When Are We Going To Learn About Guns?
5 06 2007It’s been well over a month since the Virginia Tech massacre. Nothing here has changed much – I can still head down to the pawn shop and pick up a gun. Easy, no worries.
I should point out that I recently got rid of my handgun. It was my way of no longer being a part of that culture. So, now I’m a convert, much like one who has quit smoking and then tries to guilt any remaining smoker friends. A lot like that, except I have not quit yet…
Shortly after the massacre, the governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine stated “To those who want to make this into some sort of crusade, I say take this elsewhere.” Really Tim? Where should we take it? Why should we not talk about the gun culture that is consuming our own nation?
The logic here is simple. If you remove the guns, deaths due to guns will decline. If you ban hammers, there will be less nails pounded. What is so magical about guns?
“If you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns”, says you.
That’s a valid enough point, and certainly what folks like the fuckwits at the NRA would have you believe. But is it true? Over the years, I’ve seen pieces of propaganda pointing to Australia and the “huge” crime wave that followed their relatively new gun control laws. Like this one:
From: Ed Chenel, a police officer in Australia.Hi Yanks,
I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under.
It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent!). In the state of Victoria alone, homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in, the criminals did not and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed.
There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in “successfully ridding Australian society of guns.”
You won’t see this data on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the state Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-abiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it’s too late!
Snopes pretty much picks the above “letter” apart as mainly statistically flawed. You see “Ed” is a bit of a moron that could not argue his way out of a wet paper bag. You can read the entire thing here if you want.
But, I’m saving the best for last. Even after reading the Snopes commentary, the co-worker that sent me this article remains convinced that the Snopes data supports increased gun ownership. This guy is a gun freak and has an entire room in his house dedicated to his gun collection. I’ll let you be the judge.
My personal thought is that my co-worker should not be allowed out of the house with as much as a dull pen knife as he obviously has the intellect of a couch. These are the people campaigning against gun control.
You should be scared.
When Are We Going To Learn About Guns?…
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I have no idea. I’d really like to see Charlton Heston’s hands cold and dead.
Not that I’d wish death on anyone, but if I had to like…Charlton might make the list. Even when I owned pistols, I never liked the NRA.
Fortunately it amuses as before…………….
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