Gun safety does not mean what gun banners try to make it mean. It is not about restricting civil rights!

Griffin Daily News headline: “Democrats call for special session to address gun safety laws.”  Anytime you hear “gun safety laws” you can be sure the truth is “laws that restrict the civil rights of law-abiding citizens but do nothing to stop criminals.” 

    Each time a mentally ill person uses a gun illegally, the Brady “ban guns” Bunch sends out a fund raising email within minutes.  They hype all kinds of new laws and beg for money to lobby for their passage.

Many times I have responded to their emails asking “Please tell me exactly how your proposed new law would have affected this crime.”  One time I got a response referring me to one of their lobbying groups but when I asked that group I got no response. I have never gotten any answer to my question.

The reason they don’t respond is they can’t.  Their proposed laws often have nothing to do with the crime they are hyping, and nothing they propose would make a difference.

The hype de jour is “ban assault weapons.” That was tried for ten years under the Clinton administration. Contrary to lies by gun banners, if you go to unbiased sources, it had no measurable effect.

From https://www.propublica.org/article/fact-checking-feinstein-on-the-assault-weapons-ban: “There is no compelling evidence that it saved lives,” Duke University public policy experts Philip Cook and Kristin Goss wrote in their book “The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know.”

If their ultimate goal is to outlaw all gun ownership, and a few admit it is, they should propose a law to do that.  Of course that would be unconstitutional and would be about as effective as the current ban on heroin or the experience we had with banning alcohol during Prohibition.

Just know “gun safety” means handling a gun correctly, not restricting law abiding citizens’ civil rights.