Newtown Shooting SHOULD NOT Be a Political Football

Yet the Left begins it’s cry again for more gun control. The attitude repeated is “if we had just had Law X in place, this never would’ve happened!” It’s a sad but true fact that the American Left will use any crisis to push their agenda, up to and including circumventing the Second Amendment.

Nobody has a better answer for this attitude than our old pal Condescending Wonka:

While a bit crass, this meme is 100% correct. Adam Lanza, the perpetrator of this horrific crime, clearly had no respect for laws. After all, murder has been illegal in the United States since before it was a nation. Actually, it’s illegal in every Western country. Yet this man chose to commit this crime.

The fact is, while the exact statistics are hard to pin down, the vast majority of gun crimes are committed not with a legally purchased weapon but an ILLEGALLY purchased weapon or an unregistered gun. Take for example Aurora, CO, the site of this summer’s shooting at a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises.” This town had some of the most stringent gun control laws in the nation. It did not stop the criminal. What it did stop was the law abiding citizens in that theater from having their own weapons for defense.

Yet some on the Left want to use this event to once again press their agenda of making the 2nd Amendment weaker and weaker. As always, the Left is happy to find rights that are somehow written between the lines of the Constitution (see: “Right to Privacy”) but if a right is actually written IN BLACK AND WHITE then clearly the founders didn’t really mean it the way it’s clearly written. 

The bottom line is this tragic event should not ever be a political football. It should not be used by the Left to continually push their agenda. The reality is passing new gun laws will only take defense weapons out of the hands of law abiding citizens. The criminals will find ways to get their guns. Or, perhaps they’ll just use another weapon to perpetrate their crimes. Either way, these new laws won’t help stop any gun violence.

I conclude with this little ditty, courtesy of our founding fathers:

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Authored By Biblical Conservatism

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