Is Gun Control Futile?
Aug 19, 2009 Firearms
This article in the Huffington Post, drawing on comments from P.J. O’Rourke suggests that gun control is futile. In the clip below, Mr. O’Rourke makes some good points (that only the law-abiding citizens pay attention to gun control laws, for instance). But somehow, Blaise Zerega’s apparent fear of guns got a hold of those comments and manifested in them something completely different.
In discussing the pork (yes, I’ll say it. it is pork after all) that was placed in an amendment to the credit card reform bill that would allow concealed weapons in our national parks, Blaise Zerega says:
Scary thought: Next time you’re in a traffic jam in Yosemite, don’t honk your horn at that knucklehead blocking the road while taking a picture of El Capitan. If the GOP has its way, soon “point-and-shoot” will take on whole new meaning.
First of all, are you kidding me?!? You’re suggesting that the GOP would be “having its way” if people shot other people for honking at them in the park? It’s this kind of tripe that paints the entire Huffington Post staff and gun control groups in a bad light in the first place.
I’m not going to sit here and argue the merits of allowing lawful concealed weapons permit holders to carry their weapons into a national park (although I defy anyone to give me a good reason why a national park should be treated any different from anywhere else a permit is valid). But can you see the twisted logic he’s trying to pull over the common sense of anyone dumb enough to give his article the time of day (I know, that includes me)?
O’Rourke points out that in most cases gun control doesn’t work because it’s only the law abiding citizens that pay attention to, and obey the laws. Then we get an agenda-wielding HuffPo writer watching O’Rourke’s comments through his foggy “guns are the enemy” mentality and goes off to concoct a scare-tactic scenario that goes exactly against the point that O’Rourke made. Unbelievable.
So let’s lay it out for your readers Blaise: What O’Rourke was actually saying is that, in your scenario, congress passing a law allowing permit holders to carry their legal firearms into a national park would have absolutely no effect on whether that guy in the car in front of you would show you a “new meaning of point-and-shoot” when you honk at him. If he’s a ccw permit holder, he is in overwhelming likeliness, a law-abiding citizen who will wave you past him (although perhaps with just one finger). If he’s a criminal with a gun, well, your chances haven’t changed any as a result of the new law.
So let’s quit with the scary stories and find something productive to say…
Take a look at the video, it’s an interesting look and worth the two minutes it takes to watch. Definitely a better use of your two minutes than reading another bumbling Zerega diatribe.
I wouldn’t say gun control is futile, but I would say that the way most gun control groups are going about it is. Practical Gun Control has it’s place in empowering citizens with training, confidence, safety instruction and reasonable controls (age limits, mental-health requirements, felon restrictions, etc). Legislation that supports the Right to Bear Arms while also keeping guns out of the hands of criminals should be supported.
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