Sunday, December 16, 2012

LOOK OUT, NEW GUN LAWS ARE COMING

The shooting deaths of 20 six and seven-year-old children is the tipping point in the fight over gun control

By Howie Katz

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
December 15, 2012

Sarah Brady, NY mayor Michael Bloomberg and others advocating strict gun controls must be salivating over the ammunition given them by the 20-year-old psycho gunman who killed 20 children and six adults in two classrooms at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

President Obama in addressing the nation said, “As a country, we have been through this too many times. Whether it’s an elementary school in Newtown, or a shopping mall in Oregon, or a temple in Wisconsin, or a movie theater in Aurora, or a street corner in Chicago — these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children. And we're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.”

‘Meaningful action’? That means ‘gun control.’

Bloomberg quickly declared that “Not even kindergarteners learning their A, B, Cs are safe. We heard after Columbine that it was too soon to talk about gun laws. We heard it after Virginia Tech. After Tucson and Aurora and Oak Creek. And now, we are hearing it again. Calling for meaningful action is not enough. We need immediate action!”

And for what it’s worth, this school shooting took place in a state which already has some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.

The shooter used a Bushmaster .223 M4 – an AR15-style rifle – and also carried two .9mm pistols, a Sig Sauer and a Glock. The dead children were all six or seven-years-old and each had been shot at least three times with the .223 M4 rifle. All three firearms had been purchased legally by the shooter’s mother who was killed by him before he left home.

Most gun rights organizations had the good sense to keep quiet. It is not helpful to those of us opposed to gun controls when Larry Pratt, executive director of the Virginia based 300,000 member Gun Owners of America, releases the following idiotic statement:

“Gun-control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands. Federal and state laws combined to insure that no teacher, no administrator, no adult had a gun at the Newtown school where the children were murdered. This tragedy underscores the urgency of getting rid of gun bans in school zones. The only thing accomplished by gun-free zones is to ensure that mass murderers can slay more before they are finally confronted by someone with a gun."

Saying that “gun-control supporters have the blood of little children on their hands” borders on the insane and getting rid of gun-free school zones is not likely to prevent tragedies like this from being repeated

A sensible solution would be to have at least one armed police officer in every school.

The tragic death of all those little children will now embolden our lawmakers to take on the gun control issue. Yes, there was talk of gun control after Columbine and Virginia Tech, but the massacre of first-graders is a whole lot different from the killing of high school and college students.

For starters, look for a renewed ban on ‘assault rifles’ and high-capacity magazines. I predict that more restrictions will follow.

New gun control laws will only affect law abiding citizens. The crooks and psychos will continue to obtain firearms unabated. If gun control laws are enacted, the law abiding citizen will be left with the sinking feeling that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

There are a lot of liberals who believe in unilateral personal disarmament (AKA gun control) and who will jump at ANY opportunity no matter how pointless or tragic to further their agenda. They love interpreting the Bill of Rights as expansively as possible, except the second one. Fuck them, and the horses they rode in on. Guns are not the problem. Crazy people and criminals are the problem. If guns were the problem there would be dead bodies stacked up like cordwood in front of my house. There aren't.