Whenever there is a shooting or a terrorist attack, Democrat lefties immediately seize on the tragedy, seemingly before the bodies are cleared, in order to ride their favorite political hobby horse of gun confiscation, or as they like to more gently refer to it, gun control. There seems to be a complete logic disconnect as they suggest that taking guns away from ordinary citizens is going to make everyone safer when the bad guys or the terrorists come to shoot them. How will unarmed citizens be safer under those circumstances?
There is, in fact, ample evidence that arming the public will do more to advance the safety of society than even a huge increase in police might would. Police cannot be everywhere at every moment, but an armed populace, especially one with hidden weapons, is a tremendous deterrent to bad guys since they have no idea who is armed or where they may be. And it certainly does not require arming every person in a crowd. The unknown factor of who might or might not be packing a nine millimeter pistol keeps the baddies guessing.
The evidence for this proposition is that most or all of the recent mass shootings have taken place in “gun free zones,” meaning zones designated to be free of guns. And they were, except for the bad guy or guys, who somehow missed the rule and so were able to mow down countless unarmed and defenseless citizens.
Another arrogant, anti-gun “progressive,” in this case a law professor by the name of David Cohen, has rushed to print anti-American propaganda in Rolling Stone magazine. While there may be as many as a dozen people who still actually read the magazine, it might still be instructive to broaden the reach of his musings and review some of the good professors points in this article.
Read anti-gun arguments on page 2:
The same Rolling Stone that pictured the little Boston terrorist on the cover ??? We know who’s side they’re on ! Makes a great bird cage liner though !
No gun control!!! CONTROL THE MUSLIMS/ISLAMIST WHO ARE ATTACKING US & KILLING US!!!
It is time to boycott,and disband ANY organization that suggests getting rid of the second amendment rights
Suck it !
…….because ONLY the government can be trusted with guns. The government would never hurt us once they disarmed us. Ask the Native America…$#%&!@* I mean ask the people in Waco….$#%&!@*….. Trust the government, they only have our best interests at heart………..
The real problem are liberal people who would forced everyone to conform with their idiotic ideologies.
CNN reports the truth…NOT…lies by omission is more like it!
Maybe we should repeal the first amendment before we repeal any other then rags like the rolling stone would have to move to Mexico to print their filth.
I agree. It took the police and swat teams in Orlando three hours to breach the building and go after the attacker. To me that is two hours fifty-nine minutes and fifty-eight seconds too long when someone has a gun pulled on me or anyone else near me.
Don’t be ridiculous, of course it is not. It is there to protect yourselves from danger.