The triggering event was the massacre in Parkland, Florida, the other day. Listen to the callers on the C-Span's Washington Journal's open line and hear Democrats calling for gun control again. It's a knee jerk reaction. Democrats have used scapegoats for so long it's ingrained. And gun owners or guns themselves are the scapegoats again.
The problem with the idea of banning guns is that there are millions of guns owned by citizens already. Ban them and a huge black market will develop for those guns. It happened in Chicago. And it probably has happened in every jurisdiction that has attempted to ban guns.
Gun controllers' efforts should be directed at Mars. A colony there would be the only place where where there could be no guns, at least until one gets smuggled in.
Meanwhile, it's trite but true: outlaw guns and only outlaws will have guns.
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6:23 AM 2/15/2018
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