MORE ON THE THEATER SHOOTING

Several days ago, before leaving on my short vacation, I posted an article I found on the internet about the shooting in Colorado.  Here’s the link. http://cyberpolyticks.blogspot.com/2012/07/theater-shooter-could-have-been-stopped.html

I now have more to say about it.  Liberals everywhere are wasting no time to use this massacre push gun control and gut the Second Amendment.

Mayor Bloomberg asks the Obama administration for stricter gun laws following Colorado shooting.  Bloomberg is a freaking idiot, but I suspect you already knew that.

If more gun control is all it takes to prevent tragedies then Chicago ought to be the safest city in the United States because it has had the strictest municipal gun laws in the country for the past thirty years.  Yet slightly more than halfway through 2012, more than 200 people have been killed in Chicago by gunfire.  And as for the State of New York, it also has very strict gun laws and is 48th in gun ownership, but is the 18th highest in its murder rate.

Meanwhile, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and New Hampshire, are all full of guns but have far lower murder rates than gun control states like New York, California and Illinois. According to Bloomberg, “If we had fewer guns, we would have a lot fewer murders.”  Anyone with half a brain can see that guns are not proportional to murders.

Utah has the second highest gun ownership rate in the country and the eighth lowest homicide rate. Wyoming, the state with the fourth highest gun ownership rate has the fourth lowest homicide rate.

How will stricter gun laws bring an end to criminals having guns, when the laws against murder have not been able to stop them from killing innocent people?

And I must point out that it’s already illegal to carry a concealed weapon in Aurora. Here’s the link to the law.

http://www.coloradoceasefire.org/munilaws.htm

Maybe Aurora's Strict Gun Laws are part of the problem.  People who knew this shooter all say he is very intellegent.  If he’s as intellegent as they say, then he naturaly would be smart enough to choose a place where he knew everyone would be unarmed.

If there had been one law-abiding person in that theater with a concealed weapon, there may have been a lot fewer deaths and injuries.  I read in the news all the time where a person with a concealed gun stops or prevents a crime, but it doesn’t get much publicity because no one was killed.

About a week before the Colorado tragedy, a similar situation had a very different ending in Florida, where 71 year old Samuel Williams stopped an armed robbery when two masked men entered the Palms Internet Cafe around 10 p.m. Friday, July 13, 2012.   Here’s a link to the surveillance camera video.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wZNC2VwyaPU&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fs.ytimg.com%2Fyt%2Fswfbin%2Fwatch_as3-vflohUKhE.swf

Gun Owners of America, at gunowners.org, cites statistics indicating guns are used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense, or around 80 times a day.  This includes 200,000 women a year using guns to defend themselves against sexual abuse. As a matter of fact, as of 2008, armed citizens killed more violent bad guys than the police (1,527 vs. 606).

George Washington had it right, when he said “The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference—they deserve a place of honor with all that is good.”
I personally prefer concealed carry over open carry because I think it’s better that the bad guys do not know who is armed and who is not.  Also people won’t become alarmed about my gun if they don’t know I have one.  

Statistics from the recent past show states that passed concealed carry reduced their murder rate by 8.5%, rapes by 5% and robbery by 3%.  Florida, which passed concealed carry in 1987, saw It’s higher than average homicide rate drop 52% during the following 15 years after passage, to below the national average.  

In spite of all these statistics, I know the liberals in the US Senate, as well as the President and our Secretary of State, will be calling for Senate ratification of the UN Small Arms Treaty, which will strip every American of their second amendment rights. 

The gun control liberals respond to a failure of control by doubling down on what we already know does not work.  Going the other way is “nonsensical” to them. To Bloomberg, the Aurora Massacre was a failure of control, which every “rational” person has to respond to by agreeing that we need more control. Find the “loopholes” and close them. Tighten the noose and this will never happen again… until the next time it does, when it will be met with the same response.

More loopholes, more nooses and more zero tolerance. Make a law, name it after a murdered child and sit back, confident that nothing like this can ever happen again because the big book of laws just had another forty pages added to it.

That is the government world, a place where every problem can be solved if you throw enough money, manpower and laws at it.  And that world is as imaginary as the comic book world playing on the movie screen during the massacre. That is why gun control is so appealing. Unlike murders, guns can be banned.

Government is not god and no amount of regulations can exercise complete control over the world around us. Those who follow the law will always be proportionally more dis-empowered by regulations than those who do not. The more laws there are, the more they are broken. The more control is centralized, the more corrupt the controllers become until the criminals are in power and those who are in power are criminals.

We could turn America into police state.  All we need to do is spread the failed liberal policies that destroyed the country’s greatest cities to the rest of the country. Then try to lock down that anarchy with gun control, SWAT teams and 5 million regulations. Give it time and we’ll manage to achieve the current Democratic Party platform of being just like Mexico.

Officially liberals don’t like the police state very much, and yet the police state is the only thing that prevents the countries afflicted by their policies from completely melting down. And when faced with a problem, whether it’s a man filling in a swamp on his own property or individuals owning firearms, they resort to the power of the police state. Right now they are telling us that if we just had a police state where all the firearms were controlled by the police, this will never happen again.  The simple truth is, enacting tighter gun policies and increasing police surveillance and patrols will accomplish little more than propelling us the final step of the way into a police state.

While our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims of the Colorado movie massacre, we must not allow ourselves to curtail our own freedom while we are in the throws of a deeply emotional occurrence.  And we must not allow the mainstream media’s insensitive and relentless campaign to lead America down a path she does not want to go while she is blinded by grief and horror.

Here's a very timely quote.
“This year will go down in history. For the first time a civilized nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient and the world will follow our lead into the future.” —Adolf Hitler, 1935

THINK ABOUT THAT ONE