From the article said:
1 -- There is no debate about the impact of gun violence.
Have never seen a "violent" gun. Not once, in 40+ years of shooting and 20+ years of carrying. Not a single one. It's hard to have a debate when facts get ignored as the facts they are. No violent guns exist. It's a fantasy, for politically-motivated reasons of citizen disarmament.
I've seen misused ones, abused ones, forgotten ones (left loaded and unattended, stacked precariously upon a ledge or against a wall). But never a "violent" one. Never, unless a violent person grabs hold of that tool, much like a chainsaw, a hammer, ice pick, rock, bat, tire iron, fist, knee, boot heel, ...
We have a
people violence problem, pure and simple. And it occurs for a myriad of reasons, ranging from psychoses to economics, from lack of education to lack of opportunities, from destructive relationships in their lives to bad burritos. Arms aren't the problem. (As cars and imbibing aren't the problem, with drunken drivers.
Drunken drivers and their behaviors, their choice to become drunk then driving are the problem.)
Violent felons who believe preying upon others is justifiable, by whatever means they choose, are the problem. Sure, many of them do indeed select a firearm as one available tool, given the utility and effectiveness. But most effective tools in the hands of a violent predator will kill, merely given the lack of compunction and desire to do so. It's not as though violent felons would cease being violent if they were simply lacking this or that tool. And it's not as though erasing citizens' lawful rights to acquire arms (even
if that erasure were constitutional or lawful in any way) would have much effect on felons, given the hundreds of millions of available arms on the street right now, and given the ability of felons to simply select from a variety of other tools with which they could still be deadly.
From the article said:
But, more than six months after 20 children and six adults were killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, legislative efforts to stem the impact of gun violence have failed to gain traction. "The public's attention has moved on."
Absolutely. Thankfully so.
Tens of millions of citizens have basically awakened to the simple fact that the hirelings they've temporarily placed in administrative and legislative capacities in their states and DC are in gross breach of their sworn oaths to protect and defend the Constitution and are instead seeking to destroy it, circumvent it, sidestep it, weaken it and otherwise obliterate the ability of citizens to keep and bear/carry arms in their own defense.
Those hirelings should focus on one thing, in this area: crime elimination, criminal elimination.
Disarming citizens against crime will only clear the field ahead of criminal predators. Hardly a recipe for success.
Unless, that is, success by these unconstitutional hirelings is measured in terms of how many citizens they can turn into "sacrificial lambs" wholly incapable of defending against predators. Could
this be the motive and the measure of success for these hired predators? Ya think? :tired:
From the article said:
2 -- Much of what we know is outdated.
Sure, because the asinine complex of reasons behind what makes felons felons is not a simple question.
But having the ability to effectively withstand and survive predation is a timeless concept. You either do, or you don't. It's largely unrelated to why felons act feloniously and violently. And to the extent that one
doesn't have any such capability, one can find it decidedly more difficult to survive such violence. Surprise. That'll never change. It's the simple interaction of what occurs in a predator-prey situation the world over. It's Nature's law. No amount of dithering and hand-wringing by liberty-hating hirelings, nor screaming by the ignorant and fearful few, will ever change that.
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3 -- But more studies may be in the cards.
There have been plenty of "studies" and reports for decades as to causal factors of violence and crime. There just hasn't been much government-funded, government-guided, government-skewed variations of such things. Rightly so, given the liberty-hating policy and goals of our government, to strip citizens of all practical ability to defend themselves against all comers and to defend the Constitution and our sovereign states and nation with all means at our disposal (by force, if need be). It is what it is. And none of that will change the utility or viability of all other research into violence and crime that's done elsewhere.
From the article said:
The Obama administration has signaled it wants to resume such efforts.
Sure. 'Cause the liberty-haters have so far failed to disarm the citizens who've hired them. Crimes against the Constitution are still needed, in order to come anywhere near achieving this. And the first step is to find more ammo for bringing our liberties under heavier fire. It is what it is.
From the article said:
4 -- If you choose to own a gun, do it responsibly.
Yup. That'll never change.
And violent felons will continue to be violent felons, no matter whether citizens are targeted by their own hirelings or not, whether felons find it more or less expensive to be armed. About the only thing that'll help a targeted victim under an upraised knife is, quite simply, having the practical, effective means on the instant of being under that knife of being able to survive the attack. Nothing else really matters, in terms of the citizen's effective ability at that moment.
One fact remains true: disarming victims cannot reduce the number of victims.
Said another way: What is the point ...
crime reduction, or decreasing victims' ability to survive it?
From the article said:
5 -- Reasons for owning a gun have changed.
Not hardly.
Predation hasn't changed. Being under an "upraised knife" hasn't changed. The desire to survive such things hasn't changed. About the only real thing that has changed in the past 20yrs is the vast increase in the number of citizens waking up and smelling the cess pool, realizing nobody but they have the practical ability on the instant of crime to withstand such crime. No real way around that, no matter how much hatred for liberty a person has, or how much evisceration of the Constitution a citizen is willing to sponsor or accept.