Predictable Response

After a gunman (or gunmen) entered a mosque and killed 49 Muslims, the New Zealand AG announced a new ban on automatic weapons. As if such a ban would actually STOP such atrocities. Again I emphasize the fact that people who wish to do the ULTIMATE crime, a mass shooting, are not going to be concerned in the slightest about violating such a law. They noted that the shooter had his gun legally, as if that proves how a ban on the guns he used would do ANYTHING to stop future such atrocities. It won’t. If that potential shooter can’t get his guns legally, he will, of course, get them ILLEGALLY. That’s a given. There are way more illegal guns in existence in the hands of evil-doers than there are legal guns in the hands of the law-abiding. Which still leaves the field wide open to the bad guys. It is INSANE to punish the law-abiding for the actions of a law-breaker. But today’s politicians, near and far, are stupid enough to do it. Every time a bad guy uses a certain type of gun to kill people, politicians rush to BAN that gun, even though they have to KNOW it will do NOTHING to prevent future atrocities. (Truth About Guns)