Tag Archives: Civilian Disarmament

Gun Control Works

August 21st, 2014 6 comments

Recently a colleague offered the observation that anti-gun or gun control laws are blatant and obvious failures. He pointed to the crime rates in Chicago, D.C. and New York as examples of areas with severely restrictive gun control policies and yet record-breaking violent crime. My friend wondered aloud how any rational or thinking person, even if they didn’t like guns, could support gun control or call for more restrictions based on the mountain of evidence that such laws do nothing to curb violence or criminal behavior? To the contrary, studies such as “More Guns, Less Crime” provide ample evidence against gun control. We chatted for a bit and I pondered my response. The point that my compatriot had missed was…

Why the Russian AK Ban Matters to You

July 31st, 2014 13 comments

The simple response to the recent Executive Order issued by Our Dear Leader banning the importation of small arms from Russia is to say “I don’t care. I don’t own or desire to own an AK.” An additionally common response is, “No big deal, I’ll buy one of the new American AK’s or one from a country other than Russia.” Many may not be aware of it but, a couple of years ago during the advent of the SHOT Show 2013 the BATFE issued out a type of questionnaire/memorandum to FFL holders nationwide. In that letter they specifically addressed the Saiga 12 magazine-fed shotgun and posed the question/made a statement as to whether or not said shotgun had a “legitimate…

Chicago Murder Demonstrates the Failure of Gun Control

May 2nd, 2014 1 comment

Evil abounds in this world; it always has and always will. The great question for those who oppose evil has ever been the method of that opposition. On Friday April 25, 2014 the rampant evil of out-of-control gang violence took the life of Leonore Draper in the West Pullman area of Chicago, Illinois. In a city that measures bloodshed by the barrel, the names of the dead rarely receive any national attention. The Draper killing has garnered interest outside of “Chicagoland” due to the extreme irony of her murder. Draper, a community activist, was heavily involved in the “anti-violence/anti-gun” groups CeaseFire and Project Orange Tree. CeaseFire Illinois closed its doors after the leader of the organization was arrested and charged with domestic violence and…

Gun Control: The Soft Pill for the Intellectually Lazy

April 11th, 2014 3 comments

For as long as I’ve been alive the social elitist has been floating the term “Gun Control”. The first serious or official use of the term in the U.S. came from “Gun Control Act of 1968”. That act added to the previously existing Federal Government firearms restrictions put in place by the National Firearms Act of 1934. In both cases, opportunist politicians used a popular crisis to persuade the ignorant and mentally lazy that more laws would make the nation a ‘safer’ place. In 1934 the crisis was gang-land violence brought on by Prohibition and in 1968 we were still dealing with the assassination of President Kennedy. Nothing New From a historical perspective, the term Gun Control is relatively new,…