"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
More Guns Equal More Crime?
Submitted by Mike Powers on Mon, 2010-01-04 04:00
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By far the most firearms-enabled deaths come from government itself: war, genocide, and simple murder of dissidents and others by the State.
"Gun control" that would actually make us safer would be to remove guns from the hands of those working for the State; British bobbies (cops) and many small-town cops even in the US once did their jobs without carrying guns -- and people respected them for that, and actually felt some affection for them. When the hired help is armed to the teeth but the EMPLOYERS are denied weapons -- BY the hired help, in the form of politicians and the armed agents who enforce the laws -- then you have a serious and very dangerous situation.