Infringing the right to bear
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By Rob Morse. April 22nd, 2017
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Your right to protect yourself shall not be infringed..well..except where it already is infringed. That is what my young liberal friend told me. Here is what he said.

I think we should pass a law to ban guns. That way we wouldn’t have any more violence and we could close the prisons. It’d be great.

You think so? We tried it before. It is called prohibition. It failed when we prohibited alcohol. It failed with prohibiting drugs. It is failing today with prohibiting guns.

But we need to do something. Maybe we should take it piece at a time. We don’t have to prohibit anything, we can just regulate all we want. Yeah, that’s it.
I know. Hospitals should be gun free zones. Surely you wouldn’t want sick people to get their hands on guns?

We tried that too. Disarming doctors and nurses isn’t keeping them safe. A shocking fraction of healthcare workers (and here) are attacked on the job each year. If those plastic “no-guns” signs would work anywhere, they should work at a hospital, but they don’t. Hospitals are open both day and night, so I want doctors, nurses and food service workers to be armed for their own protection when they leave the hospital and walk to their car in the dark. Don’t you?

Ah, sure. So gun free hospitals don’t work, but surely you don’t want guns around children in school?

Let’s see if gun-free zones work in schools either. We’ve had several armed attacks in California schools this year, attacks where teachers and students were killed. Did you forget them already? And California has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. When we look across the country, we’ve seen violent attacks in daycare centers, elementary schools, junior high, high schools, trade schools, college, and universities. I guess the attacker doesn’t stop to read the “no-guns” signs in schools.

Right. I read about those attacks. Umm. Can’t we agree that people should be disarmed when they’re drinking, or do you want drunks to have guns?

It isn’t a matter of what I want or don’t want. The politicians went further than banning drunks from carrying. They forbid even the sober people who are designated drivers from exercising their concealed carry rights where alcohol could be served. We saw those “no-guns allowed” signs fail just last year when the rampage killer at the Pulse Nightclub killed 49 people. Years ago, a murderer killed 24 people at Luby’s Cafeteria.

They sure ban guns a lot of places, but I see the problem now. Those are only little private companies, and they can’t force people to disarm. That is why we need to ban weapons in government offices where we can make sure there are no guns.

You mean like city hall, and the post office?

Yes, exactly.

You’re a little young, but have you heard the phrase “going postal”? It means going crazy and killing your co-workers, so yeah, we’ve had attacks in federal buildings before. They are “gun-free” zones, but we’ve had attacks in city sports stadiums, public transit, and municipal picnic grounds. Plastic signs didn’t stop bad guys.

But those aren’t big government installations. You’re thinking too small.

We’ve had attacks in giant military installations, like Fort Hood and the Washington Navy Yard. Fort Hood held about 50 thousand troops. When these government sites were attacked, the murderers were employees who passed a security clearance. We’ve had attacks in city hall too.

We have to think bigger. We need to ban guns in the entire country. Then we’d be safe.

I don’t think you mean that. Mexico has a much higher murder rate than the US. France has more terrorism than we do even though it is a much smaller country. Most private citizens can’t have guns in France or Mexico.

I knew it. That shows that hard power doesn’t work. We need to use soft power to disarm people.

Soft power? You mean like sending messages in Hollywood movies?

Yes. Exactly.

I think you forgot about the rampage murders in movie theaters. We’ve also had murders in churches, in synagogues and in mosques that were “gun-free” zones. Evil doesn’t respect soft power.
The only government buildings that are remotely safe are the ones with metal detectors and armed guards..like they use in jails, yet jails are frighteningly dangerous because they hold bad people. I don’t want good people to live in a jail.

Where do you get all these facts?

They are right in your phone if you want to find them. The real point is that I won’t forget the facts I don’t like. Gun prohibition fails everywhere because you can’t stop evil with ink on paper. Unfortunately, that doesn’t stop politicians and judges from infringing on our rights.

Rob gives us a look into a dialogue with a young liberal - which brings up many of the 'usual' points that get raised. There is the naive notion that all guns can simply be gotten rid of and all will be well, then too, ignorance of the vulnerability of the unarmed victim in a "gun-free-zone". The overall core of liberal thinking on guns invariably comes out the same - "guns are bad", conveniently forgetting about evil people who will always find ways to be armed.

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