From the Heartland

This is my soap box, on these pages I publish my opinions on firearms and any other subject I feel like writing about.

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Hammering home the point that gun control is not crime control

Thanks to Old Skool (got it right this time Matt) for bringing this to my attention.

During recent legislative sessions many of our more staunch anti-gun concealled carry Senators waxed eloquant about the dangers of more guns on the street. Concealed carry will put more guns in the hands of criminals on the streets, concealed carry WILL give honest, law abiding citizens an other tool to protect themselves. you know like a spare tire, first aid kit and a smoke detector.

Banning guns does NOT ban crime, when are the social eletists going to get that through their heads? Probably never because cutting crime is the excuse, "He/She who controls the guns controls the power is the real reason."

Here is a report on a suspected serial killer across the ocean in a land far, far away. Firearms owner ship has been effectively outlawed in Great Britain for a number of years, in which time their "crimes against persons" has sky-rocketed.

This article illustrates what happens when you ban guns; Criminals will still be criminals and they will find other things to use as tools of their deadly trade.

Question; Would this latest vitim still be alive if as a law abiding citizen she had been able to be in posession of a firearm?

We'll never know will we.