Our nation’s governments are historically inept – at least during
the most recent decades. That is to say,
when the government(s) try to solve one problem, it always merely creates
another different problem. Why would the
outcome of any gun-control laws be any different?
For instance, the government(s) could try to outlaw guns all
together or make guns nearly impossible to buy – such as it is here in most of
California. As a result, then, only the
criminals would have guns while leaving everyone else defenseless to those
criminals with guns. Does anyone think
of California as a safe place to walk through dark urban alleys late at night
by oneself? I doubt it. For more examples, we can look to Washington,
D.C., and New York City, the places with the claimed “strictest” gun-control
laws in the nation. Would anyone feel especially
safe walking though dark, desolate alleys in those cities by oneself? I doubt that too. So, leaving
only the criminals to own guns does not make any place any safer. Again, as I’ve blogged previously, criminals don’t
care about gun laws (or any laws), that’s why they are called "criminals."
Equally as important and also as ironic, when faced with a
violent creep on a homicidal rampage, or merely looking to defend oneself from
wrongful attack, a gun is typically the only viable defense available to many. What does the government hope to achieve or
what does it think will be the likely result when it takes guns away from the law-abiding
populace? Whatever it hopes, the likely
result will be to leave the populace defenseless to the never-ending numbers of
violent creeps who roam freely among the populace looking for defenseless and
easy victims for the creep to attack. To
take guns away from the law-abiding populace, the governments of our land would
merely be signaling that most folks do not maintain the ability to defend themselves
from attack. As an example of where lack of guns leaves the innocent defenseless, we can look
to the Fort Hood shootings – where the shootings happened on Federal property
and where gun control laws are among the most stringent; yet even with those
gun-control laws on Federal property, those laws only accomplished to leave the
innocent totally defenseless to a homicidal maniac.
Another possible result of outlawing or banning guns would
be to create an “underground market” or “black market” for guns. Thereby creating opportunities for folks in
the military and law-enforcement sectors to sell guns stolen from entities in
those sectors – which probably happens in the rest of the world where guns are
illegal. Such would create a whole new
stream of revenue for scofflaws in those sectors. Because, if there is a demand for any item,
there will be those who look to supply that demand. One only needs to look at the demand for
illegal drugs in the nation and the governments’ long-standing yet ineffectual
war on drugs as but one example of demand driving an illegal supply.
Or, maybe, with gun-control laws the governments are simply
looking to have another reason to throw throngs of the populace in prison. Clearly, the government gains some benefit/profit
for having so much of the populace in prison – even if only for victimless
crimes. Now that certain drugs such as marijuana
are becoming decriminalized and legal in much of the nation, does the
government need a new source of prisoners for any slave labor that takes place
in those prisons?
Anyway, I assume it’s still legal to speak and express one’s
opinion on such subjects as addressed in this blog entry. No doubt, time will likely tell.
Adam Trotter (August, 2019)
Other related thoughts:
Handguns Save Life and Property, While the Defenseless Can
Lose Everything.
Tragic Disgrace: More Fort Hood Shootings/Killings.
Fuck the Stupid Drug War; Let’s Start a War on Violent
Creeps!!!
Stop the Violence on Our Streets and in Our Society!!! If It
Takes Violence to Do So, Well.... Damn the Torpedoes, Full Steam Ahead!!
No Middle Class and No Guns Assures No Revolution, Ever! The
Haves and Have-Nots of Futuristic America.
