Guns Okay
Busy times at the Supreme Court these days. There was the ruling against the Death Penalty for Child Rapists, and now the ruling that the DC Gun Law is taboo. I will never understand the seeming insane need for Americans to have guns, and not just single shot ones, but those fancy kind whose only purpose is to kill many people.
The court’s 5-4 ruling struck down the District of Columbia’s 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. The decision went further than even the Bush administration wanted, but probably leaves most firearms laws intact. (source - CBS News)
I understand that the world has gotten considerably more dangerous, but what I don’t understand, is why do individuals feel they are better equipped to defend themselves than the Police Force? Surely if one cannot depend on the legal authority to defend them, or respond in time to defend them, then isn’t the answer to simply get rid of the incompetents, and hire some who can do the job?
If crime is so bad, that people need to hole up in their homes, with guns so they can go to work in the morning, then perhaps the solution isn’t to put more guns out there, but to start reigning them in? I mean add a few years to any conviction if a person committing a crime is carrying a weapon. YES, that may indeed mean building a few more prisons, and even upgrading the one’s now in existence, but surely the answer isn’t for Paranoid Fred to have a gun in every room of his house.
As to the notion that people need guns in case the Government runs amock, uh, well it has and I don’t see anyone reaching for their six shooter yet. Nor would I expect them too. I mean, let’s face the facts. If the Government in Washington D.C. or at some State Level declared itself a dictatorship, with backing of the Armed Forces, does anyone really believe another Boston Tea Party would happen?
There isn’t even any protests today about the killing in Iraq, like there was during the Viet Nam Era, so give me a break here. No One is going to take to the streets to protest or oppose any takeover. After all, everyone seems quite fine in simply giving their rights away now, after all there is Patriot Acts I and II.
And who is going to invade the United States? IRAN?
If there is ever another Global Conflict, it will be fought in Space, and through the use of Tactical Nuclear Weapons. There won’t be a need for guns, because we’ll all be evaporated, or killed off by the aftermath of Chemical and Biological Weapons. If we do survive, well the guns in the stores will be wide open for picking anyhow, and I don’t know, just seems to me that all these are just excuses to own a gun.
The downside to all this, is there will be more litigation and more uncertainty. It will also put more guns into the hands of people who shouldn’t have a driver’s license let alone a gun license. It will add to the growing list of accidental shootings. I mean come on, even the Vice President of the United States doesn’t know how to use a damn shotgun, but hey, every Tom, Dick, and Shirley can own one too.
How many children will lose their lives due to playing with a loaded gun they find in their house, or their friends house? How about the loner’s who feel so outcast, that they want to shoot up their school, will now be able to do just that?
I simply do not understand all this.
Ian @ June 27, 2008
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