Gun Control to its logical end

I was reading an article on Raw Story today about Ron Paul's comments on the recent attempts at gun control that are being thrown around congress, including the ridiculious attempt to ban firearms in a 1000 ft distance from any federal offical.

The article was actually pretty fair -- it didn't take anything out of context, which Dr. Paul's opponents left and right have definitely been known to do. But of course the fun of reading a site generally antagonistic to liberty is not the articles themselves but the vitriolic comments that the supposed "understanding" and "loving" left puts out. In between the calls for Ron to be shot (didn't the left just have a hissey fit over "angry political speech"?) many of them were calling for tougher gun control, up to entire bans on guns and ammunition.

So let's take this idea of a complete gun ban to its logical end. If you truly are for a complete gun ban than you must argue for the abolition of the police and military. Now, many would counter by claiming that we need a police and military to prevent crime.  But then, I must ask, what makes a police officer or a soldier different from any other human? Are they more moral than you or I? I would point to the rampant police corruption of the NYPD and the abuse of Abu Ghraib to show that in fact many immoral people are actually present in those institutions.

40 Reasons for Gun Control

Sarcastic reasons, I promise.  From the Libertarian Christians blog:

1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, Detroit & Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Indianapolis’s high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just statistics.”
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates,which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.

Read the rest here.

A Woman's Intuition

Apparently since street violence has increased in Chicago, many women are taking action. Unlike the traditional pleas for the state to do something, considering there is a complete ban on handguns, many women are taking their safety into their own hands. According to a local news article:

Local gun shop owners say they're seeing an increase in the number of women shoppers right now. The reasons, they say, are many, including the downturn in the economy and violence on the street.

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, about 48 percent of people taking their first handgun seminars this year happen to be women.

Re: The Government Schools

Nice report and commentary, Mr. Smith. I bet that the "anti- bb gun" folks are A-OK with all sorts of weapons, just so long as they are brandished by agents of the state. Indeed, I imagine that many anti-gun teachers and administrators of that district would "be honored" to see their boys enlist in the government's military and kill innocents in "strategic airstrikes" abroad.

That doesn't mean that public school administrators are bad people , but it does point out the intellectual hypocrisy the state creates in its subjects.