Gun control is not a matter of statistics
April 2nd, 2009 by Syd
The gun control and concealed carry debate that has swept over campus recently and has persisted in our nation for so long is, and always will be, fundamentally pointless and stupid. The problem is not whether we should have guns or not; what really matters is whether we can change our society to where gun control becomes a moot point…
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I have a question on this matter. If statistics show that gun ownership reduces crime, is it possible that it simply redirects crime somewhere else, maybe delay a crime?
After all, you can’t factor everything into a statistic. I tend to believe that armed citizens are less likely to fall prey to criminals. But perhaps criminals just bide their time, wait for the right prey.
“Crime, like politics, is always fluid”. -Badger, in the TV series FIREFLY
I think it’s been proven that gun control doesn’t prevent crimes, but gun ownership doesn’t stop crime either. It just stops crimes against YOU, the armed citizen. Nobody knows where that criminal goes for plan B.
So those who are for more gun control do have a point. Nobody is currently stopping crime. The gun control lobby will try anything, even flawed solutions, in order to acheive their goals. Something, anything.
After all, they are trying to save the world. I think that’s noble…but misguided at best.
What do you think?
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Very Ted Nugent I know, but how much longer do we have to wait for incorporation of the Second Amendment as is supposed to be the case from the modern understanding of the Fourteen Amendment.
Cato’s Robert Levy who was instrumental in _Heller_ has said it’s a “slam dunk” that it will occur.
Meanwhile, I risk becoming a felon by walking around with a snubbie in my pocket while being with my family at the Roger Williams Zoo, for example, in Providence, RI, where that state is niggardly in the extreme in doling out the precious CCW permits to out-of-staters.
Increasing a right wing anarchist, I maintain the prerogative to be able to protect my family of four small children regardless of what politicians who look to secular Europe for guidance and inspiration dictate.
I’d rather go to jail than watch helplessly as my family were the victims of a senseless, violent crime.It’s taken years for me to arrive at this truly momentous decision.
Attending Sig Arms Academy several years ago for a weekend shooting extravaganza in Epping, NH, West Point in the 1980s, and shooting regularly, I haven’t taken this decision lightly.
But make no mistake: I am now an outlaw.