IF those of us with carry licenses really had superhero fantasies, then we wouldn't have carry licenses because we wouldn't NEED them. We'd just hit the goblins with a bolt of our laser vision, or stretch our arms 50 yards and grab the gun, or fly in front of a victim and take the entire magazine or revolver load in our chest and then subdue the BG, or we'd flame the bastich to death, or cause a brick to fly off a roof to hit him, or ensnare the gun and criminal in a web from 2 city blocks away, etc., etc.
It is PRECISELY because we do NOT have such fantasies that we carry, and that we wish at least one person on the VT campus had a gun to shoot Cho before he got to 32 dead victims. We live in the real world, where goblins and crazies have weapons and little or no compunction about using them on innocents, and where police officers end up being well-educated and well-armed documenters of crimes 99% of the time. We live in the real world where armed civilians use firearms at least 500,000 times per year to stop crimes (and maybe as many as 2 million times). We like those odds a whole lot better than the fantasy-world of the blissninnies where cops show up in the nick of time to save the beautiful damsel in distress (which may occur a few hundred times a year at most).
In contrast to us gun owners and our realistic (if hard-headed) view of reality, here's what you've got to believe if you want gun control:
1: The more helpless you are, the safer you are from criminals.
2: An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 magnum will become enraged and kill you.
3: A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
4: The Second Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which did not exist until 130 years later, having been formed in 1917.
5: The phrases “right of the people to peaceably assemble,” “right of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumerations herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,” and “the powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people” all refer to individuals. However, the “right of the people to keep and bear arms” refers to a right held by the state (and states don’t have rights, they have powers).
6: Rifles and handguns aren’t necessary for national defense. This explains why the U.S. armed forces have tens of millions of them.
7: Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns because they are not military weapons. Also, private citizens shouldn’t have assault rifles because they are military weapons.
8: A handgun, with up to four controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to use, as compared to an automobile that has up to 20 controls.
9: Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.
10: A majority of the population supports gun control, just as a majority of the population supported owning slaves.
11: Most people can’t be trusted so we should have laws against guns, which all criminals will obey because they can be trusted.
12: The right of Internet pornographers to operate cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights (even though it appears nowhere in the document), but the use of handguns for self-defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights (even though it is specifically mentioned in the document).
13: Police officers operate with backup in large groups, which is why they need large capacity pistol magazines, as opposed to civilians who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
14: We should ban Saturday Night Specials and all other inexpensive handguns because it isn’t fair that poor people have access to self-defense guns too.
15: Private citizens do not need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them, even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.
16: Citizens do not need to carry guns for personal protection, but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with armed police, do need to carry a gun.
17: Assault weapons have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people quickly. The police need assault weapons; you do not.
18: Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes. This is why you never see police officers with them on their duty weapons.
19: Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) thinks that a concealed carry permit will not help prevent personal crime. That’s why she has one.
Of course, if that's all too much to memorize, here's the "logic" of the gun control crowd, summed up quite nicely in one paragraph:
You have a 30 MPH speed limit in your town. Every weekend, you have fools racing through town at 80 MPH. Your response is to lower the speed limit to 20 MPH.
