Gun control
It’s been a bit busy lately. Mostly accounting, billing, and support. But I did get to spend a little time with my daughter, it was nice even though I did have to work through most of it. I also tried to take the bike out but the shop that repaired my flat apparently messed up the front wheel. It’s out of line and rubbing on the caliper. Back in it goes. I also got to watch a little TV. This is what I’ll talk about.
I watched a cops-like show called “Video Justice”, in the episode I saw some armed kids tried to rob a pawn shop. They came in firing. They were not successful. This was because the shop owner was armed and shot back. If he had not been armed he and his wife would be dead and the place robbed. This is where the gun control people are wrong.
Guns are not going to vanish from the streets if they are banned, not now or 100 years from now. It’s completely naive to think so. Where they will vanish from is the hands of law abiding people, like this shopkeeper. He and his wife would be dead if he wasn’t able to defend himself. It seems to me that all of these mass murder shootings are in gun free zones. Schools and the like. Law abiding citizens can’t possess weapons to defend themselves here. This leaves them as sitting targets.
It also looks like any place that had armed citizens where some gunman started shooting, the gunman was halted by the armed citizens before too many died. But in every place where the citizen was not allowed to carry and a gunman started shooting, deaths were high. Isn’t this proof that gun control adds to the deaths? That armed citizens allowed to protect themselves lessen the deaths? Seems so to me.
