We have spent countless hours trying to teach guns not to shoot people. We have lobbied legislators to help put an end to senseless murder by implementing gun education classes. If we can reach these guns soon enough we believe they can be taught not to kill. A few states have implemented voluntary gun registration. We believe that should be expanded by making it mandatory for these guns to register themselves. We need to explore new and innovative ways to get our message to these guns, “No More Shooting People!” We are “The People Who Have An Irrational Fear Of Guns” and we say that the only way to stop this epidemic of guns shooting people is to address the gun itself. Through legislation and education we can get these guns off the street and under our control.

Gun control isn’t really about saving lives.

Consider that it’s already illegal to shoot someone with any gun. Once you have that law on the book, you have exhausted the legal remedies for using the law to keep people from shooting each other, and to be honest, it works pretty well. Statistically, most of the readers here understand that there is a law against them taking a gun and killing someone else with it. For most of you, between your lack of a willingness to do that sort of thing anyway, and that law, it’s enough.

Now we all know that there are just some people that are inclined towards killing people. We know that given the right amounts of things like anger, fear, or self will inhibiting drugs, bad things can even happen to good people. Would it be wrong to refer to this last group as insane? Temporarily or otherwise, people in this group are capable of abhorrent behavior.

If these things are true, how can gun controllers think that making new laws that make killing people with a gun more illegal, or making it harder for folk like you and me to acquire or own a gun, a path for saving us from being shot? Of course, it’s not. Disarming the average American is a goal in and of itself. Given the 2nd Amendment, and people’s ability to think for themselves, getting rid of those guns is a hard sell.

That makes it divide and conquer time. In the finest tradition of our government, we find ourselves being boxed in between emotional appeals (Do it for the children) and that other time worn approach where they take a little today and a little tomorrow until you have none left at all. (how’d this slope get so slippery)

By intentionally misinterpreting a mental health issue as a gun control issue they avoid a confrontation with the average, common sense wielding American. Instead we find ourselves in an emotionally charged distraction with each other, while little by little our freedom, and even our Constitution is eroded away from beneath us.

At what point do -you- get involved? Ignorance is not bliss, it’s expensive.