Excellent work. The lad has, as they say, "been to school".
It occured to me just how the attitude shows in so many different ways. One of the underlying things about gun control laws is micromanagement of what we have, making us criminals, instead of what we do with them.
Guy owns a hundred guns, gets a traffic ticket once in two decades, and he's exactly the same as lunatic who steals (or murders) to get a couple guns and kills, sometimes dozens in a 'gun free zone"? I don't think so.
Their only answer is ban/restrict ownership of whatever kind of gun pushes their hot button this decade. A couple decades back it was Saturday Night Specials, which meant to the anti-gunners any handgun you could conceal, or just any handgun...
ARs, FALs, and many others were available back then too! Even before the Fall of the Evil Empire (after which AKs get added to the list), military style semi autos were popular with a good percentage of America's shooting public.
Why are they such a big ticket thing today in the shooting market? Because they are good guns, for one, and are featured constantly (most often in the legally restricted full auto versions) in our entertainment? And, then there is also the fact that our govt passed a law that for ten years made these semi auto guns "forbidden fruit".
Its been nearly 10 years since that law expired, and while prices are hugely higher, there is more of the stuff they banned under that law in the market (and in our hands) than there ever was before they got so many of us interested by telling us we shouldn't, and couldn't have them.
It is a legal and moral crime of the greatest magnitude to kill people for fun or profit. And it has been since long, long before the founding of our nation. Some say the basic idea is the founding of civilization. In fact, our main religions teach us a murder was commited soon after man was cast out of Eden. Its been going on ever since.
There are those who would do murder, in large or small for their own percieved gain. Owning an ax, or a whole shed of them does not make one an ax-murderer. Murdering someone with an ax does.
I believe I read somewhere, "by their deeds shall ye know them"...not by their words, nor by what they own, but by what they do. Always figured that was the smart way to look at it.
One other thing I did like about the editorial, was the point that the author (and a lot of the rest of us) are or have shifted from "we haven't done anything wrong" to "Screw you!, we haven't done anything wrong!"
"Stripping motivated people of their dignity and rubbing their noses in it is a very bad idea."
