Gun Control Victims
September 3rd, 2007 by Syd
Gun Control Victims
We went on a road trip yesterday with a primary destination of Madistan. In hopes of provoking some Reasoned Discourse with residents of that hotbed of “progressivism” I wore a gun rights t-shirt from the Second Amendment Sisters. I didn’t get any response from the residents of that determinedly fair city. What I got was even better.
As we worked our way back home along the secondary hiways, we stopped in a church thrift store in one of the towns we passed thru. A white haired gentleman sitting reading near the magazine rack asked to confirm that “No Gun Control Victims” meant I was in fact opposed to gun control. When I told him I was, he stood up and shook my hand. He then told me of his experience with gun control and its victims.
“Mister Nick” had managed construction projects around the world, but Nigeria was different from any place else he had worked. Absolute gun control - for the law abiding. The criminals ran rampant. Occasionally a handgun for protection would be offered to one of his workmen, but if in fact he bought it, that night the seller’s brother the policeman would arrive to enforce the gun ban, confiscating the weapon (and no doubt returning it so the process would repeat), and collecting a $100 “fine” in lieu of prosecution. He told me of a native watchman (they couldn’t have actual guards) who was found with his brains splattered across the gate, and of two of his workers on the floor with rifles held to their heads while the bandits discussed whether it was worth expending the bullets to kill them. He thinks it would be a good idea if we could send all the gun control advocates over there so they can live with the consequences, and we won’t need to. — Source: Triticale
I’d love to tell Mister Nick how widely his story is being spread, but the news that my telling of it is more popular than my parody of I Can Has Cheezburgers won’t mean much to him.
Many years ago, I met two Nigerians who were in the USA for training on some electronics equipment. They were stunned to learn that Americans could have guns with essentially no restrictions compared to their country. They said that in Nigeria, only “the police and armed robbers” had guns in and many cases they were the same people. They told of locking their doors and shuttering windows at sunset and praying that the armed gangs roaming the streets at night wouldn’t choose their house to invade knowing that honest people were helpless prey.
I shall always remember how Shadrach and Kolawole so clearly described the “paradise” under the gun ban dream.
From my cold dead hands.
After Katrina, and what happened there I made up my mind.
I give my gun to no one… ever.
I am American, my Father went to war 3 times (Marine) for my freedom and I served in the Air Force.
My mind is made up, nothing and no one will change it.
I am an American, God gave me the right to bear arms. No man will take that away from me as long as I breath.
I see our country moving in the same direction as Nigeria and others and makes me sad, and very determined !
I’ll second that emotion!
It would be interesting if some adult Nigerian immigrants could be convinced to write an essay about this. The true effects of Gun Control, straight from the mouths of the victims!