Getting It Right

Lawmakers continually make laws to promote “gun safety,” but they continue to “get it wrong,” making laws that concentrate on “taking names” to make it easier to SOLVE a crime after it has happened. That does NOTHING to keep gun crimes from HAPPENING. This is a common malady all over the country, and in most other countries. In places like communist China, for instance, guns are simply ILLEGAL for anybody but a government agent or a cop. But criminals there, as well as here, still get their guns and use them with abandon on those of us who OBEY the law and thus do not carry guns for self-protection. Massachusetts recently made yet again such a law, and the Boston Herald seemed to approve it. Their laws ought to concentrate on keeping LAWBREAKERS (who don’t OBEY laws) from getting guns, not honest people (who do), or they should punish gun crimes so severely criminals won’t want to use them or they will be in prison long enough for crime to naturally go down. But most legislators apparently aren’t smart enough to realize that. Such laws are already on the books, but are commonly “waived” to use as a “bargaining chip” to get convictions in other crimes. This must STOP. Meanwhile, honest people MUST be allowed to have, and carry their own guns to be able to defend themselves. (Boston Herald)