Opinion by Martin
In the aftermath of President Obama's first term and an increasing number of mass shootings, the usual suspects (Bloomberg, various Liberal Congressmen, the "Brady Bunch" and others) are calling for increased gun control with includes semi-automatic rifles and handguns with extended magazines and various capabilities other than single shot bolt action rifles or revolvers. This manufactured hysteria began while the smoke from the latest tragedy in Newtown, CT was still drifting away on the wind.
The people who are working on gun control have now reached over the line of decency by using the deaths of 20 children to attack firearms as a whole rather than the person who pulled the trigger. The organizations which decry the "lack of gun control" in the United States are among the same "Blame America" groups which stand in the way of laws that would enhance the ability of the states to place certified mentally ill people into supervised treatment whether or not those people wished to be treated. For instance, the State of Connecticut attempted to pass a law (CT SB452) in February to "enhance the care and treatment of persons with psychiatric disabilities in both inpatient and outpatient settings." The bill was defeated in March with the opposition calling it "outrageously discriminatory." The ACLU said that the bill would "infringe on patient's privacy rights by expanding the number of people who could medicate individuals without their consent."
According to Breitbart.com, if CT SB452 had passed, it would have given the state the right to institutionalize a person who is mentally ill for treatment if the state had enough evidence to believe that the person was a danger to himself or the community. This means that Adam Lanza may have been off the streets and unable to commit the December 14 Newtown murders.
Now, why won't "gun control" work in the United States? There are numerous reasons, but first and foremost is that the Right to Bear Arms is enshrined in the Constitution which protects the People against a tyranny of government and will be rather difficult to overturn. The second number is the sheer number of firearms privately owned in this country by police officers and civilians, such as hunters, for various reasons including home defense, target shooting, and just collecting. A third reason is that there is no one in the United States who really knows how many unregistered guns there actually are in the country. If no one knows how many unregistered guns there are and who controls those weapons, how can any government guarantee the safety of the people who have turned in their firearms?
There are areas in the country where the response time to a 911 call is well over 15 minutes and could be 45 minutes or longer. Even in an urban setting, because of the sheer number of calls to police departments, the calls have to be prioritized which may lead to a delayed response time leaving the police to clean up the damage done by the perpetrator(s) at the site of the call. Slow response times show that, in many cases, firearms are the first line of defense for the average citizen and his/her family against the unspeakable horror that is a home invasion, assault on the street, burglarly, or a "madman" in the mall bent of killing as many people as he can before the police arrive. One person with a weapon in the home or carrying a concealed weapon in the mall may mean the difference between one person being shot and 100 people being killed or wounded.
Obama and the anti-gunners also continue to neglect one extremely pertinent fact: The highest murder rates using guns and other weapons are in the cities that have the most stringent gun laws starting with Chicago, Washington, DC (the Nation's Capital), and Detroit. Even Bloomberg's New York City is not exempt from this violence and you can go to jail for defending yourself and your family with a firearm.
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