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In The Atlantic, Molly Ball writes a thoughtful
article
about the recall elections in Colorado, and the effects of those
elections on citizen disarmament efforts. Titled "The
Death of Gun Control" it is a somber article with the clear
assumption that those who push citizen disarmament are on the morally
correct side:
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I
only wish that this one election was really 'the death' of the gun
control industry. This failed and discredited, ex-hippy dogma needs to
die.
It has no rational basis, and it's legacy is one of needless death and
suffering by innocents prevented from defending their own lives, and
those of others.
The gun control industry itself is funded and directed by a few elite
billionaires like Bloomberg and Soros. It's staff is a bunch of highly
paid lobbyists, lawyers and 'advocates' clustered around D.C. and
various state capitals. ... Spencer60
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Spencer60's comments destroy Molly Ball's
assumptions
about citizen disarmament. Anyone who seriously looks at the data
comes away with the same conclusion: citizen disarmament has no
rational basis if you accept its stated purposes. A
rational basis
for it can only be found if you accept unfounded, unstated assumptions
about reality that have not stood the test of real world
implementation. Here are some of those assumptions:
- The state is a beneficent entity that will never
turn against its own citizens.
- Guns in the hands of ordinary people result in
higher crime rates, particularly homicide rates.
- The only benefits that guns offer society can
easily
be achieved with high levels of regulation and control by the state,
and significantly lower levels of gun ownership.
- Defense of self and home by armed citizens is
such a
rare and unusual event that it is overwhelmed by the increased crime
resulting from more gun ownership.
- And, of course, the ultimate result of such
assumptions:
- Any regulation or law that reduces the number of
guns
outside the control of the state, or which makes it more burdensome for
citizens to acquire, own or use guns (which amounts to the same thing)
is a public good.
[Full
Gun Watch Article- a good reead]
Several
years ago I posted a ca 1900 article I found (but cannot now) in
a NRA mag. It was about gun control legislation groupies.
It will
never end. The "eternal vigilance" thing is key. click click
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