No, it's not the only reason. But it certainly is one of them.
Toronto Mayor David Miller's solution?
"We know what works but we need the money to support it. We need the federal government to commit much more strongly to job training and funding actual employment for young people. That will require significant resources."
Spend money on government programs! What else would you expect from a bureaucrat and tyrant who wants to rule people and ensure that they're disarmed?
Is this where I launch into "Gee, Officer Krupke"?
I also like how the vacuous reporterette helps perpetuate hysteria using "straight news" catchphrases like "killings caused by firearms..."
And here I thought killings were caused by killers.
But, but, but, David, everyone knows guns cause killings! Only us gun nuts think that the person pulling the trigger has anyting to do with it!
ReplyDeleteOkay, sarcasm aside, let's look at the headline: First, killing someone is not the only reason to have a handgun (obviously.) Second, some people need killing. That's sad, but true. The author, and I use that term loosely, does not distinguish between murder and righteous self-defense. I cannot tell if she does so deliberately, or out of ignorance.
Slightly off topic but related, is the fact that all the cops I know, and two of them are mine, are scared to death of an armed citizen. They get irate if told they cannot enter the store or talk to someone as long as they are wearing a gun. I know. I have, on several occassions informed different policeman at different times that they must remove themselves from my presence or get rid of the gun. They, each and every one of them, became highly agitated and threatened me, usually with arrest, but a few threatened me with physical harm. I have called each and every one of them a coward. They are. They do not abhor for me what they find repugnant for themselves. That means at the very least they are moral cowards and given their reactions to an armed citizen, even one with the proper paperwork "allowing" that citizen to exercise his legal rights as a privilege makes them physical cowards also.
ReplyDeleteWhy do they expect that their bearing of arms should be accepted in public, by the public as a matter of course, but that they have the right and need to spread-eagle, at gunpoint, a citizen carrying a legal firearm in a legal manner and taking and retaining that firearm for the duration of the time they are in that citizen's presence?
Why? Because they are better than you. Ask them. When you ask them why they act like that for themselves and don't hold for the citizen the same principle of the right to keep and bear arms that they demand, the answer will be "I'm a cop!"
Uh huh! Translated that means he believes he is better than other citizens (what he calls 'civilians', as though he isn't one). He is entitled due to his superior status, you are not.
Much of the fear and dishonesty about handguns being only for killing people is the direct result of law enforcement painting that picture at almost every opportunity in their rights denying propaganda. Look at New Orleans for confirmation of that mindset, "Only law enforcement will be allowed weapons." Edwin Compass. How is it that they have the latitude to present themselves as more moral, honest or law-abiding than other citizens, yet not expect to be suspect in their possession of implements whose only purpose is to "kill people"?
Worse, where do we get the morons that parrot that crap while making exceptions for the second most irresponsible group of bearers of firearms in the country?
Check the statistics, only gang-bangers exceed rates of accidental discharges and shootings of uninvolved persons than law enforcement personnel do.
So, where do these self-anointed experts that would disarm us all get their legitimacy? I believe them to be illegitimate. Sorry, mothers, but that is the way I see it.
Hey R.J.
ReplyDeleteYou're right!
Some people need killing.
You are also right - this is sad.
my 2 cents includes . . .
In your home (not in public) there should be more freedom about what you have for defense.
In public all guns should be visible. Having a concealed weapon should be made a serious crime (immediate deportation until the appeal process is complete - no exceptions)
This would make it so people could have the freedom to carry a gun (within legal limits) but the minute a person wants a concealed weapon they become a criminal.
One feature of this would be that transporting a gun would require a visible sign/sticker/flag so you would know what vehicles held guns.
For shipment the guns would have to be certified "clear" (no ammo)
Y'know, Gordon, not too many people check into blog posts that are four-and-a-half years old.
ReplyDeleteBut I've got a counter-proposal for you: If I'm carrying concealed and you want it to be a crime, YOU be the one to disarm and arrest me. Ditto for a gun in my car.