There is nothing they can do! More precisely, there is nothing they can do about all the shootings by enacting more Federal regulations or State regulations. As usual, and almost as always these days, the government is bass ackwards and looking in all the wrong places.
One more time: the government is bass ackwards and looking in all the wrong places.
First, in general and overall, for the most part legal gun owners and legal gun carriers don’t commit gun crimes. They are ever-conscious and ever-concerned about maintaining their permits (to own and carry), which in most places are not easy to obtain in the first place.
Second, most of the people referred to in the paragraph above are trained in regard to their guns and how to use them, store them, keep them safe from children, etc. The training courses needed to get permits to own and/or carry a gun also go over the basics of gun laws, so…
That said, one of those old sayings: guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
And it is here that the government is all wrong, is looking in all the wrong places for the causes of all “the shootings” and how to prevent them.
No regulation is going to prevent a criminal from obtaining a gun if s/he wants one or from committing a crime with that gun.
Most gun crimes are committed by criminals who do not have permits to be having the guns they use in the committing of a crime. Not all, most. One doesn’t have to look any further than at the crime rates in the inner cities, and all the shootings therein, to see that the vast majority of them are committed by people who don’t have permits.
So more regulation, quite frankly, is bass ackwards.
And that raises several questions.
First, what is all the regulation about? What is the intent behind the regulation?
Second, are our (overwhelmingly liberal, Despicable Democrat) leaders oblivious to all the studies about the actual facts of who commits gun crimes and mass shootings?
[Just as an aside, these same overwhelmingly liberal, Despicable Democrat leaders, some of them aspiring presidential hopefuls, should be asked the same questions about the climate change issue, the energy issue, and a lot of other issues. They should be asked and challenged about the facts behind their idiotic policy and regulation proposals.]
Third, are they really so blind? Do they not see that certain things don’t work? That heaping more regulation onto policies that are already proven not to work meets the definition of insanity? You know, the one that says doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, that definition of insanity.
It would be truly wonderful if they, our Despicable Democrat overwhelmingly power-hungry leaders and presidential hopefuls, were simply misguided and/or ignorant of the facts. Then they would be teachable, and even better, then we might even believe they were well-meaning, even actually concerned about the populace and the country.
But alas, they are not misguided, ignorant of the facts, blind or crazy. No! Much worse than any of that, they are cunning, sly and arrogant. On top of being cunning, sly and arrogant, they are selfish, greedy, narcissistic and power-crazy.
So the answer to the question about regulation (above) is simple. They don’t give a rat’s ass about us, about you or me or America, the environment, the planet or even the illegal immigrants they so vehemently pretend to support and defend.
They see clearly the effects of what they are proposing — that push to socialism — and they understand that it will catapult them and their families and their families’ offspring to the “gated city,” to the upper, upper class, forever and ever.
The hell with everything else, they say among themselves, laughingly to be sure.
