Tuesday, January 01, 2013

Gun control laws don't do any good
























Most advocates of stricter gun control and gun prohibition in the United States today are white left-of-center progressives.

 Indigenous Americans were the first victims of white man gun control laws. It was illegal even into the early 20th century for non-Indians to sell firearms to Indians. Although they risked the death penalty, there were nevertheless white black market arms traders that provided guns and ammo to Indian tribes in exchange for Indian-produced products that were of value to whites in America and abroad such as furs, hides, blankets, jewelry, etc. It was only because Indians were outnumbered that the "west" was lost in the long run to the white man. Had Indigenous American tribes had no guns at all, the Euro invader spawn conquest of the west would have come a lot sooner.

After the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan lobbied for gun control laws in the South that would prevent African-Americans from purchasing and possessing most calibers of firearms.

Whenever there is enough demand for a good or service that is illegal, there is a black market to supply it, with firearms and ammo being no exception. Even psychopaths and terrorists in nations with the strictest of strictest gun prohibition laws where only police and military can possess firearms, can eventually get their hands on them when they want to bad enough. Even if they couldn't, they would revert to concocting homemade explosives, which can result in even more casualties.

 The first school massacre in the United States occurred in 1927. It was billed as "The Bath School Disaster" in Bath Township, Michigan, in which a school board member used dynamite to blow up much of the school with children and staff on the premises.

 The more well-armed a citizenry is, the more it deters crime and violence against persons and property.

Gun control and gun prohibition advocacy operates on emotion and short-sightedness rather than pragmatic reasoning. Responsible gun control is the exercise of self-control in the way of handling and securing firearms and ammo properly and making sure they remain out of the reach of children.