Laura Washington of the Chicago Sun Times kicks out the usual nonsense comparing legal owners and criminals:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/washington/507772,CST-EDT-LAURA13.article
Here's the letter I sent her:
MS. Washington,
I can answer your question. Others aren't "joining the call" because most realize that what is generally referred to as "gun control" has nothing to do w/ crime whatsoever. You mention the VT shooting where the state and judiciary failed to commit a recognizably violent individual. You mention the Newark shootings were an illegal immigrant was out on bail for raping a five year old. 25% of murders are committed by people out on bail or parole for another murder. Another 50% by people w/ a long history of crime behind them. No amount of "gun control" laws would have stopped people like these from committing the crimes they did.
Ask yourself why is it that 49% of murders are of and by African American? Is it the guns sending some signals into their brains or is it something else? Are the guns causing them to commit these crimes?
Mayor Daley has pushed for more "gun control" even though it's a complete failure in Chicago. The city accounts for half of crime in the state yet has only 1/4 the population. It has been the crime capitol of the US several times in the last decade. Firearms are effectively banned in the city. At the same time, we have over a dozen Chicago police officers indicted for violence and hundreds more on secret lists of numerous complaints against them.
Massachusetts has some of the strictest "gun control" laws in the country. It has seen a decrease in legal ownership of 25% over the last 6 years. It has also seen a spike in murders and violent crime.
Maybe if the judiciary would start doing their job, parents would actually start parenting, and Mayor Daley would stop protecting rogue cops, something might actually be done against crime and criminals instead of the 99%+ of legal firearm owners who actually follow the law.
Regards,
Thirdpower
UPDATE: Countertop sent a letter as well. Shall we place odds on the lack of response?
2 comments:
I wrote to her as well:
Why aren't others joining the call for gun control?
Because they correctly see the problem as being crime and it's underlying social and economic causes, not guns. A gun in the wrong hands is certainly a bad thing, but gun control does not prevent that. Gun violence is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
People are not joining the call for gun control because they realize that it's a superficial "solution"—like putting a Band-Aid on a cancer. The cancer of the glorification of criminal culture has ravaged our communities. We need a new culture to take it's place, not a Band-Aid.
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