by Scottbomb
Are there any fans of world history in the room? Is this ridiculous or what? Well, it's the battle cry of every true liberal, the means for Marxism, and at it's roots of Socialism. It's the precursor to that great enemy, dictatorship. Our fore-fathers knew that the only way the common man could prevent tyranny was for every man to be armed. Some would call this approach radical. When we examine the facts, we see that an armed society is indeed a polite society.
The idea is that if we only take away those damned guns, the criminals will surely have to leave us alone. Most of the time, it is not the job of a criminal to go out and just indiscriminately kill someone. His job could be selling contraband and protect his business from competition. He might make his entire living breaking in to homes and businesses, robbing banks, stealing cars, etc. You see, the common criminal is not out to kill someone, for that is only a means to the end. If he must kill someone in order to pull the job off without being caught, for some of these guys, it must be done. That becomes part of his job. And even if that what he was hired to do - to kill someone - then he will. Shall he use a gun? Well, it certainly is quick and convenient. Not as messy. Let's suppose he can't get a gun. It's the year 2030 and the "Democrats" made them illegal and confiscated all of the guns in America. (In reality, he still could get a gun. Look at Mexico, where all guns are illegal, and murder rates are (per capita) much higher than in the US. But for the sake of argument, let's just say he CAN'T even BUILD one). Our criminal still has several options. None as clean and convenient as a gun, but it will allow him to pull off "the job". He can blow up the building with a bomb built out of common household chemicals. This is exactly how the World Trade Center (in 1994, not 2001) and the Federal Building in OK City, OK were terrorized and hundred died. He can knock out the dude at 7-11 with a baseball bat. He can stab the cabbie and take his car and money. I was a cab driver and I've seen the barrel of a gun twice. My co-worker got shot in the head while on duty. This is indeed a scary world in which we all live.
The worst aspect in this whole dilemma is the criminals need not worry about you fighting back to defend yourself or your family if you don't own a gun. After all, you have no readily-available weapon with which to defend yourself. Does your spouse? If I were married, I'd fully support my wife if she were to decide to pack heat. After all, women are more vulnerable to violent crime. You never know what sicko accross town is about to rape the next jogger he sees.. If she had no gun or tae-kwon-do training (very useful, by the way), she may very well die. Yet if she did, she may have been able to stop him before he raped or killed her. Even if she carried a knife, she is probably not going to be strong enough to overcome him. People don't usually attack people that are bigger or stronger. Yet with a gun (and training), she at least has a fighting chance. The truth is, guns are used WAY MORE to PREVENT crime than anything else. More crimes are twarted by the use of a gun than those that utilized a gun in a crime. But you won't hear that on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN. There's no story unless someone is hurt or dead. What a sad thing to say about today's press.
This is why God gave us the inalienable right to keep and bear arms. That's God, not the government who's in charge..The original American Government did not give us this right, they only recognized and enforced the idea that such a God-given right shall NOT be infringed. Yet the passing of ANY gun law is in defiance of The Constitutuion. And yet there are thousands of such laws on the books. Too bad they continue to fail in preventing crime. It's sooo simple: criminals, by the very definition of being criminal, do not obey the law. It's that simple. Diasarming people doesn't work where we've already tried it (Washington D.C., Mexico, Nazi Germany, U.S.S.R., etc...) The definition of insanity is repeating the same behavior while expecting different results. Thus we see why "gun control" laws don't work. Public hangings did work back in the 1800's...