The Mission of X-Offenders for Community empowerment is to empower ex-offenders to become change agents in mobilizing the community to address issues threatening healthy family and community life.Uh-huh. Why do I sense a catch in here somewhere that makes this my problem?
Oh, I don't know...
"We're researching ways to target legitimate dealers who sell illegal guns under the table in stores or gun shows as well as the guy selling illegal guns out of his car trunk," says Jacobs, "because they are just as guilty of murder as the kid who uses that gun to rob a gas station. We must restrict the availability of these weapons by holding owners and dealers responsibility for missing, stolen or under-the-table guns." Illegal guns are destroying our cities," Blackburn adds, "and this is something we think both the NRA and the gun control advocates can get behind". It’s the middle ground of the debate, a perfect compromise for both sides. Look, people can walk right out of jail and get a gun with just a phone call. And as a society, we only seem interested in what happens after the gun is obtained and a violent crime is committed. What we're saying is we have to start looking at ways to prevent kids from getting their hands on a gun, not just wait to lock them up after somebody gets shot."Sounds like you learned quite a bit during your time in the slammer there, fellas, like how to deflect responsibility to everyone but yourselves. We're responsible for you stealing our guns? We're required to report it under penalty of law while you're exempt?
How about this instead? Don't threaten people and they won't need to respond.
That sounds like a reasonable "middle ground" and "perfect compromise" to me.
My rights are not subject to anyone else's inability or unwillingness to control himself. Period.
[Sebastian touched on this a few weeks ago.]
It's the new trend.
ReplyDeleteRemember "Scared Straight," the program that got inmates to talk to at-risk kids about what "the life" and prison are really like?
Now people who believe the Bill of Rights means what it says are going to be scared.. what? We're the ones who are straight, the ones who are not, never have been, a threat to the community. Insult on top of insult on top of injury.
Will these guys be "counseling' the cops who sell guns out of evidence rooms and police armories? I think they'd get a two word answer, and the second word is "you."
In Soviet Amerika, convicts *X* YOU!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like it came straight from the USSR, how Stalin turned loose scores of convicts to terrorize the populace into submission.
I suggest we read "On Killing", so that we may ready ourselves, mentally, for the time when we must fight for our rights.
-Anonymous-
recidivists for gun control!
ReplyDeleteAt the "I don't know..." link, the statistics spell out quite clearly where they're headed next:
ReplyDelete"40% of the inmates in a State or Federal prison received their guns illegally from a **family member or friend.** A 6% increase in the number illegally transferred guns between 1991 and 1997.
"State statistics show that 80% of the guns used in crimes where obtained from **friends, family members,** illegal street buys or another illegal source."
Anyone still think the big three presidential candidates won't close the "gun show loophole" and pick up speed from there to ban all private transfers, regardless of what they SAY now?
I've never understood Ben Franklin's saying "Three removes is as good as a fire." Maybe he meant that by the time a rumor or an object had been passed from person to person to person, it was irretrievably gone. And that's what scares the living daylights out of the government: the inability to track all the guns.
Defender, you are right the in- ability to track guns is no different than governments inability to track money. With the latter they have placed magnetic strips into bill in order to set off alarms in airports and other areas.
ReplyDeleteJust get caught with a large sum of money over $1000 and you are on the defense to prove that it was not illgotten money. Guns are no different, they are just ratching up the attack.