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More Gun Control Laws Needed

“Gun Control: In the debate over guns, both sides are angry. The pro-gunners are angry at the ignorance, lies, and distortions of the anti-gunners, and the anti-gunners are angry with the pro-gunners for presenting facts.” ? Dave Champion

Gun ControlMore Gun Control laws are needed.  We need universal background checks. We need responsible gun laws. We need to strengthen America’s Gun laws. Any person who is against responsible gun laws is not rational. Gun Violence is at epidemic levels in our nation. Gun deaths lead all other violent crimes in the United States. We should look to Europe as a model for Gun Control.

Blah!, Blah!, Blah!, Blah!, Blah. The above paragraph is a collection of statements that have become commonplace in the conversation about the second amendment. It guides the lexicon of the anti-gun lexicon. The only thing missing is the big green parrot. The true dichotomy here is that all of this liberal white noise…this cacophony…this non-sense…tomfoolery gets traction in the pro-gun community.

I saw an article where a second amendment supporter was writing to counter an anti-gun viewpoint with facts. The article, however, lost its credibility in using terms invented by the anti-gun left.

We are done as a society litigating the merits of the Second Amendment. The matter has been decided legally, culturally, morally and socially. We have won. Anybody arguing otherwise is full of crap. McDonald vs. Chicago, Heller v. DC have decided the legal issue.  three hundred million guns…(or 90 guns for every 100 people) has decided the cultural issue. Castle Doctine and Stand Your Ground has decided the moral issue. Breakneck expansion of concealed and constitutional carry laws show us social decisiveness.

Phase two of battle against Gun Control consists of opposing gun control proponents with facts. Presently, the hue and cry for stricter gun laws is directed at the populace tuned in to the drive-by media.

This month in NRA’s American Rifleman’s “Standing Guard” Column, NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre illustrates for us just how long this tomfoolery on the left has been going on. LaPierre writes,

“Historically, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has been the leading purveyor of the deceit that federal laws dealing with the criminal interstate trafficking in firearms are weak or non-existent…”

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Senator Charles Ellis Schumer, D-NY and Anti-gun Charlatan

LaPierre quotes Senator Schumer in 1997…(eighteen years ago!, then Representative Schumer) as saying,

“A vast network of gun runners [sic] use[s] our highways like firearm freeways to traffic illegal guns to criminals. Their source is states with weak gun laws where straw buyers easily acquire large quantities of guns with no questions asked, and their destination is street criminals in states with tough gun laws.”

Wayne laPierre goes on in the article (both Standing Guard in June 1997 and October 2015) and outlines sixteen federal statutes violated under Schumer’s supposed scheme of the gun runners. LaPierre points out the total combined time for the offenses is 1,020 years in Prison.

NRA Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre aptly points out the object lesson is not the time amassed, but the plethora of gun laws well in existence to prosecute interstate gun crimes.

The current failure of our gun laws lie specifically with prosecutors abject failure in prosecuting felons who break gun laws. It is really that simple.

In going forward in the battle against Gun control, we need to stick to arguing the facts of the second amendment. The philosophical argument is over and letting anti-gun liberals drag us back down that road is to let them control the conversation and narrative.

Fellow Advocates of the Second Amendment, Will you bone up on your facts about guns and the second amendment and stop arguing the second amendment philosophy? The time is now to put a knife in this issue.

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