A popular meme on social media says “The Founding Fathers had not just returned from a hunting trip when they wrote the 2nd Amendment.”
That immediately came to my mind when reading Mona Charen’s emotional ”we gotta do something about guns” editorial in the June 8th Griffin Daily News. I think was the fourth or fifth such editorial in the past two weeks.
Charen says “less than 4% of the population hunts.” She uses that figure to call for eliminating a right in the Bill of Rights. I wonder what other minorities she would restrict just because of low numbers.
It’s ironic that the same folks that say hunters don’t need 30 bullets to hunt now try to say hunters guns should not be considered when gun bans are brought up.
Among other proposed restrictions are so called “red flag laws” where someone can report a gun owner, claiming they have some kind of mental problem, and get the police to confiscate their guns.
None other than a California congressman, Eric Swalwell, immediately claimed that would be great, he could report anyone he didn’t like and get their guns taken away. He was specifically talking about a conservative writer, but the same scheme would apply to any gun owner. Most proposed red flag laws have no due process in them.
Charen lists many mass shootings and shows all were committed by individuals that either met all the laws about guns to get one or broke current gun laws to get one.
How rational is it to call for more of the same things that are not working? If gun laws worked there would be no need for additional laws.
As always, convince me new gun laws would help by showing facts on how they would have stopped any of the shootings.