Answer: Rust and politicians. Question: What are the only two natural enemies of guns? I’m not sure who first said that, but it is a popular saying seen on shirts and posters. And it is all too true.
Liberal politicians naturally fear guns and gun owners. We are harder to control than those without guns. Another old saying is “people with guns are citizens, people without guns are slaves.” We won our freedom from Britain with guns. But slaves and even free blacks were not allowed to own or possess guns.
Biden compares the current Georgia voting law to Jim Crow laws. He should go back and actually read some Jim Crow laws and the Georgia voting law, especially the Jim Crow prohibition of gun ownership to keep black citizens in line. His gun laws apply to everyone, but they are designed to keep us in line.
Looking at some of the individual proposals from the democrats show how ineffective they are in dealing with crime. Biden wants to ban “assault weapons” which are described as semiautomatic rifles with certain “scary” characteristics.
Some sources say there are approximately 17,000,000 modern sporting rifles in the US – the guns some mistakenly call “assault weapons.” Others say up to 25 million. They are the most popular kind of gun in the
US. Most fire a .223 caliber bullet, legal for deer hunting in most states. Its ironic to see some gun banners call this a big dangerous bullet while also saying too small to use hunting deer.
According to the FBI there were 13,927 murder victims in 2019. Of those, 6778 were by handgun, 300 by rifles of all kinds. That includes every rifle made so only a part of them were by so-called “assault weapon” rifles.
There were 1562 deaths by knife or cutting instrument. The FBI does not say how many of those were assault knives. And hands, feet and fists killed 668 – more than twice the number killed with all rifles.
I know facts don’t matter when you are on a mission to play to your political base, but what sense does it make to concentrate on guns that are used in such a tiny part of murders. And what sense does it make to concentrate on the inanimate object when people using them are the problem.
If criminals were punished for crimes maybe there would be less crime. But the murders on the golf course in Kennesaw are a perfect example. Three people were shot, the kind of gun is not mentioned, but a little research on the killer is interesting.
Brian Rhoden, the accused murderer, was arrested in 2016 for trying to sell drugs to two teenagers then getting into a shoot out with them. He faced several felony charges after that but a Fulton County judge sealed his record in 2017 and the court spokesman could not say why.
In May 2020 he was arrested for having drugs for sale in his car. At that time he also had a warrant for his arrest in East Point, but was let go for some reason. In August 2020 he was arrested in Indiana after a high-speed chase going over 150 mph but was let go with a fine.
In April this year he threatened a Uber driver with a gun and Rhoden admitted having one, but he was let go. Now he is arrested for killing three people, including the golf pro who just happened to be in the way while Rhoden was killing two folks.
The above information is mostly from an article from CBS 45, but also other online sources like the FBI.
I am waiting on someone to say the gun he used should be banned.
Criminals do not follow laws. Law-abiding citizens do, until something legal for all their life is suddenly illegal.