 million armed Americans would defeat the US military? Do you really think the government would use WMDs on our own soil?