Response to Strat81.
That is why I prefer NATIONALIZATION.
Abolish "independant" ordinances and install FEDERAL LAW in all areas. That will give criminals who take advantage of cities' gun control laws something to think about.
I read something the other day about the production of "Whitney revolvers" during the War of Northern Aggression. The Confederate government persuaded the revolver makers to turn out at least 5,000 revolvers a month for CSA army. But the company embezzled and extorted the funds that the CSA government gave them and failed to live up to the quota of 5,000 revolvers. In the end, the Confederate government, already bankrupt and suffering from widespread famine and poverty is forced to buy the company at ridiculously high prices from it's private owners so they can actually start producing the weapons badly needed by the southern army.......When I read this story, it almost drove me to tears.
When the Chinese Communist Party fought against the KMT during the war of 1937-1949, we enforced martial law on everybody who think they can make their own little laws. If something like the Whitney revolver case ever happened during that period, we would have simply took the company by force, court martial the embezzlers and land the ultimate conviction: treason against the State and the Renmin Zhen'fu(People's Government)
Nationalization, the passing of a powerful Federal law, will prevent local and municipal ordinances from thinking that can pass whatever restrictions they like.
Speaking of sheep mentality, most people I know are almost like Quakers, they rather be harmed than fight back in self defense. I also read the thing about a reverend saying that it is more morally just for a woman to stand there and take the rape than fight back against her attacker??? Wow........how could he say something so stupid like that and not be afraid of ridicule and scorn?
Most New Yorkers think of guns as something that kills only. They do not realize that they can protect too........Think about it this way. Nuclear energy can be used to create terrible weapons of warfare, but if they are harnessed correctly, they can also solve the world's energy problems. Same thing with guns........Guns in the hands of criminals do cause sorrow, but "a gentleman armed with [the gun] can keep 12 or more ruffians at bay"(Samuel Colt)
IN the end, reality will always win. Several weeks ago, there was the most horrible bloodshed in a quiet Connecticut town, where a doctor's wife and two daughters were slaughtered in the most inhuman and brutal fashion by a pair of vicious psychopaths. After that incident, the gun shp owner in that town reported that gun sales are up and almost everybody in the town is out to buy a pistol or a "self defense shotgun". That article was front page news for several days and the New York Post had several pages dedicated to the entire thing. No doubt this story was read by every single New Yorker.......Those who do not read the papers would have seen it on television or heard the news on the radio. Out of 8 million people who pay attention to the news every day, a good many will start waking up and see the facts: The police couldn't have helped the family during that disaster, it happened way too quickly and at first, law enforcement officials were still trying to track the mother's frantic calls while the killings are actually taking place.
That crisis was undoubtedly terrible, it was almost as if Satan had appeared on Earth during these hours of despair. It shattered the town's illusions of a false sense of security. Now millions, if not billions of people, would have understood that danger strikes anywhere, and when it does, it often takes the courage and wits of the victim himself to save those he love and bring an end to the threat.
