Friday, September 07, 2007
Guns
I just read an article where the courts are again going to debate the right of people to bear arms - own weapons.
First let me state that I am 100% for the personal ownership of weapons. And not just handguns and long guns - but any weapons. If someone wants to own a Browning .50 machine gun on a jeep, let him. If some woman wants to own a 10 gauge double-barrelled shotgun cut down to a 12" barrel, let her. I really have no problem with that. However, if that same person uses that weapon (or even a baseball bat) in a crime, they should pay some severe consquences for that action.
But I have to tell you. If I for one teeny-tiny moment thought that all (or even most) rapists, murderers and robbers would turn in their weapons just because a new law was passed banning ownership of guns, I would be all for it.
I just don't understand how any thinking person can imagine that some cretin who has no problem with raping an 80 year old woman, or holding up a 14 year old for her iPod would suddenly think, "Oh goodness, the Bryco .380 I used to hold up my last six 7/11 stores is illegal - I must turn it in to the police at once!"
Labels: crime, government
