Taking Aim Against Guns
This week is the one year anniversary of the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech and a renewed call for gun control. Our right to bear arms is guaranteed by the US Constitution and if we fail to fight to keep it we’ll lose it for sure. Across many college campuses there will be protests and calls for additional gun control. The University of North Carolina is no exception and given the recent high profile murder of their student body president.
On Wednesday, 32 protesters will lie on the ground on Polk Place near Gardner Hall for just a few minutes to illustrate symbolically how little time it takes to buy a gun.
Wednesday - April 16 - is the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shooting.
And one year later, not much has changed in terms of gun control, both in North Carolina and in the nation at large.
Why should there be any changes in the gun laws? It is one of the most regulated products out there. Myself I think we need to loosen the laws to make sure people have access so the scum that perpetrate such violent acts might have to think twice before they go on their crime sprees.
Gun control advocates often take the approach of having “sensible gun laws” that include gun registrations, waiting periods on purchases, limits on purchases etc. For what? They only penalize law abiding citizens and work to limit the number of law abiding citizens who can afford and meet all these requirements.
Why do we oppose gun registration? We know that at some latter date that information could be used to confiscate our guns. We only need to look at what happened in Canada and Australia when gun bans took place. New Orleans after the hurricane Katrina where law abiding citizens had weapons confiscated by authorities and then they were left unarmed in an area that was lawless and overrun with mobs to fend for themselves. That’s why we oppose any type of gun registration.
Today WalMart has announced that they will set up their own gun registration process to track all guns they sell. This is a significant cave on part of a major retailer and not really surprising given that they have scaled back many of the gun sales by eliminating them totally from their sporting goods section. What will the fall out be? I don’t know but we’ll follow it for sure.
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
I agree with you! We have a couple of guns that were purchased before all the paperwork was required and we’re keeping it that way - all gun control laws do is make life more frustrating for law-abiding citizens.
Comment by Blessed — April 17, 2008 @ 9:26 am