Where's the Common Sense in 'Common Sense' Gun Laws? - Granite Grok

Where’s the Common Sense in ‘Common Sense’ Gun Laws?

Yield to Common Sense SignLarry Elder, writing at Townhall.com asks a great question. “Where’s the Common Sense in ‘Common Sense’ Gun Laws?” Without getting into how or why people who can’t figure out which bathroom to use (or their enablers) can make a claim to sense of any kind (let alone Common Sense), let’s assume the best (for the moment) and see what Larry has to say.

The “common-sense” gun control activists rarely ask, “What about the beneficial effect of gun ownership?”

The Centers for Disease Control examined research on the defensive uses of guns. It concluded: “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”

Last week I reported on advice from an expert in Israel where they took protecting school children seriously, and he did advocate for teaching kids how to deal with active shooter situations which include using what’s around you. But that’s the last circle of defense. All the previous circles include trained armed adults.

And that works.

Israel’s better outcomes equate to no school shootings in forty years. But armed resource officers or teachers isn’t anywhere in the realm of common sense for the so-called common sense crowd, because their debate has nothing to do with safety or saving lives.

Read it again. Write that down. Etch it into your brain. They are not doing this for the children. This is about power and control. They don’t even like children. They cost taxpayers money, grow up to lay waste to the environment, or just ruin women’s social life health.

Elder’s article never touches on that, but he includes a number of things that kill more people than firearms or scary rifles. And that’ fun. But he also adds some data about how many people are still alive as a result or armed law abiding citizens.

Criminologist and researcher Gary Kleck, using his own commissioned phone surveys and number extrapolation, estimates that 2.5 million Americans use guns for defensive purposes each year. One in six of that number, or 400,000, believe someone would have been dead but for their ability to resort to their defensive use of firearms. Kleck points out that if only one-tenth of the people are right about saving a life, the number of people saved annually by guns would still be 40,000.

This is good news for people willing to hear it but the “common sense” gun laws folks are not interested because it doesn’t advance their disarmament agenda. And using children to disarm law-abiding citizens makes perfect (if not common) sense to liberals.

Whatever it takes to make it harder for law-abiding citizens to have or own firearms makes sense to them because they don’t want anyone but the government to have guns. Period.

And they will say or do anything to make that happen.

 

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